I don't think we are being homophobic - but if we are apologies User - don't really want you to get your knickers in a knot (of course we don't). We are just calling it how we see it.
Hmmm a bit like:
- golfers referring to hole in one genuises that play put-put mini-golf,
- skydivers, hangliders or paragliders referring to aquagliders (u know the parachute being towed behind a boat) (hmmm this one may be a bit too close to home for you),
- serious one design competition and ocean sailors (transocean) referring to the champagne sipping keelboaters on the river Saturday afternoon only sailors,
- V8 supercar drivers referring to warehouse minikart drivers,
could go on and on, though think I already have that habit 
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Whats wrong with being Gay ??
Is it true that there will be a Windsurfer float in the Mardi Gra ?
www.smh.com.au/news/national/pink-tide--gays-to-the-rescue/2008/02/02/1201801094709.html
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Big difference Mark.
There is a big difference in the price of a Commodore and a Ferrari !
Your logic is illogical
There are only a few with a couple of hundred thousand dollars to spend on a toy.
If they were about the same price,the ratio of Ferraris would me much higher.
Commodores would still have large numbers because there is always a market for a larger car that carries more people.
Kites and windsurfing gear are basically the same price.So,a difference in user numbers is governed PURELY by choice.
And you know that Kites are really the wind driven version of a Ferrari !
Thats the real logic.
Greenroom,if you think that is the best comment you have read ever, you are very simple !!
I've figured out a way to keep windsurfers and kiters apart.. just spread the rumour that there's a camera crew on the next beach.. You can hear the flapping of the boardies (over the wetsuit) as they rush over for fame and glory and to show just how EXXTTREEMEE their sport is..
Mean while I'll just doddle and have some fun with my mates...
It almost seems that kitesurfing is self-destructing from the inside. Too many selfish individuals not looking out for the good of the rest of the kiting community..
Maybe a little like windsurfing in the 80's?
SHEEEEZZZZz!!!
I go away for a day and this thread expands by two pages of "my sports better than your sport nahna nah na nah nah"
Nothing constructive about harmonizing our local spots
At least it is bringing some awarness to people about what pisses each other off and lets us vent disaprovment here and hopefully less and less on the water.
User, I think you need to check out this site:
www.gaysports.com/page.cfm?sectionid=58&parent=4
& it takes a windsurfer to know theres a gay sports site.
When are use going to accept that kite surfing is more of an impressive sport to watch to do & it beats wind surfing hands down.
Use are the mals of the wind world old & decrepid stop living in the past your sports dull & boring thats why theres f all cameras following you around
I know which one is far more impressive and takes far more skill.both backloops BTW.
theres three moves you see down the beaches in out in out backflip & 180 air to 360 dont know what ya call it . wow you converted me.
In the first kite vid, he says he will let the footage tell the story. It just looks like a heap of mess of stupid spins.
As for the waveriding. A mal rider would look more impressive on the wave and throw more spray.
Hows Polakows late takeoffs at Jaws. What a nutter. That sailing vid was awesome.
Stribo posted a video of kiting at Cape Verde up there above....I loled. And then you have this.
USER - Robby Naish and Pete Cabrihna both started kiting to cash in on a fast growing fad (at the time) and took full advantage of it. Why wouldn't they. They both have two of the biggest names in kiting now. Im presuming that is mostly why they kite ( and to sell gear to people who are not talented enough to windsurf). Take a look at naish these days, he is basically 100% focused on windsurfing. He was a featured sailor in the Windsurfing Movie. The best sailing vid so far. You should watch it.
Laird Hamilton use to feature on videos doing massive airs on a windsurfer. You've probably never seen that. That bloke does everything because he can and that is his image, to do everything from tow surfing to riding a hydrofoil board.
Oh yeah. You forgot probably the most insane waterman of them all... Our own Australian Jason Polakow, the bloke doesn't kitesurf...
CJW that was insane 
Hows the off the lip forwards and backies farknelle
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Those video's would even impress a jetskier
Come on teabaggers beat that[}:)]
Anyone remember the old fruit fly (Drosophila) test tube experiment from school. WS went through it - now Kiting is going through it - I think you will find Naish and Cabrinha are chasing the $ - and good on them too - afterall its so easy to learn, thus the growth rate will be huge until it implodes. But I think you will find both still WS when kiting is dead and buried, and not even mentioning kiting anymore.
And as for being an extreme sport - that term has well and truly been stolen by commercial interests and anyone that thinks kiting is an extreme sport (when it is so easy) and in comparison to WS wavesailing is just fooling themslves.
is interesting when poleys and tea baggers try and "outdo" each other by posting other people doing extreme stuff.
NEWS FLASH: Very few people on this site, regardless of chosen sport, can do anything half as impressive as the videos.
Most users are middle aged blokes who can't afford a fancy sports car so do an "extreme"(hahaahah) sport to impress.
Boils down to the kiters and windsurfers coming from the same demographics and crying and sooking just as bad as each other.
For ****s sake, its not like we are base jumpers, we are all just glorified sailers, get over yourselves.
