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08-19-2008, 06:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeland, FL | | | Kite Surfing in the Hurricane!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-cIUl2MpG0
Leave it to us Floridians  
Critical condition, expected to make it 
Hopefully a better (direct) video will be posted soon. |
08-19-2008, 06:16 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lincolnshire, UK | | | That was most amusing. |
08-19-2008, 06:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeland, FL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by TheDarkReaver  That was most amusing. | To be honest, they kite surf in the same strong winds during the fall and winter months and have similar wrecks. The hurricane probably didn't have that much to do with it. The harness is SUPPOSED to quickly unhook  |
08-19-2008, 06:22 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lincolnshire, UK | | | It would be awesome if you really padded yourself up and did it. |
08-19-2008, 06:29 AM
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Originally Posted by TheDarkReaver That was most amusing. | This.
I watched that broadcast this morning... It was most amusing.
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08-19-2008, 06:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: On The Bayou | | | Quite a pic |
08-19-2008, 06:42 AM
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Originally Posted by jazzy grille This.
I watched that broadcast this morning... It was most amusing. | Yes. Saying that he busted his ass would be an understatement!! It wasn't the flying across the beach and the street that hurt, it was smashing into the side of the bulding at 40mph  Could have been worse. |
08-19-2008, 06:52 AM
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08-19-2008, 07:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Pacman | I think that was the person who was videotaping the tv. |
08-19-2008, 07:36 AM
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08-19-2008, 09:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Casselberry, Florida | | | BRB I'm going kite surfing. |
08-19-2008, 09:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: South Side Chicago | | | while in the hospital they should spay and neuter his ass.
quite hilarious though. |
08-19-2008, 09:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | There was a chick that offed herself here last year, at Kanaha I think. From what I heard, she just took off, and kept going, and ended up dumping herself way out. |
08-19-2008, 09:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Marcus Johnson There was a chick that offed herself here last year, at Kanaha I think. From what I heard, she just took off, and kept going, and ended up dumping herself way out. | A few years ago someone got killed in Corpus Christi. They slammed into a bridge. |
08-19-2008, 10:08 AM
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Originally Posted by FL Knifemaker | My wife saw the footage on our local news last night. Thanks for the link.
A lot of those kitemares do happen where people get really hyped about rare high wind conditions. Out here (where high winds are very frequent) most guys don't go out with kites on the really big days...or at least they migrate to a less windy spot. But apparently some kitesurfing outfit was actually running a demo promotion that day at or near where that footage was shot! 
My favorite kitemare story involved an Aussie who flew six blocks inland from the launch site and went through his neighbor's roof. He broke a few ribs but was otherwise OK. The little old lady neighbor was around 90, I think. So when she was interviewed, it went like this:
" He was such a nice young man, I was always inviting him to drop in for tea. But this was not exactly what I had in mind!"  Edit: Here's one of my alltime favorite kitesurfing vids.
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08-19-2008, 04:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: On The Bayou | | | They showed it about a zillion times today. Looked like it really hurt. |
08-19-2008, 05:10 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College Station, Texas | | | The video was removed :[ |
08-19-2008, 05:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Valerus The video was removed :[ | Yup, I didn't get to see it. Darn, missed another chance to shake my head at my fellow Floridians. (I'm a native, but I bet he's a transplant.  )
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08-19-2008, 05:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Machias/Bangor, Maine | | | I watched it earlier, and I couldn't stop laughing.
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08-19-2008, 06:49 PM
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Originally Posted by gold_member_321 I watched it earlier, and I couldn't stop laughing. | +1
I watched it for the the first when I was at work this morning and I was laughing *almost* uncontrollably at this guys misfortune. I turned to the next guy and said "have you seen this" and someone else replied with a concerned sounding "yes, he's in critical condition  ". It didn't make me stop laughing. If he didn't fly it in a hurricane he might have tried it in a lightning storm. He should consider himself lucky. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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