Water lessons at the Albany racetrack... are you kidding me?
Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2015 5:51 pm
~4:30, today:
1) First, you were doing jumps ~15 feet from shore. I mean, that's fine (I guess) - you weren't a beginner, but you could have literally gone a single tack upwind and then a dropped kite wouldn't mean beheaded, murdered children and dogs. Slightly poor judgment.
2) You switched your bar in the water with an obviously total beginner lady who was both obviously new at this and overpowered and were apparently giving her a kite control lesson. Are you kidding me?! At a congested, multi-use beach where, directly downwind of her, there were dogs, children, adults, then big scary rocks, then giant logs and wooden posts and a bench, then parking lot and cars, and that's just in the first 75 feet. That doesn't seem like a good idea.
3) She got yanked, fell on her face, released the kite, and hey, I guess you forgot to tell her to put the leash on so the kite took off, dragging 75 feet of line and the bar through a bunch of innocent bystanders. Who could have seen that coming? I liked that your immediate reaction was not to make sure the kite hadn't killed anybody or to make sure it wasn't going anywhere else, but instead to let her get it while you went back to your car.
I wish I knew who you were but I had to run, and I'm also a non confrontational wimp. Was that your black truck with the "rentkiteboards.com" magnetic decal thing on the side of the truck? If not, sorry to drag your name into this.
You should be ashamed.
1) First, you were doing jumps ~15 feet from shore. I mean, that's fine (I guess) - you weren't a beginner, but you could have literally gone a single tack upwind and then a dropped kite wouldn't mean beheaded, murdered children and dogs. Slightly poor judgment.
2) You switched your bar in the water with an obviously total beginner lady who was both obviously new at this and overpowered and were apparently giving her a kite control lesson. Are you kidding me?! At a congested, multi-use beach where, directly downwind of her, there were dogs, children, adults, then big scary rocks, then giant logs and wooden posts and a bench, then parking lot and cars, and that's just in the first 75 feet. That doesn't seem like a good idea.
3) She got yanked, fell on her face, released the kite, and hey, I guess you forgot to tell her to put the leash on so the kite took off, dragging 75 feet of line and the bar through a bunch of innocent bystanders. Who could have seen that coming? I liked that your immediate reaction was not to make sure the kite hadn't killed anybody or to make sure it wasn't going anywhere else, but instead to let her get it while you went back to your car.
I wish I knew who you were but I had to run, and I'm also a non confrontational wimp. Was that your black truck with the "rentkiteboards.com" magnetic decal thing on the side of the truck? If not, sorry to drag your name into this.
You should be ashamed.