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  1. John Barresi
    From both @TAKAKO and I, we wish you and yours a very wonderful holiday season wherever you are in the world - fly with intent, stay safe, and we hope to see you somewhere soon.
  2. John Barresi
    Okie dokie folks, here goes... *drum roll* ... ... ... ... ... The winner of a brand new Christmas Kymera, subscriber number 1259 - @berchman ! Congratulations good sir, I hope you get a lot of good flight time out of it. Merry Christmas everyone!
  3. John Barresi
    Welcome... 1333 - @Marcel219
  4. John Barresi
    We're distributing some Xmas sandwiches downtown this morning, planning to pull a winner in this bad boy when we get back in 2-3 hours.
  5. John Barresi
    I'm flying on foot beginning of the video, the buggy work is by Joe Hadzicki.
  6. John Barresi
    Hello @Craigfs, Welcome to KiteLife. Please feel free to browse around and get to know the others. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. And while it's never an obligation, we always love hearing about our new members if you'd like to share some of your kite stories, videos, and/or background. Your profile - View Member All the best, and welcome again!
  7. John Barresi
    Hello @fandecowu, Welcome to KiteLife. Please feel free to browse around and get to know the others. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. And while it's never an obligation, we always love hearing about our new members if you'd like to share some of your kite stories, videos, and/or background. Your profile - View Member All the best, and welcome again!
  8. John Barresi
    We're not doing anything special - good cheer, but no Christmas at our house this year... Just a good meal and enjoying our down time.
  9. John Barresi
    Woo hoo! Will try to ship tomorrow, but we're working out a problem with mailing labels - might go out after Christmas.
  10. John Barresi
    The forum auto-loads whatever profile pic I've got on Facebook, it'll change soon enough. lol
  11. John Barresi
    I think @Amexpmh has one of these, or a cousin of it... Wicked fast in a stiff breeze.
  12. John Barresi
    Hello @Landon, Welcome to KiteLife. Please feel free to browse around and get to know the others. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. And while it's never an obligation, we always love hearing about our new members if you'd like to share some of your kite stories, videos, and/or background. Your profile - View Member All the best, and welcome again!
  13. John Barresi
    Awesome.
  14. John Barresi
    I appreciate the thought, but KL is all for supporting boutique kite makers - I only wrinkle my nose when shops that don't support KL get plugged, but even then I don't usually drop the hammer.
  15. John Barresi
    Not yet, but they're stateside.
  16. John Barresi
    "Other site"... Link should be alright?
  17. John Barresi
    @stapp59 makes a hell of a kite.
  18. John Barresi
    I love it.
  19. John Barresi
    I never looked at the climb, I just do what I love to do and find myself in new places.
  20. John Barresi
    They've all got "street cred", that just comes with time, exposure and lots of heart.
  21. John Barresi
    Amen brother.
  22. John Barresi
    As an instructor I work with all kinds of fliers, and I've pretty much identify them in some of the following "psych" groups (these have very little to do with actual pilot skill)... Weekender Likes flying, wants to know enough to for basic competence but isn't really interested in learning a lot. Novice "Just trying to get control", no real intent, mostly continual correction in response to the kite's semi-random movements, like riding a wild horse, basically they just haven't made "the decision" to specifically learn and progress on certain aspects. Expressionist More obviously animated fliers (kite and body), often pretty good control but you can see the range of movements are tailored toward a feeling, a kind of expression, more than precision. Sometimes this "caps" the growth though, because there is a subtle belief that learning or focusing more will somehow compromise their personal integrity and style, which is a personal choice. Precisionist Often skilled, but it feels like watching a robot moving around the sky, not much feeling pushed into the movements or style, focused more on pure execution. Performance The main trait is simply wanting to do everything, better. Every aspect from intent to precision, tricks to team, any and all additional parts of the big picture. Often more feeling or "oomph" in the movements, varied style but almost always an eye toward structure within the expression - often much more compact, powerful body movements and relatively indifferent to wind speeds (high or low). == Now bear in mind, that's all subjective, and no person is a fixed rule... Just generalizing here.
  23. John Barresi
    Cross linking...
  24. John Barresi
    No wrong way to fly, just talking shop - Weider, Watty, de Rooy, Leonard, Marchel, Benz, Russell, Maiocci, Polo, van der Graaf, all these guys fly different, and all are great.
  25. John Barresi
    I feel and agree with most, but just for debate - I do a lot of the same thing, but my output works in patterns so it's still "move-bang-move-zip-spin" often at fast speeds, but the geometry within and between those points is more formulaic / patterned - it's also based heavily on inertia, or how a kite's weight wants to move when finishing any particular maneuver.
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