snowkiting origins

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Nope. That's kitesailing. Always has been.

Yes, you're right! I absolutely agree.

I'm with you here. Using KITE in the first part of... sailing, skiing, boating, surfing, etc etc makes a lot of sense.

Why the Europeans use the word SNOWKITE is beyond me, but then this is why AMERICA has always been the mother of invention. Afterall, who would call a foil, BALUGA.

-steve shapson

Oh man, you do it on SNOW with a KITE. One word, covers it all. Where's the problem? Instead you have kiteskiing (could be water, could be snow), kiteboarding (what kind of board?), kiteskating (rollerblades?) kitetobogganing (self explanatory), kitewhatevering, and people don't know whether you are on snow or water. Simple

When I drive to work I do it on the road with a car but I refuse to call it Roadcarring!

Still leaving one to guess if you mean using skis, snowboard, ice buggy or sled. Doesn't really solve the problem any more than Kiteskiing. Sometimes even quality terms need a bit of further description. Starting with the best descriptive term helps.

To me, Snowkiting could mean the aforementioned sports or even simply flying kites in the snow. Whereas Kiteskiing defines that I am using a kite to pull me on skis on either snow or water... I only need to further define that I mean on water or snow (winter or summer). Actually most people might assume I mean on water so I would probably only need to state winter kiteskiing if I meant otherwise.

Snowkiting sounds too basic, however people call things as they will. Some folks even refer to buggying as 'wheel kiting'. It's up to us to agree on and invoke quality terminology.

Nonsense. Rise against conformity! We make our own rules! (and we don't need no stinking batches!)

Yet another 2 cents, Doomwheels

Ride Fast Take Chances!

I don't think there's any way, unless we call them all seperate sports, which is fine. Kiteskiing, kitesnowboarding, kitesnobuggying, kitesorrelling, whatever, they are all sub-groups of the species snowkiting. If you really need to tell people exactly what you are doing, just tell them that you are going out on the snow and getting pulled by a kite on whatever vehicle you are on. 'I'm going kitewhaterevering, honey, I'll be home for dinner!' What if you do half a day on your snowboard and then switch to skis when the powder's tracked out? What would you call that? How on earth would you describe your day without using several sentences? 'I went kiteboard/skiing today' How do you pronounce a '/' anyway? Would you use the European or American pronunciation? Since this sport apparently started before the middle ages, and is now older than history itself, shouldn't we use the Latin? Kiteskietus Snowicus! I kinda like that one...

How about just calling it kiting? That covers everything.

Hmm, interesting point. This is how we get in the situation where a magazine can call itself 'KiteWorld' while only being relevant to traction kiters.

Gosh Beaver, I've created a monster. I didn't really mean to screw things up here. Sorry Ted to get you off the couch too. Slam a sixpack and go back to bed. Don't worry about your foil business. There's only 2000 manufacturers trying to get the same business presently.

It's going to be difficult for me to now use the word SNOKITING. Or, it is SNOWKITING?

I just hope when I'm out on some lake this weekend, kiteskiing, I don't accidently bring up the word SNOWKITING and get beat up by some angry ice fisherman or mullethead wandering around on the frozen tundra.

Anyway, I ran a focus group amoung a number of drunk ice fisherman and their mullethead friends and even these brain dead sub-humans agree that SNOWKITING is LAME.

I'm with them, cause they sometimes let me carve up their 3 inch frozen fish laying dere on da ice next to the empty Miller Lite cans. A little wasabi and dees liddle fishes really taste grand.

I'm otta here.

Love to all of you.

-steve aka littleharryjewboy

LMAO, mother of invention, too funny. but not as funny as this thread, dont you have anything more important to worry you. Still if your huge problem for you I guess you life cant be that bad. LMAOROTFPMS

Hey don't be so rude, they did invent the Tipi, and the Totem Pole !

Charlie