Also sorry, but if you dont train all year through, you will always find yourself at the bottom of the result list - no matter what sport.swell wrote:... sorry, but it's not fun to me to find myself at the bottom of the results list at every event because I have insuficiant funds to race the newest gear and train all year through...
Your Main Goal should be to Improve your standing in each race ; race againstswell wrote: ...
sorry, but it's not fun to me to find myself at the bottom of the results list at every event because I have insuficiant funds to race the newest gear and train all year through...
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forgive my english,ChristoffM wrote:Wow Stefaans, you must feel very strongly about it. I think most riders agree, the IKA should just leave out most (if not all) equipment restrictions.
The normal argument for having equipment restrictions (i.e. avoiding an arms race) is in my opinion not valid for the amount of carbon fibre or other exotic materials one can physically put in a foil and kite. The rules are only achieving the opposite of what they claim: as you said, you now have to invest much more in order to be able to compete.
And kiteboarding is still very much an individualistic sport with racing only a small part. We do not need to level the playing field to make it fun. It is far more fun to see how far the equipment can be developed. I would rather have "outdated" gear that can do say 30 knots, than have the latest and greatest competitive gear that can only do 20 knots because the development was so much halted in order to level the playing field.
In sailing where material costs are much more, and racing is a much larger requirement for having some adrenalin pumping action and having fun, strict class rules are understandable. In kiting however, we should leave the rules wide open, and only far in the future when (and if) it ever becomes obvious that it is becoming an arms race then introduce equipment restrictions.
I think most kiters would agree, but I could be wrong?
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