dyyylan wrote:While you're off impressing little girls, we get plenty of people on the beach that are amazed with wakestyle. Maybe you're not impressing them with wakestyle because you can't do wakestyle?edt wrote:Wakestyle doesn't do anything for the general public. Remember the little girl. That's what the general public likes.honestly, the general public, including most kiters do not appreciate the technical difficulty of most of the moves.
Ah yes and the supposed superiority card is revealed once again. Didn't take too long this time.
Now I'm waiting for the strapless SB rider to vouch for their godlike expertise in the water.
Kiting was a fringe sport until really only recently (where it is definetly moving into the masses), hence was driven by kiters. Kiters got increasingly technical with their riding and a lot moved into the wakestyle type of riding as a world stage for competition took hold. Hence this is what has dominated the stage at the elite level. The 'old school' riding tricks were left alone by a lot of pro riders, hence by kiting companies trying to market their wares. It was a combination of a fringe sport and timing. But the airstyle development still can still be pushed much further, but it needs the attention of the next gen' of excellent riders. It's not 'old school' at all, it's just been left behind to gather dust. This box needs reopeneing.
If anything wakestyle is 'old school' becuase it's based on a sport that was around long before kiting. And Surfboard riding with a kite, well that's 'ancient style' relatively.
This needs to change. A separate airstyle competition on the world stage is needed to address this aspect of our sport which really defines it's uniqueness and yes will bring in the public attention. ....and dollars....
..and the little girl example was a metaphor maybe lost on you, addressing the excitement a naive kiting mentally generates when exposed to airstyle moves. Most are just that.