Kiting third

I went to third ave today after work for my first ride with the new kite. Things were going exceptionally well for a while and I was flying upwind, launching off of waves and generally having a blast. After eventually getting tired, I started heading downwind which is when things went south. Somehow my safety release on the chicken loop (the primary connection between my harness and the kite) got activated, which shot the bar into the air and dumped the kite in the water. I was still leashed in though, and started swimming towards the kite to get the bar. Unfortunately, and I'm not sure what I did wrong here, the kite got pulled to the side of the wind window and started to try to relaunch, which pulled the tangle of lines around my leg and started squeezing them in a very scary way. I decided to hit the leash safety at this point, which caused the kite to be totally cut free and it tumbled downwind towards the rocks. It was my lucky day however, and some guy from Helm ( a local shop) on a jet ski grabbed the kite and pulled it to shore before it got eaten by the rocks. I had a fairly long swim back in which reminded me of how mediocre a swimmer I am. argh. Hopefully the kite isn't damaged.