Hey, i was the guy in the blue and white tribal 2 who was rescued today by lifesavers.

Basically was just coasting along and poped off a wave and as I did my quick release on the chicken loop snapped (plastic on the top). I was about 200m out I think and was not looking forward to the swim back.

As i was trying to remember how to self rescue sam came over and had a decent attempt to recue my kite but conditions weren't that great so the life guards came over and helped him out (in doing so rode over my lines and cut two of them). I was getting pretty tired swimming for about 30 minutes and not getting anywhere but to my relief they came and picked me up and took me to my kite which by then was only 10m offshore.

So Big thankyou to Sam who gave me a hand and some advice on how to get it fixed, and to those life savers who picked me up

Cheers guys much appreciated