Shooting some local lads this weekend at Sunshine Beach Qld and this happened...Could have been alot worse!

We interviewed tommy on what happened which you can read here:
www.freedomkitemag.com/destroyed-tom-mcgregors-kite-torn-apart/

slightly rock damaged kite for sale on gumtree

There was no way we could quickly get down the cliff face we were perched on with camera gear etc to help.... it all happened within about 1 minute too as you can see.Sometimes you just gotta kick back and film the show

kkiter said..
Nice job getting down there to help. Possibly could have saved it!

I'm going to put on my cynical hat and say: Righ...t. It's everyone else's job to drop what their doing and help you relaunch.

Don't think there was much to be camera man could have done, it was all over pretty quick and water swept rocks are not the place to trying rescue kites. Better to have lost a kite and not a kite and a life.

Nice that the other riders were keeping an eye on him....

Man, I couldn't even watch the end of that. Poor bugger

Dl33ta said..
Lucky he had the surfboard, no chance of swimming out of that one with the amount of current going through that channel. There is a couple of those spots on that run with some alluring nice waves but serious gotchas if you get it wrong.

Yes lucky indeed considering tommy didn't have a leg rope... perhaps a good argument as to why wear a leg rope when kiting off sticky rocky headlands?

I heard it was for the shoot they did, probably to get a good photo thats magazine worthy!

djt91184 said..
Why kite so close to the rocks anyway? The closest rocks south of there are at Coolum 20kms away

Hey guys check out why he was kiting there in the interview we did:
www.freedomkitemag.com/destroyed-tom-mcgregors-kite-torn-apart/

Scary stuff. It does go to show that Mother Nature rules it all at the end of the day.

Nice kite save Beaver! hahaha.