Froth Goth said..
And thats the exact bull**** that ruined kiteing

Rather then teaching students how to depower with theyre board and body position fat old kooks made it all about the kite.

Because all they wanted to do was to SELL a kite not actually improve the riders ability

If you all read steves message and actually THINK about it youll see thats the exact hardlined carved into stone bull**** every shop sold.

Thats exactly why you all suck at kiteing and cant unhook.

A unhooked air railey is the OLLIE to skateboarding
The very first move anyone should be inspired to do. Find a gap in the pavement line ya wheels up in it and eat some concrete.

From there you want to try it rolling up a slight incline.

All of you and i mean this with the exception on half a dozen of yas which is just so mind blowingly pathetic cant even do that because you have simply never tried.

Ask yourselves why havent you tried?!?

I got $50 its because you were told not to that the bare basics of kiteing was touted as something that only gymnists in theyre teenage years could do.

If you have even just a bit of wind knowledge you would know that if your matching the kites speed with your board theres little to no resistance infact it can even go slack! Omg not slack!! What heavens would you do then? You know when the kite is DEPOWERED ?!? Rather then learn how to kite you all got sold some bull**** and practice makes permamnent so all you can do is kite on overpoweres kites that pull you left and right and let you do big jumps and you think that that is kiteboarding.

That is not kiteboarding!

Thats useing a piece of gear that you shouldnt be useing but they made it so that "it can depower (a 10sqm kite ALLWAYS has 10sqm of power reguardless of what angle its at) by makeing it fly so inefficiently that its basically stalling"

OR

If you had any knowledge or skill or practiced at all

You could use a kite that is probably 2sqm smaller that doesnt NEED to be depoweres AT ALL because its the correct size kite for that windspeed and if you had some board control then you could actually kite percectly fine.

Bowkites and pulleys and bridals made kiteing APPEAR EASIER it didnt make it RIGHT you all have woeful technique and it shows

Look at all the countrys where kite shops didnt force feed this bull**** down every student and customers throat and then have the audacity to tell the manufacturers we only want big bow kites for our big fat rich clients with lots of money and they want to jump 8 meters high even tho they have no twchnique and think that they are underpowered if they were on an actually apropriate sized kite cause they dont even know that theyre ment to be standing on theyre front foot not digging in theyre backfoot the entire time.

Ever see those kook surfers who are all backfoot heavy and wonder why they cant surf for ****? Thats what you all look like.

An? why arw you all still wearing straps?!? Cause you cant control your over powered kite and it throws you around ?

Boots arent for some sort of PRO LEVEL kiter theyre for people who can CONTROL theyre kite and they dont need DEPOWER to control theyre kite! They just need some lessons.

How do i put this into words you boomers will understand....

You know how houseing is big business over here? But in other countrys its just normal and nothing special everyone seems to only have one and theyre happy?

Well you got sold some bull**** and now your all houseing mad but in other countrys where there hasnt been some sort of GOLD RUSH forced down theyre throats about houseing investments theyre all actually quite peaceful and happy and they dont even think about houseing.

So who do you think HYPED the bow kite market? And spent all theyre time trying to destroy the older equipment?

If you were a small shop that had old stock and you couldnt afford to fill it with bow kites it was a instant fatal blow if all the bigger shops and brands just spread FEAR about c kites and that you were only safe on a bow.

Who would do that? Why?

$$$$$$$$$

You all got scammed and now you all ride completely wrong on oversized kites cause you lack the ability to to actually fly a properly sized kite.

You need to go to a ACTUAL kite spot where people train freestyle to see how kiteboarding is actually ment to be. Your going to need to buy a plane ticket tho cause everyone in australia sucks

Step 1: unhook

Hooked in?? Doesnt count!


30 years is along time!
show us your railey!

Froth Goth said..
Dangle dangle dangle
That video upset me more then that time i got my sister pregnant

I miss kitescoop

KPSS Used said..



Thats about all of your post that makes any sense. Here's the results of comparing the two terms, they are declining about the same amount.

