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Worst kite name ever!

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Created by lostatsea > 9 months ago, 27 Jan 2016
lostatsea
WA, 147 posts
27 Jan 2016 11:13AM
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I like BWS kites, but what the fark! Who approved that name

Drury
NSW, 502 posts
27 Jan 2016 2:20PM
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What do you mean?





Kamikuza
QLD, 6493 posts
27 Jan 2016 2:08PM
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Tako laid the Log on us a few years back...

bjw
QLD, 3686 posts
27 Jan 2016 4:12PM
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Ben Wilson isn't that bad is it?

Greenarrowz
NSW, 301 posts
27 Jan 2016 6:03PM
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Gaastra....
FFS what were they eating when they thought of that!

sir ROWDY
WA, 5366 posts
27 Jan 2016 3:05PM
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Pretty sure he's talking about the name of their latest model kite, not about BWS in general.

Danger Mouse
WA, 592 posts
27 Jan 2016 3:16PM
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The Nemesis, although seeing as a 21m C kite did feel like it was always trying to kill you, maybe it was the 'Best' named kite????

NoWorries
WA, 30 posts
27 Jan 2016 3:27PM
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Aeneema
Now that is funny
so if you get this kite does that mean it clears you of your ****

kiteboy dave
QLD, 6525 posts
27 Jan 2016 7:17PM
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D_Meredith79 said..
The Nemesis, although seeing as a 21m C kite did feel like it was always trying to kill you, maybe it was the 'Best' named kite????



I had a 21m Best and the name was great... BFK... Big Fn Kite. Perfect.

/ps I thought it was a great kite to fly, very mild mannered. But pumping it, leading edge 27km long and as thick as a kombi, that was something else

/pps "zeeko notus" ain't all that inspiring either..

lostatsea
WA, 147 posts
27 Jan 2016 8:58PM
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lostatsea
WA, 147 posts
27 Jan 2016 9:02PM
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Sorry guys, was laughing so hard i forgot to attach pic

Double page spread in the latest freedom kite mag. Now i have seen my fair share of poo stance kitesurfers in my time, so guessing this is there official kite!!!????

@BWSteam what the hell were you thinking

Plummet
4862 posts
28 Jan 2016 2:33AM
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The bws boys must be tool fans.

Underoath
QLD, 2433 posts
28 Jan 2016 6:21AM
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One of my fav albums of all time.

46&2
Stinkfist
Useful Idiot
Hooker with a Penis.

bjw
QLD, 3686 posts
28 Jan 2016 6:30PM
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They were going to call it Hooker with a penis, but apparently the European market has existing trademark rights.

Jono77
WA, 356 posts
28 Jan 2016 6:12PM
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Anyone with an insight to BWS or who is within BWS who can give us an explanation to how this name came about? Surely there is a reason/story/bet/sabotage/drunken night in the marketing meeting/meaning in a different language or something which resulted in one of their products being called this. Also they only have a small product line so a large proportion of their sales will be left with this name.

I personally would avoid buying it as I couldn't be bothered with the constant crappy jokes about it!!

Kind of like a problem Mitsubishi had with Pajero

brandfailures.blogspot.com/2006/11/brand-culture-failures-car-names.html?m=1

SibboV1
368 posts
28 Jan 2016 6:35PM
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Jono77 said..
I personally would avoid buying it as I couldn't be bothered with the constant crappy jokes about it!!



Mate, you should have got the brown one.

Does it allow your to style to really flow?

It will really inject something new into your kiting.

Review: Great boost, no hang time + hot landing = well you know....

Jono77
WA, 356 posts
28 Jan 2016 6:40PM
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Maybe it's a new marketing angle kind of like Wainmans Rabbit Gang. Perhaps BWS is coming out with an entirely new range with names to match!!

Perhaps we will see a new range from BWS;
The Hemorrhoid
The Colonoscopy
The Prostate Exam
All coming to a beach near you!!

Tractorguy
TAS, 543 posts
28 Jan 2016 9:45PM
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Jono77 said..
Maybe it's a new marketing angle kind of like Wainmans Rabbit Gang. Perhaps BWS is coming out with an entirely new range with names to match!!

