You should wear an IMPACT VEST for Big Air Kiting! | Get High with Mike | Just The Tip Tuesday

[@JanekGrzegorzewski]

And yes! Wear your impact vest!

[@Gorilla781]

Tore a pec and year later ruptured a bicep wakeboarding. Wear an impact vest no all ways for xtra flotation in case I have to swim back crippled.

[@gethighwithmike]

Damn that's heavy! I was so busy giving you just the tip that I forgot about the flotation aspect!

[@nothanks6859]

@@gethighwithmike Trudat! When shit gets fucked up and you're doing some gnarly pack down, the extra flotation means you don't end up tangling your legs in lines while you kick to tread water - instead you just chill and sort your gear with legs relaxed underwater. Can you tell I've taken a few foil kites for a swim? ;-)

[@LukeMarthinusen]

Dude! The toilet shot! Classic! 😂 🇿🇦

[@nothanks6859]

Just the shits tuesday brrro

[@stealthgrind1326]

JTT idea: Fin Size for Big Air. Large fins allow more grip, but seem to have more resistance when trying to rip off the water for the jump... do you notice a difference on takeoff with fin size? what size do most pros ride for boosting?

[@bschelfhorst]

Mike, can you explain how the 8M xr6 helps to get all the hunnies? :) 7 and 9 don’t work :)

[@gethighwithmike]

😂😂 The 9's got too much surface area and the hunnies just aren't impressed with the little 7m!

[@gboates]

That is exactlywhy I bought the 8mxr7. Plus it's a wicked kite with a scary top end ! So much fun!!!

[@mattparksey]

Awesome tips, will go out an get one ASAP. Did my ribs last year. Good tip on under wet suit.

[@gethighwithmike]

Be safe out there!

[@kevindebaat8423]

I start with powerloops, i think it is a good idea to wear it 🤙🏼

[@dverschoor84]

Very usefull, bought a vest. Harness stopt sliding up and saved my ribs twice allready. Let's try bigger loops now!

[@ashurbanforestry]

Hey Mike, any other tips or wearing anything else under your wetsuit to make yourself look bigger? Asking for a friend🥸🍆💃🏽

[@jostheron9657]

Question for you: what mostly causes rib fractures when crashing, is it harness induced?

[@xavierkain]

Yeaaaah good advice bro, we all started to wear an impact vest after injuring our rib. I hope your video will help people not doing the same mistake than us and wear an impact vest since day 1 :-)

[@gethighwithmike]

Thanks bro! Yes hopefully!

[@lifeofgarrick]

Great content - love it and would be super keen for more types of this content! I'm interested in a Double-Tip Tuesday in the future 😉 More tips I'd like to see : - how to stick your edge in choppy conditions - how to approach a session in gusty wind (I'm always too nervous to progress when I'm not sure how much the gust is going to be) - how to practise NOT over rotating in back and front rotations - more POV footage of you doing your SEND, HOP, EDGE, POP so we can get more of a cockpit perspective of your timings. (I'm slowly getting this but struggling when it comes to different sizes) - how to jump higher on BIG kites and the correct position to keep them in the window (is low better or high better?) - saftey tips for example (Rou Charters' words) If snow hikers know the procedure and have the equipment to save a buddy in an avalanche then do we as kiters know what to do if you turn around to see your kite buddy attached to a powered kite and face down unconscious in the water...? It would just be cool to see what competition savvy big air riders like you guys would do in these worst case scenarios and help share some kind of procedure that could help one of us some day 🙏 Keep the content cuming on the tips.... 😐

[@KristanDL]

Wearing the impact vest under the wet suit is an interesting idea. Because whenever I wear it over my wet suit and put my harness above it, both harness and vest just slide up, which causes a lot of discomfort and one time seriously hindered my upwind riding. So as temporary solution I put the vest above the harness, but not sure if this is any safe.

[@grahampukallus9953]

Great information and tips as usual. Top marks

[@FabienChazot]

Broke my cartilage doing exactly the same crash you did (also I was wearing an impact vest above my wetsuit and it lifted at the impact, wich left my ribs unprotected) 😅 Thanks for the video bro, good

[@gethighwithmike]

Yep that's what happens!!! Thanks for watching bro

[@simonkohler6195]

I always wear a vest. It doesnt Blocks my movement at All!

[@gethighwithmike]

Me too! And me neither 💪🤘🤘

[@bradycarlson6061]

Never though to wear it under my wetsuit. Totally experienced everything you said with it over top. Definitely have to give it a try.

[@gethighwithmike]

Nice! You're gonna dig it!

[@vinhr1]

Ditto. I’m going to do this as well. My shit rides up all of the time.

[@AndreySemjonov]

If you put it under wetsuit than wetsuit not stretches to much? I mean if you wear after same wetsuit without vest is it fits ok? :)))

[@nothanks6859]

Sames! Gonna try that next sesh :-p

[@rolandasjasilionis3366]

Good advices, thanks

[@gustavokoszel3035]

Voy a usar el chaleco de impacto abajo del traje, hace 35 dias me quebre una costilla por un fuerte golpe de 7m, el arnes me jugo una mala pasada , tirando kiteloop 🙈. Abrazo amigo loco🤜💙🤛

[@UncleZopity]

Awesome video! Bounced on my boy's chicken stick wearing an impact vest while watching this! My ribs are intact, but does anyone know how to get gravy stains off of the vest?

