cancun_hound wrote:back to top
good thread
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fo, I'd be interested in hearing your suggestions for extending your rigging method all the way to completing a self-water launch, step by step . I gave your method a trial run w/no wind the other day - seems like a winner and was much more tangle free than the one my instructor taught me - I'm sure I would have intuitively wound up thinking of it myself anyway - but thinks for the shortcut. (No other kiters in these parts so tips like this are invaluable). Also, any communication tips that I could utilize to thwart off these curious jetskiiers (hey neat, is that a parasail, parachute crap from 10 yards away)?
Sorry cage,,,I got nothing new on water launching,,,and if you are on a windward shore,,well thats good for getting draged (you drag to water) but not the best for clean launching wind,,(wind/shadowed),,mmcancun_hound wrote:fo, point taken - just don't have the time to drive 10 hours and not fond of waiting for perfect conditions. So, my clear fetch is obtained this way - I throw small dingy, kite, board in boat and drop dingy on leeward shoreline, then shoot 2 miles across lake, park boat and setup kite. I kite until I drop then end up at dingy, wrap up and shuttle back to boat. Works pretty good so far just looking for tips to perfect my self launch from shallow water.
Rick, I agre 100% about using a helmet (I never ride withjout one) butRickI wrote:.... At anyrate she was dragged forward and hit the
sand berm headfirst and was knocked into a coma.
She was not wearing a helmet.
Safety gear is for just in case, think about using it, regardless of your skill level.
I try not to analyze what a helmet might or might not do in the critical milliseconds of an impact. They could have turned a few degrees and taken the impact full in the face or a few degrees the other way and the helmet would have been hit, etc. You either wear it and hope for the best if things hit the fan while practicing a great deal of hazard avoidance that kiteboarding demands the rest of the time.theflyingtinman wrote:Rick, I agre 100% about using a helmet (I never ride withjout one) butRickI wrote:.... At anyrate she was dragged forward and hit the
sand berm headfirst and was knocked into a coma.
She was not wearing a helmet.
Safety gear is for just in case, think about using it, regardless of your skill level.
a helmet is little protection against this type of injury (head hitting soft
ground)
A friend of mine suffered a similar impact after blowing a paragliding
launch last year and was wearing a very good quality paragliding helmet.
He never recovered from his coma.
Helmets protect well against medium impacts and hard glancing blows
with hard or sharp objects but the padding of a typical kitesurfing helmet
provides virtually no cusioning against sudden, total deceleration of the head.
In fact in my friend's case it may have made things worse; the injury was
caused by the brain impacting the inside of the brain pan but there was no
visible mark on the outside of his head to guide the surgeons where best
to open up his skull to relieve the internal pressure.
The only protection against that sort of sudden deceleration injury is
guarding against getting launched into a head-first impact in the first
place, by safer kitesurfing launch/landing procedure.
Steve T.
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