TANGLE KITES do not panic... 

great vid - after watching it was in Thailand and had my first tangle. Used your 'dont panic' approach to calm down the thai instructor i had tangled with - worked well. After he calmed down we untangled and went on our way. Cheers!!

As an IKO Level 2 instructor and kite school owner I tell you that this video is very dangerous for beginners! This is not the safest way to do it. People can get hurt really bad because this advice! It’s not safe to be grabbing on the lines while having 2 fully powered kites tangled to each other. Not at all. You can get into serious trouble while doing it. Also you can damage both gears. Of course that with time and experience we learn how to assess and act accordingly to each situation. This video fails to mention the proper use of your quick release and the self rescue. When you open your quick release you don’t necessarily loose your kite. Unless you don’t have a safety leash or if you also release your safety leash. Releasing your safety leash is your last resort when kiteboarding, not the quick release! Do not release your safety leash righ after opening your quick release. Please do open your quick release and wait for the kite to stop pulling before untangling kites and lines. Then you can get untangle.The truth is that nobody likes to open the quick release and then proceed to the self rescue. But this procedure is a MUST do for every beginner kiter and every kiter should know how to do it because one day it can save your life and your gear. Please learn how to SELF RESCUE everyone! And stay away from each other! Have fun and be safe.If you come to Oahu, Hawaii look up Kiteboarding Paradise Hawaii ;) ALOHA

It all depends of the tangle situation, but if both kites are pulling strong in opposite directions, lines will get under strong tension and it will take less than 30 secondes for a line to break. So if the situation is "bad", after 10 secondes i would generally release security just to save my lines. The kite that have the strongest tension will have it's lines break first. That's physics... So if it's possible, before releasing, get close to the other kiter and try to keep your lines parallel or kill the power of both kite by crashing kite in water. Nice video, tks Dimitri

Just so you know, the video was actually almost 16 minutes longs, but I was trying to keep it under 7 minutes in order to keep the audience interested. I had so many other footage on different situations but I took the executive decision to cut it down to 7 minutes and keep it short. So this video was designed to help the riders communicate with each other and stay calm while assessing the situation.

We had some serious accidents on the beach because of not releasing the safety. Riders pulled away in deathloops, bystanders caught in lines, lines and kites ripped apart, etc. If one of the kites stays powered, the lines are like blades, posing a serious risk to people and gear around. My advice, at least on land, is to ALWAYS release the safeties of all the kites involved in a tangle. You all end up knitting a big mess, but it's better than getting injured. Don't panic but release the safety.

I hope that I'd never kite on the same spot with you !

Parts of this sounds like a confession.

Epic video again - thanks Dimitri, I won’t panic and now have a plan !! Thank you 🙏🏽

Fun fun. After you left yesterday I seen two kites tangled and three went to the trees

You are a dangerous man to kite next to! :D :D

....also important is to go after to the beach to control every line carefully to spot some weakness....because if you have a damage you can be on danger if it broke...!🤔

As an IKO instructor, I always teach my students that it is much safer to relase the chicken loop immediately, not the leash, just the chicken loop.That way the kites can't get any power, which is not the case, if only one rider does it, the kites can then start looping like crazy....If both riders realease at the begging, they will be completely safe, then it just takes little bit more time to untangle and relauch. Communicating with someone in deep water while the tangled kites are pulling you can be preety hard...I m sure that for begginers that is the ONLY safe way, because they always panic... But do i release the chicken loop every time?! NO, It depends from situation to situation, cuz i have experience, but if it does a complete loop over someone else's lines then deffinetly YES... Cool videos btw and i hope to have a chance to ride an EPIC kite one day...Cheers and greeating from Serbia!!

When I hear someone say « don’t panic », I panic 😄

Do not panic!! Hahahaha

This and the exploding number of people having access to kite surfing will make me prefer windsurfing for ever... In an overcrowded world needing 2m² or 35m² makes a hell of difference on the water :-)

I think if I have a crash with you... I PANIK! Because you are definitly crazy...! 😂😂😂

which kite was you using in this video?

I think only so experienced rider like Dimitri can do something useful. I'd use CL first. If it's not worked - f**k the kite and release SL. Life is more expensive.

Μητσο αμα γινει πολεμος Ελλαδα Τουρκια... θα ερθεις να πολεμησεις?

Wenn II get tangled I take my line knife and cut all the lines from the other kiter

song name please or i will panic ! malaka!

King of crashing lol

The only thing I have learned from your video is not to panic, it sometimes happens and talk to the other kiter... man stop talking bullshit... now I understand why there are so many idiots on the water if people watch such videos on the Internet and they don"t know that in such situations it is safer for YOU and for the OTHER KITER to use first safety system and then think what to do next... but no don't panic, it happens sometimes, let's talk to eachother and kites will do some loops SOO MUCH FUNNN

Once again releasing your CL should be your last option and if you do so make sure to communicate with the other kiter so both of you can release the bar. Don't put the other person in danger because this can happen: "The kitesurf community is in deep mourning for Silke Gorldt A tragic accident overshadowed the German Kitesurf Tour at Fischland-Darss. Silke Gorldt, the best female German Kitesurfer, died on Friday 6-7-02. The autopsy showed that her dead was a result of her internal injuries. The Event organizer and Silkes relatives founded today, 6-11-02 the Silke Gorldt foundation to keep her spirit alive. On Saturday evening before sunset, German and international kitersurfers came together on the beach in Wustrow for a memorial ceremony with the event organizers and Silkes relatives. In deep mourning, they put flowers in the water and remembered a great personality in kiteboarding. We will never forget her. Silke was the best woman kitesurfer in Germany and a pioneer of the sport. The 26 year old from Bavaria was riding for the North Team and studied politics in Wilhelmshafen. Amongst her greatest success was her title as German national Champion and several top three places in World Cup Events. Silkes funeral will be held in Rupolding, Saturday 6-15-02. The tragic accident happened in the last heat of the contest, on Friday afternoon 3 pm, at the beach in Zingst, Germany, Baltic Sea. The lines of two kiters accidentally tangled while passing each other on the water. While one kiter was able to use his safety system and let go of his bar, Silke couldn’t unhook her kite. His bar got stuck in her lines, in the way that the kite flew circles in the power zone, generating the most possible pull like this. As an effect of that Silke got pulled over the water with the power of two kites, hit a wooden fence and got dragged over the beach. The rescue team of the ambulance, which was on standby, treated Silke with immediate first aid, 15 minutes later the helicopter arrived. Although there where no serious exterior injuries visible, Silke passed away in the hospital Kronenburg 4:55 pm, after all life-supporting measures failed. The autopsy showed, that Silkes dead was a result of her internal injuries, and not of her brain injury. Further, the doctor said, that as a result of the impact, Silke was unconscious as she arrived with the helicopter and didn’t felt any pain. The tragic incident involving Silke Gorldt was a freak accident. The conditions with 15 to 20 knots of wind were perfect for a competition and according to many experts on the scene, it could have happened to any one of the competitors. The two kitesurfers involved were passing each other routinely on the water and inexplicably there lines became tangled. Further, the organizers, all experienced kitesurfers themselves, provided the most possible security for the event. How the tragedy unfolded that day remains a mystery and subject to further inquiry."