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Kite Skiing

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Palardy
Posts: 176 - Karma: 11
What do you guys think of kite skiing?

I think its going to be huge because you can do almost anything on it. You can shred Pow almost any day of the year because frozen lakes and fields don't get skied out. You can rip super fast, the speed record is now over 100 km/h, you can still jib rails, and hit jumps, and get crazy hang times and boost anywhere from 5 - almost 100 feet in the air whenever the fuck you feel like it, without the need of any type of snow park.

Not only all that, but you can drop almost any cliff. Kiteboarders have launched off air craft carriers, and watch this guy jump out of a hot air balloon with one...

http://www.pbkiteboarding.com/movies/waterfront_park.mov

I tried it out last winter and it was one of the scariest things I've ever done when you have no fuckin clue what your doing and getting lifted up in the air and hang up there for awhile and I'm hoping on doing a lot more this winter.

And best of all you don't even need a mountain, or to pay for a lift ticket

Just check out all these videos and try to tell me it looks lame

http://www.pbkiteboarding.com/movies/waterfront_park.mov
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ECJkwcy96E&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7MG4XqS3fo&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsnowkiting%2Ecom%2Fnode%2F544
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PDjsFp5FgI&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlzMo751T14&mode=related&search=
Oct 2 2007 11:39PM
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SwitchMahFuckah
Posts: 783 - Karma: 15
gay shit.
Oct 2 2007 11:41PM
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Palardy
Posts: 176 - Karma: 11
I put a wrong link to the guy jumping out of the hot air balloon don't watch that one it is lame
Oct 2 2007 11:45PM
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Palardy
Posts: 176 - Karma: 11
here's the right one...
http://www.flysurfer.com/gallery2_code/d/13334-3/ballonjump_001.mpg
Oct 2 2007 11:51PM
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Karcher
Posts: 3788 - Karma: 1,934
dude thats pretty stupid
Oct 3 2007 12:07AM
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EH_DUBS
Posts: 3080 - Karma: 969
i can see that being really sick and fun id like to try it
Oct 3 2007 12:16AM
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kevinsteen
Posts: 161 - Karma: 780
Kiteboarding is for fags... but check out these good videos of the sport before anymore assumtions are made...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpjEopb2aLU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCIMChTdCo4

Oct 3 2007 4:12AM
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Max-Steeze
Posts: 448 - Karma: 171
the first videos suck but the 2nd ones are soo sick
Oct 3 2007 8:30PM
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SHastatahoe
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpjEopb2aLU

That one was tight. Its something different and new, but did you see the snowboarder do the indy glide? that was tight.
Oct 3 2007 10:37PM
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AltaWest2
Posts: 543 - Karma: 19
aside from the price...dope
Oct 5 2007 6:51AM
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Palardy
Posts: 176 - Karma: 11
You can get a used winter kite for around 400$

Thats like the same price as a season pass for 1 year, and its good until you trash it

This ones sick
http://snowkiting.com/node/601
Oct 5 2007 1:25PM
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TerminatorX
Posts: 3087 - Karma: 169
it looks fun, but it wont become big.
Oct 5 2007 2:39PM
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thewavebb
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Depends where you live.  There is a huge community growing now and the kites keep getting safer every year.  We have private lake surrounded by rolling farmland near us.  The landowner also kites so we build up a huge park on the lake and the hills every winter.  I only go to the ski hill on powder days when there isn't any wind. 

I can squeeze in a quick session every night after work if I want.
Nov 1 2007 12:21PM
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the-big-lepowski
Posts: 1212 - Karma: 541
wow, just think that its not just flatland fun like kiteboarding on water is.  the kite can pull you up a moderately steep hill, then you bomb down.   too bad the kites are so damn expensive.  oh, and I'll paypal 10 dollars to the first glades kite skiing edit I see.  shit could be so intense
Mar 30 2010 7:18AM
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