amazing kiteboarding! it looked like fun, but it would be really scary
Oh My! 
You don’t expect that when kitesurfing. A more common accident would be getting dragged into rocks or into shore. But to get stuck in the thermal and end up 50m in the air? Yows.
He lived. No broken bones. He’s lucky.
That’s pretty awesome… it would be so scary though. It’s great that the just happened to catch it on film.