Who invented kitesurfing

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psychojoe
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22 Oct 2016 6:59am
I'm pretty sure it was Grug



jackforbes
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23 Oct 2016 1:58pm
Unhooked, like a boss
cauncy
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23 Oct 2016 2:41pm
Not sure
But I'd like to man hug him
surfingboye
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23 Oct 2016 5:57pm
Alex Sanz was first to bring it to Oz. Not sure if that's him in that picture?
Hunter S
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23 Oct 2016 3:40pm
Pretty sure kitesurfing was invented by a windsurfer.

Bloke figured there just had to be a better way.
Mark _australia
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23 Oct 2016 4:17pm
^^ bored windsurfers, who have now gone back to windsurfing.

Pic looks like a bell end, attached by rope to a parachute. Pretty good resemblance.


( <---- learned that from loto. Say what you like but its OK if you use bulk emojis)\

lotofwind
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23 Oct 2016 7:34pm
WOW, you can teach old dogs new tricks.
toppleover
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23 Oct 2016 7:02pm
I thought North invented kiteboarding
m00chy
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23 Oct 2016 5:37pm
Pretty much a group of forward thinking people with a vision for having fun put together over a couply decades....

Thanks.
surfingboye
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23 Oct 2016 9:30pm
Who's the snake in the grass still dishing out red thumbs?




Unhook3d
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23 Oct 2016 8:07pm
surfingboye said...
Who's the snake in the grass still dishing out red thumbs?






I don't understand how there are red thumbs punched out less than 3 hours ago but yet I get some message about a "red thumb free experience" when I try?
Admin please explain how that works?
theDoctor
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24 Oct 2016 12:18am

Yeah like there isn't bigger far king problems in the world

What i wanna know is

Who is grug
And why does he look like king of the point


lotofwind
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24 Oct 2016 7:07pm
Unhook3d said..

surfingboye said...
Who's the snake in the grass still dishing out red thumbs?




I don't understand how there are red thumbs punched out less than 3 hours ago but yet I get some message about a "red thumb free experience" when I try?
Admin please explain how that works?


He He Ha Haaa, you can only get them if you really deserve them,
Havent yáll worked out the red thumb conspiracy yet lol.
daggy
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26 Oct 2016 6:30pm
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psychojoe said..
I'm pretty sure it was Grug






Ya can't just leave it there !What happens to Grug ???
Is he OK?
does he get hurt?
Does he loop it then land blind?
what's going on? we need to know!
coastflyer
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28 Oct 2016 8:57pm
Hunter S said..
Pretty sure kitesurfing was invented by a windsurfer.

Bloke figured there just had to be a better way.


I tried this in the early Eighties, but the "flights" were nothing compared to what you can do kitesurfing!!







GreenPat
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28 Oct 2016 11:26pm
Unhook3d said..

I don't understand how there are red thumbs punched out less than 3 hours ago but yet I get some message about a "red thumb free experience" when I try?
Admin please explain how that works?


I wish I knew.
lotofwind
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29 Oct 2016 7:50am
SugarQube
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29 Oct 2016 8:14am
coastflyer said..


Hunter S said..
Pretty sure kitesurfing was invented by a windsurfer.

Bloke figured there just had to be a better way.




I tried this in the early Eighties, but the "flights" were nothing compared to what you can do kitesurfing!!








Yes I remember seeing that in a windsurfing mag at the time, windsurfers wanted to get their ass off the water, but it didnt happen with this contraption, finaly kitesurfing is invented and the remaining crowd are sooks.

So its like evolution, the windsurfers are the Neanderthals, they were breed out and modern man still has 3% Neanderthal DNA.
Modern kitesurfers may retain 3% windsurfer DNA, but it would be better to breed it all out seriously, after a few days at Gnaraloo, they are a useless bunch.

Rob83
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29 Oct 2016 3:09pm
Theirs a cool doco on youtube on it guys like pete cabrinha and other top windsurfing guys
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