The goal of this video is to familiarize kiteboarders with the 3 main safety systems used on the market nowadays and for kiteboarders to learn how to retrieve the kite quickly and safely in the event of any emergency. Every safety system being ultimately slightly different in design and operation, it is vital for every kiteboarder to fully understand the functioning of their own safety system. If in doubt, always refer to the Instruction manual of your kite for more details and/or seek professional advice PRIOR to using your kite for the first time.
Before going out on the water with a new kite for the first time, every kiteboarder should activate the safety system while the kite is flying, making sure there is plenty of space downwind free of obstacles, people, other kiteboarders, etc. This will get the kiteboarder comfortable in releasing the safety system and also become familiar with the way the kite behaves after doing so.
Every kiteboarder in their first lesson must be asked to activate the safety system whilst flying and be shown how to retrieve the kite quickly and safely in the event of an emergency on the beach or in shallow waters. This should be considered as a beginner skill and must be repeated until the kiteboarder is confident and safe in retrieving the kite without assistance in preparation for any emergency scenarios that may be encountered in the future.
The emergency self-landing differs from the advanced self-landing (also shown in another video) in a way that it is done after an unplanned and unexpected problematic/emergency/panic scenario, such as: getting dragged on the beach through the power zone, kite washed up and tumbled on the water's edge, overpowered, getting lifted off the ground, kite falling off the sky with slack lines, tangled lines, etc.
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