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Postby 'caneman » Fri May 28, 2004 4:47 am

are there? Anyone have rough guesstimates? just curious

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Postby Dax » Fri May 28, 2004 5:05 am

I remember reading 100,000 in a magazine article... that was about 6 months ago.

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Postby cglazier » Fri May 28, 2004 5:12 am

This topic has come up before. I think we concluded that there are maybe 100,000 to 200,000 kitesurfers in the world. This was derived from estimates of worldwide kite sales.

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Postby 'caneman » Fri May 28, 2004 6:49 am

wow, thats quite a lot. lets see (200k/8billion)*100=~0% of the worlds pop. kiteboards, interesting fact.

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Postby Kitegrom » Sat May 29, 2004 9:33 am

Hey ive got an idea. lets all like, gather at this beach, and then like all launch our kites and have kite wars. Last kite up wins! i can see it now... yeah ill go back to my hole now

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Postby Toby » Sat May 29, 2004 11:12 am

@Chris G: you still have a private message in your inbox!
about the gallery.

This number worldwide or in any country is the biggest :?: there is.
We will never know this, and I don't think we can depend on given sale numbers by companies....

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Postby marina » Sat May 29, 2004 8:26 pm

The AWSI (association of wind sport industries) is supposed to be putting out a report on this at the end of second quarter to include;
market size
segment size
growth and product trends

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Postby Toby » Sat May 29, 2004 8:37 pm

Marina, once the numbers are know, pls post them in here.
I'm pretty sure everyone wants to know.

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