topic to end all topics...windsurfing is...
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:53 ambigger than Kiteboarding. Yes, still to this day more windsurf gear is produced and sold than kiteboarding gear!
And while kiteboarding had claimed for the last 10 years that it was the fastest growing water sport.... it has been de-throwned from its self-proclaimed title by Stand Up Paddle Surfing. At the last Kayak trade show, there were nearly as many paddle boards as kayaks...and funny, the paddle boards resemble windsurfers in size and bulk (just w/o sails).
So here's to Windsurfing (or poleboarding as I hear they prefer) with a 2 decade lead, still the largest wind powered board sport on the water...and if G Bush had not made it so unfriendly for US residents to leave our lovely soil... one would see for themselves the shear numbers of the windsurf army that is strong and growing across Europe and many third world countries that are only just getting into wind powered sports recently.
And here's to kiting for offering a windsurf rig in a backpack!
Where do I get the numbers you ask? Me bungus holio! but seriously, from the factory reports I get and the close out rumors I hear and from how many carbon booms alone that our local Powerex produces...well, kiting has a long way to go to catch up with our pioneering brothers.
OK, no wind so time to spam with your own thoughts...hopefully dug up from the deepest caverns of your own bungus holio.
Windzup,
Brian Schenck
BTW - I would have been a windurfer but there was no instructor at my beach...so I found this kite on ebay and then....
And while kiteboarding had claimed for the last 10 years that it was the fastest growing water sport.... it has been de-throwned from its self-proclaimed title by Stand Up Paddle Surfing. At the last Kayak trade show, there were nearly as many paddle boards as kayaks...and funny, the paddle boards resemble windsurfers in size and bulk (just w/o sails).
So here's to Windsurfing (or poleboarding as I hear they prefer) with a 2 decade lead, still the largest wind powered board sport on the water...and if G Bush had not made it so unfriendly for US residents to leave our lovely soil... one would see for themselves the shear numbers of the windsurf army that is strong and growing across Europe and many third world countries that are only just getting into wind powered sports recently.
And here's to kiting for offering a windsurf rig in a backpack!
Where do I get the numbers you ask? Me bungus holio! but seriously, from the factory reports I get and the close out rumors I hear and from how many carbon booms alone that our local Powerex produces...well, kiting has a long way to go to catch up with our pioneering brothers.
OK, no wind so time to spam with your own thoughts...hopefully dug up from the deepest caverns of your own bungus holio.
Windzup,
Brian Schenck
BTW - I would have been a windurfer but there was no instructor at my beach...so I found this kite on ebay and then....