I know I come off as a yahoo of sorts from time to time on here, but really, Jake's story is the kind I've come to know about kiteboarders and their relative risk/safety ratio calculations. To me it just seems like most of them don't have a respect or fear of the power of wind. Ironically, all the kiteboarders I've run across were wake boarders / getting dragged behind a motorboaters before dabbling in wind-powered devices.