Boardshorts?? Yes or No??

toyletbowl · **Posted:** Sat May 12, 2012 5:20 pm

A little history might help.

In the early years, most kiteboarders were windsurfers first and windsurfers never ever wore board shorts. No reason to. Rumor has it that it first started when wakeboot riders started using them due to dragging their asses on the ground and used them to protect their wet suits. So FUNCTION started it.

But it trended since then just because most wear them so others wear them.

I'll always wear them and have dragged my ass in shallow ricky waters and on land before, and most recently hit my ass super hard (throw off of a surf board and slid butt first) and swear my nice $400 wet suit would have ripped if not for the shorts. Nice huge bruise for weeks.

To each their own of course, but we see yellow, green, purple, jean shorts which all make it more interesting than just black suits.

Go board shorts.

Bob
www.kiteridersllc.com

14ToeSide · **Joined:** Sun Nov 27, 2011 12:16 am **Posts:** 423

Then let's start wearing Board FULL LENGTH PANTS!!! :cool2:

SupaEZ · **Joined:** Sun Jun 12, 2011 12:47 pm **Posts:** 1637

14ToeSide wrote:

+3 what Bortola said... Why not just water a Flippin Speedo?? Then you can really draw some attention. :duh:

We see a lot of Canadian vacationers wearing Speedos in Florida
I wonder if they kite :?:

14ToeSide · **Joined:** Sun Nov 27, 2011 12:16 am **Posts:** 423

Scarred for life!! :desperado:

Oldnbroken · **Posted:** Tue May 15, 2012 2:18 am

toyletbowl wrote:

A little history might help.

In the early years, most kiteboarders were windsurfers first and windsurfers never ever wore board shorts. No reason to. Rumor has it that it first started when wakeboot riders started using them due to dragging their asses on the ground and used them to protect their wet suits. So FUNCTION started it.

But it trended since then just because most wear them so others wear them.

I'll always wear them and have dragged my ass in shallow ricky waters and on land before, and most recently hit my ass super hard (throw off of a surf board and slid butt first) and swear my nice $400 wet suit would have ripped if not for the shorts.

Shrinkage story sounds more plausible, I was told 6-7 years ago that was how the practice started.
My nice new 5/3 Amp K wetsuit was $150.
Some of the boardshorts I've seen guys wearing cost $80...it would cost more to go through two pairs of shorts.
I wear the Dakine Nitrous boardshort harness most of the time.
They don't protect you from the oyster beds though, wetsuit or no wetsuit!!!

tautologies · **Posted:** Tue May 15, 2012 3:42 am

it seems to me that guys that are really pre-occupied with this is the ones that do not wear one. Maybe it is the "are you wearing something?" in nudist camp syndrome?

I dunno. Who the hell cares about what other people wears...either way, what ever you choose, what other people wears have absolutely no impact on your life.

Vin Stefanelli · **Posted:** Tue May 15, 2012 5:49 am

I always wear board-shorts when its too warm for a wetsuit

Rustas · **Posted:** Wed May 16, 2012 9:00 am

I once went out without boardshorts... some of the girls on the beach liked it.
But i heard that the parents with little kids wanted to phone the cops...prude bastards!!!
:bye:

starkitesuk · **Posted:** Wed May 16, 2012 3:46 pm

Board shorts it is for me.

Nothing to do with trying to look cool and everything to do with people not trying to guess my religion

Once wet my suit is very figure hugging. Once my wife and her friends had finished laughing I decided I would not be doing that again :oops:

eree · **Posted:** Wed May 16, 2012 7:42 pm

tautologies wrote:

it seems to me that guys that are really pre-occupied with this is the ones that do not wear one. Maybe it is the "are you wearing something?" in nudist camp syndrome?
I dunno. Who the hell cares about what other people wears...either way, what ever you choose, what other people wears have absolutely no impact on your life.

starkitesuk wrote:

Board shorts it is for me.
Nothing to do with trying to look cool and everything to do with people not trying to guess my religion

Once wet my suit is very figure hugging. Once my wife and her friends had finished laughing I decided I would not be doing that again :oops:

well, i don't care if some of us wear bs. it is total denial of vanity that is bothers me.
no one has told that he or she wears bs because it looks cool for him/her!
everybody keep alleging that bs's are keeping wetsuits from abrasion and cold.

pathetic...

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