Use and promote common sense and courtesy and many access threats will vanish. If not ...

If folks are interested in buying some Dyneema FYF protective socks, you can find them at https://www.getfyf.com

Getting your toes into new socks can be slow but it speeds up with use. Wetting them down first helps. I put them on in the car or on paving to avoid sand inside them. I haven't had trouble with excess sand getting into them once on however. I don't recall having sand abrasion problems with them. Th...

From 2016, see below. They have saved me from even bad cuts since that time. They don't last forever and will wear eventually. Still, for a near barefoot feeling with some major slice protection the FYF socks offer some strong advantages. I am a big fan of the Dyneema FYF socks. I have been spared s...

For doctors, nurses, paramedics, PAs, or anyone interested in wilderness and travel medicine. http://www.realwatersports.com/news/kite-cme-kite-when-its-windylearn-when-its-not/ This looks like both an excellent an intriguing program covering a wide variety of wilderness medicine topics. "16 Hours o...

He was an unfortunate young man from the US visiting the island and taking too close a look at the Rage which blew through there in recent weeks. Waves were exploding all over the place and he was caught in one such massive run up. It was a particularly violent one from the major northeaster we had ...

Hey, it was only 16 years ago. I met you there Toby, the good old days. Strangely, Florida is too cool for most kite comp's anymore, because ... I have no idea why. It is real shame too as if you have one, they will come.

If breathing is coming too hard and there is an elevated risk of breathing water, you might be hitting it a bit too hard. We have lost guys who aspirated water under the wrong set of circumstances. **Does anything else you do, hard cardio result in untoward shortness of breath? If so, you may want t...

I just tore mine up about two weeks ago in a nasty wipeout in high wind. Before that time both knees were in good shape unlike quite a few other areas which had been dinged by kiting, skiing and life. If I behave myself and am not particularly unlucky, I don't anticipate needing a surgery. Things sh...

Good information in this thread, thanks for posting. Has anyone on here caused a partial MCL tear, Type II, following a bad jump landing with no board on?