windsurfer for 20 years moving to kite surfing

Rider: 85kg, beginner
Style: Freeriding,
Weather: 12+

My Comments: done it all windsurfing mainly slalom, speed sailing... whats the best kite that will let me learn quickly but not hold me back, twin tip board? have done a lot of snow boarding or surfboard style? want to go fast with a bit of air, looking at new 08 kites that are on special now.Love to hear from you experienced guys and gals thanks G

Gosh fellas.

Go have a lesson first before you consider buying a kite. Once you can fly kites well, go ask your instructors and local kite stores for a demo of their kites.

Otherwise I haven't found a problem with LF Sessions, Waroos and Slingys which are always popular.

you kite f@gs all take yourself waaay too seriously

theDoctor must be exterminated! He is our enemy!!

Kill theDoctor!

Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!!!...

Despite the apparent excess of w%nkers as shown via this thread, there are lots of good blokes that kite. When you're learning you'll find other kiters at the beach willing to talk and give you advice too. Good advice from Kitehard and Liz

nice work Vader!

Welcome Grahamette

I started windsurfing back in 1981 - and have recently started kiteboarding !

Everyone prior to actually getting lessons from a very knowledgeable friend, said that it completely different to W/surfing...

It was a complete load of Bull**
As KiteHard says - Sales w*nkers everywhere

Youll pick it up fairly easily with snow & surf skills, and if you werent scared to wave jump - youll be popin out 30 footers without thinking. Yeee Haaaa

***** A FEW LESSONS ARE A MUST, humble pie tastes great when you have a renewed interest in watersports & LIVE to tell about it !!!!!!

The Safety release use, needs to be an instant reaction - See the TROPICAL STORM FAY video clip youll understand

When its around 40+ real knots - we'll dust off the wavesailin gear again

Cheersz: Sharkbait on a hook & line

yeah cheers for that, I really wanted to hear the the view of someone who enjoys both!
I love watching the the windsurfers when it's 30-35 knots down at Scabs and there absolutey killing it on a really strong seabreeze, but under that it looks like a lot of hard work. A lot of pumping the sail etc I'm still very impressed.
Kiting seems to cover most bases. I'm about to start my first season kiting and I'm way too excited. Just need to sort out putting straps on one of my surfboards.

baaaah..., you're all a bunch of limp wristed girlie p00fs.

lessons are what your fat, soft in the head, choccie eclair eating, better homes and gardens reading, life coached, ugly arsed missus wants you to get in the two hours she gives you away from her and your ugly, whinging fat kids on a sunday arvo as a 'gift' and then, has the hide to calls it 'your time', as if she's some couch dwelling, jiggly armed god

give yourself five, no six good punches to the nuts, they been doing your thinking for way too long now. besides from the sounds of it, they're not big enough to be even thinking for themselves, let alone to have guided you into the hole you now call your life

strap on a footy boot, kick that b!tch square in the face and tell her in no uncertain terms that you'll be back when YOU have decided that you've learned to kite by YOURSELF.

then get out there and do it. fnck that trainer kite sh!t, what are you training for? to learn how to use a kite? to learn to learn...? harden up douche bag, trainer kites are just the 'mans' way of squeezing more money out of you and feeding you more fear and self doubt, the very same kind of which you now left behind with a hard footy boot kick to the face, remember?

now i'm sure it was con****ious or one of those other fruits who spent way too long alone by themselves in their dressing gowns, who once said, 'YOU ONLY LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES', notice how i wrote that last bit in big letters there boy, thats cause it means i'm shouting it at 'ya, i learned that from one of these other soft p00fs right here on this forum, you know the type, fifteen years old over a hundred posts and still don't own a kite, what a sad state of affairs this g@y place has become, but more about that later for i digress, where was i... oh yeah thats right.

