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Originally Posted by ruffridah89
hurrican season is right around the corner!
-Danny
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True. It is worth noting that quite a few people were severely hurt and some killed last year and in years past in strong gusty weather related to hurricanes and other sources of convection. I suspect the same may be true again this year, particularly with older C kite designs, flat kite issues (PM, preflighting, other performance irregularities), with people exceeding their skill set and for those that were simply unlucky.
A few things about this post. Ty Luckett was one of the earlier kitesurfers on the east coast of the USA. He started back in the late 1990's and has ridden in sometimes challenging Hatteras conditions for many years. He also was an early instructor of numerous people and has continued to innovate teaching concepts ever since. You can learn a lot from training others yourself. He was on a new Omega 7 m bow kite.
These were obviously extreme conditions. Even for someone of Ty's considerable abilities if there had been a serious problem, severe injury might have resulted. That is simply the way it is. Another rider apparently had a problem requiring assistance, details unknown at this point.
I wouldn't take high wind kiting lightly or be anxious to head out into hurricane related conditions anytime soon. Some guys will do it anyway but not all of them will come out unscathed or in one piece based upon past experience.
(reposted from kiteforum.com)