by windzup » Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:47 am
Just be sure not to use the term 'water-start' in your lessons... or any other term that the boys from Real Kiteboarding may have used in one of the long and boring videos they produced.
So far they have sent summons to nearly every known kite school in the country. Their plan is to sue and destroy their competition, rather than do a better job at it.
Just a heads up for all instructors, thanks to Real we now need to be conscious of our words, or they will happily sue you.
Good news is they are kitesurfers not snowkiters and they don't make a snow instruction video, so they can't sue or claim something they don't do. So Snowkite Instructors are safe from their legal BS for the moment.
Rumor I hear from other Manufacturers is that the industry is boycotting Real, and we should too.
Food for thought, I hope the rumors are not true, sad if it is.
Windzup