Most DANGEROUS Kitesurfing Tips

They motivated me to start my own kitesurfing YouTube channel. I can't agree with all the dangerous tips available online, which are visible to anyone. Kitesurfing is an extreme sport, and it’s essential to promote only the safest methods for approaching our kitesurfing sessions. No matter if you’re a beginner, advanced, or pro kitesurfer, I encourage you to always follow and promote only the safest methods in kitesurfing to ensure your safety and the safety of those around you.

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Here are the full explanations about each Topic:

Launching the kite with an assistant

Self Launching

Basic Self Landing

Advance Self Landing

Recover The Chicken Loop

Self Rescue

Untangling The Lines

[maelfloch]

Hi Petar,  
I think that your launching technique is by far the safest. 
You absolutely don't need to touch the bar nor connecting the CL to find the right spot in the wind window to launch your kite, you just need to stop walking upwind when the kite stops flapping and before it starts pushing the assistant. Then you can launch your kite with only one finger using the floater. 

If you hold the bar to find that launching spot you are just loading your back lines for no reason, it can also change the angle of attack of the kite and make you think your kite is at the right spot even though it's not. So many things can go wrong in that case.

Of course this my opinion and I would be happy if someone could prove me wrong.
Thank you for your videos Petar, you are a hell of an instructor ! 🙌

[GreggerKBR]

Hi Petar, so far about 50 comments & 6k views!

You've handled objections brilliantly. It is a good video, exploring poor advice and reiterating better techniques might attract criticism but you have done a great job and a lot of us really appreciate it. 👍 thank you.
I was initially surprised at holding CL to find launch position, I'm a new IKO instructor and humbled to say it's a game changer, and helps teach students to find perfect position before they grab the bar!

[marshrandie]

Tous les pratiquants devraient revoir cette vidéo tous les 6 mois. Un peu rapide par moment mais les images et le commentaire sont très explicites. Bravo

[JoshatHomeOffice]

On the topic of getting into launch position, my key piece of advice is to fly the kite at 3 or 9 for a second when the assistant lets go of the kite. Most people simply fly the kite straight up. If you hold the kite briefly at the launch position, you know immediately if something is wrong. If the kite goes up, and you weren't doing it, you've got a problem that probably needs the QR let go.

[frankyfrench]

Excellent Movie, agree on all. One to add which is very bad and common habbit. After landing kite by assistant, directly unhook your chicken loop when landed, never stay at beach hooked in, helper may set go, or kite may not be secured, you may get ripped whilst not even paying attention....

[OneLaunchKiteboarding]

Only few people have the good moves on the beach. But in the end, I don't complain, thanks to all the bad habits, I got a job 😅. Some comments are scary though when coming from other instructors... Great video !

[bartoszgolo]

It’s a shame that so many people are bashing the hiding CL in hand method when it’s safe and easy. I use it and also teach it to students and have great results. Lest spread safe practices.

[Stepanhuge]

Nice video!! !thanks!, will be nice to have the full explanations links in the description.

[Vladishit_Putler]

sorry, but if you launch a kite on strong winds by HOLDING the chicken loop with one hand, you will NEVER have enough arm strength to pull it on your belt! Instead, by simply launching with one hand ready on the safety, 100% of those accidents in the video would have been prevented. Additionally, having to plug the chicken loop to the belt with one hand, while the kite is ALREADY flying, seems to be an even more dangerous action, as now you have no control over kite steering.

[crocodile]

Heh, interesting video. Looks like I'm doing most of things shown here....

[pablourban]

Please remove back silly music! We want to hear your voice! Not a session of music, we can do that bu ourselves

[Johow]

Sorry - but launching with the chicken loop in one hand?!? I consider this unsafe. You can’t really steer the kite and if it develops power, you can not hold ich with your hands. I would rather be connected, tell you helper to not let go of the kite until you give the go. Depower a lot before the launch to be safe. The other tipps… okay.

[KiteboardingStPetersburg]

You also take clips from my video out of context such as "connect chicken loop on the harness while kite is in the beach position" however before that I explain how to position yourself properly through a specific visual reference that works. And the second thing you say that is dangerous is "holding the bar while searching for launch position" - the alternative to this is to not hold the bar and to experience tension then you would need to be too far into the wind window. I was literally out kiteboarding in a hurricane yesterday and I promise you your method would have got someone severely injured. It may work for you but it is not the "safest" method.

[KiteboardingStPetersburg]

Yeah the first 10 seconds of this "dangerous kite launch" is me and I was interested to see the recommendation here.. im pretty open minded but "holding the loop" while walking into the wind to "find" tension is F***ing stupid. what if the person is slightly too close to the kite and because of that needs to walk further into the wind window to find tension but at that point the kite is far too deep. yeah... na.. please dont use me in your videos and I wont go through your videos and use yours in mine on what not to do

[a.lame.username.]

You can't launch a 9M in 30 plus knots with one hand.

[claudianreyn]

It's actually simple. You have to be ready to release in any situation. You see the kite rolls over on the beach or the assistant do something stupid, you release before the kite going up in the window. You have to anticipate and release before it's too late!!! Don't learn kiting from youtubers! Pay for a professional course.
Holding the chicken loop is stupid! Who the hell is doing that? One what planet have you learned it? Never do that. Hook your kite and have the hands all the time on the bar and watch what the kite is doing. Release in dangerous situations.
"If there is way too much power"?? Is that your question? Well in that case a lot of things went wrong already and you should not be in that situation anyway!
A lot of bad advices on a video that tries to prevent bad advices. 👎

[evansmith]

Pretty bad video bro. Lots of nitpicking for content🤷‍♂️