Kite surfer flies away 150m high 

takes off; "WOOO! WOOOOOOO! 50m: "WOOO! WOOOOoooo!" 100m: "WOO..wooooo" 150: "woooo? woo?"

his woops were his attempt to convince himself this was fun and that he is ok.

That kiss to the camera at the end was the ultimate sign of relief. He probably got out of the water and kissed the sand too 😂

My dad went kite surfing 🏄‍♂️ 10 years ago, and he still hasn’t come down.

This is the type of shit that happens in my dreams

His Name Is Giovanni Giorgio, but everybody calls him, Giorgio.

The feeling of touching back down water must have been better than the actual flight itself

I didn’t realize he was parasailing. I was thinking the wind just took him up that high lol

If you look closely you’ll notice he is moving forward with the glider behind him. This means he is getting towed. Then as he decends he goes the opposite direction to the tow that took him up. You would not be able to go this high without a tether. As a paragliding pilot and beginner kite surfer I would be scared out of my mind to have my centre of gravity that far from the wing for that long. Props to this guy, balls of steel and great wing control. Glad it ended well. Edit: I have learned more about the stability of the kite, although limited control compared to paragliders you can keep it over head, however the gear is not made or rated for this kind of stunt. None the less this guys massive balls managed to pull him back down to earth safely.

Didn't land it, 0 points.

A new way to immigrate into europe without going through customs .

Bro! I fly planes for a living, and paraglide and kite surf for recreation, and that my brother was seriously some of thee most impressive flying, confidence, control I’ve ever seen on something that should NOT be used as an aircraft 😂😂😂 Huge respect from Australia my man 👊🏼✌🏼👍🏽

Ok.... I paraglide(>20 years), skydive(>12 years), starting now BASE jumping... and have to say this shit really scared me(in a bad way). Huuuuuge chance of ending in tragedy.

As kids, before kitesurfing was invented, we wondered if you could build a kite big enough to fly with. Then some crazy person did it and we no longer wondered if such things were possible...

Luckily he was the cameraman too, that is what saved his life 😂

At one point you could hear that his "woo" lost confidence.

Well that was rather intense! As my flight instructor said - "Any landing you walk away from is a good landing"......scary but still cool !

He's extremely lucky the kite didn't fold at +100m, super lucky

Imagine the bonus hang time points on this combo.

literally all of my nightmares right here and this guy does it for fun

This is like those dreams where you’re suddenly way too high in the air and you know you’re about to start falling 😢

Dude that was sick! Forget all the haters on here and their criticism, that took some serious skill to land safely, as well as balls of steel! I have a suggestion for an epic follow up. It's something I'm planning on doing myself, but just in case God has other plans, I'll share it with you: Connect the kite and the tow line to the same quick release. Make sure the release is sufficiently rated for the extra "weight" created by the tow. Using a separate, small section of line, connect the tow line to the kite line near where both lines meet by the quick release, so that when the quick release is pulled, your harness disconnects from both the tow line and the kite, but the tow line and kite remain connected to each other (so the boat can retrieve the kite). Wear a packed ram parachute with oversized pilot chute like used for BASE jumping, and when you reach sufficient altitude, hit the quick release and toss your pilot chute! BASE jumping from a kite!!! As far as I know, it's never been done before. It would be totally badass, and is actually probably safer than trying to land that kite like you did! Mad respect on that btw. These mfers hating have no idea just how difficult that was. I'd trust a kite for gaining the altitude, but no freaking way I'd try to land one from that height! Hats off to you brother

Wow! I never knew things could look so small at only 150 meters high, but I haven't flown very much in my 66 yrs of life. Thanks for posting this exhilarating video!

some dude at my previous job by the beach, actually got lifted by one of these and thrown into someone’s like 50th floor condo window. He unfortunately passed away, be safe out there y’all.

the 80's miami vice music really made the whoo's more exciting.....so much

Dudes crazy... I already had multiple safety failiures / accidential release while kiteboarding. That shit just happens from time to time. But if it happens up there you dead bro.

The Tekken music was a nice touch

Glad to see Bling Bling finally got over his crack addiction and is living large.

