KITEMARES! and how to avoid them ... (kiteboard accidents explained)
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- This explains 7 different kiteboarding accidents in detail. Hopefully learning from these will help people avoid the mistakes of the past.
Thanks so much to all of the uploaders. It's not easy to show the world your worst moments, but your clip may well save someone's life. Power kites are complex, powerful and often counter-intuitive - your best way of staying safe is to take plenty of lessons.
Access our playlist to watch all tutorials in order:
• Kitesurf lessons in or...
Bar: Duotone Click Bar
www.duotonespo...
-Kitemare 1: Center lines knotted on bar.
• kiteboarding crash
-Kitemare 2: Tropical storm.
• Fla. Kite Surfer Recov...
-Kitemare 3: Gusty wind.
• Video
-Kitemare 4: Steering line wrapped on bar.
• Kiteboarding Launch Cr...
-Kitemare 5: Jump with accidental kiteloop.
Many thanks to Jelle Hilbers.
• Bad kitesurfing accide...
-Kitemare 6: Suicide leash drags kiter.
Thanks to Donovan, clip not on RUclips.
-Kitemare 7: Death-loop with bar hooked on harness.
Thanks to Michael Krose.
• The death rolling kite...
This should be mandatory watching at every kite school
Yep
I have watched a lot of videos on kite surfing this year as Im new to the sport and on my 6th lesson and I have to say Kite-Surf-College Tutorials are the closest you will get to actually having lessons which is a MUST for this sport. Thank you for your efforts in make these tutorials.
Respect the wind it will always win!
Agree with everything except for it's a "MUST" to have lessons. With so many RUclips tutorials, you really don't need lessons if you do your research and better to spend that money on gear. Greetings.
@@Roosyer I think you can learn Kitesurfing together with an experienced friend, but you should not try learning it all by yourself. You're putting not only your own life but also the life of others at risk.
What a diction ! 🙂
Seeing on the guy standing next to his kite at self launch attempt, the last kiter is just too stupid for the sport. He's not an exception unfortunately.
@@Roosyer Proving you have no clue about the world of a difference between theory and reality my friend. If your absurd statement was even remotely close to being correct, we'd all be champions at many things. Are you ten??
Great video with analysis. I have developed for myself a pre-launch very quick checklist (2 second) that I am using all the time and it helps me to avoid silly mistake. It's spelled KITE and it's symbolic.
K is for checking (K)Quick Release, put my hand on it to know where it is and which direction to eject, so I don't have to find it.
I is for checking the LINES, straight, no twist and correctly hooked
T is for checking the SafeTy leash for being correctly hooked up
E is for checking the Environment, wind, people, other kiters, hard obstacles on land, etc.
It takes me 2 seconds to check while the launcher helper is holding the kite, since I use my hand to run through the list. I have stopped few mishaps before they happened with this checklist. I just post it here so you can develop your own checklist and FWIW
Nice and clever :)
You really needed that shitty acronym to remember those steps?
That acronym makes no sense, none of the letters match the actual word lool
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Great idea. Thanks for sharing. I’m going to borrow this
Spot-on analysis on that last scenario! I can't believe there are thumbs down on this video - ignore that crap and keep sharing your wisdom. You have by far the most useful kitesurf channel online!
At last we got to meet the face behind this distinct voice!
Really good videos👍
I had a close call in Boracay early this year due to the tangled powerline. (I was in a hurry to go out to save/help my windsurfer friend who was stuck in the rip currents where coral reeves were sharp and shallow). I was able to release the leash within 2 seconds when I realized I was in trouble although I got lifted about 3-4 ft in the air. Other than my ego, I did not get hurt. People will always think that something like this will happen only to other people until it happens to you.. (Thank you so much for the important info!!)
Thank you so much! I've seen all of those kitemares but did not really understand what was going on. Now I do and i know what to do to prevent being in such a kitemare
I never want to see anybody get hurt but this is very helpful. Accidents are preventable. Study, train, be careful, safety first, know your skill level, and safety first!
