The goal of this video is to familiarize kiteboarders with the 3 main safety systems used on the market nowadays and for kiteboarders to learn how to retrieve the kite quickly and safely in the event of any emergency. Every safety system being ultimately slightly different in design and operation, it is vital for every kiteboarder to fully understand the functioning of their own safety system. If in doubt, always refer to the Instruction manual of your kite for more details and/or seek professional advice PRIOR to using your kite for the first time.
Before going out on the water with a new kite for the first time, every kiteboarder should activate the safety system while the kite is flying, making sure there is plenty of space downwind free of obstacles, people, other kiteboarders, etc. This will get the kiteboarder comfortable in releasing the safety system and also become familiar with the way the kite behaves after doing so.
Every kiteboarder in their first lesson must be asked to activate the safety system whilst flying and be shown how to retrieve the kite quickly and safely in the event of an emergency on the beach or in shallow waters. This should be considered as a beginner skill and must be repeated until the kiteboarder is confident and safe in retrieving the kite without assistance in preparation for any emergency scenarios that may be encountered in the future.
The emergency self-landing differs from the advanced self-landing (also shown in another video) in a way that it is done after an unplanned and unexpected problematic/emergency/panic scenario, such as: getting dragged on the beach through the power zone, kite washed up and tumbled on the water's edge, overpowered, getting lifted off the ground, kite falling off the sky with slack lines, tangled lines, etc.
Chris, Well done I've learnt from the trilogy. Clear simple advice with backed up video.
Cheers Old Mike.
Good basic vid especially if you don't own the kites in question and may end up on one. Tip for single front line flagging.. ie Ozone; Have a think about which way you want to land when you rig up. E.g. if it's 3 O'clock make the left hand front line your flagging line. 9 O'clock make it the right. That way if your just pulling in a metre of your top front line to self land and you need to revert to safety, the kite will stay in the same window. Even when you are getting an assisted land it's a safer option, if the kite starts to blow etc. 
i want to see the same vid all safeties pulled in 35 knots! now that would make for interesting veiwing.
Hi Cauncy,
There is no one out in a true 35knots and only a couple out in a true 30 knots.
The actual safety landing procedure doesn't change in those sorts of winds, it's just the stakes are higher for a mistake. You need to hang on tighter to the safety line and make sure if it goes wrong, you can get out of the way of any loose lines or the bar that may come flying past if you happen to let go of the safety line.
DM
Hey man, good, but not useful if you are in water of course.
I also caught you not going hand over hand as you wrote, the line could cut your hand if it powered up. Hand over hand is correct because that way if kite lines power up the lines get pulled out of your hand, not across your hands thereby cutting u.
Hey Darren,
Thanks to the 4 meter REO that you sold me(for my daughter
), I am out in true 35 knots and absolutely loving it
I have renamed that kite the whasp for obvious reason and unfortunately spend my days checking graphs hoping for big storms.
