Hello everybody,
I'm new to this forum and am thinking of taking up kiteboarding or windsurfing. I'm skater and I surf too so I'm thinking it may help a little?
Just wondering where I need to start? I have some surfer mates that windsurf too they are trying to get me into windsurfing, they say kiting is like body boarding is to surfing and it's more of a metro sexual type sport. I just thought kiting looked like it would be easier, less expensive etc is it?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Creating a profile and posting on both kitesurfing and windsurfing forums...... You must not have much of a life to go to that effort for whatever reaction you are hoping for.
To many sharks in South Africa mate, just give the surfing away and take up scrapbooking or knitting.
Just after advice, my girlfriend is watching some girly show on TV and I don't have to study tonight. I'm pretty keen to start up kiteboarding or windsurfing, I just don't know much about the two so I'm after advice. Most of the advice so far has been from windsurfers.
Take up windsurfing. Kiteboarders are all gay and would be all over a new boy on the beach. 
Can I just ask if it is easier to learn to kiteboard on a surfboard than a propper kite board? Also what type, size, and year of kite would be the best to start on? What are the things to look out for when buying a second hand kite?
Yeah, definitely go windsurfing. The reason we wear our boardies over our wetties is for extra protection, we are all gay.
If you decide to learn to kite. Make sure you get a C model, from 2002-2005 (the late model's are crap). Look on ebay, heaps of bargains. You don't need lessons, just set up the kite and get your gf to throw the kite up in the air. Do it where there aren't any other kiters because we'll get the ****s until you have learnt.
Take up roller blading, its way cooler than kiteboarding, and almost as cool as poleboarding(windsurfing).
Seriously though kiting and windsurfing are both as expensive or inexpensive as you want them to be. 2nd hand gear is cheap!. They are both cool in different ways. You will not get balanced answers about the merits of both on a kite surfing forum. Check out your local beach and watch youtube videos. Make your own mind up about which sport you would prefer to do. Then aproach a local shop for lessons and advice and go from there.
BTW. why do you think your windsurfing mates would infer that kiting is gay. It appears they may have an inferiority complex, have boosting envy, or maybe there just closet f@gs themselves
lol They never said it was gay, did you kiters all watch South Africa win the cricket or something because you seem a bit ****ty and defensive also highly strung. I'm not into cricket so there's no need do be all defensive.
I think after the advice I've been given on here I will definitely take up windsurfing, especially after watching some of the videos and reading some forums. Don't get me wrong your sport looks ok, you get big air however being a skater I like using a ramp to get air, I can go paragliding anytime so the hanging up there and flinging around my feet is what I find off putting. I think it looks better when you guys do an air and it's all in the same motion with no dangle time.
All I wanted was some good advice on here so I gave you some good advice back, I think my windsurfer mates were right in the way you seem very insecure about your sport though, they say you must have small genitalia because you're always wearing board shorts over your wetties lol
Any way cheerio girls
If you are in any way serious of making a choice, watch this movie first. If you think you're hard enough to do any of this stuff then give it a go.
www.dailymotion.com/video/x6luzo
Give both of them a try.
Instructors normally will supply the gears so you don't have to buy it for the start.
At the end of the day even if you go to pole surfing at least you have been holding a kite for an hour so your life is not completely wasted.
Ask a stupid question.....
Go windsurfing with your mates. Everyone in my neck of the woods kiteboards and all the kit fits in the boot of my car.
What's a bloody Sth Africn doing on this website anyway?
No I was talking about what I'd like to see in a video, a video can have a bit of comedy as long as it's spontaneous and not set up.
Don't be so touchy you offend very easily, that video is a bit of a load of wnk at the start and at the end. I'm sorry that I didn't go into great detail about the comedy just thought you might be able to work out what I meant.
Sounds like you get angry easily and your ex girlfriend is a lot better off now.
kiters are a bunch of wankers, go windsurfing. way cheaper, easier and you can do it with friends if you want. you also don't have the risk of dying and stuff.
boards-1k kites near 2k, harness 2hunderd. lessons like 500. you will probably loose a board and rip a kite in your first year + you can never get away from the fact your being pulled by a kite. makes for a sport as free as ski biscuiting. also your back and other joins take a hammering. all the kiters i know have problems with knees and backs-it's an inevitable outcome.
Calm Down Fela's, this guy cant be for real.
Its just a wind up by a sad Pole rider.
What a dork...I have to applaud you guys for handling this one so well. And I want to say sorry for my previous one or two attempts at trolling on the kite forum; I've seen the light at last. Why can't we all just get along?
OK get along then 
and take SmellySkater with you, stick him under a bridge somewhere.