Thank you for this great video! All of kiteboarders need to see this, you never know when something will go wrong
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Hi, I'm from Brazil. I live in Fortaleza, here we have good wind during 12 months. I begin in kite last year and your tips and lessons it's getting too important to improve my skills.
Your safety tips too important.
Thanks for all your videos.
I’ve just recovered from a kitemare where I broke three ribs, my jaw and my nose. More significantly I was knocked unconscious for several minutes and can’t remember the following 24 hours. I’m lucky to be alive. This is a dangerous sport at times and kiting within your capability to a important. But most important of all is learning safety routines and practicing ejecting the chicken loop and leash eject multiple times so that their use becomes second nature. Thank you so much for this fantastic video. You’ve given the kiting world plenty of tips which are useful to the experienced kite surfer as well as the newbie. Look forward to the next one.
Are you kiting again?
Thanks a lot for putting this up. I've been kiting since 2000 and was lucky to never have had an accident or even dangerous situation. I came from paragliding where neglect can be fatal. Check your material, check your lines, let yourself help by others on the beach. Admittedly not every beach offers helping hands especially in over commercialized spots it is sometimes hard to find someone helping you start your kite. I've seen people with jet skies on the beach where a kiter was kilometers away from the beach and going offshore when asking them they pretended to see nothing. When pointing to the fact that they are refusing their duty to help they got a little nervous and started the engines. Even before starting your session make sure that someone could take care of you if things go south.
Tony & Susan here, outstanding video , my sessions are many months apart and your expertise really helps me get back out there when I can. you are a great teacher of kite skills.
I had two of these happen to myself during my 5 years of kiting, being careful and everything, luckily reacted properly on both intuitively and nothing happened. These videos are really important
The best lesson!!! It happened to me once. I was able to release the Kite in time, but it was such a scary moment. I learned something important today. Thank you..
This video might save just Lives, THANKS !
Great vid ! Alll beginners to amateurs should be watching this. The importance of line check and safety system check is everything. Every bad situation IV been In 95 percent had been preventable with myself to blame rushing checks or not doing them. Better to avoid it then have to deal with the situation
Excellent, slow motion explanations for events that actually happen in warp speed !! No judging by the host, just concise debriefs to help us all...
Kitemare IV is me :)
Thanks for showing my clip, very cool! The situation felt way worse than it may look on video. I actually didn't know why it happened before I came home and checked the video. It was a sharp reminder to check my lines thoroughly before I start a session.
Great video, lots of good tips :)
Hello Fartssmellgood. It's certainly scary when your kite doesn't behave as normal. It's happened to me before, of course. I had a bridle wrap itself around a valve as the launcher picked up the kite. A bit harder to spot, but a similar situation. Thanks for your great FPV kiting videos, some good stuff for people to learn from:
ruclips.net/channel/UCt9Excl9eLMJIvug1WZFNDA
Thank you for these videos, wish I had watched more of them when i was learning!
Kitemare scenario typical of gusty Utah. Wind stops, kite stalls into power zone, Force V gust comes and hot launches you into the next dimension.
I also wore a raft helmet and Dakine floaty vest when i was learning. Of course you will look like the regional ambassador of Kook nation but as a beginner you gotta take every precaution so you can live to kite another day!
i am watching and lurning a lot from your lessones /in fact you are the best kite teacher i have ever had/you made me a better kite surfer ...and i am in the other side of the planet...thank you!!! and you are more then wellcome to come and surf in israel/
Your channel is so incredibly helpful-thank you so much.
Kite prophet..i believe god send you to us to teach kite surfing properly..thank you and your gently english..
Great video! Am stoked you mentioned having your safety attached where you can reach it, checking your lines and launching one-handed. I'd also recommend wearing an impact vest or PFD if jumping, and having a safety knife and a whistle in case of emergencies.
I wanted to learn how to kite surf now after watching this video I cant wait to try it. Safety first
Honestly this was great to understand how dangerous the sport can be. I'm trying to get into it and take lesson. But this makes me more timid. Looks too fun to not try though.
Take lessons! 15 years ago my son and i took 2 ,1 hr lessons, then self taught, sooo many safety protocols we didn't know and a few kite mares to show for it.
best video yet. extremely informative.
