Billy Lofted By Foil

[ricki]

Kite buggy mishap mega loop on flexifoil 8.5 blade with billy parker.

"Billy parker tries kite buggying for the first time and flying his first flexifoil blade- the video starts as he just sits in the buggy for the first time, on his first and only run a freak gust sends him 20ft straight up then backwards maybe 60m down the beach, heroicly he doesnt hesistate in throwing the 8.5m into a kite loop, incredibly he initiates the second loop before landing. To loop an 8.5m almost twice airborne is a crazy prospect. Thankfully he lands feet first and all is well but he's very shook up."


Lots of kiters today have little to no time on foils or handles. The thing is the handles allow rapid killing of the kites power or simply backing off of it. The guys that set Billy up with the buggy didn't do him any favors by not spending some time on applying the brakes before setting him loose. Glad he is ok! The dual looping is impressive particularly with handles but with the brakes he likely never would have been lofted in the first place.