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Forums > Kitesurfing General

Is this for real....

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Created by 0llie > 9 months ago, 30 Jul 2012
0llie
NSW, 176 posts
30 Jul 2012 11:03PM
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Don't know about you guys but I think this guy is a retard.

wdric
NSW, 1625 posts
30 Jul 2012 11:18PM
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Yep I agree 100%
I dont know what he was thinking when he posted the vid, Going by the title maybe he thinks he is Sh!t hot and a power boat should keep clear and give way even when he aims at the boat and makes his kite fall in front of it

Perhaps he is not really a kiter and made the video to make us all look like total tools [}:)]

foorked
VIC, 152 posts
30 Jul 2012 11:21PM
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more like idiot kiter.. crashed his kite infront of the boat..

0llie
NSW, 176 posts
30 Jul 2012 11:45PM
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Stops nothing short of being a total tool, defo a few of these @ my local. He's a learner-sure but I'm thinking this could have been avoided

the walks
WA, 448 posts
30 Jul 2012 9:51PM
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What no trees

surfingboye
NSW, 2707 posts
31 Jul 2012 12:45AM
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who the **** talks to themselves in weird voices when kiting???
kook.

Jonopark
WA, 400 posts
30 Jul 2012 11:52PM
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he hardly charged at the boat!
Must admit pretty kooky to drop the kite there but at least he didnt loop it to keep it out of the water, otherwise he may have been on top of the boat.

His lines are 20m and for a power boat to come within that distance is pretty rude, if he didnt crash I assume the boat would have been at 10m of THE WRONG SIDE OF HIM. Not to mention the speed he was travelling. I would be pissed, but hey its only a cabrihna.

hamburglar
ACT, 2174 posts
31 Jul 2012 5:02AM
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was that Alex???????

suniboy21
VIC, 1090 posts
31 Jul 2012 6:22AM
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Its a Cab, prob mistook the boat for a tree.

raffaeu
195 posts
31 Jul 2012 5:19AM
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Come'n guys, the power boat should point straight upwind because it's a motor boat while the kiter can only go downwind in emergency.
Sometimes we forget the basic rules of boating ...

Ellobuddha
NSW, 625 posts
31 Jul 2012 8:33AM
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The kiter turns around to go closer to the boat - he even says so on the clip.

He heads downwind in an effort to get closer to the boat. The boat doesnt appear to change heading at all. The kiter then stuffs up and crashes and doesnt keep his kite up (probably pulling hard on one side of the bar - crashes hard)

Another kiter showing off giving us all a bad name. Not to mention the fact that in one of his other videos he kites in relective aviator sunglasses and a baseball cap on backwards - enough said.

He deserves a ripped kite. Stupid.

juicerider
WA, 790 posts
31 Jul 2012 2:12PM
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Looks like the boat was not in the wrong.
At travelling more than 8kts the boat is required to keep 15 Meters away from any other vessel. He also has to give way to the kiter because it is a sailing vessel.
The kiter has the right of way, but he is also required to maintain his track and speed so that the other vessel may avoid him. This he deliberately failed to do, so the kiter caused the accident.

Chris_M
2129 posts
31 Jul 2012 2:38PM
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What a muppet! I can't believe he also tried to get the guys on the boat to grab it! Like they owe him any favours - he can think long and hard about his behaviour on the swim in :)

Kiting
77 posts
31 Jul 2012 2:40PM
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What a dropkick. Absolute kook in all forms. Cab, talking to himself, sh?t kiter, steering toward collission course with a boat, crashing infront of boat..... If only the boat went over the kook instead of his kite.

jamdfingr
QLD, 663 posts
31 Jul 2012 4:41PM
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"Stupid is as Stupid does" - Gump, Forest

gldcoaster
QLD, 16 posts
31 Jul 2012 9:10PM
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This guy would be right at home with all the other window lickers at shearwater on any given Sunday!

ok
NSW, 1089 posts
31 Jul 2012 9:41PM
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he is wearing a go pro surely that explains it enough?

Saffer
VIC, 4501 posts
31 Jul 2012 9:57PM
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Can't blame the boat. Boats don't stop instantly.

Can't blame the kiter either. Seems no different to every other cabrinha rider I've seen.

Love how the video description blames it on the boat.

Big eeeZeee
NSW, 1100 posts
31 Jul 2012 10:40PM
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The way he lost all control of his kite, you would have thought he was flying a North Rebel.

kiteboy dave
QLD, 6525 posts
1 Aug 2012 7:27AM
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What a clown. See his kite skills here like where he has a "malfunction"

Chris_M
2129 posts
1 Aug 2012 5:40AM
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Safety leash?

dorothyinste
QLD, 464 posts
1 Aug 2012 9:46AM
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Maybe it is meant to be comedy!? You know like 'Bill Dance' fishing bloopers...he cracks me up.

BennyB12
QLD, 918 posts
1 Aug 2012 2:56PM
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What's a window licker?

doggie
WA, 15849 posts
1 Aug 2012 4:03PM
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BennyB12 said...

What's a window licker?


You know the special bus for special people?

suniboy21
VIC, 1090 posts
1 Aug 2012 8:14PM
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kiteboy dave said...

What a clown. See his kite skills here like where he has a "malfunction"




His kite turns like a PIG!



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