My mate kites and i call him a lyptonite!!

My assumption was that they had strings attached..

I really think this guy i met down at rye invented the name. now every one calls em tea bags. i think the name traveled across the water from australia to maui and cross the states too.

i could be wrong. does any one know where the name came from?

Dale, i am Katos speed sailing caddy. i pass him all his speed sails he wants every 10 minutes. and i have never herd him call them tea bags yet. trust me my friend it was not me who invented that name.

windtechno said...

Dale, i am Katos speed sailing caddy. i pass him all his speed sails he wants every 10 minutes. and i have never herd him call them tea bags yet. trust me my friend it was not me who invented that name.

WTF

Craig, I think you have a "cyberstalker"

Dont want to burst any bubbles, but they have been called tea baggers for as long as I can remember.

Because they look like a tea bag being dunked in the ocean.

kato said...

windtechno said...

Dale, i am Katos speed sailing caddy. i pass him all his speed sails he wants every 10 minutes. and i have never herd him call them tea bags yet. trust me my friend it was not me who invented that name.

WTF

Sorry Craig, I must have been thinking of another 'Kato'

Kato wheres his visor down cause it gives him that extra 5 knots of speed. He looks alot like dark fader with that dark visor down, but hey its 2009 so any thing goes thease days.

very classy toohey!

Hey Windtechno,
Did you by any chance attend some sort of school or educational establishment over the years?
Just wondering

It was originally called tea bagging. The manufacturers of the gear thought kitesurfing was a better name for marketing purposes. There were also some legal issues with Lipton.(are you a jiggler or dangler?)..Over the years,people have come to think that "tea bagging" is only a nick name. It is also rumoured that some of the worlds top kiters have been approached by Lipton regarding major sponsorship !

Teabaggers or pole huggers, all good it is the Australian way, like redheads being called blue, ya gotta love it

some filipino dude mentioned "teabagged"..but to be honest i only read of it here in these here forum i guess it's universal now

Gorgo said...

Tea-bagging happened a lot in the early days when you got over powered. You got repeatedely lifted and dunked in the water until the wind dropped or you crashed your kite.

Yes tea bagging was an unfortunate by-product of the early c-kite design, which had minimal depower and no quick release either. Now I shudder at the thought that I ver hooked into one.

Now for a more exciting subject- why do they call windsurfers 'pole dancers'. This seemingly sexy term induces a vison of lissome young ladies contorting themselves gracefully and effortlessly on the Golden pole, and seems a far cry from the reality of the balding, paunchy, curmudgeonly and sadly grumpy middle aged men that my own windsurfing generation has become, as evidenced by the attitudes displayed in the reples to this post towards their brethren on the 'dark side'.