Safety is cool too: Virgin Kitesurfing Armada video.

How do you make sure that up to 500 kiteboarders get along without any tangles, mix ups and debacles?

You make a funny video and share it online.

“There’s nothing I love more than a SAFE Downwinder” Says Lewis Crathern, as he attempts to drive a Volvo to the beach and explain the rules, considerations and registration for the biggest kiteboarding event ever staged.

It’s worth a look, even if you’re not part of the Virgin Kitesurfing Armada. Just to get an idea of the scale of this endeavour. What they’re trying to do is beat the world record for the most amount of kiteboarders to kite within a one mile course.

Launching from one of five zones at Hayling Island, then riding downwind through a one mile course, and onwards for 15 miles to Packham, they’re hoping to see 500 kiteboarders make the journey. If they get it, they’ll smash the current world record, set in Spain only a few weeks ago of 352 kiteboarders.

The event will be taking place on one of two weekends, a third weekend was penciled in for the event, but that was last weekend and needed to be cancelled due to the less than favourable forecast for the day.

Those two dates are the 27th and 28th of September, or the 11th and 12th October depending on conditions. For more information on the Virgin Kitesurfing Armada, visit their website, and don’t forget to watch Lewis Crathern in his attempt to be serious for a few minutes.