KITEMARES! and how to avoid them #2 (kitesurfing accidents explained)

In this series we look at kiteboarding accidents and see what can be learnt. This episode includes:
00:00 Foiler riding downwind faster than the wind, ending with a death loop.
02:44 Death loop after getting kite stuck on the sand.
07:08 Line length issue leading to an uncontrollable kite.
11:01 Easily-avoided launch mistake that could have been fatal.
Many thanks to the kiters for sharing their accidents. To see their full videos visit the links below:
Kitemare 1: Gaspard Dabbadie
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Kitemare 2: Marcin Cugier
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Kitemare 3: Laurent Muschel
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Kitemare 4: Karina
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[@nothanks6859]

That last little lesson about launching with one hand on the eject is such a good one. It should be IKO / Bksa standard practice. It would have saved a mate of mine 3 broken ribs, punctured lung, concussion and two broken tibias. Yep, there was a great big signpost on the beach. Thankfully he had a helmet on or he'd no longer be with us. Despite the helmet, he couldn't tell me his date of birth for 48 hrs. Nobody can locate their chicken loop eject while flying horizontally over the beach at 25knots - unless their hand is already on it 👍

[@Showmetheevidence-]

True & a good lesson for me as a newbie too!

[@hamsterminator]

Probably one of the greatest instructional channels on KZbin!

[@lifeofgarrick]

This deserves the Nobel Peace Prize imo! Such great advice and golden advice at that for newbies and veterans! Love to see you talking into the camera - so important to put a face to the voice of all these incredibly valuable pieces of content you have provided our community!

[@vitus6644]

Great and professional review of mistakes and awesome tips how to avoid them! Thank you so much? your content is a true gem!

[@kitesurfcollege]

Thanks Rafa

[@eprossi88]

You do a GREAT service to the kiting community with these videos. Thank you from Brazil!

[@robertcreese1847]

Thanks. I have kited for 18 years and keep pulling good information from your videos. Wish they were around when i started! Kiting is a sport that you can never take for granted, no matter how many hours you have on the water. You can always learn something that will make you better and might even save you. Well done.

[@tdknela]

Best video I have seen so far (intermediate kiter), many thanks for this!

[@seanpatchett9900]

Excellent training video! Definitely learned some things to look for while kiting. Thanks keep them coming!!

[@secondwavekite1692]

Great content and analysis, as allways! A must-watch for all kite(students). Thanks for taking the time to make these, looking foreward to the next one!

[@h.caglarkaratas6552]

These information are crucial! I watched both KiteMares #1 and #2 and I may say these are far more important from most of the tutorials. Thanks for sharing, appreciated. More episodes are more than welcomed.

[@kitesurfcollege]

Thanks and I'm glad it was helpful

[@kevn22]

@@kitesurfcollege you are saving lives, thanks for the great tutorials

[@antoinzlefloch6652]

Thanks, i share many of your vids to each of my friends starting kitesurfing as its crucial for safety and often neglicted by kiteschools !

[@NAGL95]

Thanks a lot from Russia! Great video guide and job!

[@thehappypimp]

Excellent video. Clear, concise, lots of useful information, great analysis and presentation.Thanks for the effort you put into this, it's appreciated!

[@danielbinisti1913]

Thank you so much for this great content. Your analysis of these failures has a lot of value. Thk you so much for sharing.

[@kitingholger9826]

Great and important tips! I believe when kiting frequently and at different kite spots you will experience this in one or the other way yourself or with others…I agree that many kiters had not enough lessons or maybe not good quality of lessons. On the other side, all kite spots have their specialties to deal with and many people tend to be overwhelmed with such unknown conditions.

[@davidandhometech]

Excellent examples and very well explained and illustrated. Really great and useful content. Thank you!

[@dobotube]

Very nice. Those are quite realistic and often encountered scenarios that are rarely discussed. Re hand on eject on launch, I will start doing this going forward and hope encourage other kiters to.

[@PeterPjoter]

These videos are just so incredibly good. Incredible work!

[@sebas0608459]

thanks! great tip on using line tension as a tool to check all is in order. in general having more classes is important. Although i feel that launching the kite is practiced way too little during classes...

[@ermanakbay]

These are so good that they should be watched periodically

[@SoaringMidlo]

Really good refresher for me. It’s been a couple years since my lessons and I don’t recall the idea of checking for loose steering lines.

[@pelealexandru]

Ah didn't know there's a part 2! Thanks, top quality as usual.

[@S_t_even]

Great video as always. Love the production value that goes into this.

[@kitesurfcollege]

Cheers Steven

[@jeffg.1471]

Brilliant content as always! It's awesome how well you detail the issues. Your great videos have already saved me a couple of times. Keep up the great content and thanks for your contribution to the community!🤙

[@kitesurfcollege]

Thanks Jeff, that's nice to hear.

[@ermanakbay]

Thanks for the great tips, please keep more kitemare videos coming!

[@Queen_Femka]

Thank you! This is so useful. Hope to see more videos like these from you 😁

[@ricardoserafini3816]

Great video , your classes are really nice, thanks!

[@orlandofanti]

Very instructive and useful!

[@KiteboardingInUruguay]

Really appreciate the intelligent approach that you take to the subject of kitemares. Keep up the good, common sense, work.

[@kitesurfcollege]

Thankyou

[@stephensinnhuber8401]

Yet again a great video! Well done!

