Hmmm, making a sport appealing retarded? Not sure I understand that one. If it wasn't appealing you'd still be using crap gear & only have two different kite companies to choose from.
Actually you wouldn't be kiting at all would you?
I found that a really entertaining video! Never seen the seagull before, guess I was only 12 back in the day when this all first started.
I am however slightly concerned for Toby that he might be the love child of this man?!
Well said eppo
I've always been a big fan of the old school - mostly on a landboard/snowboard until last season when i returned from Europe (brace for the euro bashing)
Since being back in Perth the only land-boarding i get to do is on my own in a park
No spectators in fact if people turn up i generally pack up as generally joe public doesn't know the dangers associated with kites
I guess i'm saying that I - like most kiters that i've met kite because they enjoy it . . .
it does make me feel good if another kiter acknowledges something i've done but that's the same with any sport
To say that old school is the reason we have problems with joe public is just moronic - old-school tricks esp when going big look just the same 200m+ from the shore . . . its the new-school stuff that's easier to miss and if someone was a show pony they would pull these closer to the shore
respect to red bull for bringing back the old-school comps
If I was a spectator of the sport I'd prefer to watch someone like Ruben than any of the handle pass jockeys. But variety is the spice of life. Each to their own, do what you live to do.
There's no doubt that Toby has created a dvd with alot more variety than the repatitous handle pass jockeys, imagine an hour watching handlepass dangles! It is entertaining, in it's own way.
