If you look closely you’ll notice he is moving forward with the glider behind him. This means he is getting towed. Then as he decends he goes the opposite direction to the tow that took him up. You would not be able to go this high without a tether. As a paragliding pilot and beginner kite surfer I would be scared out of my mind to have my centre of gravity that far from the wing for that long. Props to this guy, balls of steel and great wing control. Glad it ended well. Edit: I have learned more about the stability of the kite, although limited control compared to paragliders you can keep it over head, however the gear is not made or rated for this kind of stunt. None the less this guys massive balls managed to pull him back down to earth safely.
Paragliders can hill launch (most prefered) or winch launched. This is so dangerous, a tow/winch licence is required! With a week link in the tow line, and an emergency pair of cable croppers. The danger lies in getting into a powered turn into the ground. Sea in this case. If an accelerated turn starts, without a let off of power, the glider/kite is accelerated into a turn into the ground/sea. My experience is only with paragliders, so i might be completely wrong in seeing the same liklyhood in kitesurfing
@@plebpunk They are not designed the same. PPC chute is for flying [as a wing], these are kites - which is why it is called kite surfing.. As far as chute stability it is like instead of having a 500sqft PPC chute you fly a 150sqft chute. Although it is far less lift, it would be more stable and less prone to collapse [noting that having a chute too large is prone to collapse].
Two different technologies - however having the CG close to a parachute wing is less stable. For a PPC it is only bad because the farther you are away the longer it takes for power inputs to affect the chute. You feel less pendulum with the longer risers which is why you see it in kite surfing. In Kite surfing the wing can go around in circles which creates an autorotation type lift which is not effective with short risers.
@@81brassglass79 we've done this ourselves in the club on low wind days..not THIS high tho but also some dangerous heights. No one was ever hurt... yes you can die, you can die using it right too
Not even a joke. I once went hiking on a mountain range. It was meant to take 5-6 hours and we started at 1pm hoping to finish by 7pm and we must’ve got lost because we didn’t make it down until 1am and we were in the pitch black with no lights (besides our phones which we were probably using) couldn’t find the trails and we were terrified. There was only three of us but we all had cell phones so it wasn’t too big of an issue if we had to call someone we would have eventually. Anyway once we reached near the parking lot I was more pumped than I had been all frickn day.
Parasailing is a really great way to do this type of sight seeing. Thousands and thousands parasail every day. But this guy is crazy AF....he could have a partial deflate which does not happen in parasailing because a parasail chute is much larger... but hey some ppl are suicidal.
Bro! I fly planes for a living, and paraglide and kite surf for recreation, and that my brother was seriously some of thee most impressive flying, confidence, control I’ve ever seen on something that should NOT be used as an aircraft 😂😂😂 Huge respect from Australia my man 👊🏼✌🏼👍🏽
This is extremely dangerous. check at 0:06. His harness is just a belt wrapped loosely around his back with no leg straps. I've seen people slip out of their harness when doing jumps and lose their kite, harness and all. The red mechanism on the kite lines at chest height is a quick release. Kiters hit their quick release accidentally all the time. The gear is designed to "de-power and toss away" in an emergency.
Ok.... I paraglide(>20 years), skydive(>12 years), starting now BASE jumping... and have to say this shit really scared me(in a bad way). Huuuuuge chance of ending in tragedy.
@NoFaceKira. see thats true but you can always control how far you're falling with a base jump, and the only real point of failure is how you land, with this, literally any failure, line, the release, change in wind (which nearly did kill him here) will just end in your death, theres very little control you have over your fate once you're up that high
@@hunterra217 what about parachute not opening in time or wind changing causing you to smash back into the cliff/tower you're jumping from? Heard of a few people dying like that
As kids, before kitesurfing was invented, we wondered if you could build a kite big enough to fly with. Then some crazy person did it and we no longer wondered if such things were possible...
As a kid I was obsessed with hang gliders and would often use my delta shaped kites as a hang glider and see how high I could jump from the steps in our house....I also tried to make one with bed sheets and tree branches. I even tied a garbage bag to my arms and almost jumped off the roof. Would've made it too if my Grandma didn't stop by as I was on the roof getting ready. Lmao Funniest part is: I'm teaching myself to fly my ultralight right now. I guess flying is burned into my DNA or something.
