Thread: Tell me about Kiteboarding

I'm VERY interested in it. How much? Any recommendations? I live in Virginia Beach if that helps.

PS- THis is NOT kitesurfing

Hi Riff,
Now Kiteboarding sounds like fun. Although water can be as rough a landing as the earth sometimes it doesn't sound like a sport where you could get badly hurt just learning how. If I was younger I sure would try it.
Vee

Please tell me more? I'm OH so interested.

What exactly do you mean by kiteboarding? I am a kitesurfer, and at least where i live, kitesurfing and kiteboarding are exactly the same....
Do you mean like to ride a mountainboard on the ground instead of a kiteboard on the water? Or is it me who completly misunderstands something?

http://www.kiteboardingmag.com/index.jsp

As in your on a wake board, and your strapped to a massive kite. You can also do this on a mountain board and a snowboard.

Well now im sure ... kiteboarding and kitesurfing are exactly the same.
But also, the name dosen't really matter that much.

What matters is that this sport is SOOOOOOO fun that anyone deserves to try it out. If you think that it looks fun, then you should definitely go for it!
It's very expensive, which is what keeps most people away from it, but the first time you suddenly see yourself jumping jumping 15 feet into the air, you forget everything about money, TRUST ME.

If you want to get started, the most important thing is to take lessons. It's in no way good enough to watch an instruction DVD, or get a little help from a friend. A couple of hours with a teacher, will also give you the possibility to see if this is really something for you, without having to pay $3000 for equipment.
Alot of people have tried this sport on thier own. Some of them are still alive, but surely not all of them.
Allways rembember that if one of these kites take control, you can do NOTHING but wait and see if it lets you survive.

When i was still a beginner, one day i was standing at the beach talking to some guy. Suddenly i loose control of my kite (which was quite small, and the wind was weak). It got dragged across the beach, over a small fence, over a windsurfers sail and ended up in a beach tent full of kids If i had hit anything i could easyly have been killed.
Later the same year, my dad noticed that the fence was broken(although it looks as if it could be hit by a car without beeing damaged), some surfers told him that it was another newb who did it.
Moral: Be sure to respect the power of these kites!

Hope that this can help (and hope that i was right when i guessed that you wasnt already into this sport)