Jason-G
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kiteloop gone wrong video on Tosh .0
First saw this,a shorter version on TV. With this longer, clearer version, I notice the guy was attached to something which is not safe - any reason
why it was used? Also, is a fall from that height sure to break something? I didn't see the guy surface before it ended. Does look like the perfect
spot to learn to kite on water.
Scroll down a little on the link below for the video
http://tosh.comedycentral.com/blog/tag/raw-clips
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carltb
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HOLY SH**......
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Oldie but a goldie!
Yeah... I got a kite. Or two...
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pyro22487
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He was attached to the boat and he was man lifting. His anchor line broke which is why he plummeted to the water. Man lifting is said to be the most
dangerous kiting activity. One line breaks anywhere, kite bridle, kite lines, anywhere and this is the outcome.
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Bladerunner
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I am not the king of physics but even I know that the forces coming into play man lifting are incredible compared to what kites are designed to see.
Looks in this case like a cheap tether rope our equally stupid guy tying the knot was the second weak link.
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It looks like the tether was already taught and in a straight line with the rider and the kite when he went for the second loop. That would have
snapped something in the kite or the harness even if the tether held together. I bet those lines were like cheese wire.
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^That was perfect. 
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:D 
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zalex820
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Wow that was pretty stupid of them all. Kinda looke like the guy on the kite has no idea what hes doing and the guy yelling to him gave him a 15
second tutorial.
Some of this some of that and a little bit of everything.
World English Dictionary
kitesurfing (ˈkaɪtˌsɜːfɪŋ 
— n
the sport of sailing standing up on a surfboard while being pulled along by a large kite |
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Windy Heap
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Famous last words "Now Loop it, there yah go........"
..........and excellent math work PistolPete.............most excellent, I LOVED physics in college.
simple force vectors,
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Proletariat
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Heh. You never fail to make me happy, Pete 
But don't you need a hyperbolic cosine to calculate the curve of a hanging g line between 2 points (in this case 3).
Yeah, I'm totally being nitpicky, but mainly I just wanted to say "hyperbolic cosine" to sound smart. Its the only thing I learned in calc 2
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Windy Heap
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As an Electrical Engineer, our nerdly groups' softball team was called "Inductive Reactance".
I always thought that would make a cool name for a rock band.
Dave - Life is a big ocean out there to swim in.
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