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dragonfish

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  1. Cool, looks like you got a collectible.  The first line of Japanese is a phonetic spelling that sounds out as Eugene Freeman. I was not able to find any information on him either, although there is a Peggy Freeman listed as a contact for the Southern Oregon Kite Festival on the WKA event calendar. Not sure what the character that looks like an "a" is. Could just be an English A for a middle initial. "san" roughly translates as Mr. but is gender neutral. I am assuming the characters above "Tsutomu Hiroi" is his Japanese name. This is coming from someone who took a couple years of Japanese in high school and had to look up a character chart because I forgot most of it though.  

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  2. It sounds like with one-handed flying, you are trying to start from the ground.  I find that launching one-handed is not the easiest thing to do.  Have you tried starting in the air?  What I mean is, flying with two hands, get the kite in a stable hover in the upper half of the wind window.  Then bring your two hands together so the handles are almost touching while keeping the kite stable.  Then transfer one handle to the other hand and try to keep that hover.  If things start to go south, keep the empty hand nearby to grab the handle back.  Good luck.  

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