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Not Windsurfing...JUST CRAZY.

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Created by jh2703 > 9 months ago, 5 Oct 2010
jh2703
NSW, 1222 posts
5 Oct 2010 11:07PM
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I know this is a windsurfing forum but i found this while looking for windsurfing vids...So in my mind it's associated in some way.


Trousers
SA, 565 posts
5 Oct 2010 10:54PM
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that is just loco.

how low and fast they are traveling?!?!...is that for real?

Mark _australia
WA, 22423 posts
5 Oct 2010 9:31PM
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jh2703 said...

I know this is a windsurfing forum but i found this while looking for windsurfing vids...




If you were googling "men in lycra flying through the air" I think that is kiting not windsurfing

Sailhack
VIC, 5000 posts
6 Oct 2010 9:55AM
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It's pretty amazing stuff, just don't Google 'wingsuit accidents', takes the glamour away from the sport pretty fast. Not for the faint-hearted.

lotofwind
NSW, 6451 posts
6 Oct 2010 10:43AM
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Mark _australia said...

jh2703 said...

I know this is a windsurfing forum but i found this while looking for windsurfing vids...




If you were googling "men in lycra flying through the air" I think that is kiting not windsurfing


Yawn knew you would never last not bagging kiting for a few months.
Yes we know you think kitesurfers are all wankers, but most are sick of hearing it,its getting pretty boring.



Cool vid , thoughs guys are nuts.
There is a vid on youtube showing a guy fly past people standing on the side of a road that is filmed from the road.
He is just a blur of colour as he zooms past,sends a shiver up your spine when you see how fast he is going so close to solid objects.

jermaldan
VIC, 1572 posts
6 Oct 2010 11:56AM
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lotofwind said...

Mark _australia said...

jh2703 said...

I know this is a windsurfing forum but i found this while looking for windsurfing vids...




If you were googling "men in lycra flying through the air" I think that is kiting not windsurfing


Yawn knew you would never last not bagging kiting for a few months.
Yes we know you think kitesurfers are all wankers, but most are sick of hearing it,its getting pretty boring.



Cool vid , thoughs guys are nuts.
There is a vid on youtube showing a guy fly past people standing on the side of a road that is filmed from the road.
He is just a blur of colour as he zooms past,sends a shiver up your spine when you see how fast he is going so close to solid objects.


Can you post a link?

lotofwind
NSW, 6451 posts
6 Oct 2010 12:08PM
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Its on the first bit of this vid.There is more at the end too,,if you can wait 8 minutes.
You can hear the noise of the air rushing past him.
The guy jumping out of the hot air balloon at 31kms up is pretty cool too.When he first jumps,he cant feel any wind rushing past him or feel his suit fluttering,so thinks he might just be floating in space

windaddict
VIC, 1121 posts
6 Oct 2010 12:18PM
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Yeah and this is what can go wrong!



Man doing 200km/h hitting steel structure...oh dear!

LeStef
ACT, 514 posts
6 Oct 2010 10:05PM
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Trousers said...

how low and fast they are traveling?!?!...is that for real?


Yep very quick, I've seen guys where I come from near Grenoble in France, there is a nice 2000 m mountain where they jump, a nice ridge at 1000m where they fly past and they land at 250m. Every year there is one of them who smears himself on the field/forest on the middle ridge. Not pretty.

But I reckon that it would be the ultimate thing to do (the fly, not the crash)

Some are planning to do an actual landing on a snow slope. Imagine a whole jump without opening your parachute !

LeStef
ACT, 514 posts
6 Oct 2010 10:06PM
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You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.

Mark _australia
WA, 22423 posts
6 Oct 2010 7:38PM
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lotofwind said...

Mark _australia said...

jh2703 said...

I know this is a windsurfing forum but i found this while looking for windsurfing vids...




If you were googling "men in lycra flying through the air" I think that is kiting not windsurfing


Yawn knew you would never last not bagging kiting for a few months.
Yes we know you think kitesurfers are all wankers, but most are sick of hearing it,its getting pretty boring.





No the deal was I would not post in the kiting forum and you'd not post in the windsurfing forum. Oops look who just failed.

Thus if you are bagging windsurfers in the kiting forum I'd not know as I have not been there.

Naturally you are still looking for any mention of kiting in this forum (ie Windsurfing- General) to give you an excuse to get angry.

There was a wink at the end of my post so perhaps calm down a little?
I don't give a rodent's rectum what you guys say about us in your own forum, maybe you should stop caring about soem of us taking the p!ss out of kiters in our forum.

lotofwind
NSW, 6451 posts
6 Oct 2010 10:43PM
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Send it in a PM, I dont think anyone else cares.Dont wreck another thread with kite vs pole...yawn
I think the red thumbs show people are over it.

lotofwind
NSW, 6451 posts
7 Oct 2010 7:04PM
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These guys are a little bit sainer.......just



LeStef
ACT, 514 posts
7 Oct 2010 7:41PM
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Yep those speed riding guys are going down fast. Not really skiing, not really flying.

And jumping off a big European mountain like this, if you turn a bit left or right at the wrong time you could end up completely on the other side, or even in another country and kilometres to go back home.
But those ones cheated by using a helicopter.



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