I have jumped on an opposite tack to someone when I saw them go for a jump trying to see if I could get higher, we both got hit by a gust and he over rotated and sent his kite down hard and we colided mid air.

And I kitelooped into someone who was directly behind me whilst I was halfway through, up in the air.

Haha, no one got hurt or kites tangled. Somehow both occasions the kites didnt even crash.

In future you should all get these things on video.

I had a guy crash his kite fully powered, straight down, right behind me just as I landed a jump. Didn't even know he was there. It landed so close that the noise just about deafened me I was glad I was wearing dark boardies that day......

mrbonk said...

I had a guy crash his kite fully powered, straight down, right behind me just as I landed a jump. Didn't even know he was there. It landed so close that the noise just about deafened me I was glad I was wearing dark boardies that day......

I've also invested in dark boardies for camoflage of future suprises...I've gone with black cause I couldnt find patchy brown ones.

i launched a jump one day and there was a bloke who was travelling downwind through the kiting area right behind me as i hit it - i looked before going but he was ages away. I thought i'd make it easy but he must have accelerated to catch me or something.

anyway turned the kite back, was about 4-5 metres up (good wind) and his kite hit mine just before the apex of the jump. All the lift went out of the kite instantly and i fell like a sack of beans all the way down. got smashed and was wondering what the hell had happened (i never saw his kite at all) and he came over and had a look then kept on going - no apology or anything. i guess it was half his fault, half mine though. relaunched and kept riding - with a few bruises. later i realised that it was amazing my kite hadn't tangled in his lines, or rolled through the lines as it went down. very lucky.

This wasn’t so much as an “Aerial”, but couple of brothers that kite down at the local spot are playing about banging their old c kites together on the beach (look out safety police) and one of the kites flew between the other kites lines, so here’s the two dudes, one trying to climb in between the middle lines of the other dude bar while he is crouching to sort it out... I always laugh when I hear that... pretty funny if you got a good sense of visuals... most of us tend to stay upwind of them!

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Neill said...

i launched a jump one day and there was a bloke who was travelling downwind through the kiting area right behind me as i hit it - i looked before going but he was ages away. I thought i'd make it easy but he must have accelerated to catch me or something.

anyway turned the kite back, was about 4-5 metres up (good wind) and his kite hit mine just before the apex of the jump. All the lift went out of the kite instantly and i fell like a sack of beans all the way down. got smashed and was wondering what the hell had happened (i never saw his kite at all) and he came over and had a look then kept on going - no apology or anything. i guess it was half his fault, half mine though. relaunched and kept riding - with a few bruises. later i realised that it was amazing my kite hadn't tangled in his lines, or rolled through the lines as it went down. very lucky.

Not sure i agree about half his fault. Its pretty much all your fault if you get hit mid air unless you get hit by another person who is also jumping. The responsibility is always on the person jumping to check its safe to jump before jumping. If you didn't check or didn't check properly and hit someone else, thats your fault, you can't blame it on them because they were travelling faster than you expected.

Nice one Elmo, that makes good sense. It is sometimes difficult to work out who is going to give up ground when you are coming at each other from opposite directions on exactly the same line.

I belive there is a PortStarboard rule in this case trying to remember that when you are flying at each other is a bit difficult... especially when people get confused about which tack they are on.

And I like the wave idea afterwards :)

Sorry Dave, I'm just a Poley. I only know catch and launch from when I've helped out and the "way cool" for a Fur ken big jump.

All the rest is just flapping arms to me.

But whenever there's been some confusion as to who goes where and I've pointed out to where I'm going to someone, theres never been a misunderstanding and I've always gotten a wave back after.

As I'm Psychotic not psychic It works for me, It's simple, it saves confusion.

Saw that someone tapped the top of their head the other day to land a kite.
I have had a lesson when I started but was not taught any signals. On a really busy river mouth I haven't seen a signal yet?? I think there must be lots of Psychics out there. Has the list of signals been posted before out of interest?

Would love to read through them and then watch if anyone actually uses them. Only one I know is the thumbs up to let go of the kite when someone is launching for you (and I am open to finding out that event that is wrong)? Maybe this should be a new topic, it has probably been written before

frant said...

Elmo I thought you were a psychotic psychic. .... one that can see sh*** happen before it happens.

can't see it, just talk it