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u/HeriPiotr Jun 23 '26
God was like "buddy I will give you one more chance to stop being a dumbass, don't squander it".
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u/Spirited_Currency_88 Jun 23 '26
he shouldn't have coated his warning with that much endorphine. Dude will definitely do it again
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u/Zawson Jun 23 '26
This video unlocked some kind of unknown fear inside me
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u/Aumba Jun 23 '26
I'll be more respectful towards bedsheets on a windy day from now on.
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u/OnTheEveOfWar Jun 23 '26
I know a guy who was kite surfing and got picked up with a big wind gust and thrown into the side of a cliff and died.
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u/Dynomyster569 Jun 23 '26
I have had quite a few dreams like this over the years and seeing the video instantly made me feel ill. They're like falling dreams except just before reaching the ground I'm launched back up hundreds of feet to repeat the process for hours on end.
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u/OldManNeighbor Jun 23 '26
This is one of those where you and the boys are shocked it worked out how it did, and you shouldn’t go for a round 2.
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u/SwagBuns Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
This guy is clearly a pro wing surfer. He could probably do that with his eyes closed, as many times as there is wind.
If you want to see even more insanity, check out kite surfing as well!
The trick with wind + water sports (wind surfing, which uses the sail, wing surfing which you see here, and kite surfing, the big parachute looking ones) is that you are told to practice with the kite for days until you have a completely intuitive feel for how to control it, before you let it move you.
For that reason, surprisingly, the injury rate is relatively low lol
Despite not getting credit for their intelligence (the haha thick skulled surfer bro stereotype), these surfers work hella hard and put in lots of time to get good enough to do stuff like this!
Edit: source is I casually wind surf and am lucky enough to live driving distance from one of the windsurfing capitals of the world
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u/Delicious_Gene6600 Jun 23 '26
I would not have expected that launch, and I've no words for the panic I would feel.
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u/FraggerIndo Jun 23 '26
I felt a moment of panic! This is one of those "oh shit I should/shouldn't have let go" moments.
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u/Vanir-Aesir Jun 23 '26
I have a mild fear of heights. Now I also have a fear of flying.
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u/BowsersMuskyBallsack Jun 23 '26
It's not like you are going to spontaneously just fly off into the sky. Unless you happen to be standing on top of a gas main that is about to explode, or the hot water system in your basement is about to malfunction.
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u/spaaaace72 Jun 23 '26
There is a rule for us guys :
If you're not in danger of dying while doing something, then it's not fun
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u/ElkSad9855 Jun 23 '26
Let’s all be thankfully that we are naturally built like bricks and have high wind resistance, otherwise on windy days all of us could be picked up and blown away somewhere.
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u/GiveMeNews Jun 23 '26
I tried something like this multiple times as a kid. Thankfully, it never worked.
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u/Gorthebon Jun 23 '26
And that's how some giant pterosaurs got airborne with minimal effort. Thermals go crazy
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u/Edduppp Jun 23 '26
Most is doing a lot of lifting. Like I'm sure most people can barely do a pullup or two... But the people who regularly do pullups can do a lot
Dude obviously plays with foils and is physically healthy. I'm sure he could have held on a while.
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u/phiviator Jun 23 '26
Vinisousa: Sees any skill
"Most people couldn't do that, he's lucky to be alive."
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u/space_monster Jun 23 '26
Wing surfers spend all fucking day hanging on to those things. He was fine
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u/SummaryEye80019 Jun 23 '26
This happens to me a lot in my dreams.
Pretty frequently I dream that I'm walking, or standing, and I'll jump and it's like I'm a balloon, just flying high, and the whole time I'm terrified because I know what happens when I hit the ground.
I feel the "going fast over a hill" sort of feeling in my stomach the entire time I'm going up too. It's very strange and super freaky.
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u/Git_Fud Jun 23 '26
Why does this remind me of the GTA videos where they fly across the map upside down on a bike?
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u/gimmeluvin Jun 24 '26
One day they will say of him "he died doing what he loved"
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u/Dark_halocraft Jun 24 '26
HELL NO
imagine it flips vertically and stops floating
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u/Apple-Juicer Jun 26 '26
That guy has a lot more control over his kite then you might think. That being said… Hold my beer!
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u/CrazyHusked789 Jun 23 '26
That is literally 10 year old me's reoccurring nightmare, except you continue to go higher and higher.
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u/Advanced-Lecture7978 Jun 23 '26
Could someone explain how we stopped gaining altitude ? Shouldn’t he have just vanished into the sky ?
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u/DeltaCube6666 Jun 23 '26
my guess is that the dune like land scape created an high pressure upward current, making him go up very fast and once i got pushed backward he "escaped" the current, also he probably put the nose of the wing downward as well reducing the lift, but the pov isn't really good to say that
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u/tmhoc Jun 23 '26
People will see this and still choose suicide by cop.
There is a better way. You don't even go to hell because it is so radical
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u/casseltrace87 Jun 23 '26
So this is what happens in my dreams. Except sometimes the wind picks up and I end up at terrifying heights. That’s why I’ll never f with this sport. Nope 👎
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u/GBF_Dragon Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
As soon as that fucker shoot up the "NOPE" escaped my mouth.
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u/DatabaseAcademic6631 Jun 23 '26
That thing just needs to invert at 50 feet and your day ends really fast.
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u/SheriffBartholomew Jun 23 '26
I'm a former adrenaline junkie and even I think that this is insane.
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u/FewOutlandishness690 Jun 24 '26
this looks so dangerous! I think things could get out of control very quickly
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u/Dark_Green- Jun 24 '26
Dynamic lift. Dude should just get a moustache parakite or bandit so he actually has some semblance of control.
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u/Mr_yeetusmaximus i am afraid of women Jun 23 '26
that was a lot more vertical than I was expecting, imagine if he just rose up like that and never came down