Yeah, it was all fast!
I am just saying, he didn't get yanked off egde without some warning.
He had been edging pretty hard. Idk, it's easy to sit here and watch this stuff, I guess. I do know kitemares use to happen a lot more frequently when we were on C kites. A local rider recently returned from Ormond (Ryan) who has been riding for several years. I asked him how often he remembered seeing a kitemare (not necessarily ambulance... but getting dragged ashore or hitting a truck, similar) from 4 seasons ago. He said usually every time out, or at least every other time. That's how I remember it too.

Depowering (to any large extent) just wasn't really possible when things went wrong, so we'd get dragged around.

I think BigR might remember me getting dragged pretty good on Rob Hassle's Contra 19 (C kite) at Big beach. I got lofted and dragged down the beach and just kept dragging at mach one in the water when it went from 10 knots to 20 in a heart beat on a big kite.

I really don't miss those old kites in our winds.