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We're pleased to yet again announce the next prize being given away to our most appreciated supporters, the Kitelife Subscribers... For roughly 10 cents per day they play a major role in keeping KL growing in every way. This time around we're offering an extremely unique item, and one you're not likely to see in the drawings again: KŪBE dual / quad line dogstake from Kite Forge, a $325 value! == Full info - https://kiteforge.com/product/kube This package includes the KŪBE unit, screw mount, flight tag, guy lines, velvet bag and sticker, ready to fly! NOTE: This is exactly the same dogstake that I fly myself - We should be able to ship from existing inventory when a winner is drawn, worst case should be 3-4 weeks for restock. You can sign up here. Odds of winning for this prize is currently 1/398, and will be drawn on December 1st, 2023! Our thanks, and the very best to you... Let the drooling begin!

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We're pleased to yet again announce the next prize being given away to our most appreciated supporters, the Kitelife Subscribers... For roughly 10 cents per day they play a major role in keeping KL growing in every way. Gaze ST from Kite Forge (design by Air-Rex / Flying Wings), $295 value, in PURPLE! The Gaze is an amazing blend of team-level precision and slack line ability in one full size sport kite, designed by Naoki Tamura, world champion Team Air-Rex from Japan and Flying Wings. == == Full info - https://kiteforge.com/gaze More videos - https://kiteforge.com/videos/ This package includes a complete Gaze ST and kite sleeve! NOTE: This is exactly the same Gaze setup that I fly myself - no special mods needed, it's already a boss right out of the bag... We should be able to ship from existing inventory when a winner is drawn, worst case will be 2-4 weeks for restock. You can sign up here. Odds of winning for this prize is currently 1/398, and will be drawn on June 1st, 2023! Our thanks, and the very best to you... Let the drooling begin!

Ok, we have a winner! This time the randomizer has gone a bit deeper into the older numbers and given us subscriber #940, a huge congrats to @XD1 (Scott and Linzy) - you're taking home a brand new KŪBE! Thanks so much to everyone for your ongoing support and patience, stay tuned for a new prize soon.

Stirring the pot... 😈

I try to make all the prizes useful, relevant, or interesting - all about the experience. 🙏🏻

Wow, made it on the right day! Drum roll... This month's winner is subscriber #1297, congrats to @rykerev! Deepest thanks to all our supporters, always - you are the backbone of this website. 🙏 Stay tuned for news on our next prize!

We're pleased to yet again announce the next prize being given away to our most appreciated supporters, the Kitelife Subscribers... For roughly 10 cents per day they play a major role in keeping KL growing in every way. LaserPro Gold 75 ft x 90# quad line set from Kite Forge, $90 value! == Full info - https://kiteforge.com/product/laserpro-gold-quad/ This package includes a ready to fly line set on an official LaserPro winder! NOTE: This is exactly the same line set that I fly myself - it's ready to fly right out of the bag... We should be able to ship from existing inventory when a winner is drawn, worst case should be 1-2 weeks for restock. You can sign up here. Odds of winning for this prize is currently 1/408, and will be drawn on August 1st, 2023! Our thanks, and the very best to you... Let the drooling begin!

Right you are, apologies - work, summer, life, family, but I'm back on it. With no fanfare, straight to our lucky winner in this round... Subscriber #1572, a brand new set of LPG quad lines goes to @Brandon! Thanks so much to all for your ongoing patience and support, stay tuned for another prize very soon. 🙏

We're pleased to yet again announce the next prize being given away to our most appreciated supporters, the Kitelife Subscribers... For roughly 10 cents per day they play a major role in keeping KL growing in every way. LaserPro Gold 60 ft x 50# quad line set from Kite Forge, $80 value! == Full info - https://kiteforge.com/product/laserpro-gold-quad/ This package includes a ready to fly line set on an official LaserPro winder! NOTE: This is exactly the same line set that I fly myself - it's ready to fly right out of the bag... We should be able to ship from existing inventory when a winner is drawn, worst case should be 1-2 weeks for restock. You can sign up here. Odds of winning for this prize is currently 1/398, and will be drawn on April 10th, 2024! Our thanks, and the very best to you... Let the drooling begin!

Alright, we've got a winner... Congratulations to subscriber #1553, @KiteKouple is taking home a brand new line set! Thanks all, as always - I'll try and get a new prize up ASAP. Its a madly busy time of year for me at the moment between work, family, team practice (developing a brand new routine) and our upcoming trip to the Cervia Kite Festival - your patience is deeply appreciated!

I'll gladly take them. Can you give them to me in Cervia

We're pleased to yet again announce the next prize being given away to our most appreciated supporters, the Kitelife Subscribers... For roughly 10 cents per day they play a major role in keeping KL growing in every way. LaserPro Gold 60 ft x 90# quad line set from Kite Forge, $80 value! == Full info - https://kiteforge.com/product/laserpro-gold-quad/ This package includes a ready to fly line set on an official LaserPro winder! NOTE: This is exactly the same line set that I fly myself - it's ready to fly right out of the bag... We should be able to ship from existing inventory when a winner is drawn, worst case should be 1-2 weeks for restock. You can sign up here. Odds of winning for this prize is currently 1/398, and will be drawn on February 5th, 2024! Our thanks, and the very best to you... Let the drooling begin!

