I do actually have flights that don't begin or end with crashes. But these are easier to put together so I am just chucking it up. This crash was at Guimar launch in Tenerife, 16 Novemeber 2016.
Launched in a wind which was too high for me and the wind increased a few meters up. Although I ran towards the wing, it lifted me completely off the ground, pendulum-ed me underneath and dropped me on the lip of a 1.5m edge about 7-8 meters behind where I was launching from, which I then rolled over and crashed onto the road head and shoulder first. I had a lucky break as if I had missed the lip, I would have slammed into the road from about 3 meters up!
Another lucky break was not going a few meters further as I would have gone over the back of the mountain and a much bigger drop.
I am alright though, shoulder is a bit buggered and wrist seems to have taken some damage, but all in all I came out of it unscathed and a more cautious pilot.
And I will head back to Guimar as soon as possible to fly that damn site! :)
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