Thank you! This video will help many to avoid dangerous situations!
Got my kite gear and am waiting my turn for my classes. These are very well explained and I'll be watching it a few times. Thanks for the video, to all those who let us see their mistakes and for Kite-Surf-College reenacting them with the proper skills. Great job! :)
Thanks, I am considering kite serfing, however it isn't as straightforward as I thought, so I will start off at the bottom and work up, you have probably saved me allot of pain literally. 👍 🤪😂🤣
Thanks for publishing, good to watch this again before I commence another season.
awesome video - all of the kite-surf college videos rock.
Please include a Kitemare scenario when riding a wave, kite drops on the water, rider continues riding toward the kite, lines go slack, rider drops down over slack lines, kite powers up, rider tangled in lines.
A few lives have been lost over the years from this Kitemare scenario.
Always need a knife
And activate your leash
Great video! It was very usefull.
It would bee grear if you could provide more videos like this
Good video! Very usefull !! Some easy misstakes that could have been prevented by checking your lines before launching. So important 👍🏻
Thank you so much for this life saving material
I have been kiting for 6 years and during the first 3 I experienced pretty much all of that, injuring myself pretty bad. One thing I would add is watch the depth of the water when learning jumps. I fell head down onto rocks in 20cm of water while learning backrolls. Result: 25 stitches on my head, and coming this close to a skull fracture. I never kite without a helmet now, despite being very experienced.
Like the way you go thru some problems. Should me watched by more kiters
Thanks for making this video. Very informative and helpful
Thank you very much, you are doing a great contribution to our sport and lifestyle.
As per usual, BEST VIDEOS EVER. Thanks for the great tips
Excellent video mate. Massive thanks!
These videos are so well done and explained many thanks for this they really do help
Thanks for your kitesurf videos, they are the best! The only thing that annoys me is that you and your partner make it look so easy. :D
realy good work! thx (-:
marking and explanation helps a lot.
Excellent videos and explanation. Thank you so much for the great effort in making these.
My kitemare was August 15, 2018 and nearly cost me my ring finger. Riding a surfboard in shoulder-high swell on the Columbia River I fell and the safety released. The wind had gotten gusty, but I tried to reset the chicken loop after getting the kite to the window and swimming towards it to relieve line tension. I used my spare kite leash (always carry two) to keep the board nearby, but forgot to put on a loop for this after taking the straps off (lesson 1). While holding the chicken loop steady in my left hand, pulling out the release in my right, and cursing that I didn't have a third to move that pesky toggle in place, the current had taken me downstream thus tensioning the lines and moving the kite back into the window where it hot-launched and dislocated my ring finger at the second knuckle. Lesson 2 is pay *very careful* attention to your situation if you're not simply going to execute a textbook self-rescue. I waved at my friend who was riding swell towards me and noticed my finger then went into shock - lesson 3 is don't panic but stay focused on survival. At this point there's a barge coming and I'm getting cold - lesson 4 is even when the air is 90F and water 72F you can still hypotherm and 2-mil shorties are cheap. If nobody had been there to help pull me ashore, I'd like to hope I'd have executed a self rescue and gotten the hell out of the channel and to a nearby shore (not the one I launched from), but I can't say for sure. (Also lesson 5 is you're never too experienced to be caught by surprise).
You have missed another important lesson from Kevin's crazy superman flight over interstate traffic. There were 2 or 3 other kiters that were out with him and came in about the same time when the squall winds blasted in. Those other kiters got in safely because they kept their kites low as they came in. Kevin has his kite up a zenith, so got lofted upward above the beach, then down into that first sand-slam. Had he kept his kite low, even if dragged across or downwind, it would have been a much less hazardous situation.
Learning is : when hugely over-powered, it's usually far safer to keep your kite very low, near the ground, than it is to have it at zenith.
They were all out in a storm - Storm Fay - nobody not have been out. Wind looks about 50 knots. True he might have fared better by keeping his kite low or better still just releasing his safety full stop when the wind picked up but they were all stupid to be out in a storm forecast.