Alrighty, here goes... Our lucky winner this time around is #1472, @Dave Schutsky! Congrats sir, and thanks to all for your ongoing support. ❤️ Stay tuned for our next prize, soon!

Hi people, Fran Burstall from England here. I am a long-time dual-line flyer and have competed in Team, Pairs and Indi for more than 20 years. I am now embarking on the new adventure of learning to fly revs. John B's tutorials will help here.

Remember how the really special drawings brought out the best of member trash talk..?!! THIS ONE is definitely headed south for the beaches of Oz! Warm easterlies in the morning. Cool westerlies in the evening. Hello RNG. You still kicking?

We're pleased to yet again announce the next prize being given away to our most appreciated supporters, the Kitelife Subscribers... For roughly 10 cents per day they play a major role in keeping KL growing in every way. LaserPro Gold 60 ft x 90# quad line set from Kite Forge, $80 value! == Full info - https://kiteforge.com/product/laserpro-gold-quad/ This package includes a ready to fly line set on an official LaserPro winder! NOTE: This is exactly the same line set that I fly myself - it's ready to fly right out of the bag... We should be able to ship from existing inventory when a winner is drawn, worst case should be 1-2 weeks for restock. You can sign up here. Odds of winning for this prize is currently 1/408, and will be drawn on October 10th, 2023! Our thanks, and the very best to you... Let the drooling begin!

Oh, and this bit of sorcery... 😎

Just thought I would share a pic of the winder I made for my lines, just keeps separated.

Another video is just coming in: Watty also explains very nicely how he makes his lines management.

That's how I do it. It works 99% of the time. With the remaining 1% I am badly swearing :-)

I'm not talented enough to fly and take a picture at the same time with dual lines, so, you folks will have to just believe me when I say I had a great time flying this wonderful kite! https://photos.app.goo.gl/SDYtD9N1vq2kc94Y8

Okay, here's that beautiful drum roll... 🥁 The winner of a brand new Gaze, subscriber #1560 - this bad boy is going home with @Jer! Every day flying is the best day ever, indeed. Congrats Jeremy, and thanks to all for your ongoing support. 🙏 Stay tuned for a new prize to be announced early next week!

It's my birthday (#48) but I am reconciling our member list as we speak, will draw a winner shortly, then spend the rest of the day celebrating. ❤️

This is my Gaze ST in orange. It's waiting for wind between the asparagus fields...

If you actually come to Leipzig, I will bring my Gaze. Maybe there will be a chance to fly it outside somewhere. But you are welcome to try it in the hall

Hi Michael, In Cervia I met you and other kite fliers from the Drachenforum, it has been a great pleasure! During the festival I spent most of time in the STACK area, so when I met John the last day the Gaze was already packed to go back to the United States. Thank you !

I had the opportunity to fly the Gaze Standard in Cervia. Nice kite - great price!

Hey Bunduki, I would love to man, but unfortunately I am on a vacation from 05/04 until 12/04. If anything changes I will give you a PM, but as it stands now I am unfortunately away. Thank you for thinking about it. 👍

What a wonderful prize John, again a big THANK YOU! 😍

John, Thanks for the site and all the training videos. I'm just getting back into quads after a 20+ year hiatus. I'm looking forward to hearing about any upcoming workshops... Jay

https://www.facebook.com/groups/djinnkite/permalink/1616926695368297/ No wrong way long as you're happy, but check that out. 🤷

Any idea how you can purchase a Djinn in the UK? Neither Kite forge or the Wind-R site have a UK shipping option.

Thanks so much @John Barresi. I don't have much of a kite story, but perhaps it's writing itself as I type this... A year or so ago I held someone's line momentarily at a park and it re-sparked a childhood excitement. I didn't think much of it at the time, but it stuck with me. A year later and I'm still watching kitebuilding videos thinking about designs I want to put together, so I'm getting out some plastic bags and bamboo skewers and going to see what's what.

No I haven't bought one yet. I was concerned about the flight characteristics because the person who helped design the upgrades is pretty much a dedicated freestyle flier, and I am not. I prefer directional flying. I still might buy one though because I like the purple color, plus it has a polyester sail and is supposedly the same shape as the NG, so if I don't like the way it flies compared to the NG, I could probably put an NG bridle on it. I did buy an extra yellow Widow NG though since they are being discontinued and I like mine, and continue to use it and abuse it.

congratulations enjoy

Happy Birthday my friend!

Get what your point is. A time and place for everything. I don't actually compete to cut an opponents kite down usually. Glass impregnated string is quite dangerous. I fly solo so it's no imposition on other flyers as I usually fly on a very short line 20 yards. It's great fun with the miniature fighters as they are much faster and reactive. Around here the big fighter kite festival is in January. Real hard core fighters. Trees full of destroyed kites. Awsome fun.

