Extreme Kite LandBoarding flights in the Alps

Sunday 30 August 2020 was a crazy kite landboarding day !
It was the first time I was flying so high and so long in land kiting sport.
Usually we go on this spot in the winter season for snowkiting, but I have to say it's really cool to ride "La Pyramide" in the summer season 🙂
WARNING : The flights I do in this video can be very dangerous, it's my own decision to take so much risks, I have several hours of flying with a kite, and I make sure I have fresh gear when I do these kind of actions.
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[@cataraxis]

simply amazing, and well shot

[@Ijumpandfly]

With current fuel prices that looks like my new way of getting to work😁

[@loloBSD]

Haha 😂 just need a bit of wind and let’s go 🤟🏽🤓

[@coolboy5428]

@@loloBSD Hi If the wind goes while you are that high do you drop down or glide down? How many metres kite do you use? Thank you!!!!

[@msmc_fusions2222]

just think of all the traffic you’d be skipping over with this!!

[@demitryhood6382]

@@coolboy5428that’s actually a really good question

[@pbase36]

I thought I just needed a board and a kit to start. But it appears that I'll also need a pilot's license

[@sealrk191]

God that looks fun. He's flying

[@lucidtee3969]

Paraboardgliding? :-D

[@loloBSD]

Kite landboarding with maximum hangtime 😉🤟🏼

[@pyguy9915]

Paragliding with landing gear 😅

[@laprepper]

God damn bro! Thats amazing!!! I just bought an inflatable wing and I'm shopping for a board!!

[@loloBSD]

Cheers buddy 🙏🏽🤙🏽 have fun landboarding 🤟🏽

[@rodneybever9583]

We do this on the salt flats of utah. Great speed but not at much air time as this.

[@ChristofHaemmerle]

Hey amazing video. Just did mu first land kiting session yesterday. What size was that soul. Whats board do you have?

[@loloBSD]

Cheers mate, it’s a soul 15, and my landboard is a X-Shape (French brand) 😉🤙🏼

[@Yanivkahana]

It's more like Airboarding then landboarding.. sick!

[@loloBSD]

Haha true! Cheers dude 🤙🏽

[@Pshady]

A great place in the alpes. So much to do around there

[@loloBSD]

True :)

[@mkesenheimer]

Amazing! Thanks for sharing!

[@loloBSD]

Thank you, glad you liked my video ;)

[@morgothsaruman7566]

Salut 🙋‍♂️ c’est quoi ta board? Je commence le kitesurf mais voir ce que tu arrives à faire avec ton aile à caisson c’est vraiment impressionnant 😳

[@loloBSD]

Hello, mes ailes sont des Flysurfer, sur cette vidéo c’est la SOUL en 15m de mémoire, et mon mountainboard c’est un X-Shape 😉

[@moise8544]

Punaise.... Ça vole bien une soul !! ... Ça manque de neige par contre 😀

[@loloBSD]

Yes ça fly bien les SOUL ;) même si ce n'est pas conçu pour voler comme en parapente, ça reste risqué... ;)

[@willwill1299]

une dinguerie mon lolo !!!!!

[@loloBSD]

Will will haha yes c’était bien bon my Sirocco 😉

[@Panewa]

How long you training ?

[@loloBSD]

Many years 😉

[@hifatpeople]

​@@loloBSD How many years on water til I should try it? 🤔

[@loloBSD]

@@hifatpeople you need to train on land with a landboard to do this kind of stuff, but gliding is another aspect of the sport, and it’s dangerous.

[@romafaerber]

Wow!

[@meekrosez3789]

I Bet Your Wheels last Forever If Your Mostly Flying. I am Hooked and Going to Get a Setup and Kite Me Smokies Mates !

[@qrdemole]

How do you jump and travel upwind? I kite myself on water and there you always go at least a bit downwind when airborne.. How does it work?

[@n057828]

Can the kite implode hence fall down hard???

[@NicoRider54]

Énorme. Pas la patience d'attendre les premières neige pour rider au Lautaret😉

[@loloBSD]

Yes c’est sympa aussi en kite MTB 😉🤟🏼

[@scounterscounter6702]

awesome👽

[@loloBSD]

🤙🏽

[@kawasaki32]

Amazing 👏

[@loloBSD]

thx ;)

[@flyingfootage]

Wow that is cool 👏👍

[@sampey7196]

Wuauuuuuuuuuuuu..... 👌😊😁😜😎😉

[@loloBSD]

Francesco Arcara cheers 🙏🏼🤙🏼

[@serhaderdem7207]

Hi brother , which conditions must exist (what ype of wind ? for example) for Kite landboarding , I wanna try it in imros/gökçeada/turkey , thanks.

