I'm thinking I will be sliding down the beach....jump on my board mid air and hit the water planing !
Thats the plan anyway>
Back on topic I don't think it's realistic to expect anyone, at least on the East coast, to be able to achieve the levels these guys have in the time they did. Particularly freestyle. We just don't get enough time on the water. Most of the Freestyle pros probably get more time on the water in a month then we do in a year, i'd even go as far as 2 weeks. Then of course there work always getting in the way :(
As for the original question, it's got to be a matter of determination. Some sailors try new moves all the time, and are always hungry to make progress. Others (guilty) are satisfied with being able to blast around and maybe move their skills up a notch every year or two. You can improve a lot in short spurts (eg a trip to Maui) just as well as making slow progress sailing each weekend for years....
If you wanna sail like the guys in that vid, you can do it!! But do you really want to pay the dues to get there? Want 3 story high slabs of water dropped on your head on a regular basis?
6ft., yea right, standing on a milk crate. I've seen you, your that dork standing behind the girls with a hard on . It must really kill you that you were never good enough to windsurf.
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Unfortunately,boards did get wider and wider,whereas kiteboards were getting smaller and smaller....much more fun in the surf.
get a life user, you don't even know what your talking about, even when your rambling on about kiteboards, "boards are getting smaller...Much more fun in the surf." what sort of rubbish is this, maybe 5 years ago, the average size of a strapped up surf board has gone from 5'5ft to everyone using boards around 6ft 6'2 and most people are running larger twin tips,might be shorter but are getting wider, i.e more surface area to plane on, so i think you need to get in touch with your own sport before you come in our forum and cause tention in our topics that have nothing to do with kiting or bagging it in any way..
p.s before you start going on about me not knowing about what i'm talking about, windsurfing is my No.1 sport, i work in the industry, i also kite sometimes during winterfor work reasons, the company i work for is one of the biggest kite brands in the world.
And before you start throwing challenges at people make sure you know that alot of guys reading your comments are very good sailors and some are even good kiters aswell. so wake up, your got nothing to offer..
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Unfortunately,boards did get wider and wider,whereas kiteboards were getting smaller and smaller....much more fun in the surf.
get a life user, you don't even know what your talking about, even when your rambling on about kiteboards, "boards are getting smaller...Much more fun in the surf." what sort of rubbish is this, maybe 5 years ago, the average size of a strapped up surf board has gone from 5'5ft to everyone using boards around 6ft 6'2 and most people are running larger twin tips,might be shorter but are getting wider, i.e more surface area to plane on, so i think you need to get in touch with your own sport before you come in our forum and cause tention in our topics that have nothing to do with kiting or bagging it in any way..
p.s before you start going on about me not knowing about what i'm talking about, windsurfing is my No.1 sport, i work in the industry, i also kite sometimes during winterfor work reasons, the company i work for is one of the biggest kite brands in the world.
And before you start throwing challenges at people make sure you know that alot of guys reading your comments are very good sailors and some are even good kiters aswell. so wake up, your got nothing to offer..
Hahahaah
You are such a goose PC !
You can't read and have low comprehension skills!
Read my post again,I clearly wrote "kiteboards WERE getting smaller and smaller....much more fun in the surf."
Get it?? "were" getting smaller,not "are" I was talking about when I started kiting.
I actually started on a 6ft directional. Went to a 132 TT and now a 6' 2" surfboard.
You altered my wording to suit your tacky little critique.
Whatever.hahahahahah.
You have aligned yourself with the serious dudes 
Whats with this "come in OUR Forum and cause tention(sic)"
Lol !
You are creating your own tenSion !
Some of you are SO sensitive
What do you expect, his the founding member of the West Australian Novice Kiting Association .
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I would like to come and have a beer though! Just as long as its not that weak as p1ss 4XXX stuff !
user mate,
i can't believe you just insulted beer
the foundation of mateship,
f*ck a duck
I can take all the crap that the paranoid jealous anti kite crew throw at me,but I can't take this baseless jibe lying down !
Greenie, I NEVER insulted beer!
I LOVE beer !
I was talking about 4 XXX.
Everone (except Queenslanders) knows that 4XXX is not REAL beer !!
Oh dear, I suppose I will have my hands full with abusive Queenslanders now!
Select to expand quoteuser said...greenleader said...user said...
I would like to come and have a beer though! Just as long as its not that weak as p1ss 4XXX stuff !
user mate,
i can't believe you just insulted beer
the foundation of mateship,
f*ck a duck
I can take all the crap that the paranoid jealous anti kite crew throw at me,but I can't take this baseless jibe lying down !
Greenie, I NEVER insulted beer!
I LOVE beer !
I was talking about 4 XXX.
Everone (except Queenslanders) knows that 4XXX is not REAL beer !!
Oh dear, I suppose I will have my hands full with abusive Queenslanders now!
User I didn't think you'd be old enough to drink beer?
Consider this:http://www.star-board.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3546
lol..
that's gold!
and very very true. 
even the onedesign which was the original you can outperform a kite in low wind and still do freestyle.
