Kitesurf Self Rescue

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Published on May 3, 2024
Kiteboard / Kitesurf self rescue tutorial.

Will help you understand the basic principles of the self rescue, and revises the steps involved to support your lessons. Hopefully, you can use this video to get the concept, which will give you more time to practice with your instructor.

To make the footage as clear as possible this was shot on a clear day on a sand bank, on a large kite in around 15knots. In most situations you would be using this technique in deep water. I filmed a deep water version, but it's not so easy to see what's happening with bar and lines and therefore not a good visual guide of the technique.

You will find variations on the self rescue technique. Such as some people may wrap the excess safety line in figures of 8, or may use 5 line kites. However, the key principles stay the same.

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