This seems INCREDIBLY dangerous--what happens if you lose control of your kite while you're up that high? You fall to your death. It's not like it's a parachute, those things could definitely collapse if there were sudden sever wind shear, which might be more likely up higher. I'm sure he knew this before doing it, but I don't think a lot of viewers of this video do.
id guess you just diie. BUT TOEALLEY WERTH IT BRUHHHHHHH WOO! Also yeah it can be worse than just falling if he starts spinning and hits the ground at 200mph
Dudes crazy... I already had multiple safety failiures / accidential release while kiteboarding. That shit just happens from time to time. But if it happens up there you dead bro.
@@mickjameson4384 records show that the minimum possible height to deploy a parachute is 30m . Although it is not recommended. The Military trains low altitude jumps from around 80 meters so anything above that we can assume is quite possible
A sudden Wind change could destabilize the kite and bring him straight down. I've seen that happening with this type of kitesurfing kites here in hawaii when people are doing aerials 6 meters in the air, it's a violent impact on the water surface, can't imagine what would happen in that altitude That's why I prefer windsurfing, specially with the new naish design type kites, much safer and still fun
One thing I'll never understand is why he took one hand off the handle... does he even understand the stress and danger if he lost his grip and was suddenly only relying on his harness?!
Dude that was sick! Forget all the haters on here and their criticism, that took some serious skill to land safely, as well as balls of steel! I have a suggestion for an epic follow up. It's something I'm planning on doing myself, but just in case God has other plans, I'll share it with you: Connect the kite and the tow line to the same quick release. Make sure the release is sufficiently rated for the extra "weight" created by the tow. Using a separate, small section of line, connect the tow line to the kite line near where both lines meet by the quick release, so that when the quick release is pulled, your harness disconnects from both the tow line and the kite, but the tow line and kite remain connected to each other (so the boat can retrieve the kite). Wear a packed ram parachute with oversized pilot chute like used for BASE jumping, and when you reach sufficient altitude, hit the quick release and toss your pilot chute! BASE jumping from a kite!!! As far as I know, it's never been done before. It would be totally badass, and is actually probably safer than trying to land that kite like you did! Mad respect on that btw. These mfers hating have no idea just how difficult that was. I'd trust a kite for gaining the altitude, but no freaking way I'd try to land one from that height! Hats off to you brother
some dude at my previous job by the beach, actually got lifted by one of these and thrown into someone’s like 50th floor condo window. He unfortunately passed away, be safe out there y’all.
Wow! I never knew things could look so small at only 150 meters high, but I haven't flown very much in my 66 yrs of life. Thanks for posting this exhilarating video!
@@southsideman4891 I've always had them. I have very vivid dreams from when I was a young I can remember. Very minimal success controlling dreams but I do feel I can almost wish something to happen. Won't go 100% the way I intend but kind of guide what's happens next..
I have dreams where im outside at a park and everytime i jump ill get exponentially higher. It gets to the point to where i jump above the clouds and it takes a couple of minutes to fall back down. The scariest part is when your accelerating toward the ground but you land on your feet unharmed.
I saw a picture of a kite surfer, then I decided to check out prices online, then I saw fun ads and it’s getting me pumped! Now I found this video and my desire is entirely gone.
It looks to me like a thermo-convectional-air-current (soaring pilots call them thermals) must have formed from the atoll, upwind of the kite-surfer; he ‘caught it’ and was carried up in this rising, warmer air, until it dissipated or drifted inland, past him. I’ve flown up to more than 17,000 feet by such thermals, when hang gliding in Arizona USA but such lifting air rarely gets a chance to form over the sea, due to cool sea breeze and the cooling affect of so much water. If this video isn’t some very well executed trickery, this man just enjoyed a spectacular and very rare rare experience and I’m jealous. Stay Awesome Brother!
That’s gotta be a little frightening even if you’re experienced at this. I’d imagine the wrong gust of wind could send you horizontal, and then swinging back and forth like a pendulum while you come down
One time Me and a few friends where at a kite show and one of them had a kite like this. All the sudden He started lifting off into the air friend managed to grab his legs and then I grabbed his and all 3 of us were dragged about 50 metres access a field before getting stopped by a tree. I he had been on his own He would of been taken up in the air 100s of feet and probably would of died.
