Kitesurfing safety signals
Kitesurfing is a dangerous sport both for the kitesurfer and for the people around. This is why safety is very important and proper safety instructions need to be followed. A part of kitesurfing safety is the kitesurfing safety signals. Whether you are in distress or you want to tell people around something, you will need to use kitesurfing safety signals. For example, you will need to show others when you want to land or bring down your kite by using the correct kitesurfing safety signals.
There are a number of kitesurfing safety signals, several of which will be discussed in this article. When you want to tell people around you that you are OK, you will need to put your right hand on your head or helmet. If you are far from people around you, you will need to use another one of the kitesurfing safety signals to tell them that you are OK: getting your hand above your head and touching the fingers of one hand with another.
Call for help or for attention kitesurfing safety signals include the following. From close distance you will need to waive your left hand. From far away you will need to waive both of your hands above your head. If you want to tell others to wait, you will need to put your left hand up, perpendicular to the surface and with a 90 degrees angle near your elbow.
If you would like to tell others that you want to land your kite, you will need to use another one of the kitesurfing safety signals. You will need to put your right hand above your head or helmet and start moving it by touching your helmet and then moving your hand a little away (upper direction) from the helmet. Other kitesurfing safety signals include the signal to hold your kite. For this you will need to put your left hand up, perpendicular to the surface and with a 90 degrees angle near your elbow. Then you will need to grip your hand together. As you see, this is very similar to the signal to wait. There are many other kitesurfing safety signals, but these are some of the most important.
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