Could be a lot of fun to have one of these in Perth.
We have the wind for it and the beaches.
Would be and epic show!
Thoughts?
Would have huge potential for introducing and positively promoting the sport of kiteboarding at its most extreme.
Perth has more than enough talent to fill 10 heats of 4 riders boosting loops.
Who needs international talent? We have enough here!
Have it at the Scarborough Amphitheatre.
Live bands, cheer leeders, food stalls. MEGA LOOP BABY! Len10 style with Perth flair!
That would get the crowd going.
That would be great
if you could involve the public in events such as this (as spectators) it would help[ validate the sport to a lot of people who only see or hear about the 1%ers that sometimes give the sport a bad name
Maybe run the West coast warm up, probably disappointing, event first, before The Main Event happens with the shredders on the East Coast.....
why not combine it with the L2L? infrastructure and event already in place.
make the race l2l with a downwind leg to scarbs finishing at the theatre.
Just a thought
On the topic of comps, it would be great to have a decent freestyle comp in Aus... 10mins of king of the air (everyone doing the same standard loop) and it is just as boring as a freestyle comp...
Perhaps a comp with a big air discipline involved as well as regular freestyle would be a good idea. No point wasting so much time, money and resources on something that nearly everyone competing in considers a joke (big air).
A comp for kiters and the crowd.... getting judged on various disciplines (Big air, Free Style/Wakestyle, wave) including crowd response.
Like Mixed martial arts for kiters, bring what ever you have to offer and have a crack at impressing the crowd and judges.
Technical ability will be appreciated by fellow kiters but the big stuff is what will gets the crowd going, the medias attention and the sponsor
Why not expose all the disciplines of kiting, although not much flat water for freestyle...But I'm with the guys promoting showing it all. Why not?
Good example is X games Snowboarding half pipe.....
The guy that wins it every year, does all the same tricks except he just does them at 21 feet instead of 16 feet!
The scoring is based on technical and crowd appeal (being judged as height of tricks)
Fairly sure somebody with a telescope and a calculator could even provide feed-back to the judges on height of tricks... (vaguely recall there being some spooky math magic to work out height of something in the distance)
Lets spread the word and see if the public agree...https://www.facebook.com/ScarboroughKingOfTheAir
I don't care what discipline of kite surfing/kite boarding/freestyle/wake-style/air-style/pointed toes & flapping arm/lawn-moving sub culture of kiting you favour... you cant not but help appreciate epic boosts like that and feel a little bit of pride in that....
how awesome our sport is that we can do stuff like that!!!!!!!!!!
You dont see S#1t like that in lawn-bowls!