Perhaps we will see a new range from BWS;
The Hemorrhoid
The Colonoscopy
The Prostate Exam
All coming to a beach near you!!



and you come from a place called Innaloo, funny as , and no I don't ride the kite in question though apparently they are the one to use for wave riding.

kemp90
QLD, 1694 posts
28 Jan 2016 9:00PM
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lostatsea said...







I thought the same thing. Who on earth thought that would be a good name

kemp90
QLD, 1694 posts
28 Jan 2016 9:02PM
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D_Meredith79 said...
The Nemesis, although seeing as a 21m C kite did feel like it was always trying to kill you, maybe it was the 'Best' named kite????


Just out of curiosity, how did you relaunch a 21m c kite?

Puetz
NT, 2185 posts
29 Jan 2016 7:56AM
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kemp90 said..


D_Meredith79 said...
The Nemesis, although seeing as a 21m C kite did feel like it was always trying to kill you, maybe it was the 'Best' named kite????




Just out of curiosity, how did you relaunch a 21m c kite?



... you either had to swim at the kite like an Olympic swimmer or pull the 5th line like ya pulling in a marlin, either way you quickly learnt not to drop the bloody things!!

Robbie

ps Tool's Aneema is one of my fav albums too

strapped
NSW, 171 posts
29 Jan 2016 10:59AM
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Remember the saying, "sticks and stones". Well, my son got an 8m Aeneema at the Merimbula Classic and I have watched him rapidly progress on this kite over summer. From what I've seen, as I am yet to fly it, the kite performs very well and is excellent at staying in the air when it is driven to far through the window trying a jump. The relaunch is very simple and the bar set up is good. I am not trying to review this kite but just being positive instead of knocking or chipping away at an Aussie who is having a go with his products.
If you changed the I and the O around in Slingshot, now that would be an interesting name and I wonder if anybody said similar things to the band Tool about their choice of the same name for an album.

bjw
QLD, 3686 posts
29 Jan 2016 3:44PM
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Strapped, everyone knows they are awesome kites, but everyone is just having a laugh about the name.

Actually it shows the BWS guys have some humor about them.

Personally I get over the tough guy names - Screamer, Nitro, RPM, Bandit, Crazy Fly Sick Bar.

Also could North name the Neo, over the Ted Theodore Logan?

Jasonwave
151 posts
29 Jan 2016 9:09PM
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Been flying these Aeneemas for 6 months. They are awesome freeride wave kites. If you make the link in miss pronounciation, you will quickly get over it once youve been out on one. My teenage kids are loving learning on them too.

If you have to make the link, then as any Dr will tell you, sticking medecine up your butt is the fastest way to feeling gooood.

Mark _australia
WA, 23450 posts
29 Jan 2016 9:43PM
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Fark for those of us on the other side, "Hooker With Penis" and "Tool" seem to really define kiting well.

Mr 'Oath you are onto something there....



But yeah, us polies really do have to wear the blame for things like Pryde, the kanga c0ck fin, pink wetsuits in the 80's and stuff like that

Plummet
4862 posts
30 Jan 2016 3:37AM
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Ænima is a spiritual term meaning an Atlantis type cataclysm, meaning land sinking underneath water.

Jono77
WA, 356 posts
30 Jan 2016 11:02AM
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Plummet said...
Ænima is a spiritual term meaning an Atlantis type cataclysm, meaning land sinking underneath water.


Or liquid shoved up bum

Jasonwave
151 posts
30 Jan 2016 11:32AM
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Video review not bothered .... Dont really understand, one of the best things in kite surfing, made by an ozzy, and his locals link it to their butt ? Is enima perhaps ozzy for "mouthwash" ? Or perhaps seeing the link is revealing some darker subliminal desires.

http://www.realwatersports.com/ben-wilson-aeneema-kite#tab-realreview

SibboV1
368 posts
30 Jan 2016 4:41PM
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Mark _australia said..
pink wetsuits in the 80's


Those pink wetties would be cool now.

coxy31
NSW, 127 posts
30 Jan 2016 7:58PM
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Smart marketing, it's got all us talking about it ain't it??

SibboV1
368 posts
30 Jan 2016 7:27PM
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coxy31 said..
Smart marketing, it's got all us talking about it ain't it??


I must be doing something wrong - I booked in for a colonoscopy.



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