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  1. Avoiding tangles also gets a lot easier if you focus on ways to have your lines fall / lay in a "U" between you and the kite, and always always make sure they are in a "U" if you're moving to another area between flights - soon as lines double back on themselves, or pile up, chances for problems increase.
    4 points
  2. I still drop a handle now and then.
    2 points
  3. I get it , I stake them proper . Every time they touch the ground. Mine is the hands. I've considered Velcro on gloves and handles. Even super glue ! That's where my problem is, sometimes I'm flying and completely lost in flying and then the kite does something weird , and I see a handle scooting on the ground.....[emoji12] The more I fly the better they're getting, the hands. Best therapy in the world for me. Sent from my iPad using KiteLife mobile app
    2 points
  4. I wonder how it flys in Indiana wind lol [emoji41] Sent from my iPhone using KiteLife mobile app
    2 points
  5. Not sure why I always torture myself and buy new kites in the winter. Forced to stare at them for 3 months lol Sent from my iPhone using KiteLife mobile app
    1 point
  6. Recently I colored the lines for my indoor Rev so I could untangle them easier, old hands and I drop them. They work for that purpose and even look cool while flying. Input.....[emoji41] Sent from my iPad using KiteLife mobile app
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  8. Oh BS, I usually drop a handle once at least every other session. Just not at key moments.
    1 point
  9. Not when I've been looking!!!
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  10. Feeling slowly coming back, injury made it numb in places for quite a bit Sent from my iPad using KiteLife mobile app
    1 point
  11. I take the liberty of returning to the topic to some extent by continuing to discuss kites and patents. I saw a research kite video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIZr3R5JnEs ) that touched on topics related to line phenomena like flow, weight/load of a really long line and waves along the line (actually it was only one click away on Youtube from Watty Spencers quad video). There the "line" or rather, more general, tether was given a foil-like cross section. This should give the tether much less drag even though the tether/line became much wider (now the reduced drag isn't something Revolutionary, streamlined stays have been around "for ages" and can be found between the wings on a biplane aircraft). The Youtube title, "20km High Kite Flying" seems to be fetched out of the blue not really having anything to do with the contents of the video. Being very picky, isn't the aerodynamical centre (=centre of lift?) drawn awfully far to the rear in the video? The leading edge of the foil was a long tube in the video. When seeing this I thought why not have all lines of a multi line kite going through this tube (give the inside of the tube a teflon coating or other low friction surface). At least for speed kites this could be something or possibly if you want to make the wind window larger for other kites. For such a simple idea to let the lines go through a long foil of almost the entire line length of a multi line kite, I'm sure that this thought is not original. After all, everything has been there for a long time: foils, kites and multi lines. (When coming up with this idea I'm standing on the shoulders of others - also in a wider aspect that I live such a life that I'm in a position to have an opportunity to think these thoughts). That someone somewhere has made such idea public in some way is also likely. Now, assume/pretend that no one discussed this idea in a sport kite context (or have someone already made life more difficult by "protecting" it?), would this post offer any kind of protection against any restriction on freedom of kite designers/builders/users/companies/thoughts (OK, "thoughts" is a bit indirect, but thoughts are shaped by activity, which can be limited by regulations)? Or is it so that this post just made things worse? - is it so that there is no protection and the idea is just there for the taking now? Are there any better ways of making ideas public so that they can't be patented etc... ? Would building an implementation (even a very poor one) and putting it on Youtube, Vimeo, Metacafe... (and try to make it as "searchable" as possible) be better than a post? Any other ways? B.t.w. trying to understand things or guessing where a certain thing/video/text/reasoning is heading often causes now thoughts to emerge. Use them for good stuff!
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  12. I still drop a handle now and then.
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  13. Joe - do you still have good feeling in them? Holding handles loosely is a good thing. Increases your touch with them. You don't want to "strangle" them, but hold them like you would a baby bird! Old saying on indoors - if you aren't losing a handle once in a while, you're probably holding them too tight!!
    1 point
  14. Just send them to me and I will send them back to you in the fall with a full report of how they fly. Even worse is building your own.
    1 point
  15. Like Wayne said, on 10ft lines you should have really ZERO tangles, but like we always say in kiting, whatever works best for you is what is best for you. We all have our own way of doing the same task.
    1 point
  16. Not so good. It prefers western wind, you know, like Illinois. Just lucky I'm not in. Yet. Maybe.
    1 point
  17. FYI, I'm toying with making our September clinic exclusively team-focused (all levels) - after a spring clinic and festival season, folks ought to be ready. Thoughts?
    1 point
  18. Ok so after a lot of faffing I got it edited, sadly I didn't get to fly that day but our 12 year old daughter did and I got to test out my new camera so all was good [emoji6] Password to enter is " Kitelife " if you would like to watch [emoji4] [/url] Sent from my iPhone using KiteLife mobile app
    1 point
  19. Not me, I just got two brand new WidowMakers (STD and UL) so I'm set for dual line kites.
    1 point
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