In paragliding, towing requires specialized towing equipement, a licensed tower, and radio contact between the pilot and the tower. The speed, tension and angle of the rope need to be monitored constantly both by the pilot and the tower. The angle of attack also needs to be actively kept in check by the pilot. Why? Because towing involves huge forces, the glider pulls you up as the rope pulls you down. This is especially true when the rope is being reeled up by a winch (instead of pulled by a car or a boat), but also true in this case. Towing also makes the glider fly with unusual mechanics, which can lead to stalls, collapses and other failure modes. A kite is not meant to be flown that way. The gear (harness, lines) is not meant to withstand those forces, and I doubt anyone involved trained for this. They were just winging it and got lucky no one got hurt. That being said- I actually think that the long lines on the kite reduced the forces involved, so long as the surfer was able to stabalize any swinging action. The kite being inflatable allowed it to quickly recover from stalls and "collapses". I also think the surfer had a good enough understanding of the mechanics involved, and kept the angle of attack low. Please don't ever try this. Get a paraglider or a speedflying wing. Edit: Just in case you were wondering: every single paraglider line is rated to hold up to 60-80kg iirc, the weakest link is the carabiners connecting the harness to the glider, and they are rated to hold up to 400kg (20kn * 2 carabiners).
Just remember that if you let go when you are high enough, and the lanyard cannot support your weight and breaks, you will die or suffer permanent disability upon impact on the water surface. 60+m is the ballpark figure for certain death unless you land perfectly vertically feet first, muscles braced and joints locked. Anything less than 15m and you would probably be fine.
@Jannik in my 3 years of kiting I’ve never seen a line snap, I’ve heard stories of it happening but only to people who tensed they’re own lines against someone else’s in a crash, I’ve seen kites destroyed, deflated, broken, and torn fabric. But never a snapped line.
@@jochaldo8076 I’ve broken lines twice in 18 years of kite surfing. A rare event for sure, but it does happen. Both times happened during intense unpredictable gusts. Used to hang glide and I’ve hit massive thermals that could easily generate enough force on a kite line to break it. I doubt this guy has ever broken a line or done any soaring.
Actually this guy had very little control in the air. You can hear how streesed he was after releasing the line and half of the time he's falling backwards or spinning which indicates that it was very sketchy indeed. Also if he had control he would be more relaxed in the air and didn't do so many loops just to decent as fast as possible. Landing also shows that he was barely controling the fly down. One is clear- this dude was very lucky with so little expierience in such jumps. Watch some clips from snowkiting and how those riders control every aspect of the flight. It's a different story there.
@@nonnaurbisness3013 Nobody is "mad" at all. It's just that, if you make and upload a video like this, you could take a little responsibility and be honest to people that this was dangerous AF and that he was very lucky. He had actually lost control, it's obvious. This video should be titled "how not to do it!!"
Thats insane, literally. I do respect it, I know it’s dangerous and irresponsible snd all. But just imagine feeling when you land back! My deep respect 👏👏👏💪!
@@lynette599 because it takes a lot of courage to do it
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If he did this on a crazy strong updraft, I'd be impressed. He just used a boat to tow him up to that height, anyone with the same death wish could do that.
2 million views and counting., this guy is a rich star now and most of you (critics) work in fast food, show a little respect and admiration for those who try incredible things
takes off; "WOOO! WOOOOOOO!
50m: "WOOO! WOOOOoooo!"
100m: "WOO..wooooo"
150: "woooo? woo?"
haha hes like ‘ i supposed to be on the water haha’
😂😂😂😂😂
The translation of shrinking balls...
Lol
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This is the type of shit that happens in my dreams
This is how I fly in my dreams too
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Dude same
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If you look closely you’ll notice he is moving forward with the glider behind him. This means he is getting towed. Then as he decends he goes the opposite direction to the tow that took him up. You would not be able to go this high without a tether.
As a paragliding pilot and beginner kite surfer I would be scared out of my mind to have my centre of gravity that far from the wing for that long. Props to this guy, balls of steel and great wing control. Glad it ended well.
Edit:
I have learned more about the stability of the kite, although limited control compared to paragliders you can keep it over head, however the gear is not made or rated for this kind of stunt. None the less this guys massive balls managed to pull him back down to earth safely.