[@loloBSD]

You can do landkiting in all winds, be careful in strong winds up to 25 knots, from 5 to 20 knots landkiting is really cool 😉

[@Ppeeek]

Man is casually hopping over mountains

[@nickikitedaltonlau6881]

Wow so crazy Beautiful ❤️😉😅

[@loloBSD]

Thank you :)

[@hunterb6196]

LOVE THE VIDEO

[@loloBSD]

Thanks 🙏🏽

[@mariusiordache2329]

Thats amazing. Whats the size of your kite mate? Thanks

[@VincentGALOGER]

15m

[@loloBSD]

Thanks, I was kiteboarding with the FLYSURFER SOUL 15m in this video 😉

[@arpadjakab-peter5431]

​@@loloBSD hi, this is a depower kite? Would you recommend it for a total beginner but not dumb?😊

[@loloBSD]

@@arpadjakab-peter5431 hi, yes it’s a depower kite, but very performant, I would recommend you to start kiteboarding with the FLYSURFER Hybrid or PEAK, size 9.5m for the hybrid, size 8m or 11m for the PEAK 🤙🏽

[@arpadjakab-peter5431]

@@loloBSD thanks a lot! 🤙👍👍😊

[@francescolovetere3910]

Prega Iuppiter, che con ti si rompa mai una linea.

[@drewt2517]

What size kite do you recommend on a budget but great for huge jumps?

[@tustyklops6950]

Depends on the wind pretty much that’s it if u get up to 30/40 km/h a size 8 to 10 should be enough if you don’t weight like 120kg

[@loloBSD]

Depends the discipline (landkiting, kitesurfing, snowkiting) and your weight…

[@carldonovan4084]

Any chance of an explanation of how the camera is set up to get that angle ?? I’d like to use but can’t figure out how it’s mounted

[@loloBSD]

www.sailvideosystem.com/products/3rdpersonview-kite-windsurf-all-in-one-set

[@mrsolodolo5770]

Very nice, can you also explain we cannot see the pole?

[@joe55514]

360 video cameras have two overlapping videos stitched together with software automatically in a way that there is no visible pole anywhere while in reality there still is one

[@WonderingAboutThat]

Love it!

[@loloBSD]

Thanks 🙏🏼😊

[@baconpartyisagoodone2585]

inspiration

[@AndreasMahlow]

Was ist wenn ein Seil reisst?

[@DaDa-kf4vp]

The video doesnt start unti 2:30.

[@loloBSD]

The video starts at the first second :)

[@maestrodiogenesbillionaire870]

I really like your mountain board can you link a page I can purchase one in the United States please.

[@loloBSD]

facebook.com/xshapeflyingboards/

[@hunterb6196]

SEE YOU IN COLD MAUI WITH SLATER AND THE BOIS! #KITELIFE

[@samgadd5619]

this dude was like nope gravity

[@mun1753]

cool

[@n057828]

Nice🇦🇺❤️💕

[@Nanocosm]

What was the wind like? How is it in places like that? Changeable?

[@sandy_knight]

The tl;dr is I'd imagine the winds were pretty light in general, maybe 10-15kmh/5-7 knots max, and not too gusty. The longer answer if anyone's interested: On a 'normal' day in the Alps (or virtually any steep sided, inland valley) the valley wind is a 'thermal breeze' that builds as the day gets hotter. It's at its strongest in the mid afternoon. Usually a bit gusty but predictable. I'm not talking about thermals themselves, more the air that rushes up the valley to replace the rising air. They looked to be higher up in the mountains though so the valley wind won't be so noticeable but there was probably a bit of 'meteo wind' as well. He says above he was flying a 15m Soul which is pretty big so I'd imaging the winds were pretty light in general, less than 10-15kmh/5-7 knots I'd guess, and not too gusty. Another thing worth mentioning, the sky looked quite congested with well developed cumulus which *might* cut off the heat for the thermals, reducing the valley breeze, or might be a sign that Cumulonimbus are growing above your head. If that's the case then I wouldn't want to be flying anything that high up the hill in case you get cloud-sucked. The air would be getting horrible/gusty/turbulent as well. If the guys shot this in early Autumn then it's more likely the former scenario. In peak Summer, when there's more heat from the sun, you need to be more wary. In terms of changeability, the weather in the Alps can change quickly but it's *usually* predictable if you check the forecast. Some days you know not to leave the house with a kite, other days you know the conditions will change in a certain way during the day, you just need to keep an eye on it. Truly unpredictable days are rare in my experience. Full disclosure: I lived in Chamoinx for ~17 years, paragliding for 14 of them. One rule of thumb in *that* valley was if the clouds meet up in the middle of the valley before 4pm then it'll rain, probably only for a couple of hours and be blue sky before sunset..

