Rob Douglas Luderitz World Speed Sailing Record kitesurf

[JohnnyDeppigX]

oh shit that water was hard

[wildblue2]

hey 49 knots in 25-30 knots, pretty good any way you shake it

[ArubaSailing]

WindSurfing is faster, and then there is a 61 kn Record on a tri...

You'r fast, but not the he fastes on the planet, sorry.

[playacop]

Sorry aruba......go research the 500 meter speed records.....chief.

[ArubaSailing]

Don't be sorry, play a cop, 61kn was not a record on the 500 meters, it is a speed set ( not a record" yet") by a trimaran on Hydrofoil. And in rufwater 2 !!

[sidstille]

where is this? because they have been trying to break 50. if someone already broke 60, i don't think there would be much excitement with 50 anymore.

[gebirama]

Do a google search on how apparent wind works; its sort of like leveraging against the wind speed and pressure of the board to extract mnore force, as the two combine.

[olumppara]

how is it posible, that he is actually faster than this windspeed??????????????

[curlcurllocal]

get a slippery watermelon seed, squeeze it hard between your two fingers, look how fast it went. Now think about it it, your fingers werent going very fast, just applying a lot of force on each side.

the kite is applying huge force on one side, and the stiff edge of the board is locking that force up against the water so you can go way faster than the wind - just like the watermelon seed went way faster than your fingers were moving.

[zollasza]

@curlcurllocal

Now if only you had blonde hair and big old boobies you'd be the perfect teacher. Very well explained!!

[gregoirec2001]

50 was broken a day or two ago...french guy

[anzebzk]

rešpekt:d

[mlepoidevin]

50knts has to go soon! Not bad for a kiter. Was he wearing shorts outside his wettie? I'm told that wearing them adds 0.5knt!

[mattyy01]

0.5kn? how does that work