YOU ONLY LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES, one more time for your dumb ar$e, YOU ONLY LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES. so get out there and learn boy. the only way. the fncking hard way!!!!

i tell you, whats the point of forking out good money for some tosser who thinks his better than you, who treats you like the baby he obviously thinks you are, to hold your hand like a little girl who needs toilet training and show you how its done. you're not a girl are you boy, you can potty by yourself can't you, well stand up and learn like a man.

now, be wary of any fruit who ends their posts with 'see ya and good winds'
these are the same coniving, primary school dwelling in a trench coat, weirdos who'll wanna sucker you in to buying the trainer kite that you're once limp wrists now don't need.
besides, you don't want good winds boy, you want scary winds, b!tch slappin' winds, winds that make the trees scream in fear.

thats when you'll get your pudgy office hiding ar$e out there and learn.
and trust me here sunshine, by the time the local medical emergencies know you by your first name, you, like myself, will be the hardest fncking kiter around, and revered like the god you have become by all, and you'll leave behind these here soft and boring seabreeze fruits, who kite in helmets and impact vests and strap cameras on their heads to show the world how g@y and soft their kiting is... because you my boy, will kite like a man.

and don't forget about the link

'theDoctor' .....
So that was YOU in the Tropical Cyclone Fay Video hey!>!?!?!?! [}:)]

theDoctor said...

baaaah..., you're all a bunch of limp wristed girlie p00fs.

lessons are what your fat, soft in the head, choccie eclair eating, better homes and gardens reading, life coached, ugly arsed missus wants you to get in the two hours she gives you away from her and your ugly, whinging fat kids on a sunday arvo as a 'gift' and then, has the hide to calls it 'your time', as if she's some couch dwelling, jiggly armed god

give yourself five, no six good punches to the nuts, they been doing your thinking for way too long now. besides from the sounds of it, they're not big enough to be even thinking for themselves, let alone to have guided you into the hole you now call your life

strap on a footy boot, kick that b!tch square in the face and tell her in no uncertain terms that you'll be back when YOU have decided that you've learned to kite by YOURSELF.

then get out there and do it. fnck that trainer kite sh!t, what are you training for? to learn how to use a kite? to learn to learn...? harden up douche bag, trainer kites are just the 'mans' way of squeezing more money out of you and feeding you more fear and self doubt, the very same kind of which you now left behind with a hard footy boot kick to the face, remember?

now i'm sure it was con****ious or one of those other fruits who spent way too long alone by themselves in their dressing gowns, who once said, 'YOU ONLY LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES', notice how i wrote that last bit in big letters there boy, thats cause it means i'm shouting it at 'ya, i learned that from one of these other soft p00fs right here on this forum, you know the type, fifteen years old over a hundred posts and still don't own a kite, what a sad state of affairs this g@y place has become, but more about that later for i digress, where was i... oh yeah thats right.

YOU ONLY LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES, one more time for your dumb ar$e, YOU ONLY LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES. so get out there and learn boy. the only way. the fncking hard way!!!!

i tell you, whats the point of forking out good money for some tosser who thinks his better than you, who treats you like the baby he obviously thinks you are, to hold your hand like a little girl who needs toilet training and show you how its done. you're not a girl are you boy, you can potty by yourself can't you, well stand up and learn like a man.

now, be wary of any fruit who ends their posts with 'see ya and good winds'
these are the same coniving, primary school dwelling in a trench coat, weirdos who'll wanna sucker you in to buying the trainer kite that you're once limp wrists now don't need.
besides, you don't want good winds boy, you want scary winds, b!tch slappin' winds, winds that make the trees scream in fear.

thats when you'll get your pudgy office hiding ar$e out there and learn.
and trust me here sunshine, by the time the local medical emergencies know you by your first name, you, like myself, will be the hardest fncking kiter around, and revered like the god you have become by all, and you'll leave behind these here soft and boring seabreeze fruits, who kite in helmets and impact vests and strap cameras on their heads to show the world how g@y and soft their kiting is... because you my boy, will kite like a man.

and don't forget about the link

with a name like 'savethewhales' i bet you're at the front of the fruity p00f line for the soft wimpy types boy, stop trying to blow smoke up your own ar$e with the 'how good am i windw@nkin in a cyclone', five knots or fifty, w@nking is still w@nkin son.

as for that boy in florida, hardest man alive hands down.
lets see hadlow or one these here big talkin, boot wearin seabreeze p00fs pull a fifteen foot beach jump to broken ankle immediately followed by a twenty five foot high, hundred foot long, 60kt superman into a building...

talk about hard, that boys balls are diamonds

Well its good to see you kite boarding kids have a sense of humour.
Thanks for all the info looking forward to getting out on the water.
Good to see a bit of passion for the sport and the bull**** that comes along with life...
Cheers G