This was straight up a lucid dream i had a few years ago i'll never forget lighting scenery everything... wild

One thing I'll never understand is why he took one hand off the handle... does he even understand the stress and danger if he lost his grip and was suddenly only relying on his harness?!

It’s better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air than being in the air wishing you were on the ground.

0:20 I just love how casually he is starting to fly away just like that 😂

What was the point in the surf board... as there was zero surfing lol

Very dangerous. Almost a Darwin Award for removing himself from the gene pool.

This seems INCREDIBLY dangerous--what happens if you lose control of your kite while you're up that high? You fall to your death. It's not like it's a parachute, those things could definitely collapse if there were sudden sever wind shear, which might be more likely up higher. I'm sure he knew this before doing it, but I don't think a lot of viewers of this video do.

He's being towed. You see the line and the boat below.

In paragliding, towing requires specialized towing equipement, a licensed tower, and radio contact between the pilot and the tower. The speed, tension and angle of the rope need to be monitored constantly both by the pilot and the tower. The angle of attack also needs to be actively kept in check by the pilot. Why? Because towing involves huge forces, the glider pulls you up as the rope pulls you down. This is especially true when the rope is being reeled up by a winch (instead of pulled by a car or a boat), but also true in this case. Towing also makes the glider fly with unusual mechanics, which can lead to stalls, collapses and other failure modes. A kite is not meant to be flown that way. The gear (harness, lines) is not meant to withstand those forces, and I doubt anyone involved trained for this. They were just winging it and got lucky no one got hurt. That being said- I actually think that the long lines on the kite reduced the forces involved, so long as the surfer was able to stabalize any swinging action. The kite being inflatable allowed it to quickly recover from stalls and "collapses". I also think the surfer had a good enough understanding of the mechanics involved, and kept the angle of attack low. Please don't ever try this. Get a paraglider or a speedflying wing. Edit: Just in case you were wondering: every single paraglider line is rated to hold up to 60-80kg iirc, the weakest link is the carabiners connecting the harness to the glider, and they are rated to hold up to 400kg (20kn * 2 carabiners).

My palms were sweating the whole time I watched this. 😱

Watching his kite spin as he came down tells me how thought out this was.

Legend has it he's still flying to this day. He was last seen on the coast of Japan heading towards China and could be somewhere in Europe right now

This is extremely dangerous. check at 0:06. His harness is just a belt wrapped loosely around his back with no leg straps. I've seen people slip out of their harness when doing jumps and lose their kite, harness and all. The red mechanism on the kite lines at chest height is a quick release. Kiters hit their quick release accidentally all the time. The gear is designed to "de-power and toss away" in an emergency.

That takes some serious skill and guts to complete. If one thing went wrong, he was a goner. 🤯

Gotta respect the guys balls doing this! - I on the other hand like being alive too much to risk it.

I felt the stoke that he had from that experience! Epic!!

I'd like to do it, but I guess I won't ever! 😁

This looks like something outta my dreams

You're crazy dude. It was amazing!!! You scared the shit out of me, though.

this guy is clearly a pro. going down 150m that fast this guyhas parasailed countless times my guess. ive only 3 times

Also, what was the point of even putting on the board?

Just remember that if you let go when you are high enough, and the lanyard cannot support your weight and breaks, you will die or suffer permanent disability upon impact on the water surface. 60+m is the ballpark figure for certain death unless you land perfectly vertically feet first, muscles braced and joints locked. Anything less than 15m and you would probably be fine.

I never doubt the authenticity of any videos on this platform, ever, period.

Using a tow line to the boat below. One control line snaps and he’s history

Wow! Right after Wingsuits in terms of thrill quotient...👍👏

I’m afraid this will happen to me even tho I have never kite surfed and I never will. 😂

He has good control, but man, that is sketchy. After that everything else must seem boring!

Was watching with no sound. When he was why up there all I heard in my head was. "And it was at this moment he new he had fucked up"

0:32 alright time to come down. Right? Right???

I've had dreams like this.

I love how his girlfriend is trying not to freak out and he's yelling "WOOOO!!!!". You sir know how to live!

