Yes, imagine, if you will, that your safety leash falls apart after your safety release on your chicken loop has been pulled inadvertently and your kite is now not attached to you. How much to you want to keep your kite? Imagine, if you will, swimming after it and just getting to it before exhaustion kicks in, then being unable to hook back in because the chicken loop does not, in fact, form a loop. What do you do? Do you hold onto the bar with one hand, dunk your head underwater to see what you're doing and with the other hand try and put the release mechanism back together as you slowly drift away from shore? Once you've managed that can you get the kite to relaunch after it has tumbled and crossed its lines over when you first lost it? After all that are you still within range of the beach to get back to it? What has happened to your board?
Thanks to the girl who grabbed my board last Thursday and bought it back to me when I recovered by the way

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