Killerwind: The 50 kt. Hell, KiteMagazin.de

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Thanks Steve, it is good magazines take an interest in this topic. The Kiteboarder has a regular article in every issue, "Accident Report" examining kiting accidents and avoidance. Kite Magazin has done a good job in the last two interviews taking an indepth look at things.

Yes, I agree there will always be accidents. If we copy the examples of other action sports like SCUBA diving, free diving, hang gliding, paragliding, etc., the "avoidable" accident rate should drop as the sport, procedures, gear and training mature.

Squalls are kicking our butts bigtime right now worldwide. Just interviewed a guy about a 1000 ft. squall lofting with no injury through a miracle of sorts that happened in Florida recently. More to come on that. During a recent comp. I saw about 20 kiters vanish behind a squall rain curtain, apparently unconcerned. We need to take weather more seriously, by a long shot.

Cabrinha has been interested in statistics but far more interested in working to avoid problems in the first place to their credit. There have been lots of discussions over the years.