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Rick IossiSAFE KITEBOARDING GUIDELINES – February 2, 2004
The following ideas are presented to try to improve kiteboarder and
bystander safety, to reduce complaints and attempt to preserve our access to
ride. These ideas have been taken from the analysis of over 100 accidents
that have happened worldwide over several years. Many of these accidents
might have been avoided if a bit more knowledge and care were used.
Kiteboarding can be hazardous to the rider and to bystanders, particularly
if practiced without adequate training, safety gear, knowledge and caution.
NOTE: Riders must accept that even if these guidelines are followed, that
accidents, injury and even death may occur in the “extreme sport” of
kiteboarding. Kites can exert very substantial force with little to no
warning with sudden gusts, improper line attachment, mishandling, etc.,
resulting in dragging and/or lofting, possibly with no time to effectively
react. And, NO “you can’t always just let go or kill the power of the
kite,” as many accidents have established. Your ability to safely depower
your kite in an emergency will weigh heavily on your technique, preparation
and reliability of your gear.Kiteboarders should consider these ideas, area specific guidelines if
applicable along with other prudent and safe practices appropriate for local
conditions. Cutting corners or picking and choosing safe kiteboarding
practices can seriously reduce the rider’s factor of safety and increase the
odds of an accident. Seek local, competent knowledge regarding safe local
practices as special precautions may be indicated beyond those discussed
here. Safety automatically increases to some degree once the rider becomes
both aware of and takes potential hazards seriously. By contrast, ignorance
and indifference raise the hazard level substantially and have frequently
been a factor in avoidable accidents. These guidelines have been updated
frequently over the years, so please check the FKA website for the latest
version. Don’t use old versions of these guidelines as important changes
occur with new knowledge gained over time.GENERAL SAFETY GUIDELINES
1. JUMP TO HELP KITEBOARDERS. Readily help other riders with launching and
landing using reliable agreed upon visual and audible communications.
Whether you are starting out or are almost a pro, your help may avoid a
serious incident/accident and possible restrictions. NEVER grab the lines of
a flying or powered kite. Get involved with your local association or club
and with area riders to try to preserve access to kiteboard. Riders are
solely responsible for their safety and that of effected bystanders. If you
are new to an area or visiting, seek out local kiteboarders, shops and/or
associations for local guidelines and tips BEFORE riding. Don’t ruin things
for the local riders.2. GET ADEQUATE PRO KITEBOARDING TRAINING. Kiteboarders, particularly
beginners should seek adequate, quality professional instruction. Beginners
must avoid crowded areas particularly as kite control is still being
developed. Beginners should body drag out at least 300 ft. (60m) from shore
prior to water starting and should always stay out of guarded or restricted
beach areas. Be careful in your launch area selection and be willing to
drive and walk a bit further to have more ideal conditions. Build your skill
and experience carefully, you will advance faster for your effort. Riders
have been injured for choosing poor launches when far safer conditions were
relatively close by. Be particularly careful in new conditions and at the
START and END of the riding season. Many accidents occur in these times
even among experienced riders. In kiteboarding, “DISTANCE IS YOUR FRIEND,”
so use it!3. KITEBOARD WITHIN YOUR LIMITS. Know your equipment’s limitations as well
as your own. If you aren’t 100% healthy OR IN DOUBT, DON’T FLY! You should
be comfortable with conditions and your gear otherwise, don’t launch and
“live to fly another day.” Always maintain an energy reserve while out
kiteboarding. Hydrate regularly and wear adequate exposure clothing
(wetsuit/dry suit), to deal with unexpected time in the water. Cold water
kiteboarding requires additional critically important precautions as
compared to warmer conditions and are beyond the scope of these guidelines.
Don’t kiteboard alone or further from shore than you are readily able to
swim in from.4. USE A KITE LEASH, QUICK RELEASE, HELMET, IMPACT VEST and other reasonable
safety gear. Make sure you have proper safety equipment, such as a tested,
well maintained kite depowering leash securely attached to your body, a good
well fitting helmet, impact vest, gloves, whistle and hook knife. Most
kiteboarding fatalities involve head injury. A good helmet for kiteboarding,
MAY aid in reducing injury and improve the chance of survival in many but
not necessarily all impacts. A helmet is NO excuse to kiteboard carelessly.