U also see a line to the boat
Paragliders can hill launch (most prefered) or winch launched. This is so dangerous, a tow/winch licence is required! With a week link in the tow line, and an emergency pair of cable croppers. The danger lies in getting into a powered turn into the ground. Sea in this case. If an accelerated turn starts, without a let off of power, the glider/kite is accelerated into a turn into the ground/sea. My experience is only with paragliders, so i might be completely wrong in seeing the same liklyhood in kitesurfing
@@plebpunk They are not designed the same. PPC chute is for flying [as a wing], these are kites - which is why it is called kite surfing.. As far as chute stability it is like instead of having a 500sqft PPC chute you fly a 150sqft chute. Although it is far less lift, it would be more stable and less prone to collapse [noting that having a chute too large is prone to collapse].
Two different technologies - however having the CG close to a parachute wing is less stable. For a PPC it is only bad because the farther you are away the longer it takes for power inputs to affect the chute. You feel less pendulum with the longer risers which is why you see it in kite surfing. In Kite surfing the wing can go around in circles which creates an autorotation type lift which is not effective with short risers.
Chill out bro, the center of gravity was stable and amplified by his enormous ball of steel
That kiss to the camera at the end was the ultimate sign of relief. He probably got out of the water and kissed the sand too 😂
He probably fcked the sand after that. Protect your lawn
@@work90there's always that one perverted dude who makes everything a dirty joke
@@work90tf is wrong with u this isn’t funny ur weird kid 💀
his woops were his attempt to convince himself this was fun and that he is ok.
...and his heavy panting told us he was actually petrified
😂😂😂
@epstein was killed dude if you`ve ever done something like this in your life, you know he`s right.....and that`s not necessarily a bad comment....
@@TheEEgo what he did just then could have killed him easily. Those are not designed to fly like a wing shoot.
@@81brassglass79 we've done this ourselves in the club on low wind days..not THIS high tho but also some dangerous heights. No one was ever hurt... yes you can die, you can die using it right too
My dad went kite surfing 🏄♂️ 10 years ago, and he still hasn’t come down.
@@ki3980 ✈️ Whoosh 💨
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Omg the best comment ever 🔥🔥😂
@@ki3980 kite surfing is code for meth. He’s saying he’s been high for 10 years
My dad went to the store 10 years ago and never came back... I think the wind must have taken him too...
At one point you could hear that his "woo" lost confidence.
His Name Is Giovanni Giorgio, but everybody calls him, Giorgio.
The feeling of touching back down water must have been better than the actual flight itself
Lol
nice thinking
Not even a joke. I once went hiking on a mountain range. It was meant to take 5-6 hours and we started at 1pm hoping to finish by 7pm and we must’ve got lost because we didn’t make it down until 1am and we were in the pitch black with no lights (besides our phones which we were probably using) couldn’t find the trails and we were terrified. There was only three of us but we all had cell phones so it wasn’t too big of an issue if we had to call someone we would have eventually.
Anyway once we reached near the parking lot I was more pumped than I had been all frickn day.
@@eutropius2699 what mountain
@@quinnpritchard8947 kangamangus mountains is the name of the range
I didn’t realize he was parasailing. I was thinking the wind just took him up that high lol
Charshii 😁
Thats my biggest fear why im scared to even attempt to fly xD
Parasailing is a really great way to do this type of sight seeing. Thousands and thousands parasail every day. But this guy is crazy AF....he could have a partial deflate which does not happen in parasailing because a parasail chute is much larger... but hey some ppl are suicidal.
kite surfing... parasailing is off the back of a boat with a cable.
@@tymirra8769 at 1.40 you see him dropping the cable
Bro! I fly planes for a living, and paraglide and kite surf for recreation, and that my brother was seriously some of thee most impressive flying, confidence, control I’ve ever seen on something that should NOT be used as an aircraft 😂😂😂
Huge respect from Australia my man 👊🏼✌🏼👍🏽
how does one even learn to do this?
@@SNWEC on accident..
Wait... you've come back to life?
@@elwoodroadsmusic9639 just a ghost !
Patrick Swayze: How much upper body strength do you need to hold on without it pulling out of your hands?
Luckily he was the cameraman too, that is what saved his life 😂
Lololololol
Didn't land it, 0 points.
🤣😅
Russian Judge gives the landing a 6.45...
Gees he crazy he don’t need to stick that landing lol 😂
@@alana133 score reduced to 5.45
Now we are waiting for your 150 mt jump video and a nice landing too!
A new way to immigrate into europe without going through customs .
