Sort of,
the way I remember it is the power you generate from a cable is by edging hard against the angle of pull and then releasing your edge. There's a different thing that happens in the air as the cable reaches it's stretch point.
Put it this way, from memory I think it's really close. I learnt to ride kickers at a cable park. I found that I could do some tricks behind a cable that I can do kiting.
There's just a little less freedom with the cable park for obvious reasons. (such as walking back when you wipe out)
But a huge benefit - ride a cable park everyday for a week and you get STRONG with riding unhooked.
yeah there similar, just on cable you ride alot more aggressive. you have to load alot harder for longer at cable to get good height, but its great training for kiting. If you get your moves dialed at cable then kiting is piss easy.
and i have two parks within 2hrs drive of me , sorry that proberly doesnt help but i find it hard to get people there anyway
This is the way I see it.
Wakestyle - Not using your kite for lift. Creating load and pop from your board, doesnt rely on wake, waves. plus a lot more.... kickers and sliders....
Freestyle - Kiteloop's, etc etc..
All rounder - Basic jumps, spins, (does'nt / rarely unhook)
Surf - rides a surfboard in the waves.
Aaron Hadlow on the cable. He is not originally from a wakeboarding background and he doesn't spend much time on the cable so you tell me how he learnt this if they aren't similar?
Wow great vid Saff, pretty talented young fella that hadlow was going pretty hard... what do the cable experts think??
it may be similar but doing a raley behind the the cable is so much harder then doing one behind the kite. The kite gives way more lift even when its low.
hats off to the guys pulling double s bends to blind on the cable. it seems like they have special springy rubber ropes compared to my attemps.
you should consider the time just wasted of the forum readers lives u just took away from them by them reading your reply
P.S. Maybe you should also advise car-wakers-to-be that an unfortunate car-waking episode was how your infamous moniker "Numnutz" was derived.