kite surf skating...

geolemon · Faceplant Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 12 City: Buffalo subs

well sadly Lake Erie is still pretty damn frozen.

So, I took a kitesurfing training kite and got a little unsafe in a parking lot with my skateboard on Sunday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fmwj9wk1rQ

Actually worked pretty well - it's a 3 meter kite as opposed to the 12m-14m kites that you can use to really suck yourself into the air. I don't want to die, really...

But it got my imagination going...
I've actually only kitesurfed on a snowboard, on the frozen lake erie (which rocks), because I couldn't afford a water board.

...has anyone ever tried wakeskating with a ktie? A friend of mine has done it with a surfboard... but that probably has a lot more float, I would imagine. Anyone ever done it? Any kiters here?

Worst case, i wonder if I can take a used wakeskate and attach footstraps to it for kite duty, unscrew them for wakeskate duty? I've got a wood board with a foam top... I'd really hate to F it up though just to try to double-duty my wakeskate as a kiteboard.

cheapskate · Guest

like an 05 LF Anthem Question

girlvswater · Posted: Apr 10, 2008 2:25 pm Post subject:

i know bri chmel does it. its possible

jerry · Posted: Apr 10, 2008 6:40 pm Post subject:

screw your shoes to your skateboard and get some air

that would be bad a$$

EJazzle · Posted: Apr 10, 2008 7:06 pm Post subject:

ive done it with a skateboard soo much fun!!
and yeah it works with a wakeskate, but the kite wasnt a 3 meter it was a 9 m

cheapskate · Guest

EJazzle, like the new avy Smash

geolemon · Faceplant Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 12 City: Buffalo subs

Yeah, just like an 05 Anthem! lol (what a coincidence!)
I can't wake for Lake Erie to unfreeze.
Hell, I don't even have to wait THAT long - I have a full wetsuit from kitesurfing, even though I don't have a water board (don't ask). I don't know if wakeskating would look cool at all wearing a wet suit though, sort of like wearing spandex bicycle shorts, lol...

I have a mountainboard that has bindings, I've seen people do that.
I'm not going to be getting any air with a 3 meter kite though... unless a tornado tears through here or something.
Shocked

geolemon · Faceplant Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 12 City: Buffalo subs

I've got a 12 meter kite for the water (and snow). That trainer kite was actually my friend's. My trainer kite is just a 1 meter kite - totally good for nothing outside of training... should have bought a bigger one - I just might anyway, maybe a 4 or 5 meter kite.

I probably should put fins on it then, for kiting use, I imagine?

Kay-Kay · Posted: Apr 10, 2008 8:30 pm Post subject:

If my understanding is correct, kiteboards are slightly longer and have less rocker than traditional wakeboards. Since there is no constant power source i.e. a boat/ski you need a board that minimizes drag. I don't think a wakeskate is going to work out too well. But don't let me discourage you. the only way you'll know for sure is if you try.

Raven · Posted: Apr 10, 2008 9:42 pm Post subject:

.......this is the future

no gas, no boat, no spotter, no driver. harness the wind and ride mother nature.

my bro owns the kite.......fo rizzle.......he gave me a mag a few years back and there was a guy throwing an indy shuv on a wakeskate behind a kite and that shiat dropped my jaw and it broke.

JB_CANSKATE · Posted: Apr 10, 2008 9:42 pm Post subject:

I have a video of Dave Pruner getting a kickflip riding behind a kite.

cheapskate · Guest

JB_CANSKATE, can we see it Cool

bob. · Posted: Apr 10, 2008 9:46 pm Post subject:

JB_CANSKATE, i've seen that, do you know who mike walsh or shana maestro is by any chance?

EJazzle · Posted: Apr 10, 2008 9:47 pm Post subject:

cheapskate, whats an avy?

the wakeskate worked good for me with the kite Birthday

cheapskate · Guest

sorry i shorten upped avatar

EJazzle · Posted: Apr 10, 2008 9:50 pm Post subject:

cheapskate, no worries, thanks!! I LIKE IT ALOT!!!!!! Smash

Jesse · Posted: Apr 11, 2008 12:24 pm Post subject:

Ive been wanting a Kite to do this for a long time. Its pretty sick. Harnessing mother nature to get rad is pretty metal. Laughing

chriscut · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 2000

Its too bad that wind = chop. I remember seeing a sequence of bri chmel doing a shuv a long time ago somewhere, pretty sick.

mr robotto · Backside 180 Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 1052

Raven, you're forgetting how few people really have the ocean where its windy... i mean sure i've seen kite boarders on my lake once but that was the windiest day i've ever seen... and the only day

JB_CANSKATE · Posted: Apr 11, 2008 1:20 pm Post subject:

I'm not its in my place to upload that footage. Its from a Snowskate DVD that I bought a while ago. Jordan who runs snowskate.ca will know the vid and can upload the footy if he wants.

From what I remember I think it was off a wave, leaned back and riding a flat deck.