A buddy of mine just bought one of these things. He dropped about 3 grand on it, went out in the lake, got lifted up in the air and crashed back into the water the first time out. Now he's scared of it.
I was just reading a "kiteboarding forum" and the general consensus is it happened too fast to react, and you can see that he didn't let go (which appears to be the thing to do) and he didn't use either "the fifth line" or the "QR" (I assume Quick Release) which collpase the kite or actually let it go.
"He shouldn't have been there..." is also what they are saying.
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