As the wind slowly dropped and the kooks got to the beach after work this arvo my enjoyment factor also dropped considerably (from stoked to frustrated), due to both of these factors. I surveyed the board-leash using, helmet wearing, hands at ends of bar, slow-riding, right-of-way ignorant, etiquette-oblivious tossers who were really making it hard to line up even a small slot in the flatter section at Brighton and I had something of an epiphany:
Though I sort of empathise with certain prominent seabreeze kiters who regularly condemn kiting as "gay," I think they've got it slightly wrong. I'm neither gay nor homophobic, and as I slogged it out among the kooks this arvo I thought about the (possibly non-representative) gays whom I count among my friends. I realised that they regularly push limits and take risks far bigger than any of these lawnmowing clowns. Then it hit me:
(Mainstream) Kiteboarding isn't gay. (Mainstream) KITEBOARDING IS STRAIGHT!!
Straight as in straight and narrow, as in straighty 180, as in square, as in monotonous.
Ian Roberts is gay. Kiteboarding is straight.
A man of my own thoughts Dojo, although you are undoubtably a more cooth and adapt sentence structuring word smith than my humble self
. I think you have cracked it Dojo, however I don't think you really realised it. You touched upon it, but did not repeat it. I however will be the torch that elluminates your brilliance so our loyal readers may also be enlightened.
"Kiteboarding is square" - DJDOJO (voice of the earth)
F@cking brilliant!
p.s. I don't think "gay" really has the same meaning now days anyway, so whether you use the word or not I don't think it's disrespecting homosexuals. To be fair Homo's stole that word first... now it's been stolen again
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Chubby, bucket hat, reel leash, sunnies, impact vest, poo stance, hands on end of bar, sailing gloves, Cabrinha 12 in 30 knots, electric pump, helmet,
All the indicators of straightness!
It's nice to have one's work appreciated and it's poetic that you, Sir, have got your illuminating sentiments in first in a thread that I expect to quickly degenerate one way or another.
All that I have to add is a vignette from one of the better movies of all time. Enjoy!
Yeh this sport is so lame and not legit.
This is where it's at if you want to be hard core, extreme, fully sick and mega legit.
Warhammer. Jump on it mofo's
I heard being gay is the new gay.
p.s. And also that gay is the new black... Does that mean BWS kites are gay?...
RSC failed completely to appreciate the context of my use of the G word (facetiously referring to the rampant homophobia of the kiting forums - not condoning it), just as he failed to appreciate many other things. Over the years I've regularly condemned the use of the word "gay" as a catch-all insult on seabreeze, partly because sexuality has not much to do with it, but mainly because it's so profoundly unimaginative.
You don't want to sound dumb
Don't want to offend
So don't call me a ******
Not unless you are a friend (Joe Jackson, Real Men)
Incidentally, the primary offenders yesterday weren't all cab riders. There was a good mix of north and naish in there too, and all had far newer kites than mine 
waveslave... i think that is the first time i have ever actually laughed out loud on my own at home.
Mainstream Kiteboarding isn't straight its more like dyslexic, no better yet its like wheelchair boardsports.
)? Only an impoverished soul would imagine that the only alternative to repressed, conformist straightness is ineffectual limp-wristedness. Real strength comes from self-acceptance of the whole of one's self, not from denying those aspects that arouse fear and doubt. Those who try desperately to be gay are as trapped as those who try desperately to be straight.
)? Only an impoverished soul would imagine that the only alternative to repressed, conformist straightness is ineffectual limp-wristedness. Real strength comes from self-acceptance of the whole of one's self, not from denying those aspects that arouse fear and doubt. Those who try desperately to be gay are as trapped as those who try desperately to be straight.
The two girls toward the back are the only ones looking at the ripper...... One looks like she is about to take a photo,
The reason the blokes are not looking is that there are chicks also at the bar, when this is yh case most blokes avoid looking as they do not want to appear uncooth or desperate in front of da ladies.......
I guarantee it would be a different photo if there were only blokes there......
