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When will you have all the sections of the website completed?

As soon as we can.  We are experienced professionals, still working in the kiteboarding industry and we are adding to the site everyday, and every chance we get.  We add to different sections frequently, however, if you have a partictular kiteboarding question that is currently unanswered on the site, let us know, and we may be able to accommodate by adding information to a particular section, or creating a new section altogether.

Why are trainer kites so much cheaper than the bigger kites?

Trainer kites are very different, in many ways, than kites you would fly in the water or use for serious kiteboarding.  Materials, design, features, and quality control is what you are paying for in the non-trainer kites.  Trainer kites require less of these characteristics than non-trainer kitesurfing kites.

There is a similar difference between a go-kart and a car.  It's only a couple thousand thousand dollers for a go-kart, but the cheapest car is many thousands.  Why . . . because they are totally different.  You can learn to drive a little bit using a go-kart, and it's surely a good transition into driving a car, but you can't take a road trip in a go-kart, well, maybe you could, but we wouldn't recommend it. . . .

What is the difference between a windsurfing harness and a kiteboarding harness?

Kiteboarding harnesses are reinforced for the extra stresses that are involved in kiteboarding.  Kiteboarding harnesses always use stainless steel spreader bars for this reason; windsurfing harnesses sometimes use aluminum which may break under kiteboarding stress.  Because kiteboarding harnesses have extra reinforcement, they can be used for both sports.  However, using a windsurfing harness for kitesurfing will probably lead to your harness breaking within several serious sessions.  Some brands make harnesses for both sports, and as such, you may be able to cross over to kiteboarding with a windsurfing harness, if both designs are quite sturdy, but we wouldn't recommend it.  Bottom line, generally kiteboarding harnesses can be used for either sport, and windsurfing harnesses are only for windsurfing.

 

 

 
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