Or covid passport
lol thats messed up lol
Fuck yes hahaha 😂😂
That’s how haadjee here in the video got to Europe.
Why would you want to emigrate to europe?
He's extremely lucky the kite didn't fold at +100m, super lucky
why would it fold
@@alekvassinskiy1286lol you must not be experienced
@@al69420 well explain then?
This is extremely dangerous. check at 0:06. His harness is just a belt wrapped loosely around his back with no leg straps. I've seen people slip out of their harness when doing jumps and lose their kite, harness and all. The red mechanism on the kite lines at chest height is a quick release. Kiters hit their quick release accidentally all the time. The gear is designed to "de-power and toss away" in an emergency.
It's alright, he was flying over water, the water is only soft at 150m 😂
Damn you’re right bro Holy crap
Ok.... I paraglide(>20 years), skydive(>12 years), starting now BASE jumping... and have to say this shit really scared me(in a bad way). Huuuuuge chance of ending in tragedy.
The fact he do it on purpose is crazy by itself. (We can clearly see the rope the boat use to pull him).
Agree
@NoFaceKira. see thats true but you can always control how far you're falling with a base jump, and the only real point of failure is how you land, with this, literally any failure, line, the release, change in wind (which nearly did kill him here) will just end in your death, theres very little control you have over your fate once you're up that high
Hi Michael - I am curious as to why this seems more scary to you than BASE jumping for example? Best regards, Lars
@@hunterra217 what about parachute not opening in time or wind changing causing you to smash back into the cliff/tower you're jumping from? Heard of a few people dying like that
As kids, before kitesurfing was invented, we wondered if you could build a kite big enough to fly with. Then some crazy person did it and we no longer wondered if such things were possible...
Ancient Chinese knew & did it.
You must be kinda aged...
@@2to253 LMAO the ancient Chinese were our neighbors...
Paramotors look cool too but you have to have awesome training and skill to not die when the shoot collapses
As a kid I was obsessed with hang gliders and would often use my delta shaped kites as a hang glider and see how high I could jump from the steps in our house....I also tried to make one with bed sheets and tree branches. I even tied a garbage bag to my arms and almost jumped off the roof. Would've made it too if my Grandma didn't stop by as I was on the roof getting ready. Lmao
Funniest part is: I'm teaching myself to fly my ultralight right now. I guess flying is burned into my DNA or something.
@@jamesordwayultralightpilot my brother trued bedsheets and an umbrella after watching Mary Poppins
This is like those dreams where you’re suddenly way too high in the air and you know you’re about to start falling 😢
It’s better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air than being in the air wishing you were on the ground.
Imagine the bonus hang time points on this combo.
😂
Well that was rather intense!
As my flight instructor said - "Any landing you walk away from is
a good landing"......scary but still cool !
No. Good style plays into a "good" landing. Your instructor is a kook.
@@landonmccalmon7121 its a movie line
Your flight instructor must be Launchpad McQuack
What a mad man!! Absolute legend! 💪
This seems INCREDIBLY dangerous--what happens if you lose control of your kite while you're up that high? You fall to your death. It's not like it's a parachute, those things could definitely collapse if there were sudden sever wind shear, which might be more likely up higher. I'm sure he knew this before doing it, but I don't think a lot of viewers of this video do.
id guess you just diie. BUT TOEALLEY WERTH IT BRUHHHHHHH WOO! Also yeah it can be worse than just falling if he starts spinning and hits the ground at 200mph
literally all of my nightmares right here and this guy does it for fun
😂
@@BentzProductions 😂😂
Dudes crazy... I already had multiple safety failiures / accidential release while kiteboarding. That shit just happens from time to time. But if it happens up there you dead bro.
You need a better kite
You also need a parachute as backup
@@mickjameson4384 records show that the minimum possible height to deploy a parachute is 30m . Although it is not recommended. The Military trains low altitude jumps from around 80 meters so anything above that we can assume is quite possible
So this wasn't normal then
A sudden Wind change could destabilize the kite and bring him straight down. I've seen that happening with this type of kitesurfing kites here in hawaii when people are doing aerials 6 meters in the air, it's a violent impact on the water surface, can't imagine what would happen in that altitude
That's why I prefer windsurfing, specially with the new naish design type kites, much safer and still fun
That takes some serious skill and guts to complete. If one thing went wrong, he was a goner. 🤯
You mean like Ken Bollocks?
