You could say it's cross between paragliding, base jumping, kiteboarding and being towed along by a jetski... But no matter what you call it, it's cool. 

Jesse Richman is one crazy dude.  We've all seen guys getting towed behind boats in light wind, maybe 20m high at best. You probably saw the guy who's lines snapped and he went plummeting to the rock hard ocean and nearly died. 

But wait until you see this, Jesse Richman launches his kite, snaps something close to 1000ft of line to his back, tell's his mate on a ski boat to drive and off he goes. Floating up to 790ft (that's over 240m!) high, stuck between a boat and his kite, he keeps his cool all the way up. He then releases his safety, and proceeds to kiteloop all the way down, taking well over a minute to reach the water where he rides away clean. 

Then he loses it. He squeals like a big girl. You probably would too if you'd just done something like this. 

Check out the video, and do not try this at home...

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