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  9. Flynhi

    Posted

    :clap;

    Visualize a square 40% the size of your window, straight center window.

    Hover facing right in the top left corner.

    Clockwise traveling bicycle to the top right corner of the square, finalizing the rotation as you once again face right (hover).

    Clockwise traveling bicycle to the bottom right corner of the square, finalizing the rotation as you once again face right (hover).

    Anti-clockwise traveling bicycle to the bottom left corner of the square, finalizing the rotation as you once again face right (hover).

    Anti-clockwise traveling bicycle to the top left corner of the square, finalizing the rotation as you once again face right (hover).

    Kite rotates 360 degrees as it travels from one corner to another, timing the rotation to end just as you arrive on the corner (of your square).

    One leg at a time, slowly reducing the pause at each corner until you fluidly "bounce" off into your next leg.

    Experiment with:

    - Size of the square reference

    - Speed of travel

    - Speed of rotation

    - Breaking rotations up into two parts

    - More or less rotations between each corner

    - Traveling clockwork (instead of spin)

    - Other corner references, like octagon, diamond, etc

    Its very doable, just a matter of identifying the rings of the ladder and putting them all together. 

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  14. Frankieflyin

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    Fun. :)

    Try shifting your point of focus while flying, just as an experiment...

    Instead of "flying the kite", consider the idea of "flying the center panel".

    This mental shift gradually moves your point of control inside the engine of the kite part of the time, and has a tendency to both make your inputs more efficient and cause the kite to fly straighter when doing straight lines. ;)

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  17. John Barresi

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    Was a different era... YouTube wasn't quite mainstream yet, all the downloadable video files were still pretty small and there weren't a lot of multi-angle "music videos" around for kites outside of Benson and Co... Heck, even the online kite community was more cohesive, I remember this video pulled something like 1300 hits overnight - really lit my fire to keep 'em coming. :)

    More than you know, I'm glad to have been a part of your budding excitement. :wub:

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  18. John Barresi

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    End of the day, it's time on the lines, but nobody taught me this style of flying...

    I wanted to do more, wanted to fly when nobody else was able to fly, do things that no one else has done.

    That fires me up still...

    And now, I'm in the even more stimulated by showing others how to replicate this, to shorten the learning curve.

    I'm here to tell you, once you've got the "Rev 101" knowledge that I've discovered and assembled for my clinics and lessons, being able to whip out a Rev on 30' in the street in front of your house is something almost anyone can do without necessarily having to run around or even break a serious sweat.

    Half the time folks are actually handicapped before they even start due to tuning, lack of understanding of frame / flex dynamic, uneven lines, etc, etc... In most cases when I encounter a new student (novice or experienced), we go through a "strip down" to reset or refine these details - almost without fail, their experience is changed completely even without having learned new skills yet.

    Thanks for the props, glad to be paying it forward. :)

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