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gerritt
Joined: 06 May 1998 Posts: 632 Location: Redwood City, CA
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dllee
Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay
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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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Poor choice of riders.
Jason is one of the best windsurfing has to offer.
Ben is not going off, instead preferring to go straight off adolph, a term for riding a wave in a straight line with no turning. |
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MrFish
Joined: 04 Sep 2009 Posts: 248
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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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Nice Find.
Yeah, in those conditions obviously it would seem pretty hard or impossible for a kiter to do the kinds of cutbacks and bottom turns that we can. They have their days, just not the big ones.
Edit > And with the lines going through the waves, it's pretty hard to imagine a kiter doing much with that. |
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dllee
Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay
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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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Kitelines would be in front of the surfer and out in front of the curling waves, so there would be no hindrance whatsoever.
Kitesurfer CHOSE to go straight, not turn.
Good wave riding kitesurfers use boards very similar to tow in boards, under 6' in length, narrow at around 16" in width, straps, and made for control in waves as big as Jaws can offer.
THIS kitesurfer chose not to turn, that's all, so the vid was provided by a anti kiteboarder. |
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beallmd
Joined: 10 May 1998 Posts: 1154
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 9:54 am Post subject: |
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So, is there a antikiter conspiracy out there? |
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spennie
Joined: 13 Oct 1995 Posts: 975 Location: Thousand Oaks, CA
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 10:10 am Post subject: |
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No, no, and I'm certainly not creating a line-cutting drone in my basement!
Just kidding of course, never had a problem with kiters. _________________ Spennie the Wind Junkie
www.WindJunkie.net |
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LUCARO
Joined: 07 Dec 1997 Posts: 661
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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Ben Wilson is one of the top wave riding kiters on the planet. My guess his going straight is more dictated by wind direction and possibly the speed of the breaking wave. |
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dllee
Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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Some other reason for going straight off, at the bottom, DTL.
Kiters at CapeVerde go just fine DTL, almost as good as windsurfers.
Why is Ben riding backside, when kiteboarding is unidirectional? He should just switch stance, since every kiteboarder as used a twin tip at least 100 days in his lifetime, to get any good.
It's possible winds were too light, but he's shown planing outbound, so wind must be over 15 mph, where he can dive the kite as he turns more DTL to prevent Hindenburgs.
No, some other factor is involved, as this vid favors windsurfers, and kiters must be up in arms over this vid. |
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sailtildark
Joined: 22 Mar 2012 Posts: 52
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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Wind is likely too light to let the kite drift - he is trying to keep tension in the lines. When the wind is light (i.e. less than 20 mph) you surf faster into the kite can drift backwards in the air and the kite will eventually fall out of the sky. This happened to me on an overhead wave yesterday at Dillon and had to swim in as the kite got washed and wouldn't relaunch (don't make comments - I've got much worse stories from windsurfing there!!). I could only imagine the consequences if this happened at macking Cloudbreak. |
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dllee
Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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Can we assume Ben is a good enough kiter to know how to pump his kite, creating more tension on the lines, so the kite doesn't Hindenberg when the lines lose tension from him running downwind?
Just like all the kiters who wave sail anywhere in the world, or the kiter's who carve planing downwind jibes like a windsurfer. |
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