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I started flying dual-line kites in about 1984 as a youth, and borrowed my brother's power kites starting in '88. After entering adulthood and getting married I tried to be responsible with money, which meant the family budget could not afford kites for several years. I would still occasionally fly my older kites when opportunity arose, but it wasn't much of a priority.  I still got catalogs from kite stores and drooled over expensive purchases. I remember seeing ads for the Revolution back in the early 1990s, and though it would be fun but way outside my college student newlywed price range.

Back in 2012 the kite bug came back, and I convinced myself that the hobby was worth the expense. A hundred bucks later I had a new dual line kite with all the modern features, then some quad line kites, and soon I was back enjoying the sport regularly. Now I've always got my bag in my vehicle with duals, quads, indoors, and a few single line kites I can throw to strangers. These days I try to fly outdoor every week, and indoor twice a week for an hour.  Basically I fly as much as family, work, competing interests, and weather allow. Living inland and with erratic winds I'd call myself an intermediate-skill pilot, but love flying when I have the opportunity.  

I want to learn more group flying but being inland with few nearby pilots there are few opportunities for that. I'm trying to teach my family to fly, with various results. I'm slowly building up the gear to fly together, but equipping several people with a quiver of kites at each wind condition gets expensive.

At the last update (January 2023) I've got 36 sport kites. After some other conversations, I've moved the details here.

My current self-improvement areas are:
* Quad line outdoor: Improved precision, "saying something" instead of "washing the car", calling for group flying
* Quad line indoor: Improved consistency for maneuvers, "saying something"
* Dual line outdoor: transitioning tricks from "I sure hope this works..." toward consistency, "Next will be a turtle followed by lazy susan..."
* Dual line indoor: rodeo style, fade launch, build alphabet of building blocks