Just to see what others were into, and how similar we all are, what was your major hobby before getting into this awesome sport. Mine in particular was Nitro R/C trucks and planes. I also used to ride 4 wheelers , favorite was 1998 Yamaha Banshee, it was a beast. Also had a couple sport bikes Honda CBR 600 and a worked Suzuki GSXR 1100.

Just always curious what others were into.

P.S. I have now given all the other hobbies up and focus only on my kiting!

I was huge into paintball (both woodsball and speedball), then i went into bike trials, and now kiting!

I windsurfed and flew RC planes...(still do but powerkites are priority now).

paintball. camping caving and rockclimbing.

Sailing and living aboard, rowing, sea kayaking, scuba and free diving, caving, alpine scrambling, backcountry wandering, horses...

Moved to prairies. Just horses. Major withdrawal....Aren't even any decent cliffs to throw yourself off...

Fingers crossed for kiting salvation!

(hey pyro..nice to have another caver around!)

Mukluk, you sure have had some great fun. I have dabbled in a thousand other things, but the ones that last for years are the good ones! Kiting is here to stay for me!

jack of all trades master of none....short attention span i guess...hope the kiting bug sticks

i would still do caving but oklahoma is full of pay caves not free ones and they are miles away. oh i forgot snowboarding love my boards.

triathlon/running----2 Ironman Hawaii's (10:02:47), 23 Marathons (2 Bostons) 2:28:32.......discovered kiting in Sep 06 after the triathlon season............loved it and sold all my tri gear that winter....................

video games & drugs?


still play games when the wind dont blow... but scrubbed all the nasties out.... hard to excercise when you just want to sit there and eat cheetos lol

Mountain biking and trials when I wasn't fat but still ride some. Then got into whitewater kayaking in 1990(paddled 150 days a year in my peak) still spend about 30 days a year on the river but now it is mostly in a raft/fly fishing rig. Started kiting 3 years ago but due to a knee injury this is the first year really in it and definitely will be a long time active. Various other activities still dabble in flyfishing,caving,rock climbing,rc heli, and woodworking/turning And oh yeah I still try to work about 200 days a year
Scott

Don, Ironmans! No surprise there! One tough dude.

good for you drew. never did understand that craze thus the reason for never trying the stuff. kiting the natural and mostly legall high depending on local bans and access.

I've had a bunch of hobbies, some more normal then others. Like playing the piano, video games, making music on computer, folding paper into animals or airplanes, and collect lego trains (seriously, what was i thinking with that last one...). Nowadays i only kite and occasionally play some piano. I want to get into model helicopters some day but for now my money is going into kites.

Don't knock it till you tried it, pyro :D

In NZ it was inline hockey, then RC cars when I first came to Japan but I got my Rebble soon after that and it's been kites of one form or another since then ... I got a bunch of other at-home hobbies too ...

Dual line sport kite flying and skiing (primarily moguls). Still ski as much as I can and love the bumps but don't do much dual line flying at all these days

i cant try it. i work for the gov. and they do random drug tests. if i get caught i lose mu job and my license. once its legalized i do want to try it.

Ok here goes:

Surfing
Skimboarding
Wakeboarding
Water skiing
Volleyball (beach)
Soccer
JKD (easier to explain that way)
Dj
Paintball
Sport bikes
Video games
Car audio/video (made it a business once)
Singing/playing bass/drums

Whew! All in one breath.

Ya know, I used to wonder why I was always broke.

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Originally posted by tridude triathlon/running----2 Ironman Hawaii's (10:02:47), 23 Marathons (2 Bostons) 2:28:32.......discovered kiting in Sep 06 after the triathlon season............loved it and sold all my tri gear that winter....................

Bought my first Beamer in April '07, and met tridude that fall.................. :duh::duh:

My big hobby was (and now when I get to) water skiing. To include barefoot and wakeboard. Specializing in slalom skiing. Also, snow skiing, snowboarding, mtn biking, inline skating, rappelling (I'm better built for going down the cliff rather than up it) flatwater kayaking. yep hobby time and space poor but there is always something to do.

BB...

Nothing like footin!!! I used to ski in a weekly show...we had to do a bit of it all



I miss that lake...

always has been kites, 15+ years and counting

on the off times, biking (road, cross, downhill)

Trout Fishing - trolling and fly fishing. That was 20+ years ago.

