ssayre - 12-3-2014 at 11:03 PM
Today we had high wind and so I thought I'd give the buggy a shot. Field was wet and muddy so I drifted downwind towards some trees. Not good. I
didn't include any footage of the buggy run because it was too slow and uneventful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3y_1Q3NF2I
pyro22487 - 12-3-2014 at 11:51 PM
Lol been there done that. I crashed/landed a peterlynn vapor in the Gulf of Mexico. Sad day when you are drying a 20' kite and dumping sand out of the
scoops.
Sad day to be a kite on a bad day...
ssayre - 13-3-2014 at 01:21 PM
Don't worry dman, your old kite survived unharmed. I was surprised.
3shot - 13-3-2014 at 01:53 PM
Lucky. That could have been real bad.
soliver - 13-3-2014 at 03:29 PM
Oh that sucks... Good thing it survived... Last summer I nose dived my absolute favorite kite (4m Core) onto wet sand on the 2nd day of JIBE and blew
out like 3 Cells... I seriously almost cried 
Markite took it back home with him and fixed it nice... He's a great guy 
hiaguy - 13-3-2014 at 05:27 PM
ssayre: sad way to have a kite treat you. i had a day like that with my 2m hornet - almost took Ragden's head off. He was ok, the kite wasn't.
solver: Markite fixed mine too - there wasn't much left in the way of intact stitching or cells - and it's still my high-wind go-to.
RedSky - 13-3-2014 at 05:30 PM
Lucky for you its just a young sapling. At least you can reach up and grab it. My Blade 4.9 is still flapping in a tall spindly tree after 15 years.
Proletariat - 15-3-2014 at 09:47 AM
John?
ripsessionkites - 15-3-2014 at 08:06 PM
been there done that in the local BC park. poor Mr. Martin had to walk through torn bushes and climb a tree for me.
crashed again into a small bush, and street light before.
rule of thumb
1. let go / release tension of any kind
2. if you can reach your kite disconnect the lines from the kite side
3. learn your bridle plan, LOL. 
dman - 16-3-2014 at 05:08 AM
Wow, that's not a good feeling. Glad your'e ok as well as Ole Yellow.