So i have found this happen to me a few times and wondering whats going on. So after tacking out lining up my swell and following it back in, to be looking at it peaking up lining up my top turn and bang a windsurfer comes flying from the back of the wave to drop down in front of me . This has happened every time i have kited with windsurfers in the waves at least once or twice, i'm starting to think i have missed something?, or not understanding properly what's happening with the windsurfers around me, or am i just getting burnt lol. More details might be needed but I'm just curious and cant be bothered waisting a tack if its purely a case of miss reading the play

Could be they were on the swell first further out and they think you're short tacking or they are just burning you because your wave looks better.
Kiters have a habit of turning on waves upwind that we've picked up from way out the back and try claiming it.But if hes completely dropped off it and then manages to get on as it hits the reef he should've given up on it .They do this to other windsurfers as well and kiters have done it to me i guess some people really want that wave.

Dropping in from the back of a wave is a..h... style, no matter if kiter or windsurfer.
But for sure you have to consider how you behave in the line-up.
Some kiters think they have the right to snake every wave a windsurfer rides on coming from the outside.
This is a..h.... style too.

Yeah don't kite around windsurfers they're all pricks.

Windsurfers are surfers and kite boarders are just like boogie boarders

if you're turning down the line, looking at your top turn spot and somebody comes over the back of the wave they're a mongrel.

However you say that is happening often - I don't believe it as I hardly ever see that. Can you be more descriptive?

Some kiters don't realise that as its a bit harder for windsurfers to stay upwind, we do go a bit further out and then use the wave to tack hard upwind as it forms, then we go DTL. This is particularly apparent when its more cross-onshore
Kiters misread that one badly all the time and think they have ROW as they are upwind but in reality the windsurfer was on it first. There has been threads about that here started by kiters wondeirng what do do.

Anyway more info needed and I say good onya for coming to ask

The most crazy kiter move I've seen .
Was coming in on a wave waiting for it to form there's a kiter heading in 30m infront .All of a sudden they change tack cut accross me and start riding the wave .Needless to say the nose of my board was right up his pipe all the way down the line.

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Mark _australia said..
if you're turning down the line, looking at your top turn spot and somebody comes over the back of the wave they're a mongrel.

However you say that is happening often - I don't believe it as I hardly ever see that. Can you be more descriptive?

Some kiters don't realise that as its a bit harder for windsurfers to stay upwind, we do go a bit further out and then use the wave to tack hard upwind as it forms, then we go DTL. This is particularly apparent when its more cross-onshore
Kiters misread that one badly all the time and think they have ROW as they are upwind but in reality the windsurfer was on it first. There has been threads about that here started by kiters wondeirng what do do.

Anyway more info needed and I say good onya for coming to ask

It doesn't happen all the time maybe once or twice a session when sharing wave spots with wind surfers, that being said it has been quite busy with both windsurfers and kiters when it has happened so i think that's for sure a contributing factor. What i think is happening is a combination of two things not same circumstances every time but 1. me assuming i have right of way because i'm further upwind lining up the wave as its forming, i figured this one out myself but good to get confirmation and 2. the windsurfer falls of the back of the swell his been riding in and manages to catch it back as it hits the reef and forms. Its good to have a better idea anyway my local is a beach break so don't often share waves with windsurfers, so find myself a bit of pace with the windsurfers.

Foghorn funny story i can imagine the kiter thinking his lining up an awesome wave and you thinking, don't you do it.......yep the muthafarker done it, i hope it wasn't me haha.