One thing I'll never understand is why he took one hand off the handle... does he even understand the stress and danger if he lost his grip and was suddenly only relying on his harness?!
the 80's miami vice music really made the whoo's more exciting.....so much
Song name?
I Want You - Charles Kreamer 😎
Imagine telling somebody your hobby is surfing and you show them a video of you flying around the world
😂🤣😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'd like to do it, but I guess I won't ever! 😁
It’s so,expensive I have tried this in Thailand it cost me 100 dollar
But I think it’s affordable if you really want to do it
You can buy good used kite & board for 600-1500$
And your fuel(wind) is free 😁
(You need a 6 hour course before going by yourself!)
Wait for him to land first :)
@@BentzProductions how much was the boat tow? Lol
Watching his kite spin as he came down tells me how thought out this was.
Very dangerous. Almost a Darwin Award for removing himself from the gene pool.
how can he die? just land in water its soft
sirus312 you should join him
@@sirus312 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
sirus312 these are one of those heights that would crush your bones when landing in water
@@sirus312 landing on water from > 70m is like hitting concrete
Dude that was sick! Forget all the haters on here and their criticism, that took some serious skill to land safely, as well as balls of steel!
I have a suggestion for an epic follow up. It's something I'm planning on doing myself, but just in case God has other plans, I'll share it with you:
Connect the kite and the tow line to the same quick release. Make sure the release is sufficiently rated for the extra "weight" created by the tow.
Using a separate, small section of line, connect the tow line to the kite line near where both lines meet by the quick release, so that when the quick release is pulled, your harness disconnects from both the tow line and the kite, but the tow line and kite remain connected to each other (so the boat can retrieve the kite).
Wear a packed ram parachute with oversized pilot chute like used for BASE jumping, and when you reach sufficient altitude, hit the quick release and toss your pilot chute!
BASE jumping from a kite!!!
As far as I know, it's never been done before. It would be totally badass, and is actually probably safer than trying to land that kite like you did!
Mad respect on that btw. These mfers hating have no idea just how difficult that was. I'd trust a kite for gaining the altitude, but no freaking way I'd try to land one from that height!
Hats off to you brother
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some dude at my previous job by the beach, actually got lifted by one of these and thrown into someone’s like 50th floor condo window. He unfortunately passed away, be safe out there y’all.
Didn't noticed that they where skyscrapers on the shore In this one.
He clutched to that water and kissed that camera with gratitude. That made my palms sweat
Wow! I never knew things could look so small at only 150 meters high, but I haven't flown very much in my 66 yrs of life. Thanks for posting this exhilarating video!
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The fact that the camera has an ultra wide angle lens does play a role here.
I never doubt the authenticity of any videos on this platform, ever, period.
imagine just being one of the folk at the beach just casually watching some dude ascend
this guy is clearly a pro. going down 150m that fast this guyhas parasailed countless times my guess. ive only 3 times
He has never parasail… only kitesurfing…. He did few times before at 30m,50m,80m heights
@@BentzProductions damg tbat is insane
I felt the stoke that he had from that experience! Epic!!
You're crazy dude. It was amazing!!! You scared the shit out of me, though.
Dude is so happy to be back on ground/water. Kiteboarder turned Paraglider awesome! You could wet your pants without being noticed you did.
I love how his girlfriend is trying not to freak out and he's yelling "WOOOO!!!!". You sir know how to live!
0:20 I just love how casually he is starting to fly away just like that 😂
Yayyyyy!!! looks like you were scared yourself doing kiteloops to go down!)) amazing! So brave)
The absence of matter inside his skull helped him float.
This video looks amazing, something right out of my dreams
My palms were sweating the whole time I watched this. 😱
Gotta respect the guys balls doing this! - I on the other hand like being alive too much to risk it.
he seemed so chill, proffesional athlete😂
Video was so good I didn't even skip the commercials 😎💰
Wow. That's crazy. Glad he's ok. That would be a surreal experience
This was straight up a lucid dream i had a few years ago i'll never forget
lighting scenery everything... wild
You do lucid dreaming? Did you teach yourself or was something you were born with?
@@southsideman4891 I've always had them. I have very vivid dreams from when I was a young I can remember. Very minimal success controlling dreams but I do feel I can almost wish something to happen. Won't go 100% the way I intend but kind of guide what's happens next..