Hobby? (one)

These are the things that consumed my time, not exhaustive list.
Before college: land based RC, volleyball, cycling, horses.
College: caving, climbing, skiing.
Since college: horses, farm work, all aspects of home improvement, MY SON (talk about time consuming).

Moving forward:
I’m looking to take a welding class this fall to improve my metal work skills. Have things needing fixing.
I’ve always loved flying (father and grandfather were pilots before my grandfather sold the plane) and water (just love the water). So, you can imagine where my mind is...

Wow alot of us are so similar it is scary. I still do most of these hobbies. My wife complains I have to many....so here it goes...

-Mountian Biking 3-4 times a week
-Road Bike riding
-SportBikes (GSXR, CBR, R1, R6)
-Rock Climbing
-Kayaking/Camping/Fishing 5-7 day Trips
-Archery
-Shooting(Guns...to many to list)
-Wakeboarding
-Jet Ski
-Paintball back in the day.....

...... kiting is my first full time outdoor hobby ..... before that I bike , snowboard and kayak few times a year

in home ....
computers ( tons of different directions .... websites, programming, audio, graphic and lately Xcode )
home theatre systems with computer integration .... done probably around 500 of them mostly for my friends
construction ( my work ) is like hobby to me .... love doing this , creating things, making people happy , running company ( I am a bit of workaholic )
Inventions .... most of them impossible for me to create since my bank account is always empty ......lol

Wow. Tridude went from an extreme endurance (AEROBIC) sports (Triathalons) to kiting........ which is a lot less heart pounding and O2 intake than kiting on water board, land board and ....way less than sitting in a buggy!

That's an extreme change! And easier breathing! You must have been burnt out.... or not having the fun that kiting brought. Interesting.

My #1 sport -and similarly semi-endurance sport -had been Backcountry Telemark Skiing. But access to frozen winter lake practically in my backyard (6 blocks) and a beach a few towns away has had me doing dozens of days Kiting, and only so many days driving several hours(and spending gas $) to ski over the last several years. Still love Skiing and not giving it up. Just doing Kiting lots more.

And..... now I can combine skiing and kiting...to go SKI-KITING on my Frozen lake in town( in winter).

Yes.....Two of my sports GOT MARRIED!


I kite for real fun that makes me smile.:wee: I run for a serious workout that kiting doesn't give me. :roll:

Mainly R/C sailplanes, helicopters and smaller electric power models. I still spend a lot of time doing this and will continue to do so.

Some flatwater kayaking. Getting in SUP.

Started alpine skiing and kiting January of this year. When winter rolls in again I will have two good reasons to be looking forward to it.

Just had my second water lesson (kiteboard) today. Still can't ride more than maybe 25 feet but I did better at a lot of things than the first time out. I guess if it was easy it probably wouldn't be so much fun.

motorcycles and dirt bikes, once took a 1980 Goldwing and turned it into a cafe racer..... it became the what the "F" is it bike.... traded it for ink..... got a Buell M2 and hot rod'd it.... got married... traded bike for a car for the wife..... started hiking, biking (pedal kind) and camping..... got into kites 3 years a go.... it was a short 1 year stint as health issues interfered.... just got back into kiting this past January and I am going balls to the wall boys......

Still hike, bike and camp with the family..... my boys are slowly becoming kite addicts as well...... still trying to get the wife to fly.....

Once in a while I build the occasional rocket or canoe.....

Motocross in my teens, ice and roller hockey, mountain bike, sea kayaking, RC cars (Traxxis Rustlers and Baja 5B)
Raced standup jetskis '86-'91, Roadraced sportbikes (TZ250 and Duc 996), raced Supermoto (KTM450) a few years after that, raced a F2000 car in '04/'05 (and you think kiting is expensive?). Enduro raced KTM's '01-'07. Still trail ride and "work" our clubs Enduro event each fall.
Roadrace Coach with NJMiniGP the past 3 years.
Tent camping in the 70's with mom and dad as a kid, now RV camping with the family.
Found kiting 2.5 years ago and can't get enough. water, snow, buggy.

Lots of Internet porn !!! :singing::evil: