yea! now put on that chicken suit and ROOST
i mean BOOST
(an spin like a ballerina !)

OR
you can put on a chicken suit and go for big air ballerina spins.

that will certainly outperform (meaning beach crowd staring at you) any unhooked powered move.

i vote we call it a flippity flip flop. and if you take your board off, call it a boardy.

that way people don't confuse kiting with the dangerous anti safety wake/skate boarding.

better question: has anyone's line snapped because it had a knot?
i've kited for years with a knot and never snapped. (kiteloops, unhooked, jumps, etc)
and i've also had lines snapped with/without knots.

i wouldn't worry too much about, if you can get the knot, do it, if not don't worry.

1 week to go
kook thread of the year

yea, i do it on c kites all the time. but send the kite looping? how many mistakes do you have to make to 'accidently' loop a kite when self landing? in 15kts? with a flat/bow kite? wow.....you gotta yank something pretty bad you gotta be kook and/or don't know what the hell you're doing. there's no...

this is too funny and tragic at the same time. pulling a steering line while self landing? wtf?? how can anyone who's been kiting as long as you have even think about self landing the way you described? i've self launched/landed hundreds of times and never have i put myself in this position. acciden...

I KNOW it's a dangerous sport, we all do. I don't care for some kook writing 3000+ words explaining how/why/when you should wear a helmet, an impact vest, and carry emergency flares in a sport that involves hanging from a KITE at 20+ knots wind on a surfboard (getting "big air",etc) the same way i d...

yeah, this is so stupid. i never read a post where fo insulted anyone. taken, he was a lot of times abrasive. but it's a very STUPID idea to ban him. like anohter poster wrote, this forum just became a lot less interesting. happy thoughts everybody, and don't kite with too much wind! you'll get hurt...

wtf?
if bill gates posted here, i'd read first his posts.