Regularly test and maintain a reliable chicken loop or kite depowering
release. Relying upon manual unhooking alone to release your bar is
UNRELIABLE based upon the accident experience. The rider needs to understand
and accept that in an emergency, this quick release MAY NOT be accessible or
function correctly in the critical seconds of the emergency. It is up to the
rider to avoid the emergency in the first place and to aid proper function
of the release through practice and maintenance.5. LAUNCH, RIDE AND LAND WELL AWAY FROM BYSTANDERS. Give way to the public
on the beach and in the water at ALL TIMES. Be courteous and polite to
bystanders. Complaints have frequently led to bans and restrictions on
kiteboarding in some areas and continue to do so on a regular basis. NEVER
launch, ride or land upwind of nearby bystanders. Work to keep a minimum
300 ft. (100 m) buffer zone from bystanders.6. BE AWARE OF THE WEATHER. Is the forecast and current weather
acceptable, free of pending storm clouds and excessive gusty winds? Color
radar can sometimes give a clue as to violent storm/gust potential. Are
seas and wind condition within your experience, ability and appropriate for
your gear? New kiters should practice in lighter, side or side onshore
winds. Onshore winds have a much higher injury rate even among experienced
riders and should be avoided. Offshore winds should be avoided in the
absence of a chase boat. If storm clouds are moving in, land and thoroughly
disable your kite well in advance of any change in wind or temperature, if
necessary depower your kite while still away from shore. Lightning can
strike many miles ahead of storm clouds. Learn about unstable weather in
your area and work to avoid squalls and storms through TV, radio and
Internet information. Consider organizing an alert air horn and flag signal
for your launch as a warning to riders of pending unstable weather.PREFLIGHT CHECKLIST
1. USE GOOD LAUNCH AREAS. Make sure your launch is open, FREE OF DOWNWIND
BYSTANDERS, hard objects, nearby power lines, buildings and walls, etc.
within at least 300 ft. (100 m), and preferably more particularly in higher
wind. Too many riders have slammed into walls, parked cars, trees with
better launches not so far away at all. Some riders have needed in excess
of 600 ft. (200 m), to regain control in violent dragging or loftings in
higher winds. Avoid kiteboarding near airports and in low flight path areas,
complaints have led to restricted access in some areas. Never fly your kite
in the path of low aircraft in flight, moving your kite low to the water at
the first indication of inbound aircraft.2. WHAT SIZE KITE ARE OTHER RIDERS USING? Check to see what size kite other
kiteboarders are rigging and get their input on conditions. Try to select a
kite size for the lower to middle part of the wind range. Do not rig too
large a kite for conditions and carefully consider advice of more
experienced riders. Failure to act on prudent advice has cost some riders
severe injury and even death. If you don’t have a small enough kite to
safely launch, DON’T!3. CHECK & REPAIR YOUR GEAR BEFORE YOU FLY. Check your kite for tears or
leaky bladders. If you have leaky bladders or tears in your kite, repair
them before flying. Check ALL kite, harness, and control bar lines, webbing,
pigtails, bridles, the chicken loop and leaders for knots, cuts, wear or
abrasion. If the line sheathing shows any breaks or knots, replace them. The
pigtails should be replaced no less frequently than every 6 months on
inflatable kites. Inspect and test your quick release. Frequently, mentally
and physically rehearse pulling your quick release in an imagined emergency
situation. Make sure your flying lines are equal as they will stretch
unevenly with use. If they have knots that can’t be easily untied, replace
your flight lines. Do not casually make changes to manufactured equipment.
What ever you do must work reliably in what conditions may come.4. AVOID SOLO LAUNCHING. Solo launching and landing are NOT recommended and
should be avoided particularly in stronger winds. Launch with a trained
assistant, using reliable audible and visual signals. If solo launching
make sure your kite is properly anchored with a substantial quantity of sand
to avoid premature launch. Never use untrained bystanders to help you launch
or land. Riders have been severely injured by making this easy mistake. Rig
your kite for solo launch at the last minute and launch without delay AFTER
CAREFUL PREFLIGHTING as serious accidents have happened in only minutes
during this stage. If you leave the kite unattended, wrap up your lines,
deflate the kite’s leading edge and roll it up. It is best to place the kite
in a bag to avoid UV and wind damage.5. CROSSED KITE LINES CAN WRECK YOUR DAY. Launching with crossed or snagged
lines has maimed quite a few kiteboarders as the kite tends to fly up at
very high speed, dragging or lofting the rider into a nearby hard objects
faster than they can react. Walk down your lines and examine them
carefully. Pick your bar up and carefully look down the lines for twists,
tangles or snags that could cause the kite to be dangerously uncontrollable.
While you are holding your bar up look down the lines, shake your bar to
make sure the center lines are connected to the leading edge of the kite. Be
particularly careful, slow and methodical in high winds. Multiple, careful
preflighting in higher winds is strongly advised. Rigging “Kook Proof”
connectors on our kite and lines is easily done with most kites and should
be rigged on all your kites and bars.LAUNCHING AND GETTING UNDERWAY
1. LAUNCH & LAND UNHOOKED WITH A GOOD BUFFER ZONE. Avoid hooking in or
connecting with your quick release, while onshore or near hard objects.
