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In this thread, we discuss all things kitesurf related (windsurfers, kite wingers, foilers, and others are also welcome). Spots, gear, tricks, stories, questions, anything.

> Why kitesurfing is xs?
- Outdoors in natural beauty
- Available to all ages, fitness levels, men and women.
- Feels amazing flying through the air with power of the wind
- Introvert sport. Bros help you launch/land, but you're mostly on your own.
- Always new tricks to try and ways to improve.
- High "action to waiting" ratio. Sessions can last hours with no breaks.
- Undisputed coolest people on the beach (sorry surfers, but it's true). Everyone wants to be friends with the kiters.
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>>216300
how do you start getting into this? Flying the kite? Then surfing? Then combining?
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>>218578
The kite is powerful and can pretty easily throw you into rocks or trees or dive bomb into the land, so I always recommend getting an instructor. Learning progression is:
1. Fly kite on land.
2. Fly the kite without a board in the water (called body-dragging). This adds movement and lets you understand how to control the power and direction of the kite.
3. Add a twin tip board (like a wakeboard). This is the combination part.
It's obviously much easier if you have experience with board sports (best is if you have wakeboard experience), but it's actually not as hard as wakeboarding because the kite tends to lift you up out of the water (as opposed to the more horizontal power you get from a boat or wake park). Takes about 3 1hr sessions to get up, but then it's mostly just going down wind, and then you need to walk back upwind and try again. Takes another handful of sessions before you're actually able to stay "up wind" and then can ride indefinitely. Takes about 20 sessions to feel fully comfortable and then you can start working on jumps/tricks. Or then you can trade the twin tip into a proper surfboard and ride waves with the kite (kite brings you to the wave, then you ride the wave like a surfer while kite is just floating next to you).
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>>216300
Basado

What's the deal with Cabrinha.
>12m valve delamination
>9m pulls to one side

Luckily I was able get a full refund on the 9. It wasn't the lines, i tried everything. I feel retailers know these kites are trash and happily gove a refund. Exchanged for a new 9 North reach, still yet to use it.

I love Cabarete.
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>>216300
I was really interested to try this, but then saw a vid of guy who got swept wayyyyyy up high by a gust o wind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd8vT1KR4RE
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>>218578
my suggestion would be to go on a vacation to somewhere cheap where the conditions are good and buy a whole package deal where you get lessons with equipment included
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>>218578
Step 1 is to be rich. You need to have around 5000 thousand dollars available to spend on lessons and gear. Step 2 is this >>238588
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>>216300
>Undisputed coolest people on the beach (sorry surfers, but it's true). Everyone wants to be friends with the kiters.

Rented a condo for a week in North Carolina (not OBX) and got cross-shore wind every day. By the end of the trip, everyone knew me as the kiteboarder and they'd tell me how much they enjoy watching me ride. Kids look at me like I'm a celebrity when I ask them to move so I can safely launch my kite. Not the reason I kiteboard, but I can't deny that I like the attention.
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>>239587
damn, 5 million dollars

thats pretty steep
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>>239589
I pity the windsurfers

man, did they bet on the wrong horse



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