How's that bad back going ol' boy Stevo? Couldn't lend some cotton wool could I?

No no no PR, people with more balls WOULDN'T do it cause they have nothing to prove.

Well balled fellas don't flail about in the surf & hug each other like long lost sisters either.

BTW - was that really a reel leash on their backs? Ba hahahahahahaha.

i reckon the motocross craze of inverted airials will die off soon. It's been a steep ramp of progression over the last few years with lots of riders out their outdoing each other. Soon I think the level of difficulty vs the penalty of failure will become too great and i think some of the more commonplace tricks now will become old hat. I.e. double backflips I reckon in five years the risk to a pro rider when it's been done by so many others before will mean than no one bothers. (assuming triples or qadruples are off limits) at some point you become a freak with no self respect for your own safety. i.e. it's not cool to play chicken with trains or russian roulette.

Spacemonkey! said...


respect

Booyakasha

I would like to salute all those people who take on the challenge of propelling humanity onwards and upwards. The people who have made the impossible, possible and then common.
The dedicated people who did the "insane" thing of attaching themselves to a kite, the people who first jumped from structures with only a piece of cloth to prevent certain death... you get the picture, the trailblazers of the world.

To you folk... thank you for showing us what is possible.

PS: Keep'em coming.

FlySurfer said...

I would like to salute all those people who take on the challenge of propelling humanity onwards and upwards. The people who have made the impossible, possible and then common.
The dedicated people who did the "insane" thing of attaching themselves to a kite, the people who first jumped from structures with only a piece of cloth to prevent certain death... you get the picture, the trailblazers of the world.

To you folk... thank you for showing us what is possible.

PS: Keep'em coming.

or you could say humanity is propelled onwards and upwards by those that didn't quite make it and took themselves out of the gene pool!

Awesome, committed jump, but;
I don’t give a toss about the person doing the jump but if it leads to bans etc?
Imagine if a bunch of young kids went out to get a closer look and the kiter screwed up – the power that’s involved could kill one of those kids – cut their friggin head off.
Reminds me a bit of street car racing/drags – as far as car racing goes, knock yourself out – but don’t do it such that it jeopardizes other people.
How many comps exist around the world for ‘king of the air’? – that is, there’s plenty of forums for kiters to showcase their skills without putting others and the sport at risk.

But does all this banter matter?
Point a camera at a crazy kite-punk and look out – it’ll happen again – almost impossible to police.

Then again, we could invent a new comp – build a big Perspex shelter over the jetty so spectators could sit safely inside and get the kiter to jump over – where the kiter screwed up it’d be like Wile E Coyote going SPLAT against the Perspex!

Thanks for the update LB - important point I wasn't aware of.
My comments were influenced by having kiting at my local beach banned by idiot kiters - but I applaud going nuts - I'd love to able to bust 40ft kiteloop handlepass L3s (aint gonna happen!). Go big, go mad, just don't cause others grief when you do it.

Perhaps this jump is paving the way for a new event? - The Evil Kneival jetty jump?
Fairly hefty disclaimer required! "In the instance that I mess up my approach and hit a concrete pylon with my face at 30knots reducing it to pulped mash I hereby exclude the organisers from any liability etc"!

How is any of this stuff going to lead to bans? Really how much?

It is injuries and inconvenience to third parties that leads to bans. Not only would we not be kiting, we would not be driving if injuries and stupidity were a valid reason to stop people doing things.

It is the idiots who do not know what they are doing and hurt others that lead to bans, not people pushing the limit. I am surprised they had to close the pier, what pratt would be out on the thing in that weather?

Radical image, hey. ^^^
Doesn't look real.
Magazine cover shot, for sure.

Hey Assmaster,
you sound bitter, man. ^^^
Do you want to talk about it ?

Look at the very first frame as he is about to lift off - I bet the peer looks f)&%ing tall from there!
Its die dog or ****e a license time :)

waveslave said...




Radical image, hey. ^^^
Doesn't look real.
Magazine cover shot, for sure.

hey thats nothing....ive seen both poor reli and greuzi boost that high....maybe a strong easterly and the narrows bridge can settle the question of who boosts higher once and for all!