Well since the polers are inviding our forums (kite surfing) with constent useless post design to inflate the agro, I thought it may be a good idea to retaliate.
Sorry no abuse, I like windsurfing and did it for over 10 years, just a word of advice, try kiting, it is simply more fun, more time on the water, less gear, and more hapiness.
Seing your dwindling numbers, you don't need my advice
next time i go fishing, I want to use the bait that that troll was using, you all forgot you motto, dont feed the troll
He's not a troll and this is not useless, he's just a funny guy. Let him or her be.
Just the use of the word "retaliate" shows he's got issues that are pre-date kiting, but no biggie.
"More happiness": not sure I'm seeing that in either kiting or windsurfing anymore. Nowadays lots more kiters sitting on the side, claiming that they want more wind - presumably the same the windsurfers that switched to kiting.
Kiters kicked out of 3 municipal beaches in 2 years in the area here. The latter came with kiters trying to police their own arseholes lot that will get them kicked out of other beaches. That is sooooooo funny to watch.
Kiters complaining at me all the time when I trip over their lines on the beach. Kiters whinging at me when I come in after they've been stuck on the launch after 15 minutes of trying to get out and their line are tangled. Gee I get that a lot. Dunno what I'm doing wrong... A windsurfer takes 15 seconds to launch, with no need for cockholders too. I'm convincing more and more of my fellow surfers to do the same, it's getting to be a real funny situation - they're always stuck! We just land a foot upwind from them.
I'm also hearing more and more kiters bitching about the price of new gear - probably too windsurfers that switched for the same reason.
I love the recurrent threads where a kiter got blown into a wall, and the other kiters heaping that he didn't do this-that right, that it'll never happen to them. It's like a combo jackass-reality show !!
I'm beginning to think that kiting is actually the greatest new gig that could happen for a good laugh !
Hey Sebol,
I think there are more windsurfers than kiters over this end of the forum,
Perhaps these threads could use your advice?
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=64438
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=64455
A buddy leave us alone and go play with your strings.. sebol, if ya bored find ya self a girl friend on face book, anyway i have some wind to catch, i am out of here..
There are two type of kitesurfers: Ones that are well rounded and respectful of the surrounding area swimmers and fellow water users, and the others which are a bunch of attention deficit disorder w@nkers that got expelled from school for smoking pot. The latter would never take up windsurfing because it requires more skill, practice and available brain cells to master, compared with the quick fix that kitesurfing can offer.
Simply put: There are more w@nkers kitesurfing than windsurfing because any idiot can do it.
I feel a s**** thread coming on....
Edit: The word for a mocking thread that may contain a four letter word. I said s p o o f
Alot of the kiters I know are X-dancers.
They realised they could get out more often and be powered up,could gybe without loseing power and speed and falling in the water, could jump off a wave and land without falling like a stone and lose all speed, could go faster in general and could actually surf a wave instad of just doing ****y little turns.
Thats their words not mine,
and they use to dancer their whole life so they should know.
Now they laugh at the very few wave sufers (dont see them much any more) struggling in big surf , getting smashed trying to get out.Having to walk their big cumbersome boats back up the beach cause they are so useless at tacking upwind.
Always funny watching the sets comming and the dancer trying to chicken gybe to come back in and the lip lands on them and washes their sad lifeless malibu with a sail all they way to the beach.ha ha ha. soooo funny
but to the few old die hards that like to live in the past and dont like change,
keep on dancing,
it gives the crew something to laugh at
Interesting lotsofwind, your last post doesn't address any of the points in this thread.
Just can't handle the arguments ? Why don't you quote some of the replies and go from there?
Let's try an example:
"Thats their words not mine, and they use to dancer their whole life so they should know."
I wouldn't quote those who switched over - not very smart. Yes we've often heard of switchies saying that windsurfing was too difficult - I have too. They're usually the very average types that switch, those that stagnated in spite of their considerable equipment.
So yes mediocrity and stagnation has made many switch over to an easier activity.
Some probably took up macrame as well, which is easier too. One I know took up camping - good on him.
So what was your point again?
Yeah, was going to quote some of you but the only arguments you guys have put forward over and over again(yawn) is,,its gay, or you guys cant spell.
I only quoted from the dancers that switched over because,,,well,,,its hard to find anyone who still does that retro sportdid I put enough winks.
The polers that I know that changed over had been dancing for 20 odd years and were regaurded as being great watermen.They didnt find dancing difficult or too hard,just enjoying the speed and manouverability of kiting.
They just like new challengers in life,not old and stuck in their ways,open to try new things in life and not scared to start at the bottom again and work up.That scares the crap out of old people for some reason.Makes life more enjoyable trying new things and not get in the same old same old life.
Like the thread on here about "what keeps you motivated", if it has become that boring and they need to find inpseration to even get in the water,maybe they need to try kiting and get their stoke back.
your point of kiting being easier ,,,,
mmmmmmm easier,faster,more fun, ......yeah your right.
just made a nice post to the tea baggers and told em to leave us alone or else ok fellas. Thease kite boys are starting to get abit out of hand
Perhaps when you've been kiting continuously for 30 years Lotofwind, you'll come back and tell everyone how 'stoked' you still are? (Assuming your brain hasn't addled by then!)
Windsurfing is not boring. Kiting doesn't 'scare the crap out of us'. We are not sad, old or otherwise, in search of some meaning in our lives.
Lotofwind is an appropriate name for you - I imagine many have commented on the fact! Perhaps if you were to blow some of it out of your other orifice, the knock on effects may even reach the Northern Hemisphere and give us 'sad old men' an extra days planing.
hahaha you guys are funny as hell
ive only seen a handful of guys that make windsurfing look any good/fun...
have not done it, so cant knock it from experience...but even those "good" sailors look sh#T house on the waves compared to kiters, all your turns are so stiff and slow, kiting opens up your whole body and allows you to SURF the wave free, forget the kite and tear downwind upwind of the wave with ease...
not saying i wouldnt give windsurfing a crack because i love to try everything, but just based on shredding the surf, whenever its blowing the kite wins hands down, and i can say that without trying to windsurf already because we surf it, you boat it.. kiting is flowing freedom
Quote; 'all your turns are stiff and slow'. We call it smooth and GRACEFUL Mr graceful! They can be much sharper though, as I'm sure you well know.
As for just forgetting the kite, aren't you attatched to it by strings! As I frequently observe at our local surf beach, just forgetting the kite doesn't seem to be a good idea, especially not if it's windy. There's nothing very graceful about a kiter being being inadvertently lofted off the face, with teatray flying off his feet and legs frantically dangling like a Whirling Dervish.
Of course the experts in either sport make things look classy, and we all mix without aggro, so each to their own. What we object to is being called fools by hyped up kiters who think they've discovered the meaning and purpose of life!
My brother is a poley and I am a kiter.. some of the best times we have had have been on the water.. who gives a frogs fat ass what you ride!! All our arguments are over Yamaha Vs KTM... IF IT AINT ORANGE ITS A LEMON