[@NB-ph6cv]

Man this reviews are like GODDLES and can save someones live, God bless You for making them! :D

[@lisag.2902]

thank you for these videos, they are awesome

[@user-pm4ur8xf9t]

Thanks for detail instruction. it's good and worth video for beginner!! Thanks!! Thanks!!!!!

[@DadGoesKitesurfing]

As usual high quality content : clear, analytic and providing advise on what to learn from these situations. Thanks fir contributing to Kitesurf becoming safer !

[@Kibiriukas03]

thanks for doing this!

[@Canon85mm]

Great format with many useful tips! Thanks for the video :)

[@kitesurfcollege]

My pleasure

[@KingMrColin]

A truly excellent video

[@user-vs3sj3le3s]

Thanks a lot, this is golden advice👍 Even I had kite lessons but no one taught not only one of these things to me. Great job!

[@helgedoc1]

Awesome... thank you. That teaches some respect, We have done so many lessons allready ovef the years, these points should be taught more, edpecially the onf handed launch (can not recall that being taught imoressively to me or my kids)

[@rationalthinker9181]

Check your kite lines obsessively before launch, hand on quick release, never be scared to let go of the bar, never be scared to pull the chicken loop, if you ever get into a death loop get rid of the kite if you can't because the line or bar is around your harness pick a steering line and start pulling on it keep pulling on the line like your life depends on it till the kite stalls it will stall

[@rearanged]

Thanks for the amazing video

[@DavidLeeUnderWater]

This channel is a wealth of knowledge. Thank you. BTW, you are younger than your voice sounds :D

[@kitesurfcollege]

I'm 40 next year, but hopefully kiting keeps me in shape. Thanks very much, and all the best, Alex

[@garrylarose1506]

Youre such a good instructor.

[@kitesurfcollege]

Cheers Garry

[@roy87345]

Super informative

[@lrc87290]

Hopefully when more information comes out about the death in Florida you review for safety of future kiters.

[@gurvan2666]

Great video, thank you !

[@kitesurfcollege]

Glad you liked it

[@thepack7033]

Great, great videos!

[@nedster63]

Greeeeeat video! Again. Learning never stops....

[@kitesurfcollege]

Cheers

[@jankowalski2652]

Suuper valuable content!

[@kitesurfcollege]

Thanks Marek

[@alexanderzheleznyy4990]

Respect!!!

[@filippepericleous6613]

Awesome thanks

[@dieterschafhuber6245]

should have watched before going on myself. i can only recommend all newbies to do so. i ended up with broken shoulder, broken rip and head injurie ....

[@dutoutautout5399]

It’s1 very interesting video, thanks a lote 🙏

[@SuperSnorlaks]

So in 2nd case where qr safety system didn't work what the kiter should have done? Release leash immediately? I know that some people recommend to pull steering line then but what is your opinion on that? What could have been done better here? It looks like a serious design problem that qr may not work as expected I wonder if it happens often? :)

[@StraplessReligion]

Shared on You love it

[@user-li3do7em9l]

Как всегда подробно и кратко.

[@Nir3us]

Awesome video

[@kitesurfcollege]

Thankyou

[@Nir3us]

@@kitesurfcollege the first part of that video literally saved me few weeks ago, keep up the good work

[@josepmacarre2644]

Tank you :))

[@KristanDL]

The last clip is from Mezhvodnoe, Crimea, which is basically one big kiteschool, sometimes with quite questionable kite instructors. Some kiteschools are so sketchy and desperate they are recruiting inexperienced kiters to work as instructors. So the girl in that clip might be the victim of one of them.

[@tonybrown3453]

I am having a hard time understanding why safety equipment (helmet and impact/flotation vest) is not worn by kitersurfers! My background is hang gliding where we are only near the ground a couple of times each flight, helmets and parachutes are mandatory. Shouldn't use of safety gear be promoted by schools, instructors and mentors?

[@whizzkid6427]

Hey! How do I become a member? I wanna see your old school 101 vids. Awesome channel by the way. 🤙

[@kitesurfcollege]

Hi. Here's the link to my channel membership info: kzbin.info/door/2AvhQhxmgRpM32IYE5qkOAjoin

[@kitesurfcollege]

Thanks for the kind feedback I appreciate it.

[@DmitriyLaktyushkin]

There is no such thing as line stretch, only shrink and center lines simply shrink less, sorry, pet peeve. Also going to suggest NOT releasing the loop when in a line wrap deathloop even for intermediate kiters. Assuming no immediate obstacles it tends to be safer to reach for the far steering line and pull that in to backstall since the result is guaranteed regardless of what is causing the loop.

[@bonnserfing4613]

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[@bonerici]

The single most important thing you can do to avoid accidents and you don't go over it. You don't go over it in part one. You don't go over it here so I assume you guys don't know that the single most important factor in avoiding accidents is muscle memory. Every kiter must practice using the qr. Doesn't matter how skilled you are. I've lost count of the "experts" that explain smugly how safe they are because they haven't used the qr in a decade not even to practice. The brain doesn't decide to use the qr. Muscle memory does it. And the only way to get it is practice. One hand on the qr does nothing if you don't practice using it. On average people take 8 seconds to use their qr. That's the single most important difference between laughing it off and a trip with flashing lights. I'm never surprised that experts don't tell you how important it is to practice the qr. They got all this other stuff to talk about.

[@sebas0608459]

good point, but how and under which conditions do you suggest to practice this? usually when landing the kite i pull the QR, you think this should be enough to build muscle memory?

[@bonerici]

@@sebas0608459 once a week. Doesn't matter how you do it. Those who don't use traditional chicken loops and use the qr to attach and detach their control bars get plenty of practice