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The Inertia

Humans are a funny sort, aren’t we? On a constant search for something that’ll make our hearts pound. Faster, higher, bigger, for no other reason than the fact that faster, higher, and bigger is fun. Like the kite surfers in Red Bull’s YouTube offering above.

Red Bull challenged three of the world’s best big air kite surfers to jump over a giant boat, because… well, because why not? To do it, they had to jump the length of a football field, go faster than 45 mph, and find the perfect wave among countless waves to get them high enough and far enough to clear it.

 
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