The Kite Mag

Strap in

Carl

I’ve been riding strapless for over 10 years, and just recently I started trying out a bit of strapped-in riding. I’ve been getting a lot of mixed responses from people about this, mostly negative… Why is that? I think most kitesurfers are led to believe that riding strapless is ‘cool’ while riding with straps is ‘uncool’. And I must confess that’s something I also thought for a while, that strapped-in riding was more for the older generation.

However, I think the strapped-in movement is coming back from the early days of kiting and it’s really cool. I threw my straps

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