@@bryanbrown3079 that is incredibly intriguing. What a great gift you have. Thank you for replying.
I have dreams where im outside at a park and everytime i jump ill get exponentially higher. It gets to the point to where i jump above the clouds and it takes a couple of minutes to fall back down. The scariest part is when your accelerating toward the ground but you land on your feet unharmed.
@@5446isnotmynumber interesting
I saw a picture of a kite surfer, then I decided to check out prices online, then I saw fun ads and it’s getting me pumped! Now I found this video and my desire is entirely gone.
I've had dreams like this.
You mean nightmares
I do too... weird
Yes me too love them dreams 😴
dude every night
It’s possible now!
Wow! Right after Wingsuits in terms of thrill quotient...👍👏
It looks to me like a thermo-convectional-air-current (soaring pilots call them thermals) must have formed from the atoll, upwind of the kite-surfer; he ‘caught it’ and was carried up in this rising, warmer air, until it dissipated or drifted inland, past him. I’ve flown up to more than 17,000 feet by such thermals, when hang gliding in Arizona USA but such lifting air rarely gets a chance to form over the sea, due to cool sea breeze and the cooling affect of so much water. If this video isn’t some very well executed trickery, this man just enjoyed a spectacular and very rare rare experience and I’m jealous. Stay Awesome Brother!
That’s gotta be a little frightening even if you’re experienced at this. I’d imagine the wrong gust of wind could send you horizontal, and then swinging back and forth like a pendulum while you come down
One time Me and a few friends where at a kite show and one of them had a kite like this. All the sudden He started lifting off into the air friend managed to grab his legs and then I grabbed his and all 3 of us were dragged about 50 metres access a field before getting stopped by a tree. I he had been on his own He would of been taken up in the air 100s of feet and probably would of died.
In paragliding, towing requires specialized towing equipement, a licensed tower, and radio contact between the pilot and the tower. The speed, tension and angle of the rope need to be monitored constantly both by the pilot and the tower. The angle of attack also needs to be actively kept in check by the pilot.
Why? Because towing involves huge forces, the glider pulls you up as the rope pulls you down. This is especially true when the rope is being reeled up by a winch (instead of pulled by a car or a boat), but also true in this case. Towing also makes the glider fly with unusual mechanics, which can lead to stalls, collapses and other failure modes.
A kite is not meant to be flown that way. The gear (harness, lines) is not meant to withstand those forces, and I doubt anyone involved trained for this. They were just winging it and got lucky no one got hurt.
That being said- I actually think that the long lines on the kite reduced the forces involved, so long as the surfer was able to stabalize any swinging action. The kite being inflatable allowed it to quickly recover from stalls and "collapses".
I also think the surfer had a good enough understanding of the mechanics involved, and kept the angle of attack low.
Please don't ever try this. Get a paraglider or a speedflying wing.
Edit:
Just in case you were wondering: every single paraglider line is rated to hold up to 60-80kg iirc, the weakest link is the carabiners connecting the harness to the glider, and they are rated to hold up to 400kg (20kn * 2 carabiners).
People don't invite u back for a next party verry often ?
And a oversize skiff with a outboard is is about 6000lbs shy of the ideal tow vessel
@@superliegebeest544 I found his comment very informative, thank you very much...
Just remember that if you let go when you are high enough, and the lanyard cannot support your weight and breaks, you will die or suffer permanent disability upon impact on the water surface. 60+m is the ballpark figure for certain death unless you land perfectly vertically feet first, muscles braced and joints locked. Anything less than 15m and you would probably be fine.
Stupid comment
Not something I would like to think about if I did this, which would be never.
How many storeys of a building would 60 meters be?
@@lynette599 Approx 19 storeys. Me google smart.
Yea he was literally holding on for dear life, he masked his anxiety well. I probably would of been shouting all kinds of f bombs
I’m afraid this will happen to me even tho I have never kite surfed and I never will. 😂
That looks absolutely fantastic
Glad to see Bling Bling finally got over his crack addiction and is living large.
This comment has me dying.
Legend has it he's still flying to this day. He was last seen on the coast of Japan heading towards China and could be somewhere in Europe right now
zip it.
would you do it again?
surfer: Woooo!
