Question about Dangers of KiteSurfing

[ricki]

Hey Dave,

Best advice is to line up the best, quality Pro kiteboarding instruction you can manage. Kiting is like flying a plane, aspects of it are very easy, like steering. Others, like dealing with emergencies or better anticipating and avoiding them anything but.

People often fail to practice mentally and physically what they would do in various emergencies, also they may rarely, if ever, practice emergency releases. They may freeze and never touch their QR, they may try to activate it but not find it, it may not work as intended, be compromised by poor PM, etc.. In reality, often in severe loftings, no effort activate the QR is seen.

Continue to read over information on this site as you may not encounter some important aspects in kiting instruction. That doesn't reduce the importance of understanding this stuff however.