Added to Top Kiteboarding Tutorials Playlist ;)
Very good tips and very well explained. I do not KS yet but would like to try it and when I do I want to have fun and be some what competent in the basics...like staying safe. Great video! Cheers
Super neccessary video for new kiters.
3:56 From my very limited experience is that little tug on the bar that made the kite scoop the wind that pulled him up, rather than any gusts... never ever tug on the bar... or somebody else's bar. My unqualified instructor tugged on my bar like that just for a split second and the result was me being launched similarly...
That first one is truly scary... I hope that guy was alright... but wow what an example.
What are you talking about. The second guy was 10 times scarier.
Great vid! Very well presented! Gotta ask where on earth is that last beach covered in litter? Yuk
Just found your channel!
It's great to learn about kiting!
Thx dude, great vid. Hand on loop at all times..my instructor didn't teach me that..one hand on bar..check :)
Excellent Video!!! Thank you so much
Unfortunately as someone who weights quite a lot, I gotta work on jumps in strong winds, hence making this whole process quite dangerous, just today had my kite fly through the red power zone at launching, good thing I have some experience, because I predicted what will happen next.
Nice job! Very informative.
It would be really good if you can try to show how an experienced kiter could get out of these situations once they star.
Great video mate
Thanks 👍
Thanks! Great lessons!!
Thanknyou very good. Very excellent teacher.
One of the best kite video!
Very nice video. Once I had a kitemare when y pulled the chicken loop eject in low wind and started to wrap the bar as a self rescue before the kite completely flagged out. The wind picked up and the kite started a death loop until the safety line got broken. In low wind with the current in the same direction of the wind it's takes a while for the kite to flag out. Never explained in the demo safety videos of any brand.
i agree with you, actually its best to pull extra line out on your flag out (say 5 meters) and start to wrap that flag out line first if at all possible, then continue wrapping all 4 lines together. you will of course have some extra line hanging out of the other 3 lines when you reach your kite but that is usually fairly manageable when youre on your kite vs having it still pulling you down wind.
Nice video! Maybe you can add this classic scenario to your next video. I don't have it on camera though.
I injured my ancle while trying to land while being very overpowered. I realized that I couldn't ride upwind anymore. Once I saw another kitesurfer on the beach I left the water. I gave him the landing signal. He just smiled at me. I gave him the landing signal again. He started walking towards me. The wind dropped, kite fell down, wind came back, the kite was pulled up through the power zone and I landed quite hard on my foot. At that point this kitesurfer reached me and asked me what's going on. Turned out he was a beginner waiting for his lessons to start. Using the chickenloop might have done the trick once the wind dropped. Now I'm probably out for the rest of the year due to this stupid incident.
I´ve seen a video, that explained, a kite in death roll, is a pretty unstable kite. If you pull hard on the stearing line causing the roll, the kite will flag out and lose all power.
you are a star! Thanks
My dad actuelly had one line hooked in the harness. The kite started looping. A surfer stopped the kite before he reached land. Lucky
Great vid, thanks for sharing.
Very nice explanations, thumbs up for you my dude
Tank Mate very instructive.
Great video, thanks
Great video
Thanks!
What exemplary explanations ! Clear and concise - thank you !
For the last example, if you have a harness that can be eject the hook, could have been used?
This was a great video, Thank you!
Thank you for the video!
Great video! But how did that directional board crash in the tree behind you? :D
Excellent tutorials. I think the video takes it a bit easy on the inexperienced kiters that are depicted. And one problem I saw in a few of them were that the kiters were launching with the intent of immediately getting the kite up to the zenith of the wind window, or they were standing with the kite in the air resting at the zenith of the wind window. If there are any uncertainties in the area or the wind, i.e., a kiter is not in a very smooth onshore breeze at an expansive beach, the zenith can be a VERY dangerous place because it creates vertical lift on the kiter, unlike when the kite is off to the extreme left or the right of the wind window, much closer to the ground, which produces lateral pull. In several instances depicted in this video, unanticipated kite power at the zenith lofted the kiters, and almost no one can think quickly enough to pull a safety at that split second moment. When the kite is lateral, the kiter often has at least a moment to realize they don't like what's happening, and while their feet are still on the ground fighting the erratic pull of the kite, they have a much greater opportunity to make the decision to eject.
