@Starsky, No worries about helping me with the issue; I appreciate your opinion anyway. Yeah, I feel a lot safer when I release the bar on the water -- the only time the kite will keep pulling is if there is a line wrap or such. And getting dragged around the water for a bit is usually no biggie. No...

Thanks for the detailed response, edt. The first system you showed is the Ozone Megatron, which is what I have on my Ozone Frenzy. I recall reading about the half-suicide mode when I first got it, but for some reason I was left with the impression that it may be a bit difficult to reach the quick re...

I've had to release to the flagout line more than once before due to the bar wrapping around the lines and starting to loop (no amount of letting go of the bar helped). I imagine that would have translated to at least one lost kite by now (or impacts of the freewheeling kite with other riders). The ...

Is there such a thing as a suicide + flagout line leash-in-one? I'm thinking something that's attached to both the chicken loop and the flagout line, so that if the kite drops and crap hits the fan the rider can first disconnect from the suicide line, and if the flagout line situation isn't any safe...

Ugh, that's a major bummer.

Did you have your gear hidden from outside view in the trunk or was it easy to spot through the car's windows?

Have you tried something like cooling the board off to get it as cold as possible, then sticking it in a large translucent nylon bag placed in a warmer environment for an hour or so, to see if it forms condensation? (My physics skills are not as mad they used to be, so this may not actually work... ...

...his video has gotten 3.4M views. WTF? Just another case of the maxim "it's not what you have, it's what you do". If I recall the creator's story right, he had to spend some months devising the attachment to the phone so it'd fly nice and steady (there is still some wobble to it, but since the gu...

Those shaky clips reminded me of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqncOP7OzMg

Now, what this guy did is awesomely mesmerizing (and stabilized to boot)!

@CaptainArgh: Color me unimpressed. I suppose this is still an early prototype and all, but the low-bitrate artifacts, mushy image, and the swinging shake are not inspiring. My reading, based on the video since I couldn't find any additional technical details, is that the setup keeps the lens+sensor...

https://vimeo.com/130835280

You call that stabilized? Some of the clips in the video were giving me eye-strain.