Nice take off , shame about the landing.

If you where that experianced to jump it you should be experianced enough to land it.

Not bringing your kite foward as you jump is such a basic mistake, and to drop your kite in the drink afterwards ??

Oh well, most of the punters over there would not of noticed.

Ioz said...

Nice take off , shame about the landing.

If you where that experianced to jump it you should be experianced enough to land it.

Not bringing your kite foward as you jump is such a basic mistake, and to drop your kite in the drink afterwards ??

Oh well, most of the punters over there would not of noticed.

Lewis is a bloody good kiter, he didn't win the British Nationals twice in a row for nothing. Here's the same jump from another angle, notice how he loops the kite on landing.
They wiped out purely from landing with so much speed.


Not so kooky as you might think ;)

Can't believe I'm the one saying this.

In sports like motox, snowboarding etc it is just basic physics that determine if you can make a jump. Too many variables in kiting IMO for stuff like this, sure its extreme but they could have easily died, then imagine what makes the news. No doubt they are experienced kiters and would have known the risks.

Could have easily boosted in a Lull and just smashed into the side at no fault other than mother natures.

yer i gve em props for that one... but like said above if mother nature decided to be an outright **** and give em a lul as they boosted, they wuda pasted themselves nicely along the pier and given our sport the worst possible publicity and make us look wreckless and we would get even more pressure from government n shiz.

that being said im sure for a stunt like that they would of went to their council etc n made sure it was cool n the council im sure would of understood the risks too

Dumb attention seeking (and getting) tw@ts.. kn geezer accents didn't do much for me - neither did the man-luv fest on the beach.

Yawn.. next Darwin candidate.

Got to be Poms...........look at us, we can risk kite surfing bans just to be seen, morons. Their sponsors should can them.

Another perspective
kiteforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2361342

Sounds like most of the WA kiters are bagging this boost!!.

Looks well mad to me!!

Personally I find boosting in stormy nukeing conditions far more variable than a constant 20 knot seabreeze.... Don't know about you slave. I wonder if they were leashed.

I don't understand the finer points of "freestyle kiteboarding" at the best of times, but to me as it has been said already this just looks like another boost, except this time it's a stupid one.
Anyone can be an idiot for a day.

galah, i doubt we'll see bans from this even if something did go wrong. WA and galah need to get their hand out of their giny and appreciate something extreme in our sport. More death defying stunts I say!

I doubt motorbikes will be banned because of the Nitro Circus. Pull your head in galah. I'm sure you'll be the first pimping the new inflatable shorts and kiddy floats that might soon be heading our way HTFU!

it must have been a different vid I watched. The one I saw was jumping over a pier. There were no ramps, houses in suberbia from what i watched. You might be getting a different feed over in WA

super cool jump. I want to see a kite loop at the apex next time

RayQ said...

super cool jump. I want to see a kite loop at the apex next time

yeh, get len10 onto it

no one said it wasnt risky or pushing limits. because it was it was a risky jump etc bla bla got kiting some publicity making it look core n dangerous bla bla. no one really cares.
Like said before if the kiter was to hit the pier or something and seriously injured or killed himself the media would of churned that up into some chronic headline just like that fkn idiot in america who decided to kiteloop into a building. even if the councils knew about it and it was all organized once something like that gets into the media kiting will once again be on the radar with councils and safety of other beach goers.

Sure the pier was closed, but this would give many kooks the idea to try jump something and to try it themselves.

The difference with this vs motoX is motoX stunts are ALWAYS pre planned and well trained for and motoX does not have many variable that can throw out a trick such as gusts and lulls etc AND motoX stunts are always done in safe controlled environments away from pedestrians and passer bys. kiting someone sees this n goes hell im gona go boost the local break water or something ****s up loops his kite into a family sitting on the beach or swimming near by. council hears this n boom ya spot gets fried.


Sick stunt none the less n it was a crazy idea cos that peir is farkn big but yer this had one of two outcomes : small amount of positive publicity, probably forgotten by general public that doesnt care for kiting in a day or so... or mad negative for everyone.