50 Knot Challenge - Sam Light

[Dave_5280]

[RedSky]

That's moving ! but I'd say he was overpowered and thus lost speed. You see him quickly curling downwind. Should have used a 7m to achieve over 50knts

[Dave_5280]

I like the camera angle looking down at the board, water and kite at full speed. The water is going by so fast. I keep thinking how bad it would hurt to fall.

[Matty V]

That's moving ! but I'd say he was overpowered and thus lost speed. You see him quickly curling downwind. Should have used a 7m to achieve over 50knts

Experts everywhere

[Bille]

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I keep thinking how bad it would hurt to fall.

I've fallen on a water-ski at 40 , and it hurt ; so i think 57 might
be Way worst , with a kite still pulling ya ?

Bille

[Hugh2]

I wanted to see him rip a jump at the end of one of those runs, despite rather hard to land that board

[Matty V]

That's moving ! but I'd say he was overpowered and thus lost speed. You see him quickly curling downwind. Should have used a 7m to achieve over 50knts

The curl down wind was accelerating to get to top speed not loosing speed

[bigtone667]

That's moving ! but I'd say he was overpowered and thus lost speed. You see him quickly curling downwind. Should have used a 7m to achieve over 50knts

Experts everywhere

You can see him lose his edge on a few of those runs. But that was still seriously fast.

[RedSky]

That's moving ! but I'd say he was overpowered and thus lost speed. You see him quickly curling downwind. Should have used a 7m to achieve over 50knts

The curl down wind was accelerating to get to top speed not loosing speed

Yeah I understand. You will momentarily gain extra speed towards the end of your run on a broad reach, but on this occasion it was held far too briefly because he was overpowered and as a consequence his kite continued to fall back through the window pointing him ever further downwind, at the cost of a potentially higher speed. A smaller kite would have prolonged the broad reach point of sail a little longer.

I'm not claiming to be an expert ( I've never been on water! ), but if such people are to be found then this is surely the place, as opposed to somewhere like YouTube.

[Matty V]

He wasn't doing long runs, load up bear away get the peak and stop
Not sure where he lost his edge either? Apart from at the end of a short run when slowing down


I watched all of it in person and he didn’t fall on a single run, neither of them did