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08-30-2012, 02:57 PM
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Where did you first see kitesurfing and when?
My first memory was this Toyota TV commercial that first aired in 1995. I was still windsurfing at the time but was sufficiently intrigued by the spectacle to look into "kiteskiing." What articles I could find at the time led me to mistakenly believe that it was a downwind sport with lots of walking back upwind involved. That and the ponderous appearance of the control bar kept me in windsurfing for a few more years. I got my first Wikipa in 1998 and never looked back, much. Little did I know that there was to be lots of walking backup wind for me with these classic two line kites! Staying upwind in variable conditions didn't become consistently easy for me until my first four line LEI kites, Naish AR5s in 2000. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nzlQ1_AIMQ
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08-30-2012, 06:59 PM
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you're not the only one, I think alotta people back in '98 thought the same thing watching certain individuals do just that across Biscayne Bay... Luckily rides back across the Rickenbacker were plentiful then
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08-31-2012, 08:31 AM
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It was trickier to handle down your way with the causeways, extensive seawalls and private development to walk back from downwind runs. It was a lot easier up here with linear stretches of unguarded beaches to work from. I can recall seeing guys stay upwind in 1999 in Maui on two line kites and wondering, how do they do that?! I think the greatest problems were insufficient wind and edging. You used to fly F ones too Raul. What was the most wind you ever took one of the old ATK foils in? Those kites could be severely punishing in major gusts and lulls.
One time I deliberately did a downwinder the last time I flew a XXXL Ram kite on handles. I was about to sell it. The walk back from that carrying a long directional board was 6 1/2 miles! Try that with a windsurfer.
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08-31-2012, 09:42 AM
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all the way across the sandspit battered bruised I got rid of that kite immediately afterwards......
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04-26-2015, 05:33 AM
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Just came across some new, old clips of Cory in action on all sorts of kite gear, pioneering kitesurfing.
https://vimeo.com/15723855 and some rough black and white imagery out of France in 1980 at the following link: https://www.facebook.com/yadlocom/vi...08795/?fref=nf .
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08-31-2017, 12:47 PM
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09-01-2017, 06:47 AM
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Fun times, good vibes...
We have this crazy bar with the REEL at a local kiteshop hanging on the wall. You could defend a country with this thing 
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