CJW said...INTHELOOP said...
windsurfing is cool i used to windsurf heaps.
much more you can do with kiting tho and the sick videos from local beaches outweigh vids that coming from windsurfing community.
you gotta show some windsurfing and its lifestyle lads. even old fellas can make flicks
Much more you can do, how so? From my perspective when you compare wave and freestyle windsurfing to the kite equivalent's it's chalk and cheese. The amount of variety (in terms of different moves) in windsurfing wave/FS these days is ridiculous; conversely there's only so many different ways you can spin hanging from a rope. The differentiation being that the difficulty in learning even the basic freestyle windsurfing moves is that high, you don't see them very often 'out in the wild', let alone every random local punter making a video featuring them.
you said it right, you need to be pretty damn good to do any decent tricks in windsurfing. In kiting you can be average and boost 20feet in the air and fly around for several seconds. In windsurfing you cant even travel forward when jumping.
kiting has elements of pretty much all boardsports today- wake, snow, land, skate, surf...
There are kids 6 and 8years of age showing their dads and uncles new tricks.In that age tey would not even be able to carry the mast to the beach.
These are some of the reasons why kiting is gaining popularity and windsurfing loosing pop. However, i believe windsurfing in big waves still kicks as and looks /feels way better than kitesurfing.
