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38 Second Kite Jump

f0rgiv3n - 27-10-2008 at 08:48 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi6rCviQFHs&feature=relat...

and I thought I had seen all the kite jumping vids on youtube!

harddrive8 - 27-10-2008 at 09:27 PM

I hate to think how high he would have gone if he hadn't been tethered.

NPWfever - 27-10-2008 at 09:41 PM

Thats the only reason you go so high, because you can build tension, same way you put a bucket half way up ur lines, it wil lift it. putting you there puts u half way up the line, and lifts you =D

BeamerBob - 28-10-2008 at 04:05 AM

I didn't notice the tether the first time. More load on the equipment and more likely to break something. That would've been a long fall. The only way I'd go that high would be over water deep enough to cushion a fall. You could walk away from a water fall.

f0rgiv3n - 28-10-2008 at 07:50 AM

Yeah... i don't think those guys are quite sane. I didn't even see the tether. I looked at their other vids and saw them but I didn't look close enough i guess. Crazy individuals... :crazy:

carltb - 28-10-2008 at 08:42 AM

man lifting is "the" most dangerous form of kiting. they are not built for it and all it takes is a bridal or a line to snap and you are dead!! i have no respect for these idiots

f0rgiv3n - 29-10-2008 at 08:57 AM

yeah, very good point carl. . . They're puttin' their lives on little tiny strings.... At least with bunjee jumping they have THICK rope but these guys are way up there on some smaaaaall bridle lines. just watching it now i'm thinking... what if a line did break? That's a LONG way to fall to the HARD packed earth... instant handicap... Can we preissue handicap parking permits? :frog: Maybe that would get their attention

action jackson - 29-10-2008 at 09:08 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by carltb
man lifting is "the" most dangerous form of kiting.


Fighter kite flying is really the most dangerous but manlifting is very dangerous too...........aj

npw man lift aj.jpg - 30kB

_____ - 29-10-2008 at 11:27 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by BeamerBob
I didn't notice the tether the first time. More load on the equipment and more likely to break something. That would've been a long fall. The only way I'd go that high would be over water deep enough to cushion a fall. You could walk away from a water fall.


I dont think this was deep enough....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qupIgypOIGY&feature=relat...

macboy - 29-10-2008 at 02:42 PM

.....fighter kite flying?

f0rgiv3n - 29-10-2008 at 03:19 PM

i had the same question lol.... I did a wikipedia on it and it looks like they're single line kites that they have competitions where they try to cut the lines of other people's kites... the lines are extra sharp o.O

WELDNGOD - 29-10-2008 at 04:16 PM

A popular sport in afghanistan believe it or not.

NPWfever - 29-10-2008 at 05:11 PM

And then they banned kite flying....:crazy:

Baluk - 29-10-2008 at 08:41 PM

I tried searching, I couldn't find it. There was a video of someone on an LEI being towed up, then fell and died. Onto water.

macboy - 29-10-2008 at 09:54 PM

Oh.....I thought so but......"dangerous"? Really? My wife to this day bugs me - a non-reader - who read The Kite Runner just because of the title. No kidding - it was the first book I'd read since she met me:singing:

(For those of you that are curious, read it, it's good....but the kiting is really more of a metaphor.....the book isn't about kiting. hehehehe)

But "dangerous"? You mean the glassed strings I assume?