Jesse Richman tells it how it is. Excellent clip, let the carnage begin!


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Cya and Goodwinds

Steve

the thing with kite loops is if u dont dedicate and pull that bar down hard you are going to get owned.

give your first kite loops %110 and this will stop you from hitting the water with the kite still in mid loop....... it hurts and your balls and face.

I was just starting to really get the hang of them, backroll kiteloops too, and even landing most of them until i stuffed up once and my kite hit the water at full speed. and ripped from LE to TE. Got it fixed from neil (awesome job too) but now i'm too scared to keep looping for fear of killing my kite again. I need to harden up again.

mattyjee said...

I was just starting to really get the hang of them, backroll kiteloops too, and even landing most of them until i stuffed up once and my kite hit the water at full speed. and ripped from LE to TE. Got it fixed from neil (awesome job too) but now i'm too scared to keep looping for fear of killing my kite again. I need to harden up again.

I was just starting to really get the hang of them, backroll kiteloops too, and even landing most of them until i stuffed up once and I hit the water at full speed and I fractured my fibula. Got it fixed by having six weeks off the water but now i'm too scared to keep looping for fear of killing my leg again. I need to harden up again.

I'm actually just starting to kite again, just cruising on a surf board haven't even attemted a jump yet, I wish I had only damaged my kite they are easily repaired.

P.S. I believe it was actually jogging on the beach barefoot that caused a stress fracture in the first place. I pulled up sore after a very long beach run at low tide on a rock hard slopey beach and couldn't walk for a few days but when I had it xray'd no fracture was visible. A week or so later it felt much better a bit better so I couldn't resist trying out my new kite and went the loop, I landed one rather hard and ended up back at the doc's, this time the xray showed a clear fracture.

So my 12m is out of the question???? Did do it once by mistake, very very scary!

greenleader said...

the one thing that the little sh1t didn't mention is that he and the other microgroms like to do them with 6m kites..........8m kites are too big and dangerous!

are you serious...... dude an 8m is plenty fast.

sandgroper said...

Someone should have told the camera guy to keep the kite in the shot, not the dude.

(was probably his missus)

Doubt it, he was sitting in front of a very nice Final Cut suite.

I find that looping bigger kites is easy as pie my first loop was a unhooked fishpolled f16 on my 15m rev kite gave a verry constant pull and you could loop it slow to generate great power slightly harder landings but the lunacy takes it have since looped all of my f one bandit dos kites and find 14m is great my arms feel a little longer though the 12m is easy and the 8m you may as well just loop it twice but i will always loop the bigger kites with more confidence. Most guys i ride with also mainly loop there bigger kites some hooked in some not but definatly dont be scared of the power a bigger kite will generate because face it didnt you loop it to get more power to start with, oh yeah drive it as low as you can it feels cool when you come out of a roll and your looking straight at your kite racing through the window aim downwind and ride it out