Why do you kite?

Why do you kite?

and is it the same reason you started kiting?

i got into kiting because it looked like something cool to tell people (girls). And a few years later i still love telling people(girls)

I first got into it when i saw a bloke in 6 foot MR years ago on a red foil getting huge air then getting nailed and thought WOW i gotta do that.

I kite now for the main reason that it is just so much fun.

I wanted to take up a watersport.
I wanted to take up a sport that was not so common.
I wanted to take up a sport that was not so much aerobic (I already cycle heaps)

And.. I just had a compulsion I can't explain. So far I'm not complaining. And I kinda like that there is a bit of a learning curve.

because its there
and because i can

perth has **** waves and its windy almost every arvo just wanted to get back in the water

Just like Top Hat said....I picked up a kite and flew into the air!!!
Don't know exactly....have skated, wakeboarded, snowboarded, ralley drived, rockclimbed, sky dived, MTB Biked...etc...etc.....kiteing gave me the buzz I was after....sun,sand, water, power of the wind, feeling of freedom, flying in the sky.....this doesn't even begin to answer why it is so addictive.... it just is....no explaination needed....just enjoy and be happy that you found it....so people that get so caught up on localism, bitching and the political side of the sport....i guess just haven't found it...... relax, and enjoy
Buenos Vientos

because my cheeseandkisses has no interest in watersports

Because I love it....it is almost all I do, except today

Toooooooooo friggen hot today.

because i always wanted to wakeboard but knew that the driver of the boat was not my servant.

the kite is.

I've always enjoyed flying kites. I got the opportunity to have a quick go on a mate's ~6m kitesurf kite in about 15kts of wind one Sunday and was hooked on the power from that moment on Monday morning, I was on the phone ordering gear.

I *had* considered windsurfing (even had a couple of goes at it), but it just didn't look that exciting. I was living in an area where there were no 'gun' windsurfers really. Just back and forth types. So it didn't inspire me much.

That was in 2003. Fast-forward to now.....I'm still hooked on the power. I'm also hooked on the fact that it's a wind-sport and doesn't involve the use of a powered craft.

I was doing a little bit of pole-boarding (and doing it very badly)

I had to go and work in Kiribati, a tiny fly-speck of a place in the central pacific, for a year, and I wanted to take a wind-sport with me. Pole boarding was much too much gear, so I bought a kite.

Had the very cool experience of being the first person to ever kite in the country. It was an absolute crowd-pleaser. There was a traffic jam on the island's only road, and hundreds of people lined the beaches to watch. Little keds were running back and forth pointing in the air at the "balloon".

A totally magic time.

Why do I do it now? Because my heart is still beating, and I'm not in a wheel chair. The only two reasons I can think that would make me stop. And even the wheel chair, I'm sure I could think of a way to get around

i flew kites as a kid. As a teenager in 1993ish I built (what i thought was ) a big Deltakite, to pull me around with the aim of doing it on a surf board. Quite a visionary i was.
It failed.
Then three years ago i cottoned onto the fact that it was now a sport and i could buy proper gear to do it. so i did.

I started kiting for the extreme aspect of it. The rush, and how cool it seemed to me.

I find now it clears my mind of the troubles of the world. very medatative.
Then i do some dangling and go home.

To be perfectly honest, it's about the only thing that gives me some 'head space' these days. I tend to rely heavily on it (probably more than I should) to provide the chill factor I need. Hence, when there's no wind, I get the whole junkie withdrawal thing happening