ssayre
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bad day to be my kite
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.
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pyro22487
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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...
go fly a kite trainer 1.4 m
thunderfoil 9 ft.
Flexi sting 1.7m
Ozone flow 2.0 m
PL Vapor 3.2 m
Ozone Flow 5 m
PLVapor 6.5 m
frenzy 14.0 m
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ssayre
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Don't worry dman, your old kite survived unharmed. I was surprised.
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3shot
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Lucky. That could have been real bad.
Cross Kites Sonic 3, 5m
Ozone Flow 2, 3, 4, 5m
Ace II 4, 5m
NAPKA-US24
4, 5, 6m ATB landsurfer. Custom longboard deck
Buggy: VTT Black Widow v2.0
 
http://hint.fm/wind/
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soliver
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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 
I'm going to take a nap now
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hiaguy
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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.
Go ahead... tell me to "go fly a kite!" Please!
Howard - used to be KC67
Fly: A quiver of Lynx' and Cores (did someone say "Pansh"?), a couple o' Arcs, and a Rev to remind me about control
Ride: PL XR+
Where: 43.857899, -78.941661 and 38.970951, -74.828922
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RedSky
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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.
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Proletariat
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John?
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ripsessionkites
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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. 
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dman
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Wow, that's not a good feeling. Glad your'e ok as well as Ole Yellow.
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