Mantis demo, involuntary wingslaughter

Описание: Always stoked to demo something! The Mantis has been appealing to me lately. It's what Titouan rides now, as well as Damien Leroy and Gwen, so it's gotta be pretty decent, right? Well what a better test than riding it on a pretty good wave day at Corporation Beach on Cape Cod, totally lit. It was all going good until tragedy struck, leading to a long swim in.

HUGE thanks to Phil at KITESITE.net for letting me demo (and sometimes trash) gear, I'm grateful. Looking forward to riding a repaired Mantis with a new bladder this season! Doh!

A little late getting this video out, I got hit hard with the Norovirus this week and haven't been able to edit much. Then I got dinged with a copyright issue, setting me a few hours behind having to re-export and re-upload. Lesson learned, I can't keep clips in my vids with Nine Inch Nails blasting in the background. sigh.

On top of that, someone noticed I didn't have footage of the smoking gun. I muted the wrong track, so I made a quick short with the footage here:
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gear used this sesh:
5m Cabrinha Mantis Wing
75L Armie FG board
795 mast
60 fuse
MA1000 foil
205 stab (+1.5 degree shim)