Maybe the crowd can participate with giant water balloon sling-shots and paint ball snipers at each 50 foot tall buoy. Lets see some high speed downwind obstacle slalom if we have to watch racing, but with a 30 knot minimum and something that works like in Indy….there are time trials and then it goes to the top few guys who have to race for like 3 kilometers through the gauntlet. Nobody can tell what’s going on anyway… and it’s really boring unless you’re racing, I hear. Racing needs to get rid of the upwind legs and goofy-ass course racing boards with 4 foot long kitchen knives on the bottom. For any sport to get respect and or viewers there will be a need for mayhem in speed, free-style and surf. But way bigger… I envision a set of or multiple giant oil tankers or de-commissioned freight cargo ships, fitted with 1/4 pipe ramps on each side so the spectators can be on board looking down at the riders coming up to grind the hand rail…something way bigger and more dangerous than some fun boxes with sk8-shoes. I would say that the wake-style type guys are going to have to get sponsors to chip in to build the worlds biggest half pipe system like we see in snowboarding. Lou, you have always been a visionary in kite boarding, where do you see the sport heading? For example when we learned wake-style it was harder than today because we had no leash or brakes. Eliminating the variables is what is going to bring success quicker. Personally, I think anything other than water ski’s are easy to learn on. If they can make a huge success off a bunch of whiney people stuck on an island, playing some sort of high school spin the bottle games, then for sure any show with top wakeboard pro’s or Kiteboard pro’s living their lives the way they do would be some stuff I think a lot of people would be amazed at. The only way kiteboarding, on any style from wake, to big air to surfing…will get more popular or known is for television to get involved on a huge level. What do you think the potential for kiteboarding is compared to wake boarding? We turned to making movies, which was super smart. In the early days the biggest challenge was trying to get paid without participating in goofy contests that just lie about the 200,000 spectators, when there were really only about 300. Funny how obvious things seem today, but back then we were all pretty stupid, but we were all a family. We used to all launch the kite straight downwind for years. Obviously in the early days we had no real idea of what we were doing. Lou Wainman: Truth is I was an average wake boarder and border-line pro windsurfer (not paid). What in your background made this possible and what were the biggest challenges in the early days? John Bryja: You very quickly combined wake boarding with kiting. John Bryja caught up with Lou Wainman to find out more about Wainman Hawaii his vision for kiteboarding’s future. In just four short years, Wainman Hawaii has established itself as a core brand, with a strong following around the world. In 2007, it came as no surprise that a new brand was emerging with him as a partner. During the late 90’s and start of the last decade, he pioneered the wakestyle movement and has been at the cutting edge of the sport. You can click on Facebook link to get to the Facebook page, and on Instagram link to get to the Instagram page, and so on.Lou Wainman is unquestionably the most influential kiteboarder of all time. Last year I published the big post about kite brands on Facebook, which got quite a lot of attention. Checking the kite brands Kitesurfing brands Facebook and instagram followers
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