A new extreme sport – tow-kiting?
What to do when there’s no wind….
Well, there’s always someone somewhere who will make a plan, and this time we have to thank tomasleeman for the entertaining video.
However, a cautionary tale here. My husband did something very similar in his mad and misspent youth, although in his case they were doing it off the back of a pick-up truck on a farm runway in the middle of the bush. He got up nice and high – 100 ft probably – when the driver of the truck, under the influence of a few too many beers, put his foot on the accelerator thinking this would send him higher. Of course all it did was snap the rope. All 100′ or so of it hit him in the face like a coiled spring and knocked him out. Luckily he came to just before he hit the ground, and having done some parachuting, went into the classic roll on impact.
But it didn’t stop him looking like the Elephant Man for several weeks!
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