1. this is NOT a marketing tool

2. this is not promoting anything.

2. Were you there? Do you definitely know YOURSElf what wheater it was?

3. Kite didn't fail, that is 5th line safety

4. "promote responsible kiting in reasonable conditions with appropriate gear" Go to Eddy with that, not me!

Well. Flysurfer sent out this link to their email list of magazines as a marketing effort promoting their Flyboards and Psycho4 kite. That's how I found the link. If that wasn't your doing, then my mistake.

If the conditions were as described above and in the email sent by Flysurfer and the description above, "9 Beaufort gusts", "44knots", "thunder", "storm, storm, storm" as well as my observation of the video then I think it is safe to say that the conditions were sketchy. Please note that I didn't not say people shouldn't be riding in those conditions. My concern is with presenting this type of advanced kiting as a marketing tool. Since that apparently wasn't your intention, then you may disregard that point.

After watching the video again, it is clear that the kite flagged from the center and not from a tip indicating a line failure. Sorry for the confusion.

Dave at Drift Snowkite Magazine

That is not supposed to be happening.

That is strange, well.. they cut their own fingers in this case, with this dumb marketing then.

I wouldn't go praise any product this way. it is a sad thing to commercially exploit it.

Coming back, now i've seen their news item.

Everything seems fine. It's a newsitem i've already seen and i have even been asked if it was oke to post it as this newsitem on their website. So everything is fine.

But if a marketing mailing went out to people for their product or whatever claiming this jump etc. i don;t know, that is their concern, and ways to do things i guess.

For now i just see a fair newsitem describing the day and their rider and the jump an dthe filming. etc.