Kitesurf / Wakeboard crossover

[jon barrand]

Hi all,

 

Apologies if this is a really stupid question but is there any way I can use one board to learn to kitesurf / progress on a cable with?

 

I can't afford to buy a wakeboard and a kite board and was wondering if there was something that would work as an ok crossover for now

 

Thanks for any feedback

 

Jon

[AirBanners]

Hi Jon

If your goal is kiteboarding...buy a kiteboard. Kiteboards work well on a cable for learning the basic board skills (balance, turn, carve etc). If you bought a wakeboard, you're kite progression wouldn't be as fast.

[Tjah1087]

its more expensive to buy one that works ok for both than it is to buy two different boards.

[Antigrav]

If you're only going to ride cable occassionally then buy a kiteboard and then get a cheap wakeboard off ebay or something. If you're determined to get a crossover board as tim said it will cost you, probably to the tune of £500 new.

Boards you're looking at would be: aboards w series, flexifoil hadlow pro wakestyle board, cabrinha custom, best profanity, wainman joke. I'm on the w series and love it for kiting, it's ok for cable but I still prefer a proper wakeboard cause I ride cable pretty seriously now, probably 60/40 kite/cable

 

Bindings are another area which will cost you if you don't look around for the right deal. Personally I'm all about buying new if I can cause boots are really personal so it's important to get some which fit you well

[Silveringsurfer]

If you are real beginner just learning to ride then you can ride any kiteboard on a wakeboat/cable. Obviously wakeboards are twin tips so that style is better and the boards named above are designed for wakestyle freestyle under a kite so would be the closest in performance to a wakeboard. However they are not the easiest board to learn to kite on. I would buy a freeride twintip. It will be easy to learn to kite with and would work well enough on a cable to learn the basics - ride and carve around, jump wake etc. I agree with the rest that a discipline specific board would be better once you progress beyond beginner stage.

[jon barrand]

Thanks a lot for the responses. I think that I'm going to find a second hand wakeboard for the time being, as I see me spending more time on the cable this summer. I'll add a kiteboard once the GF has forgotten about the previous purchase.

 

Thanks again for the feedback