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  • SHBKF

    Support your LKS

    By SHBKF

    Support your LKS   I started reading the kite forums with some intensity over four years ago.  I had used computers for many years even back before the days of the WWW.  It has been quite awhile since I’ve seen that initialism used in any context.  I had previously been on a few forums of interest but I was really fired up wanting to learn anything kites.   I saw mention of an initialism LKS, Local Kite Store.  Out here in the mountains of western Virginia there was no such thing.  Maybe
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  • Exult

    Learning from flying in unfamiliar or non-ideal situations

    By Exult

    When being removed from your comfort flying zone you might get new experiences that you couldn't imagine or predict. This blog entry is also a vacation post card from the medieval city (in the sense that ruins and buildings from that time still exist) of Visby ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visby ) in the island of Gotland ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotland ) in the Baltic Sea as well as an example of how flying during new and non-ideal conditions turned out to be educational, fun and very
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Notes from the field

Flying across the plains

Sometimes we leave on a vacation having no idea where we'll wind up or how long we'll be gone.  It is a powerful kind of freedom that our vast country provides.  So we decide one evening to load a little gear into the RoadTrek the next morning & head up to a small town on the Ohio called Madison.  We chose to leave with minimal preparation planning to buy anything we might have forgotten along the way.  After a couple evenings on the road we decide we will venture onward.  There was somethin
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Dragonfish's Kite Adventures

San Ramon Art and Wind Festival 2016

Oops, a bit overdue on this one.   Memorial Day weekend brought around the San Ramon Art and Wind Festival.  It is a Sunday-Monday festival, this year held on May 29-30, 2016.   Sunday started off on a good note, with temperatures not terribly hot, and there was wind!  Bumpy, inland wind with lots of "holes" typical of that location, but nevertheless there was wind.  Sport kite fliers flew demos most of the day, interspersed with some other attractions.  Penny Lingenfelter put on a sho
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Freedom In The Sky

Happy Father's Day

Father's Day was a beautiful day to fly kites, lower temperatures, lower humidity and higher winds.  But not too high.  And we had some new kites to fly.   Happy Father's Day
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photomom

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Flynhi (PipaKite)

Flying in a Heat Wave

Today was hot, 118 F with 5-7 mph gusts. Phone survived 10 minutes of recording. First solo session with this Rev. This whole week will be 115F.  Wear wet clothing if you fly in these conditions. Kite: 2002 Rev 1.5M standard vent (Aqua, Raspberry, Blue, Mylar, Black, White) http://bit.ly/28Iw5ae
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Freedom In The Sky

Memorial Day Weekend 2016

Because the holiday weekends on the beach are the ultimate crazy, we don't plan on flying much.  This Memorial Day tropical storm Bonnie threw in an additional curve in everyone's plans.  However, there still was an indoor kiting program to present during the holiday which kept kiting on our minds.  A short fly was in order after the crowds left. Memorial Day 2016  
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Flynhi (PipaKite)

Ready for the next level

Progress has been slow. Flying from the center panel has been my main focus for the past couple of weeks. Line equalization prior to each flight is now a must. 110+ F days for the next 4 months. The next step is learning some fundamental drills.   (video has been removed due to a copywrite claim on the music, here is a version with no music)
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Freedom In The Sky

Another Dreary Weekend

There wasn't much flying going on the past week.  Mostly because the weather wasn't cooperating.  Sheer stubbornness had a couple of kites in the air.  That and the chance to spend some time with the grandchildren.  As you can see, we're starting them out very young. Another Dreary Weekend
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