Syruss

You really needed to capitalize the word YET! Once you have the addiction you'll end up with a quad eventually LOL. Or you could get it REALLY bad and be like John who probably has enough quads to wallpaper a large house.

Awesome News! I sure hope you get them all back and in good shape! Will keep my fingers and toes crossed!

It's all funny till someone gets hurt, then it's hysterical. (I really need to get this shirt)

Although I REALLY wanted to win a darwin award, and the thought of flying Rebar and Chicken wire did cross my mind, I am glad I opted out. We had wind gusts clocked over 120 from this last storm. Bandon had sustained winds of 78 mph over an hours time. And our the property we are renting looks like a tornado hit it. Branches and trees everywhere. It was amazing that not a single window was broken or any damage to the roof. We did lose power for 3 days due to a power pole that snapped in 2 different places. That takes some pretty good wind to bust a power pole in 2 spots! Now I have to get the yard all cleaned up or the wife won't let me go play with the toys!

We have a nice storm advisory for Sunday and Monday, 60+ MPH winds. I am thinking about stacking my two 3 meter parafoils and going for a ride. Anyone in the Midwest have a good landing zone LOL I am thinking that might even be a tad bit extreme for a vented, so I guess I won't be flying this weekend

Pretty cool stories, I was hoping you guys would add some. So far I haven't been invited to anything, but then again I can just barely fly. But I am getting better. In just 20 more years if John stops practicing I'll be as good as he was 10 years ago. (Sounds like one of those math questions, if two trains are heading for each other at 50 miles per hour . . . . )

Sweet lookin kite!

I know a lot of you on here have been kiting addicts for a long time. Tell us your stories about the furthest trip you have gone on to fly a kite? That would be cool. I'll bet some of you have gone to some pretty cool places to fly kites.

hmmm interesting approach. I don't actually have an indoor rev. So that wouldn't be like "just another kite that you have too many of". I might just be able to get away with that. I also need to get a vented 1.5. I just want everything for a vented 1.5 except the rods as I have all of those. I would love a vented rev b but I would have to pay all of that for another set of rods too. Maybe John could call rev and say that this is a medical emergency. Syruss needs a vented kite or he may die.

So what you are saying is: "Syruss needs another kite"? I just want to be absolutely clear on this as when I run it by my wife as "Penny said I need another kite" I don't want to mis-quote you as after I take the frying pan to the head I may not be able to fully remember this conversation. The fact that she likes you may help a little, I probably won't get the biggest skillet, maybe just a half sized one....

What a bummer I really wanted to go flying after work today, but the 30-40mph winds might be a bit much with gusts in the 60's. I wonder if it is time to bring out the stacked parafoils and borrow a VW bug for them to pull.

A Yurt is a round tent, in our case it is 20 feet across, it has insulation, windows and doors on 2 sides. There are lots of places on the coast where you can rent them to camp in. They are permanent structures. Really cool stuff

T-E-A-S-E!!!!

Bandon is about 80 miles or so north of Brookings right on the coast! It's a great place to live. We need to have a kite party. The property we are renting has a HUGE yard, over an acre mowed and comes complete with a 20 foot Yurt! If anyone wants to come down for some camping and flying, just let me know The Yurt is even insulated and has power so you could have lighting and a electric heater if you needed it. Just needs a little cleaning as it has set empty for a bit.

We have officially been over in Bandon for 2 weeks and I haven't had any free time to fly my kites, that is until this weekend. I went to Seven Devils park and flew 2 times, the wind was awesome, the beach was awesome and I was in kite heaven! Now if only there were some more flyers here... Anyone???

Don't worry about that. As soon as you master all of those techniques then you will probably move on to a quad line and start back at square one. Everyone has had to do this and there is no way to start out knowing all of this. It is skill, feel of the lines, intuition and sometimes some luck. As you get better you will need less of the luck though. Then you get to like the iQuaders and Penny and it becomes more a part of their being, the same as breathing. It also helps a LOT to have someone that can show you these things. I still struggle with that as I haven't had but about an hour working with someone, the rest is watch and try and try and try and try.... For me it's just fun to fly even if I have to do the walk of shame. And I have seen some of the very best do it at times also.

Weenie! LOL

Yippee! We get to go to Lincoln City this year I think My wife and I are looking for an affordable place to stay. We don't need fancy or on the beach just some place to sleep. Does anyone have any recommendations for hotels? Who else is going?

I see a 20 stack of 4 foot revs coming up LOL

Oh just great, next time I get crapped on by a Seagull I am going to have to wonder if it is Nacho Cheese or regular

Can you post that article, it looks like you have to have a registration to see it.

Where are the nationals being held?

I suppose Live to Fly; Fly to Live is fitting here? Penny, Good luck on going to the Nationals

I would never take you TOO seriously, I have seen the Seusical Musical in person a couple of times and have met and talked with you a few times in passing at the Brookings kite festival! I think you are a great ambassidor for the sport like John in that you are approachable and willing to help anyone out any time and show them the ropes, you even let me fly your indoor rev which was really cool! Kiting should be about having fun, if you ain't having fun, then you probably have one of the following problems: 1) You are flying a duel line kite with one line 2) You are trying to do a 180 trick into the wind 3) Your bridle is totally hosed 4) Your eyes are closed and you keep crashing your kite 5) You basically think that work is fun, and you just flew a kite to pretend like you had a life 6) You are just plain boring. I on the other hand love to fly, I love to share with others, wish I was better at it, always work to get any advice and would sell half of my soul to be able to fly as well as you, John or anyone on iQuad (BTW: I would only be selling the half that I am indebted to my wife for though)

I want one with a thumbs up on one side and a thumbs down on the other.