Watch out for obstacles...example: like trees... downwind of you when you launch
Diagram at time 1:04 illustrate the path of the kite and kiteboarder who got hurt really really bad
Warning: painful to watch....................this happened 2 years ago
We have seen this vid before. My memory is that its a newbie flying.
What experienced person on their right mind would launch right next to trees then hold the kite at the zenith while testing lift by pulling the bar in, in very windy conditions?
Then not release when a chance was given.
This is an inexperienced person flying in winds out of his depth most likely on a kite to big for the conditions.
..the worst / best part is that most of the time this goes well. We'd been out in super gusty wind on 6-8 meter kites...come in and a guy is asking questions about the spot. We talk with him, try to show the two small channels and how the wind turns off shore outside....then he brings out an 11 meter kite.
When I gently try tell him the kite was too big his answer was that it was his only kite and that he really would like to kite...That response always baffles me..instead of thinking either have to get another kite or maybe figure out something else...
My answer was really that he should consider a different spot. I know I might have sounded like a dick, but making these kinds of choices doesn't only put the kiter in danger he also endangered other beach users and fellow kiters. As far as I remember he did go out and he did have to release...and we did have to help him. Oh well.
tautologies wrote:..the worst / best part is that most of the time this goes well. We'd been out in super gusty wind on 6-8 meter kites...come in and a guy is asking questions about the spot. We talk with him, try to show the two small channels and how the wind turns off shore outside....then he brings out an 11 meter kite.
When I gently try tell him the kite was too big his answer was that it was his only kite and that he really would like to kite...That response always baffles me..instead of thinking either have to get another kite or maybe figure out something else...
My answer was really that he should consider a different spot. I know I might have sounded like a dick, but making these kinds of choices doesn't only put the kiter in danger he also endangered other beach users and fellow kiters. As far as I remember he did go out and he did have to release...and we did have to help him. Oh well.
If that was me, I'd be pulling out a 16m kite always makes me laugh when little tiny guys try and tell me what kite I should be using...
Seriously though, I always bow to local knowledge when I'm at a new spot. And if there's nobody around, I play it super-safe.
Kamikuza wrote:
If that was me, I'd be pulling out a 16m kite always makes me laugh when little tiny guys try and tell me what kite I should be using...
Seriously though, I always bow to local knowledge when I'm at a new spot. And if there's nobody around, I play it super-safe.
haha, but when you know I was considerably bigger than that guy. I would think 40lb.
tautologies wrote:I know I might have sounded like a dick, but making these kinds of choices doesn't only put the kiter in danger he also endangered other beach users and fellow kiters
no, you don't. You sound like a guy with responsibility for other people's lives, including his.
Well done, and keep doing so!
Kamikuza wrote:
If that was me, I'd be pulling out a 16m kite always makes me laugh when little tiny guys try and tell me what kite I should be using...
Seriously though, I always bow to local knowledge when I'm at a new spot. And if there's nobody around, I play it super-safe.
haha, but when you know I was considerably bigger than that guy. I would think 40lb.
I'd sell one of my left nuts to be 40lbs!
We got a kid and his dad who comes down from Osaka occasionally, and he goes out on the smallest kites... I'm so jealous
I expect more of this to happen, if instructions don't concentrate on dangers more and people don't think about what they are doing.
Hey now don't blame the instructors!! I'm pretty sure all instructors teach the safety side, if people choose to ignore the training then that's hardly the instructors fault.
The amount of people that do not do what they were taught on their course is huge. Any half hearted site/risk assessment would have thrown up all kinds of issues with that location and wind conditions. If had done his pre flight checks then he would have known how to use his safety or at least been more aware of it.
.no danger where i live...it is barely 10kn and riding a 19....heat index 95F..................
always makes me laugh when little tiny guys try and tell me what kite I should be using...
