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04-01-2008, 07:31 AM
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Holy crap!!
I just read in the TBT paper about a new store opening up in the International Mall called Adrenalina. This store promotes all extreme sports like kitesurfing. This is an outrage that anyone who knows nothing about kitesurfing can just go into the store and buy the gear and head out and kill themselves or others.
I just hope they also promote lessons and have instructors on hand. I hope John at WSW or the community can do something to stress the importance to this Home Depot of Death that this sport and all their other sports could cause death. Here is their website. http://www.adrenalinastore.com/ Here is the article.  SOON, YOU’LL BE SURFING INSIDE INTERNATIONAL PLAZA Yes, you read that headline right. When extreme sports store Adrenalina opens this fall inside International Plaza, its star attraction will be a FlowRider wave machine, which uses water jets spraying up a hill to create a controlled imita*tion of board surfing. So, like these guys showing off during 2006 Super Bowl festivities in Detroit, you’ll be able to ride the waves with a roof over your head. (See a video of the FlowRider in action at tinyurl.com/2gtf4t.) The North Miami Beach sporting goods chain, which stocks skateboard, surfing, kitesurf, BMX, mountain bike, Moto X, paintball and sky*diving supplies, apparel and footwear, said the Tampa location will be its third. — tbt* -Chris
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04-01-2008, 08:01 AM
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SWEET! I rode the flowrider in the mall in Orlando! This is coming to Tampa! Cool!
It's pretty freakin' hard man. That board is the size of a small skateboard! I'm ready!  PS> I never saw any kite equipment in the Orlando store.
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04-01-2008, 08:07 AM
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ebay scares me more...
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04-01-2008, 08:12 AM
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Just wait and see which brands support them then you make the choice who to support. Cheers Neil
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04-01-2008, 09:09 AM
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I'm sure during the summer doldrums I will be there too. It looks like a lot fun.
I'm just concerned that they will sell kite gear to anyone with out giving much thought about lessons. This is a north Miami company, have they done anything to point towards local instructors for lessons? They look like they only carry Cabrinha. -Chris
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04-01-2008, 09:26 AM
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chris
itsa commin. 4 sure. that awfull day you wake to a newsflash... "Kiteboarder kills" Bryan L. is right. E bay scares me way more than any store. we can lobby a store owner. what can we do about e bay? nutskin. neil...actions speak louder than words. honest.
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04-01-2008, 09:27 AM
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I doubt that anyone would buy a kite from a saleperson that didn't have a clue as to what he was talking about.
Look at what happened with liquid force and west marine..........
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04-01-2008, 03:08 PM
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sick, no more hour and a half drive to go to the flow rider
they've always sold kites on there site, but there old as sh** and way over priced. Last edited by JoshTaylor; 04-01-2008 at 05:53 PM.
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04-01-2008, 03:35 PM
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let the selective thinning of the heard begin.
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