I was definitely expecting a landing, but was pleasantly surprised lmao
This looks like something outta my dreams
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Using a tow line to the boat below. One control line snaps and he’s history
He literally has a kite and doesn’t need the tow line and yeah u haven’t kited before if u think one of those lines is gonna snap
@Jannik in my 3 years of kiting I’ve never seen a line snap, I’ve heard stories of it happening but only to people who tensed they’re own lines against someone else’s in a crash, I’ve seen kites destroyed, deflated, broken, and torn fabric. But never a snapped line.
@@jochaldo8076 I’ve broken lines twice in 18 years of kite surfing. A rare event for sure, but it does happen. Both times happened during intense unpredictable gusts. Used to hang glide and I’ve hit massive thermals that could easily generate enough force on a kite line to break it. I doubt this guy has ever broken a line or done any soaring.
That moment when you’re kitesurfing and you gotta radio ATC real quick cause you’re about to preform an emergency liftoff
legend says he's still flying
He has good control, but man, that is sketchy. After that everything else must seem boring!
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Actually this guy had very little control in the air. You can hear how streesed he was after releasing the line and half of the time he's falling backwards or spinning which indicates that it was very sketchy indeed. Also if he had control he would be more relaxed in the air and didn't do so many loops just to decent as fast as possible.
Landing also shows that he was barely controling the fly down.
One is clear- this dude was very lucky with so little expierience in such jumps. Watch some clips from snowkiting and how those riders control every aspect of the flight. It's a different story there.
@@truekejner you sir are a pinecone please share video of your 500ft ascent and descent and show me better control
Man so many people so mad about the risk someone else put their own life into. Thats some crazy egotistical entitlement Karen shit.
@@nonnaurbisness3013 Nobody is "mad" at all. It's just that, if you make and upload a video like this, you could take a little responsibility and be honest to people that this was dangerous AF and that he was very lucky. He had actually lost control, it's obvious.
This video should be titled "how not to do it!!"
Was watching with no sound. When he was why up there all I heard in my head was. "And it was at this moment he new he had fucked up"
Perfect music! Hilarious. He looked like someone that didn't know what he was doing and just went flying up in the air.
Actually he is a pro rider 🤘🏼🕺🏻
@@BentzProductions I believe it. I was just talking about the long distance camera shots of him floating up into the sky.
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Wow...what an adrenaline rush that would be! 🙂👍
You the man! My hands were sweating just watching this. I just got a little trainer kite that I can't wait to try out. Stay safe!
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Watching this right before my first time kite surfing
This guy is living the best life ever!
The international "the floor is lava" champion
"Wooh!" "Wooooh!" "Wooh!"
Imagine if they were his final words.
I bet he will never doing it again..
Suprised he can go that high up with those balls of steel
That is one of the craziest sh*t I've ever seen. So much could have gone wrong. Lucky guy!
Got to say, didn't believe it when I read the description, but that was amazing. Got to get me a kite now.
Amazing view. I’ve been at blue lagoon fantastic place🔝
My dad was at like 100+ meters and he fell down, broke 3 bones and had 2 operations. Dangerous sport
0:39 the moment when you thought they were placing a statue somewhere
Imagine how his “woo woo’s” will sound after he hits puberty!
When you’re saying “woooh fantastic” but really thinking “thank f*ck i’m down”......
Ahh wtf he is fkng fearless 😳😳🙌💯May god bless you and protecting you my friend ❤🙌
He was surfing them big waves in the sky!
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Watch out for jet traffic while you're up there.
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Crazy stuff, I think thats where my life would just start replaying through my head lmao.
This was an amazing paragliding video…
Looks like he was being pulled by that boat and went parasailing then released.
Thats insane, literally. I do respect it, I know it’s dangerous and irresponsible snd all. But just imagine feeling when you land back!
My deep respect 👏👏👏💪!
But why respect stupidity? Admire his guts, yes, but respect?
@@lynette599 because it takes a lot of courage to do it
If he did this on a crazy strong updraft, I'd be impressed. He just used a boat to tow him up to that height, anyone with the same death wish could do that.
LOL
2 million views and counting., this guy is a rich star now and most of you (critics) work in fast food, show a little respect and admiration for those who try incredible things
Nossa belo por demais corage
Louco e inconsequente/se de repente o vento mudar e as cordas virarem é morte na queda com certeza.
great video! so awesome! :D
Thank u! 🙏
Update: He is now Egypt’s most prolific evangelical preacher ever.