I'm pretty sure everybody has broken something during kiting. It doesnt matter if its a broken bone, board, shredded kite, leash, harness, bodypart, whetever.

Post up a picture, I'm sure I'm not the only one who keeps breaking stuff.






Plenty more to come once I get my camera sorted.

Please note that this is not meant to be a slag fest for manufacturers. All gear can be broken, just some gear breaks more often than others

Busted stitching

I did exactly the same thing to my SX147 - referring to the 2nd photo.

Had a car run over my cab custom though... all fixed now thank goodness.

walshd said...



Busted stitching

Please tell me it wasn't caused by loaning yor kite to ageing newbies

Regards
Fossil

North told me it was my fault that this broke because I used it

sunseeker said...

Here are some I posted a year and a half or so ago of a guy who did a downwinder with us in some nasty conditions...

isn't this normal for a best

Kite This said...



busted out a front panel during an attempted front roll (gotta love Movember )

how did u manage 2 do that during a frontroll?

is that a vapor1? if so yeah ive seen that tear on a couple of other vapor 1s and personally added one on a backmobe crash, no kiteloop or anything just kite hits water.

Thankfully I were on the water and not 40ft in the air when this went

You would hope that dakine stress relieve their welds but I doubt it. Classic fatigue failure this one