{"id":2690,"date":"2008-07-30T23:15:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T21:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/?p=2690"},"modified":"2008-07-30T23:15:31","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T21:15:31","slug":"faqs-how-can-i-avoid-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/help\/faq-for-beginners\/faqs-how-can-i-avoid-accidents\/","title":{"rendered":"FAQs &#8211; How can I avoid accidents?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most accidents happen out of 2 reasons:<br \/>\n&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One overestimates ones skills &amp; level<br \/>\n&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One underestimates nature<br \/>\nThe most common example:\u00a0 30 Knots, the kitesurfer only has 1 kite which is too big for that strength of wind, nevertheless decides to give it a go anyway with a \u2018ah, I\u2019m strong enough, I can hold my kite in those winds\u2019-attitude&#8230;\u00a0 and ends up on a tree, in a wall, house etc.<\/p>\n<p>Thus once again:\u00a0 PLEASE TAKE A COURSE BEFORE YOU TRY ON YOUR OWN and ALWAYS RESPECT NATURE!<\/p>\n<p>Most accidents happen during the launch.\u00a0 PLEASE never rush launching your kite. Always double and triple check that your lines are correctly connected and brief the person helping you NOT to let go of the kite before you give the \u2019thumbs up-OK\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can I avoid accidents?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[584],"tags":[679,775,778,777,593,779,537,666],"class_list":["post-2690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faq-for-beginners","tag-accidents","tag-dangers","tag-landing","tag-launching","tag-learning","tag-nature","tag-power","tag-safety"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2690"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3176,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions\/3176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}