Do you think kiteboarding will ever become an X Games sport?
I went to the X Games in 2002 in Philly to watch the wakeboarding. I was so stocked to see all the best riders compete and I recon it would be great to see the best kiters ripping at the X Games.
when the wakestyle guys start pulling kiteloops with their tricks then we might get enough respect to be in the xgames, but until then, keep dreaming 
when kiteboarding as a sport doesnt look copletely gay we might become an x-game sport. but the way things are goin it seems like its just getting worse, so i would say, no it will never become an x-games sport. we really dont desrve it anyway. kiteboarding isn't extreme.
kiteboarding is what you make it.
everyone has their own opinon.
Until there is a defined way of kiting, e.g. wakestyle, powered..
i reakon it would be too hard.
But i think there is hope. with riders like ruben, dre, and ben wilson. we could have something.
I hope not. More publicity=more people wanting to do it.
Thats right everyone, stay away from my sport.
well neither is wakeboarding
go check out Rusty Malinoski (landed more 1080's than any other rider) and then tell me thats not extreme.
i'm not disagreeing with you and saying kiting is not extreme. i believe an extreme sport is really something that is not big enough to stand up on its own and they slot them together to make it more popular.
Surfing the kitesurfing forum...now THAT is extreme! Your fingers must be fully calloused maaaan....siick!
I don't necessarily disagree with what your saying. I'm not sure that kiting is quite X-games material either. I do think there are extreme elements within kiting though. The obvious being the likes of Ruben pulling massive loops in nuking winds. Ballsy stuff by anyones gauge. There are certainly others as well.
I take on board your comments about the wakestyle argument as well, but I think we focus too much on what wakeboarders are doing and always measure this style of riding against them, when I don't think it's comparing apples with apples. I reckon it's all in the name "wakestyle". It's not wakeboarding but in the style of wakeboarding. It's playing with names I know but I reckon there is more in it, we shouldn't try and be something we're not.
Valid points regarding the bindings as well, much harder to land tricks, but at the end of the day not for everyone. I guess if we ride the way we want to ride and be true to ourselves that's all that counts.
Finally, pulling that s*%t on 2 line kites was hardcore. I struggle with todays equipment , but then maybe I'm just a kook. 
hahaha right on man.
I dont think we are focusing to much on being exactly the same as wakeboarding. i think it's more of aa focus on actually giving credit to where something came from.
If we were trying to be just like wakeboarding we would drive a boat back and foward all day infront of us.
Pretty much all the tricks that are ever going to be done kiting have been done before, even the craziest stuff has been done at least a few times by another sport. sure im all for taking it our own way, i do it everyday i kite, i use what i have to do the tricks i want to do, but we need to make sure we respect the tricks other ppl have invented.
ewan, im not being mean here but.... you really need to go try something to commet on it. falling from a 1080 and catching a heelside edge wakeboarding is gonna hurt a hell of alot more than floating down and taping the water without the board on your feet.
By what your saying hot air balooning would be more extreme than wakeboarding "I mean GOD look at the air he is getting!!"
How extreme something is i think is classified by the percentage of error and consequence involed when doing a stunt, not the amount of air you get.
I still wana see kiters jumping a row of house boats with nice grabed tricks.
Kind of like FMX or snow boarding where everyone has a turn to hit the jump or boost and show there style.
hey ewan go look at the pkra 2005 tour dvd and in one country i forget (maybe canada), ruben, aaron etc go wakeboarding and trust me. they are medium too average.
go find somebody with a wake setter or equal and do a ralley or backroll unhooked and you will see how much faster and quicker you have to be to land it.
it is unfair to compare
ok, i didnt know how different the two were and i suppose the two are completley different, but look at these.
Kitesurfing is just made up of Old people, goons, nerds and the occasional normal person
