Whats the strongest wind you have been out?

[ErikFromEstonia]

Its 40knots. A weather station few km away showed gusting into 60. Wasnt kiting, i was out on a two man trapezed skiff sailboat 29er. 2014, i was 14. The waves were about 2/3 of a mast high. Mast is (6.20 m/18ft). Whats the highest you have been out with? Ruben Lenten and Kevin Langree were in UK with 90knots.

[Toby]

not that much...once with a 5.5 sqm kite...maybe it was 40+ knots.
Worst session in my life...had nothing exciting about that.

My session many years ago in up to 40 knots with a 12 was already way more fun...flying...still remember...first session of my holiday...and couldn't do boardoffs for 1 week afterwards...such soar muscles from lifting my legs up and holding during every jump, which was about 6-10 seconds every time...some big air there
Amazing!

Nowadays having no more desire to go out in 30+ knots. I leave this to others

[alamos_kiter]

Its 40knots gusting into 60. Wasnt kiting, i was out on a two man trapezed skiff sailboat 29er. 2014, i was 14. The waves were almost a mast high. Mast is (6.20 m/18ft). Whats the highest you have been out with? Ruben Lenten and Kevin Langree were in UK with 90knots.

What??? 40-60kn on a 29er??? In 5m waves? You are joking, right?

And nobody ever kited in 90kn of wind. No.bo.dy. The wind force pushing on the body alone would be in the range of 800N = 80kg. You are blown over, without a kite.

[edt]

strongest wind i have experienced was 300 mph (260 knots) when a tornado hit my house as a child. the family was safe but the house was utterly disintegrated. Strongest wind I will voluntarily kite is 45 knots. Above that is no fun.

[ErikFromEstonia]

Havent you seen the video on rubens or kevins facebook where kevin jumped on land and stayed a bit in the air? Without no kite or anything. There is some footage in youtube of them kiting that but it will be included in the chapter one movie.

[plummet]

I have seen the Ruben Kevin vid. If its the one i'm thinking off the wind is around the 50 knot mark.

I have been out in winds gusting past 50 knots. What that actual wind speed was is unknown. But it was bloody stupid.

Unlike Toby I enjoy the hell out of a 40 knot session. The wind is howling the sea is massive. You sure know your alive. But its as dangerous as f***. Don't even contemplate such winds until you are much older and have very good skills.

[alamos_kiter]

I'm kiting Tarifa on a regular basis, so I know what 40, 45kn look like. I used to kite 40kn years ago, but not anymore. Doesn't scare me (Tarifa 40kn is no wave to speak of), but it's just hard work and I don't enjoy it any more. 35kn in gusts is enough wind for me

[Frank82]

50kn gusts is the maximum I kited in, with a 7m it's more survival than fun. I can handle my 7m well untill about 46kn gusts and still maintain an proper edge to jump, above that it just becomes survival.

[Flyboy]

I wonder if people just habitually over-estimate the wind strength?

Who would take a 14 year old out on a 29er in 40 - 60 knots?!

Kiting in 90 knot winds? I don't think so. 90 knots is over 166 kph, over 103 mph. A category 2 hurricane.

My own experience is that anything over 35 kts is pretty uncomfortable, even with a 5m kite because the wind at those strengths tends to be very unstable. I guess 40 kts might be OK if it were steady wind. When you're mega powered it's hard to do anything on the water that involves carving - the only thing you can do is jump - I guess that's Ruben's thing.

[Starsky]

I agree. 40 knots is my limit. Ive don't it a few times and its always gusty. Think gusting 46 was my highest. It's a rush but I take a pass now when it starts to hit 40.