[@Nanocosm]

Awesome, thanks. I am very interested. I have a lot to learn. I kite inland in the UK but getting into kitesurfing and hopefully snowkiting in the next few years.

[@sandy_knight]

@@Nanocosm Same here, kind of. I got offered a cheap fixed bridle kite many years ago in Chamonix (a new but end-of-line Ozone Samurai 7.2m on handles) and just used it in the landing field in the afternoon when it was too windy in the valley to fly (safely). I've been back in London the last couple of years though and when lockdown started I needed a new excuse to get some exercise so I dusted off the old traction kite. I now have a quiver of 3 fixed bridle kites and an old second hand mountainboard and plans to get a proper de-power land/snowkite later in the year. Happy flying :-)

[@Nanocosm]

@@sandy_knightif your in London you should come to essex kite park. Last weekend in June is a meet-up I think.

[@sandy_knight]

@@Nanocosm It's a possibility but I do live on the opposite side of London (bad excuse I know). I need to get my insurance sorted first, then I'm applying for a traction kite permit in Richmond Park, which is my nearest official spot. I'll bear it in mind though...

[@jurrerincker3255]

Not sure if you can still call this landboarding...

[@maxpain2009]

Any reason why you're flying backwards

[@loloBSD]

My kite is front to the wind, just my body is back to the wind.

[@john-nx4xn]

How is the camera in front of him

[@loloBSD]

I filmed it with the GoPro Max fixed on a pole connected to the back of my harness 😉

[@john-nx4xn]

@@loloBSD awesome video. I'm jealous. I just got a 2meter prism foil. Learning the window. Baby steps...lol

[@morgothsaruman7566]

Je m’abonne direct 👍

[@loloBSD]

Cool, merci 😉

[@gliderarts3573]

I've got such a lonely sport since I'm not actually inside the glider.....😭😭😭

[@zeromtiger]

Hello. My weigh is 85kg. Would be such wonderfull jump possible for me on Peter Lynn Twister 7,5 m2 ?

[@loloBSD]

If you wanna have fun jumping you need a 12m kite minimum and around 15 knots wind. Caution: flights like I’m doing in this video are very dangerous, if you start into land kiting I suggest you to practice on flat spot (on the beach for exemple, or any flat areas on grass).

[@zeromtiger]

@@loloBSD Thank you for your response:)

[@TuITamo]

awesome!

[@gliderarts3573]

hit a thermal = death without reserve afternoon n sunny

[@loloBSD]

No thermal winds in these humidity autumn conditions.

[@chimney3938]

Botw shield surfing 💀

[@auklin7079]

I'm surprised you are willing to risk that. Same with those people that attach themselves to boats and go up over 100ft Kiteboarding equipment isn't redundant like parachute equipment, if ANYTHING happens to any one of your lines, your dropping like a rock. It's not as bad when it's water underneath you, but on land? woo buddy. I'd say this is equally as dangerous as lowering yourself off a 50ft cliff using a single strand of paracord.

[@loloBSD]

Yep I agree it’s lots of risk.

[@Hmoedy]

I want like this kite plase what name this kite plasee

[@loloBSD]

Flysurfer SOUL

[@Hmoedy]

@@loloBSD thank you bro 🙏I want to buy how ican find this product

[@loloBSD]

@@Hmoedy in any kite shop on the web or at your local kite shop

[@ficherkoto9757]

Смотрится страшновато

[@uk1simon1]

It's fake! 00:30 something not right with the harness, also the reflection on the landboard is very artificial, shadows are not real either, wheels before landing are just 2D shapes, also landing is not natural, not dynamic, very stiff. Well fabricated but not real!

[@imacat4060]

Nah its real. Thats because of video stabilization and the processing with the Video Programm from Go Pro. Even huge impacts looking like super smooth if you turn the settings up.

[@robvdbrand5046]

😂 Simon W go to bed mate

[@eating_the_dogs]

i like your board ,what is it?

[@loloBSD]

@@eating_the_dogs it’s a landboard, brand doesn’t exist anymore, it’s Xshape brand and model is Hardcore 🤙🏽

[@eating_the_dogs]

@@loloBSD thanks for letting me know,looks amazing,shame i won't be able to buy one anymore :( :)

[@loloBSD]

@@eating_the_dogs welcome 🤙🏽