If You May Wednesday

I just noticed that these kiteboarders were standing on something more akin to a snowboarder's board, instead of a larger surfboard.  I dunno which came first, kite-surfing or kite-boarding, in the evolution of the sport in context to less board length and the attendent convenience of lugging the whole kaboodle.  With windboards — a surfboard retrofitted with a sail — surfing superseded sailing, and its boards became more compact bow to stern for better agility on wave faces.

Largely because surf kites require little storage space, I was contemplating the prospects of getting into kiteboarding, then a mayday struck me, that it might not be as easy to navigate as it all appears to be.  Plus, to my dismay after seaching the web, I've found that the kite, itself, is quite expensive, probably because the kite and the parachute strings that attach to the kite are made of silk or out of some type of costly high tech material.  I suspect too that the kite must be sink proof in order to relift easily and quickly from an unscheduled landing.  So I really dunno.