John Barresi

Nope, one of the least pre-disposed people you'll meet. Ask around. I understand having "the whole world against me" though... It's an easy place to be, until a person takes charge of their own existence through care and intent. My advice, change the subject and let's get into something constructive.

I'm not sure I follow your reference to "spin"... You were giving Bob a hard time, and I told him to pay it no mind. Nothing personal about it. What's the deal?

Aye aye cap'n, email sent.

Past tense. I wonder why? Well, having 3 heats of 18 fliers in Masters class during the mid-90s... I'd definitely call that a heyday, as opposed to now, when we're lucky to have 10 total. Thanks John. You're welcome.

A deep bow back at ya Bob... My eternal thanks to you and Susan for allowing us to republish the old issues, they're a good thing - still around for the people who weren't "born" into kiting during it's heyday. You never mind the hecklers, we make our own way.

How so?

Yeah... Joy on a string.

Neither the Psycho or Alien come close to being considered precise... They're specialized trick kites, for sure. On average, I've found that vented kites fly 1/2 to 2/3 as well as their full sail counterparts... The Shiva being the exception, which I feel maintains 80% of it's flight ability in the vented model.

I also enjoy the vented Shiva, when not looking for trick ability... Otherwise, for tricks, the Standard Sea Devil with 7PT bottom spreaders, about 40 grams of weight and wind diffusers across the wiskers works pretty well for me.

Sweet! Sounds like you're really taking it "outside the box"... You entering experienced quad competition in St Augustine?

ROFL Carl!

Flow jo... Is that a technical term?

Shhhhhh! No, kidding... Didn't mean anything, just observing a consensus.

I for one, rarely pre-choreograph my routines... I'll generally take note of the 3-8 "key points" of the music where I'd like to do something specific, and the rest is soul flying, off the cuff. The only exceptions to this rule for me... My very first dual line ballet back in 1992, and my Bugs Bunny quad routine... Everything else is freeform. Doesn't work for everyone, but it's done alright for me.

And there you have it.

I'd agree with Paul... The SLE spar is not necessary, it's just that the SLE sail is nicer and better made. You won't go wrong with the EXP though.

Bear in mind... The "SUL" rods are 2-wrap, and not generallly geared for a beginner's crashes. The SLE is a THICK rod... Standard LE (EXP) is 3-wrap. I'd go with the SLE kite, and an extra 3-wrap LE.

Here's what I always recommend... Buy the SLE, and get a regular EXP leading edge to go along with it. This gives you both kites, essentially... With the higher quality SLE sail.

OMG! How do you manage? LOL

My pleasure Chris. Did I also post this link? http://www.drageportal.dk/video/howtotrick.asp Look for RandyG's tutorials... They are the best I've found anywhere on the web for learning tricks.

1. Sea Devil Light, 110' line set, handles, and 3pt and 5pt lower spreaders. 2. Rev I with 100 foot lines and a dogstake.

Good call Don, I noticed the same thing... Alas, there is no option for that yet. It's going into the suggestion box though.

I think Troy's going to try and get us a report from this one... Can you cover the photo end of things Chris? It won't go in until the February 1st issue, so no rush.

That's pretty sweet Rob... I can't wait to see some video.

As many of you may have noticed, we've got "feed ads" back on the site... This time from Yahoo, such as you'll find at the very bottom of this page.. We tried this once before with Google, but were removed from their service due to excessive clicks from the same IP addresses... With this in mind, I'll ask that you don't use them too much. However, if each of you were to click on one ad every other day... It helps us quite a bit. You'll find them scattered throughout 90% of the Kitelife site now. Granted, the ads aren't very consistent at feeding kite-related content only at this point... But they are improving the system day by day, and I hope to see better ads coming into place as time goes on. Thanks for everything.