how old are you guys?
just wondering what the average age of a kiter is.

I am 15 and have been power kiting since 12

Physically: 58
Mentally: 12

36

28 just started last year.... that's only because i never knew about it until last year

I'm one of the oldest regulars on land around here. I'm supposed to be 48. I keep forgetting that :smug: ( truth is, it's slowing my progression )
The demographic seems to be changing as equipment becomes cheaper and the sport more popular. On water particularily it was a 30 + sport, sort of to my surprise. With cheaper equipment younger people can find the money for gear and it's the younger ones that are going to take things up a notch or two !

36 here, been kiting for 3+ years now. I know guys in their 60's that still kite though. People tend to move more towards the buggies instead of ATB's as they start getting a little older, less chance of a serious impact. Still doesn't stop them from ripping around like madmen.

44

13 and flew my first kite when 11

36 and been flying power kites for over 2 years now and dual line sport kites for over 12 years.

24 started kiting when i'wass 19

:karate:

That’s too much of a coincidence “nus”! I’ll make my first post to say that your answer of

“28 just started last year.... that's only because I never knew about it until last year”

would have been my answer as well.

A) I’m also 28
B) I also started last winter after discovering this now addictive hobby
C) I’m also on the North Shore of MA, Georgetown to be exact.


I’ve been looking for others flyers in the area and or other areas to fly. What town are you from?
I’ve been kite bugging at Nahant Beach that past 2 months.

I actually started by ice kiting this winter on Lake Quannopowitt at lunch time. I would see the Iceboats on the frozen lake from the window at my desk and decided I could do the same with skates and a kite.

Some boring videos of me doing this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7XZiWvXWHM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBDVpmPw5vI

Just turned 20 and started flying just after that. But flying duals since 14.

39, been at it for 8 yrs.........aj

24 years old, flying power kites for 3 years now and kite-landboarding for almost 6 months now:singing:

one thing you will most clearly notice is that England's youth are more interested/active in the sport than any country I've read about.

Correction. that is to say England's youth are more interested/active in Kite-Tracion Sports. In the mid to far-east many kids fly single line, or at least so I hear/ am told.

second youngest:duh::P

47 and diggin' it. Flying for 3 years. Buggying for one, after moving to coastal Georgia and finding the wide open beaches of Jekyll Island

I turn 51 in two days. Been hang gliding for 30 years and powerkiting for 10, seriously for only 2. Took up buggying only recently and enjoy the hell out of it.

50 and still having fun after buggying for 6 years. I see that this is a sport that I can grow old doing.

Susan

I'm 56 now.
Started power kiting in 1977 with a stack of 6' Flexis.
Began buggying in 1990.
Bought my first buggy in 1991.
Started buggying the dry lake beds of the Mojave in 1992.
Moved to the desert for more in 1999.

I love this, as it never gets old.


Safen Up! Buggy On!

"Often wrong... Never in doubt"

the coreylama

i'm 26, only put it in as no one else had said it

33

Just turned 45,,, Saw my first kite buggy about 8years ago... inquired about the cost of them at that time,,, decided not to make the investment then,,, sorry I didn't, I could have been buggying all this time.. Saw a video on you tube about 4months ago and started doing research. Got my first kite about 3months ago, got the big foot buggy about one month ago. Starting out slow,,, practicing, want to try to do it right without killing myself. Glad to see that there are so many older people,,, at least I know I have made a good investment that I can use for years to come.

I'm about to turn 45. Started flying bat kites at 9 years old. Got my first delta 2 line about 10 years ago. Got a Symphony 1.8 8 years ago. Met Angus about 6 weeks ago and now I have a Beamer III 3.0. Now I've been looking real hard at a blade or crossfire. Onward and upward.

Edit 11/28/07

Well, I got the Crossie, and a Pansh 5.0, and just recently a Signature Profoil 1.5 for the high wind days. I have tried a buggy twice now and think I will get someone to weld one up for me. We'll see how that goes.

I'll grow up one day if I figure out a good reason too... but until then I'm 42

Lots of oldies around :tumble::tumble::tumble:

i'm in trouble now.

28 for about another month

introduce to power kites by Corey Jensen in Monterey Bay mid- 90s bought his old Peter Lynn Landlizzard


taught me everything there is to know about buggying skill, control and speed......then he moves away

fourty-seven......

I'm 60 and buggy with my son who is 30. I have flown small kites all my life stunt kites about 8 yrs and power kiting and buggying about 3. I used to sail small boats. There is something about trying to control something, the wind, which you have no control over. When you do that even for a brief time that is AOMOXOMOA!

It is sort of like trying to raise teenagers