Hi,
Planed to go to the cable park with my kite board, does kickers are really bad for the board ?
Cheers.
It depends on the board mate, most these days are generally OK but you'll need to let us know what board you're riding first.
If it has flex, a PVC or similar material on the base, and you've taken the fins out it should be fine.
Not an expert but my kiteboard and my wakeboard are so far apart from each other , wake has loads of rocker in it and has a grind base so much thicker than the kite board my thought is you will kill your kiteboard ,I have used my kiteboard on cable before I bought my wakeboard but not on kickers or sliders like I say I am no expert ,just my point of view,which cable you thinking of going to bli bli or Logan cable ski (aka gold coast)
I took my Naish Dub to the cable and it survived it but you will wear through the base pretty quickly. The board will also be very 'sticky' on features which makes it quite hard to keep your balance sometimes. I recommend taking a candle and wax it...you heard right, wax it!!
Bottom line is, it will work but you will destroy your board if you keep doing it for a while. That said, if you ride over sand, shells, rocks it will scratch your board a lot more than on slick features.
One more thing, please don't ride straps at the cable!! 1 you risk breaking your ankle and hurt your knees and 2 YOU WILL LOOK LIKE A KOOK 
If you're not worried about scratching the hell out of you gear and don't mind flogging out your ankles take the kiteboard.
Otherwise get a cheap wakey off gumtree and trash it :p
Thanks guys.
As I don't have boots, I will leave my board at home...
Prefered payed extra $20 and don't kill my board.
Select to expand quotetomme said...
Buy boots then
Don't really need it... I'm just going to the cable park ocasionally and I kite in straps.
But I keep on eye on big banana with boots, if a good deal come...
Never tried kiting boots yet, how is it ?
Select to expand quotetbranse said..
I took my Naish Dub to the cable and it survived it but you will wear through the base pretty quickly. The board will also be very 'sticky' on features which makes it quite hard to keep your balance sometimes. I recommend taking a candle and wax it...you heard right, wax it!!
Bottom line is, it will work but you will destroy your board if you keep doing it for a while. That said, if you ride over sand, shells, rocks it will scratch your board a lot more than on slick features.
One more thing, please don't ride straps at the cable!! 1 you risk breaking your ankle and hurt your knees and 2 YOU WILL LOOK LIKE A KOOK
how do you hurt your ankles anymore wake boarding in straps than you would kiting? I find you can actually hurt them more kiting because you don't stop getting pulled after you crash (if one foot comes out) Select to expand quotemaxfr said..tomme said...
Buy boots then
Don't really need it... I'm just going to the cable park ocasionally and I kite in straps.
But I keep on eye on big banana with boots, if a good deal come...
Never tried kiting boots yet, how is it ?
Kiting in boots is just like riding cable in boots.
Select to expand quotemaxfr said...tomme said...
Buy boots then
Don't really need it... I'm just going to the cable park ocasionally and I kite in straps.
But I keep on eye on big banana with boots, if a good deal come...
Never tried kiting boots yet, how is it ?
Amazing. I would never go back to straps. If your into freestyle
Select to expand quotekemp90 said..maxfr said...tomme said...
Buy boots then
Don't really need it... I'm just going to the cable park ocasionally and I kite in straps.
But I keep on eye on big banana with boots, if a good deal come...
Never tried kiting boots yet, how is it ?
Amazing. I would never go back to straps. If your into freestyle
i would never go back to freestyle
I am buying 18m norths and taking up AIRSTYLE
Select to expand quotekemp90 said..maxfr said...tomme said...
Buy boots then
Don't really need it... I'm just going to the cable park ocasionally and I kite in straps.
But I keep on eye on big banana with boots, if a good deal come...
Never tried kiting boots yet, how is it ?
Amazing. I would never go back to straps. If your into freestyle
I'm just going into freestyle, I can't really said I'm in yet
I Should try boots. What's difference between the classic boots, and the ones like snowboard fixations ?
Select to expand quotetbranse said...
I took my Naish Dub to the cable and it survived it but you will wear through the base pretty quickly. The board will also be very 'sticky' on features which makes it quite hard to keep your balance sometimes. I recommend taking a candle and wax it...you heard right, wax it!!
Bottom line is, it will work but you will destroy your board if you keep doing it for a while. That said, if you ride over sand, shells, rocks it will scratch your board a lot more than on slick features.
One more thing, please don't ride straps at the cable!! 1 you risk breaking your ankle and hurt your knees and 2 YOU WILL LOOK LIKE A KOOK I actually snapped my ankle doing a back roll in bindings at cable ski. Had I been using my kiteboard with straps, no way it would of happened
Select to expand quotedachopper said...tbranse said...
I took my Naish Dub to the cable and it survived it but you will wear through the base pretty quickly. The board will also be very 'sticky' on features which makes it quite hard to keep your balance sometimes. I recommend taking a candle and wax it...you heard right, wax it!!
Bottom line is, it will work but you will destroy your board if you keep doing it for a while. That said, if you ride over sand, shells, rocks it will scratch your board a lot more than on slick features.
One more thing, please don't ride straps at the cable!! 1 you risk breaking your ankle and hurt your knees and 2 YOU WILL LOOK LIKE A KOOK I actually snapped my ankle doing a back roll in bindings at cable ski. Had I been using my kiteboard with straps, no way it would of happened
I snapped my ankle when using straps, wouldnt have happened if I had boots.
Boots won't come off when your inside down doing spins at 100 km.
They give you more control and safer on landings ( my opinion). I tryed my mates board on the weekend doing loops. Ml was perfectly fine landing on mine. Used his with straps, foot came out and got faarked over.
Ps. Boots rock!!
Select to expand quoteRicardo1709 said..
what about a surfboard
strapped or strapless !!!
When I crashed, body was rotating left, top side of board just lipped the water early and rotated hard right. No chance to kick off the binding or of my foot coming out. and then had to pull my Foot out with broken ankle attached. Had I been in straps the board would have been ripped off my feet. Straps are harder to ride with for sure, more care is needed with launch and landing than with bindings, but don't assume your safe in bindings... Just ask the cable operators how many leg breaks and bruises they have had with binding riders !
Yea, just ask the cable operators if they want all their riders to use straps instead of bindings...just for a good laugh
I never said you can't injure yourself in bindings but it sure as hell is safer on the cable than using straps. If you want it to be safer just stay home.
Sure everybody has a story injuring themselves in bindings or in straps...there are pro's and con's to both and everybody has their preference so just ride what you are comfortable with.
What you can't argue with though is that boots give you ankle support and straps don't which is one of the reasons wakeboards are used with bindings. The main reason most kiters are still riding straps is that it's hard to get in and out of boots while your kite is up (they are also bloody expensive and break quickly) so:
Wakeboarding: ride boots
Kiteboarding: ride boots 