Froth Goth said..
Can you do a graph for surfing because the surfing world is convinced it is evem more popular and more crowded then ever before every american who has ever had a microphone infront of them or a camera lens pointed at them has now gone to hawaii and gotten lessons

Reflex Films said..
I was at the Kite Nationals in 2003 on the Gold Coast - they gave the title to one guy who crashed 7 times in a row for the whole final and then right at the end did some sort of handlepass about 4ft off the deck. Meanwhile crew were out boosting 40 ft airs, slaying waves front side and back side with huge reo sprays - super floaty transitions with soft planing landings in the other direction - tricks off of and landing onto the blind rail orientation - the crowd was big and cheering for the massive boosts and rotations.

but they gave the title to the guy wiggling and thrashing and doing a technical trick.

That was the beginning of the end for me.

Froth Goth said..
Oi cbull do another graph but for the word kiteboarding instead of kitesurfing

I dont have the intelligence to figure out how to make the graph long etc but it seems to be a little different to your kitesurfing graph its more of a steady consistent decline from 2004 onwards
Bit of a pop around 2010 which seems to go with how i remember it all going.

Also thanks to basically everyone else for makeing me irrationally angry enough to write on here again hahahaha that clown who said the way to save the industry is for there to be child care at the beach for kiters kids

Your kids would fall asleep at your ****ty toyass mowing the lawn left and right and kooky 8m jumps

The death of kiteing happened soon as the shops stopped stocking freestyle kites and told everyone unhooking was dangerous.

You all killed the sport by displaying regularly how boreing and lame rideing hooked in is.

If you cant unhook and crash a bunch of times in a row trying to progress then you have blood on your hands as far as im concerned

Imagine how long skateboarding would of lasted if it was just fat old men who cant ollie

Good riddance to yas

Im in my 40s and broken my back twice and still throwing unhooked loops in cyclonic winds and ill be doing the same well into my 50s

If you think crashing while kiteing is hard on the body try running and bouldering your clearly just soft weak white collar members of the growing investment class in this country go to any developing country with a puff of breeze and youll see people ACTUALLY kiteboarding throwing down and pushing the sport

You were all pandered to and told that its okay that you cant unhook by the kite businesses purely for money when in reality you should of been told your longboarder kooks and that this wave is too peaky for you and to f off back to noosa

towradgi said..


As a sideshow that unhooked railleys have been mentioned . This is Shannon Best at a cable park . Is this the highest railley ever ? Cable or Kiting . Does he hurt his knees on landing ?

NorthernKitesAUS said..
A big reason why kiting has declined is because of boomer kooks like me, that has never bought a NEW kite since 2012!

Yet I've had my hands on all the brands and practically all the models, since 2014. All because many wanted to chase the latest and greatest, and I just sitting back like a dumb-turtle, just buy what you suddenly decided back then was "too old".

My point being, kooks like me never really invested into a local shop (sorry Marvin, sorry Matt and John in StKilda), chasing this fantasy you all think the next kite was king.

I knew back then, as I still know now, all the hype around kite A vs kite B was pure commercial capitalism, and me being a staunch Lefty, decided.... haha... I'll wait and buy them 2nd, 3rd, 4th hand and still get the benefits. And it worked!

Yeah so I don't do unhooked kamikaze 720 degree spins or break any Woo BS elitism heights. Meh.

I just kite and I still enjoy it.

I predict the sport will come back to its roots one day, simply due to cost. #prays

ActionSportsWA said..






Gotta say I was disappointed with that decision

Balls and Boonie were breaking new ground in that nationals and it was a very controversial decision for sure. It was a great event, held at Narrowneck right on the beach next to the road with plenty of spectators and Gold Coast sizzle.

DM

Froth Goth said..


Everytime i organise to go kiteboarding with lofty he just sends me to these gps coordinates and never opens the front door no matter how much i bang and yell on it

psychojoe said..



Say what you want about kites and boards, but the new bars with the line twist engineered out by some magic really are a game changer, and the Naish Apex pads, although they've been around quite a while, make any board twice as good.