f0rgiv3n
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38 Second Kite Jump
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi6rCviQFHs&feature=relat...
and I thought I had seen all the kite jumping vids on youtube!
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harddrive8
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I hate to think how high he would have gone if he hadn't been tethered.
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NPWfever
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Thats the only reason you go so high, because you can build tension, same way you put a bucket half way up ur lines, it wil lift it. putting you there
puts u half way up the line, and lifts you =D
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BeamerBob
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I didn't notice the tether the first time. More load on the equipment and more likely to break something. That would've been a long fall. The only
way I'd go that high would be over water deep enough to cushion a fall. You could walk away from a water fall.
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f0rgiv3n
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Yeah... i don't think those guys are quite sane. I didn't even see the tether. I looked at their other vids and saw them but I didn't look close
enough i guess. Crazy individuals... 
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carltb
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man lifting is "the" most dangerous form of kiting. they are not built for it and all it takes is a bridal or a line to snap and you are dead!! i
have no respect for these idiots
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f0rgiv3n
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yeah, very good point carl. . . They're puttin' their lives on little tiny strings.... At least with bunjee jumping they have THICK rope but these
guys are way up there on some smaaaaall bridle lines. just watching it now i'm thinking... what if a line did break? That's a LONG way to fall to the
HARD packed earth... instant handicap... Can we preissue handicap parking permits?  Maybe that would get their attention
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action jackson
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| Quote: | Originally posted by carltb
man lifting is "the" most dangerous form of kiting. |
Fighter kite flying is really the most dangerous but manlifting is very dangerous too...........aj
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BeamerBob
I didn't notice the tether the first time. More load on the equipment and more likely to break something. That would've been a long fall. The only
way I'd go that high would be over water deep enough to cushion a fall. You could walk away from a water fall. |
I dont think this was deep enough....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qupIgypOIGY&feature=relat...
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macboy
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.....fighter kite flying?
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f0rgiv3n
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i had the same question lol.... I did a wikipedia on it and it looks like they're single line kites that they have competitions where they try to cut
the lines of other people's kites... the lines are extra sharp o.O
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WELDNGOD
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A popular sport in afghanistan believe it or not.
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NPWfever
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And then they banned kite flying....
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Baluk
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I tried searching, I couldn't find it. There was a video of someone on an LEI being towed up, then fell and died. Onto water.
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macboy
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Oh.....I thought so but......"dangerous"? Really? My wife to this day bugs me - a non-reader - who read The Kite Runner just because of the title. No
kidding - it was the first book I'd read since she met me
(For those of you that are curious, read it, it's good....but the kiting is really more of a metaphor.....the book isn't about kiting. hehehehe)
But "dangerous"? You mean the glassed strings I assume?
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