That last little lesson about launching with one hand on the eject is such a good one. It should be IKO / Bksa standard practice. It would have saved a mate of mine 3 broken ribs, punctured lung, concussion and two broken tibias. Yep, there was a great big signpost on the beach. Thankfully he had a helmet on or he'd no longer be with us. Despite the helmet, he couldn't tell me his date of birth for 48 hrs. Nobody can locate their chicken loop eject while flying horizontally over the beach at 25knots - unless their hand is already on it 👍

Probably one of the greatest instructional channels on KZfaq!

This deserves the Nobel Peace Prize imo! Such great advice and golden advice at that for newbies and veterans! Love to see you talking into the camera - so important to put a face to the voice of all these incredibly valuable pieces of content you have provided our community!

Great and professional review of mistakes and awesome tips how to avoid them! Thank you so much? your content is a true gem!

Brand new kiter here (long time windsurfer) - The one hand on the chicken loop is great advice and something my instructor did not cover. Seems like a critical point to make a standard part of instruction!

You do a GREAT service to the kiting community with these videos. Thank you from Brazil!

Thanks a lot from Russia! Great video guide and job!

Thanks. I have kited for 18 years and keep pulling good information from your videos. Wish they were around when i started! Kiting is a sport that you can never take for granted, no matter how many hours you have on the water. You can always learn something that will make you better and might even save you. Well done.

These information are crucial! I watched both KiteMares #1 and #2 and I may say these are far more important from most of the tutorials. Thanks for sharing, appreciated. More episodes are more than welcomed.

Excellent training video! Definitely learned some things to look for while kiting. Thanks keep them coming!!

Great video as always. Love the production value that goes into this.

Best video I have seen so far (intermediate kiter), many thanks for this!

Great and important tips! I believe when kiting frequently and at different kite spots you will experience this in one or the other way yourself or with others…I agree that many kiters had not enough lessons or maybe not good quality of lessons. On the other side, all kite spots have their specialties to deal with and many people tend to be overwhelmed with such unknown conditions.

Very nice. Those are quite realistic and often encountered scenarios that are rarely discussed. Re hand on eject on launch, I will start doing this going forward and hope encourage other kiters to.

These are so good that they should be watched periodically

Great content and analysis, as allways! A must-watch for all kite(students). Thanks for taking the time to make these, looking foreward to the next one!

Thanks, i share many of your vids to each of my friends starting kitesurfing as its crucial for safety and often neglicted by kiteschools !

thanks! great tip on using line tension as a tool to check all is in order. in general having more classes is important. Although i feel that launching the kite is practiced way too little during classes...

Really good refresher for me. It’s been a couple years since my lessons and I don’t recall the idea of checking for loose steering lines.

Excellent video. Clear, concise, lots of useful information, great analysis and presentation.Thanks for the effort you put into this, it's appreciated!

Thanks a lot, this is golden advice👍 Even I had kite lessons but no one taught not only one of these things to me. Great job!

These videos are just so incredibly good. Incredible work!

Brilliant content as always! It's awesome how well you detail the issues. Your great videos have already saved me a couple of times. Keep up the great content and thanks for your contribution to the community!🤙

Ah didn't know there's a part 2! Thanks, top quality as usual.

Excellent examples and very well explained and illustrated. Really great and useful content. Thank you!

As usual high quality content : clear, analytic and providing advise on what to learn from these situations. Thanks fir contributing to Kitesurf becoming safer !

Thank you so much for this great content. Your analysis of these failures has a lot of value. Thk you so much for sharing.

Check your kite lines obsessively before launch, hand on quick release, never be scared to let go of the bar, never be scared to pull the chicken loop, if you ever get into a death loop get rid of the kite if you can't because the line or bar is around your harness pick a steering line and start pulling on it keep pulling on the line like your life depends on it till the kite stalls it will stall

Man this reviews are like GODDLES and can save someones live, God bless You for making them! :D

Really appreciate the intelligent approach that you take to the subject of kitemares. Keep up the good, common sense, work.

Great video , your classes are really nice, thanks!

Thank you! This is so useful. Hope to see more videos like these from you 😁

Very instructive and useful!

Thanks for the great tips, please keep more kitemare videos coming!

Great format with many useful tips! Thanks for the video :)

Yet again a great video! Well done!

Awesome... thank you. That teaches some respect, We have done so many lessons allready ovef the years, these points should be taught more, edpecially the onf handed launch (can not recall that being taught imoressively to me or my kids)

This channel is a wealth of knowledge. Thank you. BTW, you are younger than your voice sounds :D

Thanks for detail instruction. it's good and worth video for beginner!! Thanks!! Thanks!!!!!

Greeeeeat video! Again. Learning never stops....

thank you for these videos, they are awesome

A truly excellent video

thanks for doing this!

Youre such a good instructor.

Thanks for the amazing video

Great video, thank you !

should have watched before going on myself. i can only recommend all newbies to do so. i ended up with broken shoulder, broken rip and head injurie ....

Great, great videos!

Hopefully when more information comes out about the death in Florida you review for safety of future kiters.

Super informative

Suuper valuable content!

Awesome thanks

It’s1 very interesting video, thanks a lote 🙏

Как всегда подробно и кратко.

Respect!!!

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There is no such thing as line stretch, only shrink and center lines simply shrink less, sorry, pet peeve. Also going to suggest NOT releasing the loop when in a line wrap deathloop even for intermediate kiters. Assuming no immediate obstacles it tends to be safer to reach for the far steering line and pull that in to backstall since the result is guaranteed regardless of what is causing the loop.

Awesome video

The last clip is from Mezhvodnoe, Crimea, which is basically one big kiteschool, sometimes with quite questionable kite instructors. Some kiteschools are so sketchy and desperate they are recruiting inexperienced kiters to work as instructors. So the girl in that clip might be the victim of one of them.

Tank you :))

So in 2nd case where qr safety system didn't work what the kiter should have done? Release leash immediately? I know that some people recommend to pull steering line then but what is your opinion on that? What could have been done better here? It looks like a serious design problem that qr may not work as expected I wonder if it happens often? :)

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Hey! How do I become a member? I wanna see your old school 101 vids. Awesome channel by the way. 🤙

I am having a hard time understanding why safety equipment (helmet and impact/flotation vest) is not worn by kitersurfers! My background is hang gliding where we are only near the ground a couple of times each flight, helmets and parachutes are mandatory. Shouldn't use of safety gear be promoted by schools, instructors and mentors?

The single most important thing you can do to avoid accidents and you don't go over it. You don't go over it in part one. You don't go over it here so I assume you guys don't know that the single most important factor in avoiding accidents is muscle memory. Every kiter must practice using the qr. Doesn't matter how skilled you are. I've lost count of the "experts" that explain smugly how safe they are because they haven't used the qr in a decade not even to practice. The brain doesn't decide to use the qr. Muscle memory does it. And the only way to get it is practice. One hand on the qr does nothing if you don't practice using it. On average people take 8 seconds to use their qr. That's the single most important difference between laughing it off and a trip with flashing lights. I'm never surprised that experts don't tell you how important it is to practice the qr. They got all this other stuff to talk about.