http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/weather/2008/08/19/florida.kite.boarder.wfor

ouch

8/19/2008 11:25:21 AM

oh shit

any word on how bad he was f'ed up?

8/19/2008 11:27:15 AM

that looked bad

8/19/2008 11:27:55 AM

can't you let go?

8/19/2008 11:28:04 AM

the question is... did he make it to ozz..

Kite + hurricane seems more feasible than bike + tornado

[Edited on August 19, 2008 at 11:29 AM. Reason : watched vid and :no: epic fail on ozz trip....]

8/19/2008 11:28:22 AM

damn. why didn't he let go after he hit the sand?

8/19/2008 11:28:22 AM

he was prob still strapped in and couldn't get to the release?

8/19/2008 11:31:36 AM

the question is not why didn't he pull the emergency release, it's why was he kite surfing in a hurricane?

8/19/2008 11:35:19 AM

oh, i didn't know you were strapped into that kind of thing. i thought you just held on

8/19/2008 11:35:46 AM

Ahhh

Yeah...

Seriously though kite boarding in a hurricane, can we say Darwin award?

8/19/2008 11:35:57 AM

i want to kite/skate but not unless i have an easy way to let go

8/19/2008 11:38:05 AM

As of this morning's news they didn't know how badly the kite boarder was injured.

8/19/2008 11:41:24 AM

white people

:carl face:


(I couldn't help myself )

8/19/2008 11:41:50 AM

fucking owned

8/19/2008 12:02:06 PM

wow

8/19/2008 12:04:19 PM

hahah, i love the video title:

Kite-surfer confronts Fay, loses

8/19/2008 12:07:18 PM

I wonder if he did that on purpose to try to impress girls?

8/19/2008 12:08:11 PM

How do I get CNN videos to play in firefox?

8/19/2008 12:16:34 PM

http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/
Load flash player

8/19/2008 12:17:47 PM

make sure firefox is up to date. i always had problems with cnn videos in firefox 2.x

8/19/2008 12:18:14 PM

Quote :

"the question is not why didn't he pull the emergency release, it's why was he kite surfing in a hurricane?"

well they said in the clip it happened too fast for him to grab the emergency release. I mean he was dragged face down in the sand for about 30 ft before being thrown up. Could make it difficult to grab the release

8/19/2008 12:43:07 PM

Not everyone survives out here on the Serengeti.

8/19/2008 12:54:23 PM

hard to fix stupid

8/19/2008 1:01:13 PM

I don't know anything about kite boarding but is there not a release thing so he could let go?

8/19/2008 1:06:16 PM

no

no release exists on such a device

8/19/2008 1:07:35 PM

damn, i was just about to post this topic

on a side not when you do a search on youtube for kite boarding you get quite a selection of superman-esque videos

8/19/2008 2:22:28 PM

Quote :

"Seriously though kite boarding in a hurricane, can we say Darwin award? "

i was thinking the same thing as I watched this

8/19/2008 2:25:13 PM

I'm no kitesurfer, but common sense says that steady winds are great and gusting winds will kill you. Maybe I'm missing something here. I hope the guy is alright though.

[Edited on August 19, 2008 at 2:26 PM. Reason : l]

8/19/2008 2:26:28 PM

correct me if I'm wrong, but this storm hasn't been a hurricane for a while, if ever?

8/19/2008 2:29:28 PM

LOL

8/19/2008 2:35:18 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI1VEdm12nc&feature=related the music that accompanies this is hilarious

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2wJk89tgVY&feature=related guy thrown into rocks... ouch

8/19/2008 2:42:07 PM

hahaha idiot

8/19/2008 2:43:57 PM

damn, that's crazy. QR needs to be better located I think...

8/19/2008 2:48:33 PM

Sometimes you just panic and hold on to the bar.

Also it is not always as easy as just pulling the QR. When something like that happens there is very little, if any, time to react.

I have been lofted/dragged but not near to the extent of the guy in the video. Thankfully my chicken loop came off my harness and the kite flagged out. Yes I was out on a too big kite on a too windy day and I am lucky not to be hurt worse, but after shit goes wrong just pulling the QR isn't always an option.

8/19/2008 2:59:07 PM

they should develop an airbag deployment system like that one commerical had years ago for construction workers (was a futuristic idea), but shit, if they made airbags for motorcycles... they can do this too..

Or the gel landing system from the Final Fantasy movie

8/19/2008 3:10:41 PM

EXTREEEEME!

8/19/2008 3:14:20 PM

Or just don't fuck up, then you don't need a airbag/gel crash system

8/19/2008 3:23:56 PM

or just don't kite surf during a goddamn hurricane/tropical storm.

8/19/2008 10:17:37 PM

Quote :

"or just don't kite surf during a goddamn hurricane/tropical storm."

8/19/2008 10:28:05 PM

the problem there was a squall came through. had there been steady winds it isn't that dangerous being out on the right size kite.

From what I understand he was on a 9m flat kite, top end would be around 35 knots. They had been out when the wind was in the upper teens before a squall came through pushing winds of 50+. You can see the other kiters trying to land. The guy didn't keep his kite low, once it headed up he went with it.

8/19/2008 11:43:42 PM

All you could want to know about the lofting


http://fksa.org/showthread.php?p=35994#post35994

8/19/2008 11:51:16 PM

Quote :

" BEST RIDE EVER "

8/20/2008 12:33:40 AM

what a fucking dumbass

8/20/2008 12:37:58 AM

Fay ain't got nothing I can't handle. I'm at the beach and I'm going in dammit.

8/20/2008 1:39:06 PM

Quote :

"that looked bad "

that guy is a fuckin idiot

8/20/2008 1:52:43 PM