the timing is all wrong - the static builds up when you jump and exits when you land through your feet, if you could see the arc im pretty sure it would only be from the board to the water, or from your feet to the water.
I have been zapped before.
i cannot even believe any of you guys are seriously considering this to be real. you have any idea how much power you would need to create a 25m long arc like that for even a fraction of a second? or can anyone explain why it's arcing along the lines which are already connected to the kiter via the bar? or why it's so poorly photoshopped that even an autistic monkey with a lobotomy could see that it's fake?
Dead giveaway is that there's no reaction from the riders or the camera operator.
make this thread go away. it hurts my head to think somebody considered it was possible.
I believe it not probs, had it happen to me and a friend witness the spark. conditions were a bit spoky with that lightning feel to the air and low cloud and wet. not sure i buy the dust theory but then again this can happen.
However (I've not watched the movie) that is a crock of &$*(. You can only build up a charge in the kite when off the water as you are constantly earthing the static charge on the water.
Think school, think vadnagraph(?) generator and you had to stand on a plasic sheet to make it work.
if you built up enough static to make an arc that big, your lines would burn, your kite would have a hole in it and you would be dead.
Static build ups and discharges do happen, but as stated above you need to be off the water for it to happen. And the sparks (if you can even see them) are tiny
Not to mention the sparks in the video are blue and last for almost a second and go from the kite to the rider instead of to the earth. That said I think OP - troll
every wet season in the tropics we get zapped, the higher and longer you jump, the bigger the zap.
What this fake arse vid is showing is a lightning strike. The dude would be very dead with the size we see here.
Nice effect but you made it too big and now it looks fake, tone it down and you could have gotten us going.
