DonFibonacci

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Absolutely. I've used a lighter frame (2-wrap in my case) in a full vent B on days when I know the wind's not so crazy it might break it. But I'd also wait until you're pretty sure you can avoid hard crashes. Personally I think so, although as a beginner, you may need a lot of wind to fly a vented kite (as you get better, you'll need less). Vented kites, for me, smooth things out, which I think is good for a beginner.

I'm back from my weekend trip. I used an adidas Unisex Utility Wheeled Bat Bag with my OSKUSA Quad Kite Roll-Up Bag inside. I had to cut out one of the inside pockets of the bat bag in order to be able to fit the quad bag inside, and it just barely fits lengthwise. I packed my other clothes and gear loose around the quad bag. I packed for three days, but I easily could have fit twice the clothes or more. Next time I might try some internal stuff sacks or bags like what JB mentioned in the old post I referenced, because by the time I got to Long Beach, my clothes were sort of jumbled all over the place. Not a big deal, just a little annoyance. When loaded, the bag won't stand up on its own. If I needed to stand it up, I had to turn it around and lean it against something to keep the wheels off the ground. Other than that, I was happy with it. I checked the bag; it wouldn't work as a carry-on.

There's an old discussion on it here: The type of bag that JB notes isn't really available anymore, so I was looking for something similar last year. This was just before the lockdowns. I'm actually about to use my bag tomorrow for the first time, so I guess I can report back how it went after the trip.

And "bridal" when we mean "bridle" 😉

I see what you did there.

Ironically, just this weekend a family of four came over and was very interested in my kite. I had hoped for the wind to pick up just a little right before sunset and had set up on 120 foot lines. No luck, so I ended up playing my first game of "kids chase the kite" on 120 feet in 0-2 mph. That was a lot of work! I talked to the father a lot about the control (he'd been a glider pilot). His favorite "trick" turned out to be the ground recovery glide. Good thing, cause I was doing a lot of that...

Welcome to the obsession! Keep working on that inverted hover. Someday it will just click. I had the same thought about how no one seems to realize what/who they're watching! I would have been floored if I'd seen a master in action before I had quads of my own. I'm floored even now. In my case, most passersby are completely uninterested in my flying. Some are interested, but if I acknowledge them, they quickly pretend they weren't watching. A very small number will actually shout something positive. Then there was the one guy who shouted... "let it go higher, a**hole!". And finally there was the only person who's ever asked to try my kite; he was COMPLETELY hammered and unable to stay on his feet when he tried to launch 🤣

I'd love to see what you come up with. Inspired by two things - your comment in "Rotational Drills" about using them as warmups and your mantra of "don't judge success or failure until you've done five in a row", I developed my own sort of "warm-up" routine that I run through at the start of every session. I've been surprised at how quickly I've improved the individual skills. In contrast to Club 38, where you do a pretty long pattern stringing together sometimes unrelated or out-of-progression elements, I'm doing quick repetitions of smaller skills - 20 reps of X, then 20 of Y, now back to X, but in the other direction, etc. It reminds me of penmanship in grade school - rather than writing a paragraph, I'm filling a whole page with a single letter. The main advantage, at least for me, is I stay hyper-focused on refining each skill in its turn. Also, I feel like it's more directly building muscle memory for each skill.

As good a time as any to update this. I added some Djinn and passed on a couple Revs to my brother in a desperate attempt to gain a flying buddy: Rev EXP Rev 1.5 B STD Caicos Quad (aka Peter Powell Omni) Djinn ST (Cool Fade) Djinn ST (All white, the ghoST) Djinn MV (Hot Fade) Djinn VT (Green Fade) Djinn XT (Green Fade) Djinn HV (Cool Fade) 10-14. Self-made

I worked for SAP for a number of years. Now I can finally use the German I picked up for something fun.

Is it possible the bridle is mix-and-match parts from a red and a black TK bridle? Not sure I can see enough detail to tell. The vertical leg has been attached to the horizontal incorrectly, but otherwise they could be. If that's the case, I'd just correct the connection:

Wasn't I just saying I was in the market for a 240' set? 😉

Oops, that's what I meant, not a "half-twist". Flying with upside-down handles is probably not a great idea at any length!

You mean a half-twist of each handle?