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Kiteboard as Wakeboard

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Created by Mauri > 9 months ago, 17 Apr 2015
Mauri
1 posts
17 Apr 2015 11:35PM
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Hey guys! I've got a kiteboard (brunotti dimension 2013) is has about the size of a wakeboard and I asked a few people if it was possible to wakeboard with it (I ride kickers and rails). They told me to better not because a wakeboard has a special bottom, kind of plastic like, so when it gets scratched that it doesn't matter so much. But the kiteboard does not have that layer and I would grind on the fiberglass. They told me it would just break of the fiberglass after some time. Now I wanted to know if that's true, and if yes, is it possible to get a kind of layer in my kiteboard?
Thx guys!

Freddofrog
WA, 522 posts
18 Apr 2015 4:45PM
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I'm assuming you're using bindings?

Craig66
NSW, 2466 posts
18 Apr 2015 7:21PM
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it will be fine, go hard or go home.

Ps, do you get 2 points each time you kick straight ?

or is it 6 ?



pss, you will kill a kite board hitting ****, break fins, scratch the f....er to death,


but go for it

tomme
VIC, 475 posts
18 Apr 2015 8:49PM
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Mauri said..
Hey guys! I've got a kiteboard (brunotti dimension 2013) is has about the size of a wakeboard and I asked a few people if it was possible to wakeboard with it (I ride kickers and rails). They told me to better not because a wakeboard has a special bottom, kind of plastic like, so when it gets scratched that it doesn't matter so much. But the kiteboard does not have that layer and I would grind on the fiberglass. They told me it would just break of the fiberglass after some time. Now I wanted to know if that's true, and if yes, is it possible to get a kind of layer in my kiteboard?
Thx guys!


yes

surforkite
NSW, 153 posts
19 Apr 2015 8:31AM
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Hi
I have been told they are built differently and was even given a new wake board which I chucked in a
moment of crazy cleanup.
A friend had purchase on sale thinking he would kite with it.
We tried this wakeboard kiting and was just too hard getting it going,heaps of rocker which lets u do all types of crazy stuff behind a boat.
It just looked different in bottom profile,fins rails etc so I do thing they are really different.
Straight line towing I think no problem,slides and everything else I think not the same.

flyingcab
VIC, 942 posts
19 Apr 2015 12:41PM
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The special surface is called Ptex, it can come on some kite boards
Otherwise your kite board will probably last a season which isn't too bad

fimbz
NSW, 6 posts
22 Apr 2015 8:36PM
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You can use most kiteboards on kickers and stuff no problem...but they are a lot more fragile than wakeboards.

I snapped a corner off my kiteboard from a wipeout on a funbox on a cable. I got into cable more and more, so i now have a wakeboard and a kiteboard. Same goes the other way...wakeboards are too heavy and have too much rocker to kite with...youd get nowhere.

You'll damage your kiteboard eventually



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