Just to clarify peoples: OP stjepan is a somewhat special mate of Alex Sanz's, however this is not him in the vid. It'a guy called Michael Tovey in Bristol UK.

On that Cabrinha IDS launch, I have had the bridle lines pick up algae during the drift and a pulley jam, causing the kite to only be launchable from one side and then it would just fly over the window and crash on the other side.

Also, when feeding the lines out, if you dont have a boat to tie off to, how do you sort out a tangle? I found I had to make sure the lines were wound correctly and make sure to actually lift off all 4 lines each time from the bar to avoid tangles.

When spinning the kite from nose toward you, I found that if the rear line to the furthest end of the kite passes over the kite instead of under it, I had to pass the bar through the lines to correct it.

So there are many ways that drift launching can go wrong. In shallow water, you also have to be concerned about lines snagging on something on the bottom.

In the Exmouth Duckpond clip, having balls on the ends of the lines where they connect is just asking for a tangle.

Would have been a good idea to deflate the kite before unhooking it instead of giving it a second chance to smack him into something.

I thought ocean rodeo kites were the only ones using those venturi on their kites?

What a total noob...that dude broke every rule in book.lucky to walk away from that one,soon as I saw him unwinding the lines and there was a knot in them , the kite flipped over and bang the guy was a passenger after that.



Can't believe when he unhooks it off the sign he just let's it go.....? Lucky he didn't
Take out those other guys , or a bystander..