He was surfing them big waves in the sky!

What a mad man!! Absolute legend! 💪

He clutched to that water and kissed that camera with gratitude. That made my palms sweat

Wow. That's crazy. Glad he's ok. That would be a surreal experience

"Wooh!" "Wooooh!" "Wooh!" Imagine if they were his final words.

It looks to me like a thermo-convectional-air-current (soaring pilots call them thermals) must have formed from the atoll, upwind of the kite-surfer; he ‘caught it’ and was carried up in this rising, warmer air, until it dissipated or drifted inland, past him. I’ve flown up to more than 17,000 feet by such thermals, when hang gliding in Arizona USA but such lifting air rarely gets a chance to form over the sea, due to cool sea breeze and the cooling affect of so much water. If this video isn’t some very well executed trickery, this man just enjoyed a spectacular and very rare rare experience and I’m jealous. Stay Awesome Brother!

Yayyyyy!!! looks like you were scared yourself doing kiteloops to go down!)) amazing! So brave)

Nutter lol his loving life to the max respect to you all the way from Cornwall uk

When you’re saying “woooh fantastic” but really thinking “thank f*ck i’m down”......

Looks like he was being pulled by that boat and went parasailing then released.

I saw a picture of a kite surfer, then I decided to check out prices online, then I saw fun ads and it’s getting me pumped! Now I found this video and my desire is entirely gone.

would you do it again? surfer: Woooo!

I bet he will never doing it again..

This video bridges the gap between parasailing and kitesurfing. I wonder if you could design a harness system that would give you the same control and security as a parasail once you're up. And I wonder what the differences in the actual wing shape and size are.

Tethered to the boat... I think it was released... still wicked cool 😎

🤯

Suprised he can go that high up with those balls of steel

Good trust in equipment and very scary... It still bothers me though, that he didn't land properly on the board... If I were him it would bother me, and it seemed he didn't even trv 🙂

Imagine how his “woo woo’s” will sound after he hits puberty!

If he did this on a crazy strong updraft, I'd be impressed. He just used a boat to tow him up to that height, anyone with the same death wish could do that.

That is one of the craziest sh*t I've ever seen. So much could have gone wrong. Lucky guy!

0:39 the moment when you thought they were placing a statue somewhere

First 2 mins: “where is the surfing part of it?” Last 1 mins he fall right into water: “where is the surfing part of it?” But…. I love it!!

Watch out for jet traffic while you're up there.

My friend went kite surfing once when it was way to windy, he got blown all the way to Antartica and he said there was a Giant ice wall there and he followed it for miles and said it completely encircled us.

2 million views and counting., this guy is a rich star now and most of you (critics) work in fast food, show a little respect and admiration for those who try incredible things

I remember a video of a snowkiter who struggled hard in strong upwinds and flew at least 150m high without parasailing. I'm not sure how the video ended and cannot find it either to rewatch - but your video makes me way less anxious because it seems more controlled :D

Thats insane, literally. I do respect it, I know it’s dangerous and irresponsible snd all. But just imagine feeling when you land back! My deep respect 👏👏👏💪!

My dad was at like 100+ meters and he fell down, broke 3 bones and had 2 operations. Dangerous sport

this has got to be the most annoying music ever...

Just a technical question: how big a kite and what windspeed was needed to lift those huge brass balls to 150m above the water?

bro if he landed it that would have been insane. had my heart rushing tho i swear I've seen too many videos of kites falling out of the sky

I don’t know how he flies with balls that big!!!

It's cool, but kitesurfing tow-up videos with titles that proclaim extreme heights without mentioning tow-ups are clickbait. Discuss.

Update: He is now Egypt’s most prolific evangelical preacher ever.

So where is the surfing part

Didn’t realize that this was in my country untill now, thats blue lagoon dahab, egypt 😂😂

One thinks they're having fun till this dude ascends outta nowhere

Got to say, didn't believe it when I read the description, but that was amazing. Got to get me a kite now.

That decent was sketchy AF, well done but lucky too, a little more wind and that could have gone badly.

As Randy Jackson would say, “yeah that’s a no from me dog”