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Thanks! I'm used to forums on a sewing site that is very active. If you post there and haven't had a response within a few hours it usually means no one is going to take up your question at all. I'm glad to hear this is nothing like FB. I have found the tutorials here to be wonderful and I paid to join primarily to offer thanks for creating them and making them available. -
By Bunduki Vlieger · Posted
Yeah. This is nothing like FB. Quiter but a lot higher quality Th flying tutorials are awesome. You can learn a lot from them. -
Hello, It seems pretty quiet here. I joined yesterday and posted a question about indoor flying. While I'm waiting for answers there I'm watching the indoor flying tutorials. There's a lot of good information there. I've got a few dual line stunt kites but have never progressed beyond beginner stuff because I only fly once a year or so when my family goes to the beach. I've never found anyplace at home without obstacles that's good for flying and our winds tend to be gusty and variable, not the nice steady onshore breeze you get nearly every afternoon at the beach. Looking forward to trying indoor flying.
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While not a newbie to kites, I just discovered indoor kiting by stumbling on John Barresi's Zen Glider demo video and could not stop watching. Ditto my 9-year-old grandson. Naturally we want to try it for ourselves but I really have no idea where to start. After a little looking around, I thought I'd order up an iFlight from the closest kite shop to me as a start. That's a single line kite, yes? I also see what I think are dual and quad line indoor kites. It's hard to see the lines and controllers in most of the videos. I know how to do a few basics with my 30+ year-old Delta Wing dual line kite if I have good wind. I can launch and land reliably without crashing, fly simple patterns across the wind and fly twists in and out of the line. That's about it since I only fly about once or twice a year when my family goes to the beach where there is nearly always a lovely sustained onshore breeze in the afternoon and all that nice soft sand for when the kids crash my kite. It's nose is starting to fray but that's a question for another part of the forum... So what do you recommend as a good starting place for my DGS and me. He says, "Grandma, it's just so peaceful, can I watch it again?" and, "I want to be that" when he watches John's video. Thanks in advance for all the good advice I know is coming.
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By MushroomPsyche · Posted
Hello, I just ordered a Synapse 170 from Amazon. We are going to the beach later this week and my wife said it would be fun if I bought a kite (her mistake for making that suggestion). I've flown kites when I was a kid, but only single lines. I bought the Synapse 170 but I can't help but wonder if I should have gotten the 200 instead. As a beginner, I'm not really after the pull as I would just like a chill flying sessions at the park... at least for now. I really like the presence of the bigger Synapse 200 kite but it seems the 170 is much more common than the 200. Initially, I bought a cheap 5ft delta from Amazon. It was a blast to fly in the front yard so yesterday I bought a Zenith 5 Aurora when I found out that REI has them. I also just found out that the AirBNB we're staying at is just 5 miles away from Kitty Hawk Kites so I will drop by there and most likely buy the Zenith 7 Infrared and maybe a Bora 7 as well. 375b8097-2e83-4130-9b32-210643d6fc52.mp4
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