[@gethighwithmike]

Oh my God he's at it again! 😂😂

[@kitesurferjoey]

Question from me can you wear boots for big air doing lot of wakestyle but want to do more

[@RalphMelis]

Good to see more content!

[@fabianozonatto]

And a sit harness would not solve that as well ?

[@CTEdraughting]

Yes man! IS the comp just for EU residents? Can't enter via the ZA BAK page.

[@gethighwithmike]

You can enter too! But you've got to stay on the page rather than go to SA website gethighwithmike.com/impactvest

[@gBayCanada]

Where was this video filmed?

[@richysinkin2062]

Just a tip tuesday - on how to adjust kite pads angle and distance heel toe to edge of board as

[@gethighwithmike]

That's on the list! Thanks Richy!!!!

[@richysinkin2062]

@@gethighwithmike especially how to get rid of slip outs if there is any lifehack 😬🙏 cheers budy

[@surfa05]

Hi ! So you are using a size down for the impact ....but than you need a size up of the wetsuit...??

[@gethighwithmike]

Haha no I'm a medium wetsuit but I wear a small impact vest

[@shushi83]

Nice advices, thank you! I wear over the wetsuit but have the same problems, after a while the impact vest goes up and I try to put it back in place. I will try to put in under my vest. But in that case... how can my wetsuit can fit? I'm afraid my wetsuit would be too hard to put it :).. Well I will try to make it fit

[@ramezsamir7811]

Work under wetsuit?

[@Go2Results]

Jo Mike, thx 4 reminding 🤙 😂😂 Aloha. Tino

[@gethighwithmike]

WASSUP BRUTHAAA!

[@viktorshvets9914]

Hi Mike! i love your vids. I have been dreaming about impact vest for a long time. I want to wear it under a wetsuit like you suggest. But I'm afraid of the inner line and seam (they can irritate the skin). I once saw someone wear an impact vest over a tank top and only then put on a wetsuit. I have questions: maybe you know impact vest without inner stitching, seam? or suggest a shirt! I do not have the opportunity to go to the store and try on, we do not have stores. I wish you all the best!

[@vinhr1]

Dude you had me rolling at work with the poop wiping shot.

[@chasethestoke]

100%! Great video!

[@Roepstek]

Thanks for the tip dude👍🏽

[@KiteboardingInUruguay]

Same shit as you bro! Landed hard and couldn't breath because I was winded so hard. Since then I've always used a vest and now feel strange "hitting" the water without it. I recently got the same impact vest as you and its the best one I've owned. Also, love the tip about using it under your wetsuit, I'll give that a try in my next session! Besos!!!

[@gethighwithmike]

Yep I feel naked without it! Stay safe brother!

[@ramezsamir7811]

How was it under the wetsuit?

[@KiteboardingInUruguay]

@@ramezsamir7811 feels a little strange at first and can make zipping your suit tough if it’s a tight fit, but other than that it’s really good. Especially as it really does help stop your harness from riding up to under your armpits!!

[@AscendedBeing87]

But I guess the wetsuit doesn't keep you that warm anymore if wearing a vest underneath it?! Because normally there's just a really thin film of water between your skin and the wetsuit which it getting warm

[@Soulofyoga]

Thanks Mike for the video! Can you wear the impact vest underneath even with a chest zip or do you need a back zip? thanks!

[@gethighwithmike]

Thanks for watching! I use a chest zip. They actually have more stretch than back zips 😍

[@Soulofyoga]

@@gethighwithmike many thanks Mike!

[@joejyt]

Was this shot in OBX?

[@gethighwithmike]

Yep!

[@Ocanadakiter]

Isn't it super hard to get wetsuit on over it?

[@Colinfrisch]

Nice video !! Now a question about the helmet : I noticed everyone doing big air is wearing an impact vest, but never helmets... should I not have a helmet doing big air ?

[@TheLocapeople]

Hi, i am sitting in front of the computer learning how not to fuck up again like I did :(

[@BastiaaNED590]

Haha always wondered what this body builder guy is doing at 30m: Now I know👁

[@stassivanov]

What about helmets? Seems like no one is wearing them (except @tom_rocco_bridge)

[@trondharaldsaltnes5122]

Just the tip tuesday... that’s what she said

[@gethighwithmike]

Haha ya know it!

[@JanekGrzegorzewski]

I’m dead 😂😂😂

[@gethighwithmike]

Haha glad you enjoyed brother!!!

[@markosimic360]

🤟🤟🤟👏👏👏👏 I should try under my wetsuit next time

[@marinatinshred]

I just whacked my spleen. dakine vest sucks

[@gethighwithmike]

Ahw damn! Actually?!

[@Zen0xious]

Like your content fella, but that haircut is super whack.

[@Pahabarabaha]

Please, keep you very specific sense of toilet humour sensored!

[@t.cichomski1782]

Mystic majestic impact.vest xl is actually an M size. Supersmall

[@jostheron9657]

Question for you: what mostly causes rib fractures when crashing, is it harness induced?