Looks real to me

Adobe After Effects, 3DS Max, Nuke or Maya?!

the timing is all wrong - the static builds up when you jump and exits when you land through your feet, if you could see the arc im pretty sure it would only be from the board to the water, or from your feet to the water.

I have been zapped before.

i cannot even believe any of you guys are seriously considering this to be real. you have any idea how much power you would need to create a 25m long arc like that for even a fraction of a second? or can anyone explain why it's arcing along the lines which are already connected to the kiter via the bar? or why it's so poorly photoshopped that even an autistic monkey with a lobotomy could see that it's fake?

Dead giveaway is that there's no reaction from the riders or the camera operator.

those guys are charging

I believe it not probs, had it happen to me and a friend witness the spark. conditions were a bit spoky with that lightning feel to the air and low cloud and wet. not sure i buy the dust theory but then again this can happen.

However (I've not watched the movie) that is a crock of &$*(. You can only build up a charge in the kite when off the water as you are constantly earthing the static charge on the water.

Think school, think vadnagraph(?) generator and you had to stand on a plasic sheet to make it work.

failure at trying to make dangle passes in 15 knots exiting

And Pammy Anderson's cans are real too.

Wish it were real as I've always wanted to go to a Euro Barbie.

Yea thats real!!

Ohh, so is osama bin laden in my cupboard!!

Sick spot tho