This "kite footage that will blow your mind, I am just a teabag" on
Dec 15 Sailing Anarchy, is a 14 MB Windows Media Player (and yes,
there is an OSX version of WMP) video of a guy being tea bagged many
tens of feet in the air for something like 30 to 40 seconds of air
time.

Kite board videos routinely show lots of board riders jumping into
the air for a few seconds at a time, but a few tens of seconds....
that really raises the bar for them....(grin)

<http://video.tododo.com/airtime/airtime_by...mv9_320x240.wmv> is the
video, check it out!

Tophat is real. He kites with that hat on, his gimmick as it were.
Kevin Sean is his real name. Pretty well known. Runs a shop in
Florida I believe. Gets interviewed a lot 'cause he just attracts a
lot of attention. As far as I know the guy in the video, Erik, is
still kiting as much as possible. He just looks out for odd weather
phenomena a bit more, though...

They closed kiteboarding at Kanaha after that incident, and a few
similar kites getting lose and heading towards the tarmac at the
airport!

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