Are you sure? I will have a look tomoz, if so that's the best news I have had in a while. Miss my deadmans and stuff.
Yeh can't wait to get mine to....some beers, them some courage, then to surrender to the fact I will be eating sh1t for a while. Lol
He uses 16 and 18 north Dynos is stupid winds with a 128 something...it is a nobile!
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Yes, indeed most will be done in virtual reality for sure. Lol.
And Sir Rowdy don't be such a negative nancy. Although I do agree with the 50 footer thingy, that is something else. Still reckon kudos to someone who can kite and do lot more than me, then again maybe sir rowdy has mastered such disciplines.
You have a valid point Eppo, kudos to anyone that does what they want and doesn't listen to what the majority of people are saying. Hell I wouldn't have been riding boots the last 8 years if I had listened to almost everyone at the beach :D .
I guess I am somewhat biased, as if you ever hear what he is claiming/saying about this style of riding you would imagine he is talking about something completely different. I was throwing some perspective on what he is actually doing and at the same time showing some love to a few of Australia's finest, most of which have sadly been forgotten. It's a shame we don't have some old videos online of Aussie events for people to see, it would be a laugh.
Ah in the end will be a bit of fun sitting down with a couple of beers watching some useful tricks and some pointless ones. One foot in the other out doing a quad stretch? Wtf! I suppose if you have a tight quad. Hey maybe he could do a whole stretch routine in the air. Lol
Hmmm three DVD's. 290 minutes...that is 4.83 hours of Airstyle.
Think I will wait and read the reviews before buying this one, maybe even wait until someone can lend it to me...for a year.
Its about: variaaaaation: now watch the same 5 tricks 30 times...
edit: Vawy-ation
Some fun looking tricks granted. Otherwise the biggest load of show boating nonsense I have ever seen. Honestly who is going to go out and send there kite to lunch time and flap there arms like a seagul?
Its about..... Toby!
Ah you bunch of negative nancies. I for one already have a bar set up suspended in my garage. Yeh sure I'm not gonna flap my arms but the basic principles of getting enough air and having enough time to get that board off and rotating in the air I can't wait.
We can still learn from circus clowns.
Hey I found that stopper on my ozone bar this morning. What a nice surprise.
Wow so many replies slating the guy
I put a challenge out to any one of you who have said he has no skill
. . . . . . his kite's are to big etc etc dribble dribble blah blah diarrhea
please enlighten us with one of your vid's showing how you can also do this to a similar standard for the rest of the forum members to comment on
if you KEYBOARD COMMANDO'S have a response post it in video form anything else will be just an admission that you do not have this allegedly simplistic skill-set
this is a form of old-school freestyle so surely you detractors on the new school tricks should have this down pat . . . . . or just maybe it is a different skill set ?
i expect to see a grand total of zero video replies --- prove me wrong
. . . saying i won't do this coz its lame boring etc - also an admission that you can't do it
It personally doesn't do anything for me - although it definitely would have 10 years ago when I started.
Boardoffs, barefoot maybe....but 'air' guitar? An 'air' salute? Gees...
No doubting the skill although (contrary to assertions on this forum) there are plenty of people who would put Toby to shame in an 'airstyle' competition - Dan Anderson and/or Damo for instance; both of whom mix it up with the new school as well.
I'll personally file this movie under 'No movement in my jocks whatsoever' alongside street SUPing and anything associated with it.
I'm looking at it from a whole very view point it seems. I'm not getting the vid to 'get off in my jocks', nor for entertainment, well maybe a bit.
I'm looking at it as a chance to watch and develop my own skill set. But don't worry you won't see me doing air guitar or saluting ( then again might be funny to have a laugh at his more silly tricks).
But he gets air and has enough time and skill to perform certain things with the body and board.
The basic principles surely will help those like myself who still kite mainly for air and old school stuff.
I found it exhilarating to watch 10 years ago and I still do. What doesn't exhilarate me is watching modern freestyle. I respect and admire it, but it doesn't do it for me.
So maybe a different reason or view point might actually provide some education for you negative nannies. That's all I'm looking for in it and to have a good old laugh over a few beers at his showman ship.
Agree with ya saffer, he most definelty is NOT the most progressive freestyler. He doesn't even unhook does he?
I watched this guy Toby in Brazil a few years back. His tricks look much improved. Even so everyone on the beach watched him and no one was interested in the handlebar pass new school Yawn lot.
Thats right they may not appreciate the skill involved but like you say the height of the jump looks far more impressive and entertaining.
you've just got to read a lot of the replies in this topic to see that not everyone finds it more impressive, entertaining or cooler than wakestyle. quite the opposite.
Wakestyle/freestyle tricks may be difficult to execute but they are not elegant and often over in a blink of the eye. Thus by nature not very entertaining. If you want to make a sport more appealing then you need to keep it entertaining. In Tarifa 2005 hundreds of us sat on the beach and watched the pros do freestyle before unhooking tricks took over. I never saw such crowds since. Thus by reason old school tricks are much more entertaining and nicer to watch and that is why Redbull are bringing it back.
Old School is Back!
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Is that really the reason somesone does 'old school' stuff? To draw a crowd? Because it looks more impressive? Come on - a little vain isn't it?
