Landing and Retrieving Your Kite From a Boat - (Kiteboarding Tip)
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
- Landing and Retrieving Your Kite From a Boat
With Ryan Levinson
This video shows various techniques for landing and retrieving your kite from a boat. In this example we are operating from a catamaran (sailboat) but these techniques also work well with dinghies, powerboats, or really anywhere that you don't have a dry place to land your kite.
WARNING: This video shows advanced skills. Do not attempt these unless you have the experience needed to understand the risks and you have the skills needed to mitigate them. Failure to do so could result in severe injury or death. In other words, try this at your own risk!
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Notes:
Performing the steps in a slow controlled fashion is key.
Rad Rope Retrieval:
1. A floating rope (for example, polypropylene) with a small float and carabiner at one end works best.
2. Approach the rope slowly and under control with the kite high overhead.
3. Grab the rope with your hand closest to the boat and use your other hand to slowly "land" the kite in the water so that it is resting on its wingtip in a stable position (just like the final position during a re-launch).
4. Connect the carabiner to the harness loop or Fireball. Note that for a Fireball system you can use a small carabiner and clip it to the bendy "stem" attached to the ball.
5. Unclip your leash and detach your harness from the bar and lines.
Ass First Arrival:
1. Ride to the boat in slow controlled fashion with your kite relatively high.
2. As you approach the boat de-power your kite and control your speed so that you come off a plane and "sink" right at the point where you want to sit down.
3. Then sit your ass down and land/detach the kite just like you do with the Rad Rope Retrieval explained above.
Bitchin Bow Booyah:
1. Approach the boat on a slow controlled plane with the kite flying low (about the height of your helper).
2. It's best to aim your kite 5-10 feet downwind of the person catching your kite because the kite will surge forward when you come off your plane.
3. You can use your edge to help control the kite surging forward and to control your speed.
4. When your helper has the kite swim a few strokes toward them to slack the lines so they can control the kite.
5. It is important you use a helper that has enough experience to know the proper way to handle a kite without damaging it (for example, never hold the kite by the canopy and avoid dragging it over sharp or abrasive surfaces).
Love your straight up, no bullshit, clear but punchy instruction style Ryan.
Mick
Cheers Mick, thanks!
Next level shit right there ! I’m still bodydragging
What a good starter kit,I'm in Australia.
I used to race small boats and wore through many of board shorts in the ass. Then I got a Tornado catamaran which was a bit better as I was usually on the wire and then got a Nacra 6.0 with a spinnaker because I wanted to go fast on a reach and down wind and experience a reaching spinnaker and how it felt on a catamaran. Apparently, our small group was the first small racing catamarans to attempt sailing with a spinnaker according to talking with others in our group. It was all experimental and everyone had a different looking sail and home made spinnaker pole. I used an aluminum wind surfer mast and attached it to the top of the dolphin striker and tied the other end to the bridal wire foil just aft of the bow. It was a wild ride. My crew was my hot girlfriend but she sort of sucked at being my crew because she didn't enjoy it. Then I got a Nacra 5.8 because it was a smaller rig and I could handle it much better even when I went solo. Now I want a big boy cat like what you have and cruise the tropics. I spoke to my wife about moving to the South Pacific, what island do you think would be the best to live on being an American and hopefully getting a dock to park my boat or getting a slip in a marina?
Sounds like you had a blast! As for your question Robert, Moorea is a touristy island but not like Bora Bora but there are a few Americans that live here. At some point in their lives they met and married a local. :)
Incredible
Great thanks for your videos
A greeting from Spain
Thanks guys. Love your work.
Hey thanks for the props! Stoked to hear that! Cheers! :) N
Thanks for posting!
Grins, where have you been? We haven't heard from you in so long. N
Nice video ! Keep doing things like this , I like it a lot👍🏼👌🏻 . If you want you can watch my last kitesurf video
👋🏻Florida ☀️🌴🇺🇸 This Video to X Rated for me. 😜😂 Excuse me for not watching it all. 😂
We forgive you Dennis. :) N
2nd! Yes! 👍😂
Impressive
:) I tell him that quite often. :) N
@@TwoAfloat Yes it's true...it's recorded in lots of your videos...but what I should of said in the first place was "HOW VERY IMPRESSIVE"✨✨✨✨✨✨