Practice LAUNCHING AND LANDING “UNHOOKED” or not connected to your chicken
loop. Pull in your trim strap or rope entirely or to a point that will allow
stable kite flight with existing wind conditions, to properly depower the
kite before launching and so that you can readily hold the bar and release
it if necessary. Always maintain minimum clear downwind buffer zones,
particularly while flying unhooked. Physically and mentally rehearse
managing emergency situations including just “letting go” of your bar.
Connect to your quick release once you are well offshore.2. KEEP IT LOW & GO! … to try to avoid lofting or involuntary lifting. DO
NOT bring your kite much above 10 to 20 feet (3 to 6 m) from the ground and
NEVER to the vertical, within 300 ft. (100 m) of shore or any hard object.
Never launch, fly or land upwind and close to the shore or hard objects or
stand on the beach for extended with your kite in the air. This careless
practice has killed and maimed riders. This practice MAY reduce the chance
of lofting but may also promote dragging and serious injury in gusty/strong
wind conditions. So, if you are dragged be ready to depower instantly and
ideally before the dragging starts in the first place. HAZARD AVOIDANCE IS
THE KEY along with rapid preemptive, rehearsed actions. Do not fly your
kite near vertical or sloped surfaces that can cause uplift and sudden
dragging/lofting (walls, buildings, hills, tree lines, etc,). Avoid thermal
generating areas as sudden thermal lofting can occur. Launch in the
appropriate part of the wind window to avoid “hot” or over-powered downwind
launches. Make sure that there are no bystanders within your downwind
buffer zone or close by in general.3. GET OFFSHORE AND STAY THERE. Go offshore at least 300 ft. (100 M)
WITHOUT DELAY after launch. Stay beyond 300 ft. until time to come in. If
there are substantial waves where you need to put on your board consider
body dragging outside the breaker zone first. The fun is offshore, danger
to the rider & bystanders is near shore where most of the hard stuff is
located.4. YIELD THE RIGHT OF WAY. Yield the right of way to all others in the
water. Riders must yield to others when jumping, to anyone on your right
hand side and to launching riders. When in doubt, STOP. Kiteboarders
should not jump within a buffer zone of at least two hundred feet (60 m) of
others and objects that are downwind. Always be aware of the position of
your lines relative to others, line cuts can be severe and tangled lines
with another kite, deadly.5. BOARD LEASHES ARE DANGEROUS. All kiteboarders are encouraged to master
body dragging for board recovery. Use of a board leash is dangerous and is
generally discouraged due to the hazards of board rebound or wave driven
impact. Injuries have happened with both fixed length and reel leashes.
Wearing a helmet and impact vest is always advised but may not provide
adequate projection against board impact as the boards can and have
violently hit any part of the rider and have penetrated helmets. If there
is risk of your loose board hitting bathers, find another launch.6. DON’T GET LOFTED! Lofting or involuntarily lifting isone of the
greatest hazards of kiteboarding. Avoiding unstable weather, keeping your
kite low and getting offshore without delay are only a few of the measures
necessary to avoid this threat. If despite all precautions you are dragged
or lofted a short distance AND have time to react, depower your kite as soon
as you start to pause. You will likely be dulled by shock so mentally
rehearse depowering immediately under such circumstances. Depowering
ideally should occur before you are lofted, still offshore and away from
hard objects. Multiple gusts can hit over a short period and you may be
lofted a second or third time, so ACT to depower your kite as soon as you
can. DO NOT ASSUME that you will have a lull between loftings, sometimes you
do and sometimes you don’t. If you are air born over land, it is uncertain
how and if you will come out of things. Focus on controlling your kite with
small control inputs to avoid stalling the kite. Some have advised keeping
the kite overhead AFTER you are lofted and to try to gently steer towards
the least hazardous are to impact. Other riders have said that reversing
direction or transitioning after lofting has helped to reduce forward speed.
