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Safety once again: what do you think about this picture?

Postby pmaggie » Tue Mar 31, 2015 2:13 pm

http://worldphoto.org/national-award-2015/belgium/

Have a look at the 3rd picture... :D

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Re: Safety once again: what do you think about this picture?

Postby kas911 » Tue Mar 31, 2015 2:58 pm

2. picture is worse.....

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Re: Safety once again: what do you think about this picture?

Postby RickI » Tue Mar 31, 2015 3:48 pm

In a slightly different configuration, it resulted in a promising young female athlete suffering paralysis from the resulting injury. I would have though a massive corporation like Sony would checkout images in a global contest a bit more carefully.

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Re: Safety once again: what do you think about this picture?

Postby pmaggie » Tue Mar 31, 2015 3:58 pm

I think they just can't realize how dangerous this situation is. For a non kiter, it is simply an amazing action picture.

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Re: Safety once again: what do you think about this picture?

Postby alamos_kiter » Tue Mar 31, 2015 4:59 pm

Brilliant. I like the pic. It's called "Darwin's advice" and helps reducing the kiting population.

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Re: Safety once again: what do you think about this picture?

Postby noel » Tue Mar 31, 2015 5:21 pm

Of course when Dimitri did it with Cameron, you all thought is was cool and awesome. Now it's unsafe? Hypocritical much?

Awesome pic showing possibly father and son having a great time in waist deep water. Kids I teach and ride with that are his size jump higher on there own. We should put a stop to that right? Unsafe parents teaching their kids to kiteboard and having fun doing it. Shame on those people!

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Re: Safety once again: what do you think about this picture?

Postby alamos_kiter » Tue Mar 31, 2015 6:00 pm

noel wrote:...Awesome pic showing possibly father and son having a great time in waist deep water. ...
C'mon on, anybody with an understanding of kite physics knows that tethering a kite leads to unfolding the max possible lift force, as opposed to limiting the lift force by limiting the counter force to rider weight force, and thus reducing the resulting lift force greatly.

Tethering a power kite is outright stupid, no matter who does it. If in doubt, tether your kite to your car and fly it figure 8 through the window on a 20kn day. You'll buy a new kite and lines straight afterwards.

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Re: Safety once again: what do you think about this picture?

Postby RickI » Tue Mar 31, 2015 6:26 pm

The case I referred to involved kids doing much the same thing together, over a sand bar. A 16 year old girl's spine was severed as a result potentially paralyzing her for life. Kids playing with kids doing something that they saw, resulting in a life changed. That is the reason I brought this up.

Global corporations are leaders, like it or not, as they are very much aware. I suspect they didn't know the history of this practice in making this selection. Of course there have been quite a few victims of tethered manlifting going back many centuries but most of those were suspended by something longer than a leash. People were actually executed in that fashion in China 1500 years ago. I doubt Sony had that associated imagery in mind when they selected that photo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-lifting_kite

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Re: Safety once again: what do you think about this picture?

Postby Toby » Tue Mar 31, 2015 6:40 pm

That is peanuts...nothing dangerous here. Deep enough water, a guy playing with a kite, hanging on a short leash. Easy.

If the line would be 30m long and the kiter would be accordingly high, yes, very dangerous!

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Re: Safety once again: what do you think about this picture?

Postby edt » Tue Mar 31, 2015 6:49 pm

This particular instance is probably ok. But it's like that fad remember, ghost riding the whip? You would get out of your car when it was moving dance around and get back in. Even when it's done safely it's still stupid. No good reason to kite while tethered unless you are stunting for a video.


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