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  1. Just received my kite bag from Bri at Breezefabricworks. Fast turnaround time, great options, fantastic quality and a reasonable price. Better than I imagined. What a great bag! Now I need a few more kites to fill it up! Thanks for the suggestion! Sent from my iPhone using KiteLife mobile app
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  2. Mine goes Chitty Chitty Bang Bang [emoji3] Sent from my iPhone using KiteLife mobile app
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  3. That's the big one. I don't think "load the sail". I think "add some oomph", or "bonus wind". Effectively it's all the same thing. A quick tug on your arms can move at 25 mph pretty easily, but only for a moment. A quick step backward can add 3-5 mph easily, perhaps up to 10 mph if you're vigorous in shifting your body back. The extra motion is brief, but can be substantial. Whatever you call it, your kite gets a gust of wind. Sounds like most things it wears off eventually. That reminds me of young children who run around the playground wildly without purpose or teens learning to drive who cruise the neighborhood just because they can. If you need help with a purpose, you might find a list of maneuvers to learn and focus on those top three. Sometimes you'll want to review your entire list, sometimes you'll want to focus on improving a specific skill. I think of these like forming the individual letters of kites. When those don't work, spending time building collections of maneuvers that pair well together. This strings the letters into words. Then you can turn words into bigger phrases of maneuvers. With that in place, you'll crank the radio and string together kite-words into a beautiful larger expression.
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  4. A slack line trick, that means no wind, or out towards the wind window's edge or maybe a violent action on the pilot's part directly downwind in the center and howling gale-force too, how much, and where, .... it will become dialing a faucet of water on, do you want trickle or full stream? Practice in demanding low wind and it will be easier to accomplish initial success. Almost all of the cool tricks are easier to learn at the lower end of the wind range on your kite practice and enjoy
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  5. It hit 109'F in my area this week, wind has been light and variable, and it's been four weeks since I could fly outdoors. Summer is the season for indoor kites.
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  6. Though I have not been able to ponder over the panel design by seeing it against the sky (as @Breezin addressed) and then iterate the design a few times and I sense that the sail designer might have set his mind on this one, I do say that I today share @makatakam opinion. My subjective view is that a a small zip of colour could add to the artistic and serve as a visual spice. E.g., the Tramontana is mainly a black and white kite, no doubt, but the red wingtips are a complement to that. A possible Djinn design preserving much of the current design could be like a piece of steel that is cooling down. The corners and edges are cool dark steel gray (or black), the sides are barely glowing reddish gray, but in a few small grooves/cracks you can still see that it is still glowing inside (would work with other inner glow colour scales as well while preserving the darker grey like part). On the other hand, inner glow stuff is not as original as the current Djinn design is. …and, single theme designs without any colour like HQ Infinity and Zebra (have not seen one though) work as well. Choices, options, choices, choices, options, decisions….
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  7. Have a Shanti Skybond 100# x 100' line set on the way. Will see how it goes.
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  8. Dorts. 😂 But they do come with a side of whumpcakes. 🤘
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  9. Nice critique Breezin, good information as usual. Another nighthawk, over an addiction even? You prefer the Flexi foil psycho over the addiction? I am not really up on those older kites, the dot matrix kite looked interesting and has nice colors. The older trick and track colors look nice. No worries RobB, I get it, if I had the cash and skyburner still made the WM, I would like to buy a custom color one.
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  10. Of course, we're turning kite flying into rocket science here. If you just fly the kite often enough all these things will come to you naturally with time without realizing that it has happened. Sometimes it's better to just fly without trying to wrap your brain around what you are doing.
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