Long story short, NEWBIES: BEWARE OF THE ZENITH, LEARN TO FAVOR THE KITE IN A MORE LATERAL POSITION. That said, nothing makes kiting safe in gusty winds.
That last video is just upsetting. Self launching in between several other kites, having a person in there that might have gotten tangled up as the kite was launching.
I've watched this video a while ago already but most of these accidents are very preventable, especially with the improved security a depower features on newer kites.
Do take lessons if you have never flown a kite, do ask if you are unaware of the local conditions, currents, tides or other no fly zones or dangers.
Don't try to save money on a kite. Get a new one or a properly refurbished one from a trusted local store.
I had to do a water rescue the other day. Kite fell in the water, seemed like lines got tangled. Instead of trying to fight with it i just had myself dragged 30 min to the beach. It's not great, but it beats hospital stays and bills.
Self-launching whilst there are multiple people around is the most arrogant thing you could do.
It puts everybody at risk that’s on the beach, especially non-kiters who won’t recognize a dangerous situation and can get injured by the kite, lines or person.
Actually on Kitemare #7, the No.1 lesson here is not to launch your kite near someone else. As you can see, the kite hit the other rider, and this is extremely dangerous as the lines could've cut that person. In that case, the best way is to have assisted launch, but never near to someone else.
Thanks for your videos and especial for this one!!!!!!
Brilliant, thank you!
Excelente tu video para mi ya que soy un futuro principiante con un kite Takoon 2018 0km de 12m que todavia no use porque no se nadar y tadavia no junto coraje para meterme al rio , lo que mostras aca es importantisimo , estaria bueno si tradujeran el video a español hablado , te mando un abrazo desde Santa fe cap. , Argentina .
Most of these appear to be beginner accidents. Perhaps people trying to learn without an instructor as I attempted to do. I went through a few nasty mishaps. All in a remote part of Saudi Arabia where nobody else kiteboarded. Then I caught on to using short lines and smaller kites. I never really learned to kiteboard in water but I did get to be ok at kiting on land with a mountainboard and kitebuggy.
Excellent!!
Thank you!
Grazie per questo video l' ho trovato molto istruttivo e interessante!
Thank you for your vídeos!!
Really useful. Thank you.
Thank you very much for the video! I will carry a knife or safety cutting tool with me in future. One never knows
Is it practical to use a smaller kite that can't drag you around, or does that not keep up enough speed?
Thank you! It sure learned me,that it is very dangerous!!!! I bought a kite before watching this 👀 a little afraid now :-) xa xa..ox..ox
Hatte ich schon. Trotz 5 tägigem Kurs wurde mir nie erklärt was in so einem Fall zu tun ist. Ich dachte kurz ich ertrinke, da er bei mir nach dem Auslösen trotzdem noch ein paar mal geloopt hat und ich wie sau durchs und unters Wasser gezogen wurde. Am Ende hatte ich zum Glück nur eine geprellte Rippe.
Meine Learnings:
- Hätte sofort auslösen müssen bevor es so verheddert war. Habe zu lange gewartet weil ich dachte ich kriegs noch unter Kontrolle
- Evtl probieren die nicht loopende Seite Steuerleine zu ziehen.
- Ich checke seitdem vor jedem Start ob mein Messer da ist falls ich es jemals brauche.
Mir ist es nach einem Sprung passiert. Damals war ich noch nicht so erfahren und der kite stallte hinter mir nach der Landung, die leinen waren locker und als er vom Himmel viel fing er sich plötzlich wieder und die lockere leine verhedderte sich um die Control Bar. Ich hab erst hinterher verstanden, dass es sich um eine sog. Deathloop handelt.
In #3 you said: “this is very dangerous unless you know how to handle it”.
But you didn’t mention how. So could you tell how? ☺️🙏
any recommendation how to safely relaunch your kite after a safety release in deep water?
If you can pick some French you may have a look to this recent good vid: ruclips.net/video/EFIA62t90H8/видео.html
Thank you