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hi,my name is Hans,im 55 and i live in Regina Saskatchewan Canada,i went to the Windscape Kite Festival in Swiftcurrent Sask. last weekend,i bought myself a Quantum from The Kite Guys.

trainers at the festival had me Flying in 10 min.so far i have about 10 hrs. flying time under my belt,lol. im hooked on this ever since i saw what can be done with these kites.

i have the videos Prizm put out,a book by David Gromberg,as another member stated in another thread,,you can learn more from flying with someone then from watching all the videos or reading books.

so im posting here to see if there is anyone near Regina Sask. that also flys 2 line kites?

btw--the quantum is a tough kite,ive crashed lots and its still in 1 piece,,lol.

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Hi Hans,

Sorry, but I live in Florida!

But, Quantum was my first kite too! I sometimes throw a 100 foot tail on it.

My wife has one too!

A really great kite that can really take a lot of crashes without breaking, although I have broken a spar or two now and then...heehee! I still fly it sometimes and use it for teaching others how to fly! In a strong wind it's really exciting!! heehee!

The AKA even made a T-Shrit out of one of my pictures with the Quantum!!

"All Life Comes From The Sea!""

http://www.cafepress.com/dd/34988528

Keep It Up!

Duane

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Hi Hans,

By the way, I started with Gombergs book too! His book was a great help. I also got my kite tails from him. http://www.gombergkites.com

One thing that you might want to do is to remove those attachment "clips". They sometimes cause big problems. I had one break on my in a strong wind and my kite spun to the ground at a thousand miles an hour crashing into a wooden fence. Broke the kite and the fence too...and after awhile I gave up on trying to untangle the lines! heehee! And sometimes they get caught on things. There great for beginners, but they should be changed over the Larkhead knots...that's the knot most used in kiting and it's really easy to do.

http://prismkites.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1191289162

I cut off the heat shrink tubing and removed the clips. Then tie knots in the ends, if they aren't already there, and then tie your line to those knots with a Larkshead knot:

Keep It Up!

Duane

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