I'll be on the beach for that, with a crap cam. I hope there will be some better footage coming, over the next few days. Windy and HUGE waves!! Could be interesting.
Wind, S-W Konas and N-W odd stuff up to 30mph they say. Not tomorrow, but starting Thr-Fr
Eddy Aikau looks blown out, but maybe....

tungsten222 wrote:Dimitri, that was a shooting for your new Full Throttle ad wasn't it? Jumping the plane?

now that would be an awesome video. But hitting the propellers is probably worse then hitting the "a" frame of a house !

ok, that's nuts for sure.
Any background story on why they came this close?

PS: does look real to me, and would be way too much work to fake the sequence photos. And why in the first place. What to gain? I am bored out of my mind (broken leg), and even I would not do that.

ion 3, my guess

since I can't kite or even walk right now, I totally agree : Kiteboarding is like a religion, at least a believe. I pray to whoever, to be able to kite soon. To the kite and wind god(s), for helping me to get better and for no wind and shit conditions until I am back on the water. I BELIEVE !!! :bra...

The whole login thing happened again over the last few days.
Seems to work now. Just letting you know.

so, technical difficulties? that's a good one. Can I use it sometimes?
Like me right now, : I am out for a few month due to :" technical difficulties" .

Wait a minute: Feb 09? ??? WTF?

So, is anyone else kitesurf at your local beach? I hope so. Check and ask them for help. If they are true kite boarders, they will help you out. There is no way for me to tell you what you need until you tell me your abilities and so on. If you are a 100% beginner, you need one or two lessons. And p...

Thanx guys.
On "how I did it". well:
Set up for a kite-loop, knew from the get-go I was screwed. Got wiped around, could not get rid of my board and landed hard on it. I just came down super hard from ca 15ft+.
The impact was hard enough to break my tibia(lower leg bone) at the joint.

You care because we are lucky this chic is not one of "us"!