Postby rdshawaii » Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:13 am
Im gonna have to agree with the bater on this one, but not completely...backside is ok IF it looks like pro surfing. However I haven't seen it yet. Not to take anything away from anyone, Martin, Wilson, Tobias etc..they're ripping for kitesurfing and are for sure pushing the sport forward, but if you watch any of them (including in Spare Change) if take away thier kite and its "ripping amateur" level at best, if you compair it to surfing.
If your in this sport to have fun, do as you please, whatever feels right. You have nothing to prove to anyone, but yourself. HOWEVER, if your career is kitesurfing and you consider yourself a pro, you HAVE to be able to do everything. You cant bash one thing if you only do the other, personally I'm goofy foot, but I ride frontside either tack... I can ride backside easily, but I agree that this sport is not surfing (at the moment) you have footstraps and bar to help. But as a pro you should be able to show video of yourself to one of the harshest critics out there (surfers) and they need to be saying to themselfs "What the f***, that was crazy".
If your a surfer you'll know what I mean, if you dont really know the surfing culture you might not agree with this, but whatever.
If you can find me a pic of a kitesurfer that looks like this, i'd like to see it
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