Hi fellow Kiteboarders, With summer upon us and the wind blowing, many of us are getting out on the water for the first time this summer. It's a good time to review your equipment to make sure it is all operational and working. A key part to making sure equipment is working corectly, is to make sure that the safty is hooked up according to the kit manufactures original specifications, this way you can rest assured that when you need to use your safty, it's working corectly. I have been kiting for over seven years and still find I have to use my safty from time to time.

I have attached some pics of an accident that happend last Sunday 18 November, during an assisted kit lanch on Mindari Beach, WA. From my view of this accident the safty was not corectly used, and did not colaps the Kit when needed. This accidet happend without worning and was over in 20 seconds, but the damage to this kiteboarders body will be with him for the rest of his life. I do wish this fellow kitboarder a speedy recovery.

Lets all have a safe WA summer and look out for each other on the water and on the sand.

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If you want to see the photos, click on my gallery, but it's not for the faint hearted - limbs at the wrong angles....

www.seabreeze.com.au/Media/Member/Dane+Ambrose/