Dear Kite "surfers"

I saw a really serious crew over on the west coast (FL) one time, and it made for some nice, colorful photos.

 

screw you kook! you couldnt handle kitesurfing with that b*tch attitude. Keep sitting on your board and scratching your butthole while we enjoy 3x the watertime and 10x the power....

you suck

 

The struggle is real

 

Allow me to share this board-wax graffiti from a wall at a nearby break:

"Kiteboard kooks will never have soul"

 

Well now, these guys prob enjoy 10x the watertime, with 50x the power, and rumor has it, a few of them think everyone else "sucks", LOL







I took those from a boat, while the swell was fairly good that day, and so it was difficult to avoid camera shake.

 

Kookism transcends board choice.

 

^ Words of wisdom, those happen to be.

 

not many days when kite surfers are in my way or vice versa. I mean kite surfers need like +20mph winds, and those aren't usually days the waves are breaking right for "worm" surfing (a SUP'r called it that once). Not sure what the pics are of jetskiz are up for, but it's common to see the kite guyz on the other side of here Charleston. Never bothered me much, and i know it takes some serious skill to try that crapola

 

I've surfed with windsurfers out, it got hairy only once when a guy broke his mast step and was floating around the lineup with his sail and board completely immobile. Kiteboarding was banned from the national seashore so never had a problem with it. Now sweepers on the other hand...

 

There are quite a few here. Out of necessity I surf on many windy days when they are around. Mostly they maintain a propre distance but not always. I've found there are two types of kite boarders (not surfers):

Incompetent beginners that don't know what they are doing and are dangerous as fuk because they may crash into you.

Experienced kiters that know what they are doing and are dangerous as fuk because they may crash into you.

 

Kite surfers should bring in all the surfers that like to do "air". But most "air" type surfers are too dumb to realize that they can be in the air for vastly greater time than off of a wave.
But then again, I hope they get swept up into power lines. Then we wouldn't have to worry about them returning to surfing. ZAAAAPPPPPP!!!!!

 

Hahaha... I actually saw that here once. I was driving home from work, past a popular kiting spot, and in the darkness, by the side of the road, there's a cop standing next to a guy in a wetsuite, looking up at a kite stuck in the power lines. He's a lucky, lucky man...

 

All that equipment is overkill and it's not "surfing", it's more like wake boarding than anything, trade the boat in for a kite and boom there ya have it.

 

yep, that i agree with. I always heard it was a good start to have knowledge with both wakeboarding and surfing to have a solid chance at kiteboarding. and even then i know some ppl who picked it up for a year and gave up on it. but it does look like a solid workout

 

Most of the work out is just the setup and break down of the equipment and lugging it back and forth to your vehicle. I don't have patience for that, I just want to grab a board and paddle out.

 

I put it on that long list of things I would do if I could afford it. Speaking of which: https://onewheel.com/ only $1499! looks fun.

 

The amount of equipment involved is ridiculous. I love watching the beginners that get swept down the beach to near where I'm surfing who can't manage to relaunch their craft. They end up making a very long walk back down to the pier schlepping tons of gear and struggling with a gigantic sail in the wind. I laugh to myself.

 

I've got a friend who's very good at kite boarding. He never gets in anybody's way. The kite boarders around me either surf a bay area at the end of the island or go way out.

Speaking about the gear, my friend had a friend who was eaten by sharks when one of his kite lines snapped. He was a half mile off shore, wearing a lot of shiny metal; just one big lure...

 

That's bad ass! Hmmm, how do I break this to the wife lol