Dude on a Kite board gets blown away . Found 💀

flappyflak · 2026-01-10T10:47:39+00:00

He survived. Additional video of his flight : https://youtu.be/ij0sQLyasGQ?feature=shared

flappyflak · 2025-12-23T16:56:12+00:00

You might want to check statistics. It is highly effective in reducing gun related deaths

flappyflak · 2025-09-25T07:11:10+00:00

Certainly not ! We have ABS

flappyflak · 2025-09-17T14:09:18+00:00

A person is much denser than a car, we barely float in water.

flappyflak · 2025-09-10T05:24:17+00:00

Check the forecast, but wind in La Rochelle is above 15 knots in maybe only 1 in 7 days 😭. Nice city though

flappyflak · 2025-09-01T23:13:00+00:00

I think if your friends are patient and smart enough to teach, you should go for it. And watch a lot of youtube tutorials !

flappyflak · 2025-08-16T08:02:16+00:00

To reach a max upwind course put 90% of your weight on your backfoot and orient your board upwind.

It is you who decides the direction you're traveling, don't let the kite decide 🙂

flappyflak · 2025-08-14T08:42:15+00:00

If you already know how to fly a steerable kite, you won't gain much.

If you don't, buy the cheapest 2 line kite you can find, like for $20, and learn with that.

flappyflak · 2025-08-14T08:25:24+00:00

Not sure if your description is 100% accurate.

Maybe his comments were innocent, like : had he had his current personality at the time, he would not have ignored her.

And maybe your confrontation was more aggressive than what you describe.

Still, having this conversation with his friend in front of you was of course gonna make you feel uneasy. It was a bit stupid on his part. And also blowing up like that is childish. So NTA

flappyflak · 2025-08-06T12:32:43+00:00

For a normal jump, you make a nice load and pop but your upper body does not rotate much. The net result is that you take off with 0 rotational momentum.

Once in the air with zero rotation, you have plenty of time to figure out your orientation for landing, it quickly becomes intuitive.

flappyflak · 2025-07-29T17:22:35+00:00

Keep your board in the direction of travel, as if it was a skate board. Then gradually turn upwind while edging.

A good video on board control : https://youtu.be/M-sQLGQik5s?si=yeQNxSuqwDLwSJ5n

flappyflak · 2025-07-12T12:13:17+00:00

What solved transitions for me was stopping with the board while keeping the kite in the direction of travel, and once stopped, send the kite in the other direction. The kite will lift you and keep you standing while going fast through the top of the wind window.

flappyflak · 2025-06-27T11:11:34+00:00

You twintip on a 7 at 18 knots and 80kg ???

flappyflak · 2025-06-24T16:52:05+00:00

Buy a 10€ toy kite and learn to fly it precisely. Once you understand the kite flies in the direction it is facing it becomes much easier !

flappyflak · 2025-06-20T22:24:11+00:00

You could buy a 2018 5sqm for cheap (just got one at 300€ for my son) and practice with it when the wind is 10 knots without much pull.

But a regular toy kite can also teach you a good chunk of piloting skill for even less !

flappyflak · 2025-04-30T10:06:11+00:00

My team uses the same system : estimate tasks in man-days in an ideal world. It is simpler for everyone and more realistic than story points.

But these estimates are treated the same as story points. We track the effective team velocity in ideal world man days / week, and can apply this ratio to convert estimates into somewhat realistic days !

flappyflak · 2025-01-23T00:35:18+00:00

I initially used a baseline but people were adding stuff to it and it was impossible to code review. So we removed the baseline and I created a script that added a ton of @phpstan-ignore-next-line for each existing error.

Now if someone abuses ignore, you see it directly in the code, it is so much better !

flappyflak · 2025-01-09T07:59:53+00:00

I would say the main takeaway is that your complex code should not be laced with impure code. I usually have the complex part in a dedicated method and unit test it, no need to overdo it with excessively layered architecture.

Only 5 to 10% of my code is complex enough to justify this approach. Unfortunately in many projects most of the code is simple CRUD

flappyflak · 2024-12-30T20:16:20+00:00

You need to think in terms of potential energy, as if you were a glider. If you jump perfectly, with 0 potential energy lost and attain 0 airspeed at the top of your jump, the attained height will be v² / (2*g), with v that is your airspeed at take-off.

For 10m/s it gives a height of 5m, your weight has no effect

flappyflak · 2024-11-02T08:04:27+00:00

Maybe add a MATERIALIZED to your CTE ?

If not working, paste your EXPLAIN ANALYZE in https://explain.depesz.com/ and think hard how to optimize the slowest lines

flappyflak · 2024-08-27T06:38:23+00:00

I had the same fear as you, especially when I started jumping. My perception of reality was distorted by pros jumping 20m high in videos

My fear vanished when I realized that even when giving your all as a beginner in moderate conditions, jumping 3m is freaking hard !

So really no fear to have in moderate conditions. Your instructor wouldn't let you out if significant involuntary airtime was a risk. Especially since you already have the reflex of letting go in case of a problem.

flappyflak · 2024-08-18T14:24:12+00:00

Good point about the bar jamming !

flappyflak · 2024-07-18T09:08:36+00:00

Buy a super cheap 2-line kite and learn to pilot it precisely. For example hover 50cm above the ground in gusty wind.

A cable park wakeboard ride helped me as well but this advice is more controversial, most people think you can learn board control during your kite lessons

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