Check this out a guy jumps out of a hotair balloon using a kite to glide with.
Impressive!!

Yea nice , but i"d cutt loose from a flysurfer even on the ground.....why would you!!!

stoopid (not you ,the guys who did it).This has been posted before .you will notice that the board comes off and is flying around him .Luckiily it didn't hit him in flight or someone else when it landed.
A so called cool publicity stunt that could have gone horribly wrong.Have a nother look around on the net you will find others that have been well planned and don't potentially harm others . Eg salomon squirrel suit guy

davem207 said...

I dont know how you can make such judgements based on a 20 sec clip?? how do you know if the Drop Zone hasnt been surveyed, templated and cleared?? were you the DZ safety officer that day?? and its quite normal to jettison items in flight as long as you clear away from them within a few seconds, monitor their location and "see and avoid". Its very obvious that if some one on this forum doesnt like a certain brand then everything suddenly associated with it is stooopid or crap, good to see how vulnerable people are to branding and advertising.....

Hmmm very quick to jump to conclusions there .I actually asked someone on another forum how they formed a misconception about a kite that is not only ideal for their lightwind conditions but also one that had the best chance of relaunch if they crashed it(flysurfer).IMO it wouldn't matter what brand they were using in the clip, that stunt with the board is STOOOPID and none of your excuses will convince me otherwise !

Meh. Doesn't really count when you have a parachute and break away. I would have been impressed if he kited that all the way to the ground.

^^
i'm with you. there's no way to predict where that board would go. stoopid. and a waste.

Mr float said...

so judging by the red thumbs somone doesn't think that letting go a sharp 5 kg projectile from a bloody long way up is not only stupid but totally irresponsible and could have seriously hurt or killed an innocent bystander (and given kitesurfing more bad press,I am sure the REST OF THE WORLD would have thought this if it had have turned out badly for some poor schmoe). I am not against fun and am on the record for defending other things with kites that some deem to be out of line .Sorry but this is where I draw the line . The accusation that my objection is somehow brand related is untrue and offensive!

noo, if that happened, we would just blame it on the landkiters. meh, i cant believe they actually use those donnas. sh!t. heha

its probally more to that fact that you are assuming that they have no clearance to conduct parachute ops including object jettison in that area which is clearly a rural area, the DZ has to be templated and airspace surrounding cleared, this includes the project trajectory (based upon flight characteristics and wind) of any known item to be jettisoned during flight, i couldnt give a rats ass if it is a doona or a warm cosy winter flannelette sheet of his mummy's bed he uses, i just find some peoples reactions very predictable in these forums based upon current fads, i can just imagine the change of reactions and comments if the guy happended to be Ruben Lenten flying a slingshot of that balloon, i suspect actually i would put my nuts on it that the comments would all be supportive, even though he (Lenten) has been the one to post stupid acts on video flying kites in urban areas more so bringing disripute onto the sport, (but wait we will all now assume he had clearance to do such acts and that he is just "promoting" the sport and all the streets were cleared of innocent people who could have got their heads cutt off)




Clearly dont you think that any advertising rep or company exec. would have considered the fact of a stray board chopping little daisy's head off, hence why the stunt appears to have been performed in a rural area not on the beaches somewhere in LA, where "promtional value" would have been alot more, its just very predictable that when some who has less that 500 posts against their name posts something of interest to them on this site and who honestly thought it was "new" people shoot them down in a ball of flames in true aussie tall poppy syndrome, not all people choose to waste their lives by attempting to be the biggest posters on this site and some of the most experienced, respected & disciplined kiters out there who have been around for years have a handfull of posts or dont even bother with the site because of the crap some people go on with, im just presenting an argument based upon a few years of observations.

Go Joe, thats gold.