It would be wise to accept and plan for the fact that YOU CAN BE LOFTED AT
ANYTIME you have a kite in the air.LANDING
1. USE ASSISTED LANDINGS BUT … SOLO DEPOWER IMMEDITELY IF NECESSARY!
Approach the shore slowly with caution. Keep your kite low (ideally within
10 to 20 ft. of the surface), to try avoid lofting. Take care to avoid
causing an accidental jump in well powered conditions while approaching the
shore. Arrange for assisted landings at least 300 ft. (100 m) from
bystanders, power lines, vertical surfaces, etc.. NEVER not use
non-kiteboarders for assisted launches or landings, as use of bystanders has
resulted in severe rider injuries. Use mutually understood hand and voice
signals to improve launch and landing safety. Riders have been killed
standing around looking for an assisted landing when gusts have hit. IF IN
ANY DOUBT, DEPOWER YOUR KITE even if you are still offshore. ALL riders
should be comfortable with depowering their kite immediately even in deep
water and swimming in to avoid being lofted or dragged in sudden gusting
winds.2. STOW YOUR GEAR. Properly anchor (or ideally deflate your leading edge
and roll up your kite), disconnect and wind up your kite lines. Do not allow
your kite to be accidentally launched. Kites should be placed in a safe
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Fri Feb 20, 2004 1:12 am Post subject: WAVES & DOWNED KITES
I just heard about an accident today involving a very experienced kiteboarder. The rider was doing a downwinder with a 20 m LEI kite in lighter winds, roughly 12 mph gusting to 17 mph side to side onshore. There were some 4 to 6 ft. ground swells forming about 300 ft. offshore.The rider repeatedly tried to relaunch his kite from the water with no success. He then decided to “self-rescue” by winding his lines up on his bar, swimming up to his kite.
A breaking wave caught his kite and moved it towards shore at speed with considerable force. He became tangled in the kite lines with lines snaring his hand and wrapping around his neck. He rapidly tried to free his neck from the lines and eventually succeeded. He was not able to free his hand however. The rider was blown/drifted the approximate 300 ft. to shore with the lines wrapped around and sliced into his hand. The rider reportedly wasn’t carrying a hook knife nor was he wearing gloves.
Bystanders responded rapidly once the rider came to the beach and rushed him to the hospital. The kiteboarder has suffered a laceration to the bone around one thumb, tissue loss from other parts of his hand along with vascular and potential nerve damage. Treatment is still ongoing.
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Seven dead at kite-flying festival
From correspondents in Lahore
February 16, 2004SEVEN people were killed and more than 100 injured in Pakistan during the annual kite flying festival marking the arrival of spring, officials said today.
An 18-month-old girl’s throat was cut by a stray kite string while she was travelling with her parents on a motorbike, witnesses said, adding that she died on the spot.
Three people were electrocuted when metal wires they were using to fly or catch stray kites fell on live electric lines, and two people fell from roofs, hospital officials said.
A 12-year-old boy died while trying to catch a stray kite when he was hit by a car on a main road, police said.
More than 100 people had been reported injured since last night in various kite-related accidents, medical workers said.
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Seven dead at kite-flying festival
From correspondents in Lahore
February 16, 2004SEVEN people were killed and more than 100 injured in Pakistan during the annual kite flying festival marking the arrival of spring, officials said today.
An 18-month-old girl’s throat was cut by a stray kite string while she was travelling with her parents on a motorbike, witnesses said, adding that she died on the spot.
Three people were electrocuted when metal wires they were using to fly or catch stray kites fell on live electric lines, and two people fell from roofs, hospital officials said.
A 12-year-old boy died while trying to catch a stray kite when he was hit by a car on a main road, police said.
More than 100 people had been reported injured since last night in various kite-related accidents, medical workers said.
Officials at Lahore’s Mayo Hospital said 42 children and 60 adults had been treated for injuries.
“One child was injured by a stray bullet,” deputy medical superintendent Dr Saqib Shafi told AFP.
Though firing guns is banned, people celebrate the spring festival by firing into the air, often causing casualties.
Relatives of people killed or injured in kite flying accidents held a demonstration in Lahore last year urging the government to maintain its ban on selling and flying kites.
More than 20 people have been killed in kite flying accidents in Lahore since last year’s spring festival.
Casualties and frequent power outages caused by metal wires falling over power lines forced the government to ban the sale of kites and metal wire, but those restrictions were lifted this month to celebrate the festival, officials said.
Agence France-Presse
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Snacka om idioter! Tur att det inte har med kitesurfing att göra!
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Låter smått otroligt, fast det är klart; har ju varit en hel del i Indien & Pakistan i jobbet och det är inte för intet som en utmärglad gammal ko har 20x mer “levnadsvärde” än en människa. Skrämmande…
En annan skrämmande tanke är att vid en snabb överslagsräkning kom vi fram till att på den tid det tog för ett flygplan att korsa indien ökade netto-befolkningen med ca 10.000
/J
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Herre Jävelar! Då får vi väl snart bära turban!
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Ny dödlig olycka! Läs och lär!
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Ny dödsolycka, denna gång i Tyskland….
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Vet ej om detta har postats tidigare. Men det finns två bilder som talar för allt. En tjej som gör mycket fel. Se och lär:
http://www.kiteforum.com/index.php?page=http://www.kiteforum.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=2300703&navi=1&button=forummvh Peter
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kanske lika bra lägga ner kitegrejen?
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/3643147.stm
vet inte om det e en ny nyhet eller gammal..
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(Inget sånt skit Rambo!) /Patrikol
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