This is wild. I can believe it - when we were there week before last, some days the wind was so crazy and I kept saying to my husband "I've never seen a kite surfer get that high / sideways'.
Yesterday saw sustained 25+ knots throughout the island chain. A dream for very experienced kite surfers (with storm kites), but evidently this surfer wasn't experienced enough or just had bad luck. The videos of what kite surfers are willing to try are amazing. Like the following video of a kiter jumping the Brighton Pier several years ago:
The report in French says the American kite surfer in his 40s became airborne and landed on a parked car -- then bounced and landed on a second car. Taken to the French-side hospital, then airlifted to a hospital in Guadeloupe.
Week after Christmas a young lady was attempting to move along the beach with her kite in the air. Walking in front of WAI to the access for kite surfing. She lost control of the kite in the high winds and was dragged through the front row of chairs. She was only slightly injured and there wasn't anybody sitting in the chairs so not a news worthy incident. I don't know why a lot of the kite surfers start setting up their equipment on the public beach area and then have to walk up to the access point on the south side of Wai but they do.
It looks like fun. Usually I see someone of the age that makes me think cardiac arrest could be a possibility today. I think Dirty Harry said a man needs to know his limitations.
I learned kite surfing a couple of years ago - the first lessons are very strenuous but once you stop trying to use brute muscle force and can use your body weight, it isn't that difficult. But getting significant "air time" is only for the athletic and brave.
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