CLassic.
Soon they'll have an iphone app for it; just press a button and let your phone do the kiting!
Coincidentally, Festo make tools, but not the type you find on the lower end of kite lines. But now they have got both covered 
I did see were on large oil tanker boats that they are using this system to pull the boats at a 20% reduction in fuel cost the theory is that this reduces the carbon footprint of the oil companys .
looks pretty easy... but before we twist the knife on the kiters.. boats have had sails before too...
Not my words but apt for the thread title.
Quote: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsurfing
"It (windsurfing) can be compared to chess in that there are many pieces moving in different directions which you have to keep track of. After about 10 games, most finally catch on. Learning to kite board is more like learning checkers."
Before the argument starts, ask yourself, if you've played both games of chess and checkers, which is the most mentally challenging and stimulating game after the basic game is learnt?
This video disproves the theory that kiting is so easy any tool can do it:
can somebody here please tell me if kiting is so easy why ex champion windsurfers like robby naish and pete cabrinha never made it as kiters. they are both good but are both a long way off being world class. both have been involved with kiting for a long time.
maybe its just a different skill set?
......maybe they are just becoming old dudes like myself and trying to be freakin' awesome at everything (in my case 'anything') is getting harder nowadays. I'd be interested to know which world class kiters around the same age are as well rounded watermen as them? Especially Naish.
full respect to nobby rash, the man is a legend. the only other all round waterman i can think of in the same class is laird hamilton.
there were so few kiters then that i'm pretty sure all you had to do was sign on to get a top place at a comp
Kiting is easier than windsurfing. That's a good thing. It's easier to have more fun.
Windsurfing is harder than kiting. That's why most windsurfers never master the carving gybe, never land a jump planing, never get through the shore break in a strong onshore wind, never manage to actually surf a wave (most kiters can't do that one either).