Finally able to break down and get one! Love the kite! Looks great! Chad

I have a few quads. A few "original" Revolution, some "replicas" (in improved version), a few Detox and three Djinn. The Djinn are by far the most flown quads. I like the colour design/layout, the quality of the craftsmanship, the innovative details and the flying characteristics. Another advantage is the always good helpfulness and support from @John Barresi. In the quad (!) sector, in my opinion, only Los Hermanos (-> Detox) are as great. Disadvantages? Hmmm... I don't know any! Difference to other quads? I mainly fly Djinn and Detox. Djinn on short lines. Detox on long lines. But that's more subjective and my choice is based on terrain and mood.

A 400 buck budget is a nice one..... Contact Ken at Blue Moon Kites......he’ll build ya something real nice...;) Or please check out the (retail) sponsors on this fine site....they have some nice one’s there as well... bt

so...just relax, it gets very easy once you get it and the SilverFox is a great kite to have. I hope that the pictures below help: Daniel

Anyway this is one of my leading edges.

The trick is to keep tension in the lines as you check for twists. Most of what looks like twists are merely wraps that will unwrap under tension. You should have no more than 1 or 2 actual twists in the line, which are quite simple to undo. Sometimes when you set up brand new lines you may have 3 or 4, or you may find that one pair somehow managed to slip in between the other pair, but again, these are fairly easy to get rid of. If you let the lines go slack and try to get rid of what appears to be twists and tangles you will end up with spaghetti every time. Watch the line management video several times and use this method religiously. It has been proven over time and that's because it works. Just be careful not to twist and cross the pairs through each other when you are handling the lines and you'll be fine. Watch closely in the video and you will see that John keeps the lines in pretty much the same orientation to each other as they are when connected to the kite as he winds/unwinds them. As long as each pair (left, right) is connected to itself at the ends and the ends are not slipped through each other, what appears to be a bunch of twists is not really there. Again, and I can't stress this point enough, watch the "Line Management" video several times and do it that way. The part where he "waggles" the handle is so you can figure out which handle is connected to which side of the kite. Wrong side? Put that handle in the other hand. And, by the way, welcome to the forum if I haven't already said hi to you. Believe me, we all went through the same learning process. I spent over an hour one time untangling lines that probably weren't tangled in the first place, but it sure LOOKED like they were. Edit: There are lots of Rev flyers in Washington, probably more than any other state. Get together with one or more of them at their home field or at a festival, and you will learn more in one day than you would in a year on your own. PM someone near you and fly with them. Kiteflyers are a friendly bunch and always eager to help someone who's just starting out.

Okay, I've got it now. I have done this before, but without the "lock" wraps. I understand how that is better than just wrapping back and forth. I did it for a while, but didn't like the semi-permanent impressions the strands of line put into the foam on the handles. I found them annoying as I was flying. I am back to using the winder, wrapping all four lines at once. I tire quickly nowadays, so I avoid the second trip out to the kite. I stake the handles down at the flying end and take the kite with me, still rolled up, as I unwrap the lines. Then I set up the kite and attach the lines, go back to the handles and fly.

I just received an email from a forum member who will go unnamed, letting me know that there's been some discussion about how "random" the RNG really is. To trim a quote from that email, punctuation and placement edited to maintain anonymity... == With this in mind, I want to jump in and address it right now - first by showing our track record. Winners from the past 13 months: Dominic Juliano 4/5/11 #122 Rocky Freed 3/1/11 #639 Bill Hayes 2/10/11 #272 Komuro-san 1/25/11 #448 Joanna Chen 12/27/10 #790 James Rodriguez 11/25/10 #638 Brad Bixby 10/15/10 #574 Terry Ashenfelter 9/10/10 #631 Steve Tisch 8/5/10 #593 Dale Ray 6/30/10 #643 Stuart Forsythe 6/25/10 #584 Wayne Fu 6/20/10 #98 Steve Thorsen 6/15/10 #619 Bob Matteo 5/1/10 #94 Walt Ellis 3/18/10 #478 Not ONE do I have any personal ties with, no repeats, no weighting towards those who donate separately or how long they've been a subscriber.. Additionally, nearly half the list I've never met, or only met once or twice. Said with all love and respect, there are a lot of "unknowns" there - as I understand the reference I quoted above. == We use this RNG (random number generator) - http://www.random.org/sequences/ == We leave the starting number at 1 and enter the highest (most recent) subscriber number for the largest value: == Then we hit "Get Sequence" and get a list that looks like this... == In the shown examples, the list has 847 numbers (all the subscriber #'s we've ever issued), from 1 to 847, in random order. We start with the top number and look it up in our database, if it's an active number, we award the prize to that person. If that first number is expired, i.e. no longer a subscriber (over 400 numbers are currently dead), we move down to the next number on the list, and so on. Because so many numbers are no longer active, we sometimes we have to go through a dozen number or more to reach one that is currently active. == We don't have any preference as to who wins, none at all... After the fact, our only "bonus" is if it's someone who really needed that kite to fill a gap in their bag, or if they're overjoyed enough to post on the forum about it. Those in the know understand who I am, the essentials of why I do what I do, and the ethic with which I conduct my business. To the rest of you... Come fly with me anytime, let's talk, I'll answer anything you want to know, anytime. Regards! Feel free to add further inquires and challenges here.