Men's and Women's Kite | Olympic Sailing Explained
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- What are the Men's and Women's Kite events at the Paris 2024 Olympics?
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Wow! I got a notice from the Paris Olympic 2024 app talking about Men's Kite Sailing and had to look it up!! This is awesome!
As a kitesurfer its very sad that the only kite sport chosen for the olympics is a niche of the sport that less than 1% of all kitesurfers do. Regular wakestyle, wave og big air is so much more kitesurfing and much more spectator likeable. It looks to me like sailing people have too much to say in the olympics...sad
@@user-ry5tn9cr7u I think the reasoning behind it is they stopped adding sports that the audience can't understand. Think figure skating, floor gymnastics, etc. the difference between one performance and another is basically subjective. Things like racing are much easier to understand for spectators. The fastest person wins.
Why would you want to see your sport in the Olympics. It's crowded enough out there
@@gernotmayer6419 more people = more demand = cheaper prices
I think those olympic board who decided are the old guys loving windsurfing slalom race.
Wakestyle is practiced by almost nobody and has quality spots globally that you can count on a few hands.
I think it’s more likely that winging becomes an Olympic class than any sort of style based kite.
Buzzing for this 🤙
Brooo I want to do this so bad! What's the minimun wind to practice this?
This is new to the Olympics is insane, foil kite surfing
seems like it mostly depends on your weight if you can win or not or am i wrong?
Nope. Gold medal winner Ellie Aldridge is much lighter than Silver winner Lauriane Nolot. You can see she was on a 15 meter kite and Lauriane was on a 21 meter kite in the final, which is a big difference in power. But it comes down to technique
Flysurfer made a killing!!
They’re good though aren’t they 😉
but still i dont get it... when does one win a point? explain the rules please
Toni Vodišek champion..🥇🏆🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮
Is this kite surfing or foil kite surfing?
How long does a single race generally run for? I know they run 4-6 in a session, for what it's worth.
In the video, they said 12 minutes four races per day.
@@D3moknight Nice catch! I guess I missed that. Judging by what the website for the Olympics says, though, it looks like the semis and final are six races; that'll be something to keep an eye out for.
How do they avoid tangling up?
Similar to all sailing events, it’s a mix between right of way rules (who should duck below and avoid) and being reasonable enough to duck your kite to avoid people in front of you.
Usually they don’t. In this kind of races it is common to see tangles happening because of people not wanting do let go: so instead of losing a position the two involved get passed by everyone
@@loskiff … or the entire field gets annihilated and you see hundreds of kites knotted together 😂
I hope this doesn’t happen but it is funny when it does
Why arent boys and girls racing together?? Seems much more about technique than strenght
I think weight makes a big difference in foil speed. The heavier you are the faster you go. They also pump the foil with their legs to get more speed.
@@joshk94 Also stronger legs can hold more power down, so the men can use bigger kites in higher winds while having the same resistance through the water as the women.
@@joshk94 no because you can use a larger kite size if you’re heavier.
Does anyone know why such an old fashion kite and not the inflatable ones?
Better performance with a foil kite... Why would they use inflatable?
@@102blue just because I see much more inflatable sails/kites in the daily practice around my spots. I hardly ever see this tubular sail anymore.
The lift to drag ratio is way higher on the ram air kites than inflatables. With the hydrofoil you go way faster and using those ram air kites is much nicer as they fly closer to the edge of the wind window.
@@erbesnard thx!
@@erbesnard…but if you crash?
Def wont make waves