Penny Lingenfelter

Finally! I didn’t want to say anything till I had it back in my possession. How do I say Thank you enough? Here is a picture of my beautiful, mesmerizing Revolution No Wind Indoor Kite. Red/White and Blue Flag. As my flying has improved, so has Jerry Fincher’s spray painting. Look what a fantastic job he did! He can be found at Fincher’s Aire Force Kite Sales and Repair. 360-692-0149. Wow!! I even had people running across the weight room as I left to tell me how beautiful it all was. Thank you so much Lolly, Ben and everyone at Revolution Kites. It is my favorite Rev. so far. I’m going to be contacting people for Armed Forces, Flag Day, Fourth of July, and more. I need to re-contact the lady in charge of entertainment on the carriers.. I’m about ready for the Sonics ½ time demo.  I’ve contacted the Family Mentor contact. So much to do and so little time!!! Rev on! Oh, I thought I should share with you how to fly while you’re standing in place with your Rev. If you find yourself in a line, or just need to be still. If you fly it up to 12:00 and while it’s facing 9:00 push it down a little on tip towards the ground, then swing it back to 12:00 facing 3:00. Dip, swing, dip swing.. Down-up, down-up.. You’re treading water in the air!! Lol Have a great fly weekend. Come out and fly Rev’s. If you are having troubles, please contact us. BB Penny~Who’s trying to get ready for Lincoln City Indoor show and has nothing yet.

If you're close to a kite shop head in tomorrow. Or contact Theresa at The Kiteshoppe.com She's in your friends in your controls on this page. Wesport Windriders, Westport, WA are having their monthly fun fly and Barbeque this weekend. Whatever you do have a great weekend! Oh, and you should come fly indoors and check it out. If your near Port Orchard, let me know. I think that Dick and Georgean Curran can get a space in the Tacoma area too. BB Penny

The name of the Indoor Kite show is the same, but it is the life of the Gypsy instead.. I believe it's like Renaissance Italian Gypsy's.. not a calypso type. The Parks provide costumes, but we have to have a spare incase something doesn't work. I looked on the net, and then went shopping. I'm done with that part of it. I wore my long black hair, w/ colored scarf, Red scarf and black skirt to the gym last night. I felt the gypsy. Now.. if my feet would only feel a part of it. I had to fly in the racquetball court.. which is ok... but I'm really feeling the need for larger practice space right now. Oh, did I mention we have a gypsy tavern scene where we all fly.. Then I fly as the 'Tipsy Gypsy' then a group fly. Wish I knew what the music was saying.. I'm pretty sure the word that sounds like "Banana" means B.S. , Baloney.. a bunch of phahooey. That 360 on spot move is still kicking my butt. I was wrong on how I thought I should do it, or maybe just doing to large of a move? hmm.. I'll have to go find out if size does matter. Well, of course it does. I have the kite hat pin that says so. Oh.. off topic.. We had a 50th birthday for Karen.. She was in on all of the plans except for the Elvis Impersonator I hired to surprise her at the restaurant in front of 20 friends. Our 1/2 of the restaurant really enjoyed the show. The look on Karen's face was priceless. Now back to fly time~ BB Penny

Spence, So kewl!!! loved it. BB Penny

Hello Litsong, I would love to share. That's why I hang out here. I think my shortest lines are between 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 ft. My longest indoor line is as high as the ceiling is. And sometimes we have to crouch down to fly. My favorite INdoor was David Brittan on 100 ft. w/ 10 Rev's indoors.. Now that's flying! What length are they flying now? I tell people every 2 ft. makes a difference. Try 2 or 3 lengths. It's a good learning tool. 12 ft. is nice to learn on.. 10 Ft. is nice.. 8 ft is quicker 6 ft. and you better know how to keep it moving... anything shorter and you must be slightly crazy. That would be me. 15 ft and longer: I think longer lines look the most beautiful. 15, 25.. length shouldn't matter if you have the room. But 50 ft. in no wind is harder to learn on then 15 ft. in my opinion. 11-15 ft. Medium length makes a good speed for learning. It gives the flyer time to correct mistakes, leading less crashes. 4-10 ft. Shorter lines are great for small areas, and tricks- but much quicker.. I think it's more advanced. But what if I'm wrong? Tell them to try the short lines too. I don't want to tell anyone they can't do it. I look forward to watching the family learn to fly Litsong. You need to flnd someone to video tape for you more so we can see all of you flying together. Tell the family I said hello. Enjoy~! BB Penny ~who better get to work. Hey, Penny a friend of ours want to know your line measurements. for indoor, you must have various sets judging from your video clips. would you mind sharing your tips on line sets? Litsong

I won't get to practice for a few days. The 360 on spot is still coming along. Slowly but surely. You can learn some moves in 3 days and some in 3 years and I've neVer been a natural at this. So, I'm still working on that move. Picture a car steering wheel laying down flat. I think this circle is the move I need to make with my arm motion in front of me, though it will probably end up more on my left side to create the most lift. I'm not an engineer.. I'm just a kiteflier. Is this how the move is done? Laying my handles down, like the kite is on tip facing 9:00 ..Right hand over left, keep both handles perpendicular and move them like you are going around the steering wheel circle.. OK, so a counterclockwise circle with my handles in front of me should take that Rev. facing 9:00 from my right side to left side and behind me back towards my right side. With Out moving my feet. Since I don't have this down, it's the last quarter of the circle that is the toughest. Sort of like the last 1/4 of the Reverse Circle was the toughest part of the reverse circle. If you can fly a move once, you CAN learn to fly it. When you don't know how, or have the practice, it's harder and heavier. Once you have learned the move it fly's effortlessly. Don't forget though, when you learn a new move you should learn to fly it in high wind, low wind and no wind. It's not the same. Meanwhile, in my flying endeavors~ I've developed a nice 180 or a 360 inverted slide ending in a rock and roll. walk and roll? Yeah, Walk and roll. The Rev is facing 6:00, starts in front of me and slides right, behind me and to the left, and then I just 180 the kite a few times tip to tip so it rolls and flys out of there. So, an upside down Rev facing 6:00 slides in a circle behind me and then faces 12:00. 6:00 then 12:00 tip to tip. It looks like this. lol ----MWM Oh, I've got to much work to do. lol Have any ideas for moves to try, or questions.. you can message me. Have a great Revolution Day.. I have to get in here again to answer emails...but theres work to do. BB Penny ~headed back to reality. I went back and after a toss and normal 360, I planted my feet and flew a 360 on spot. Woo hoo.. flew a little bit more and tried it again.. not so good. By the end of my fly time an hour later I was to tired to make it work. One of the main problems, beside not knowing the right combinations of moves is that I am an indoor kite flyer. What does that mean? It means I have to move my body or hands all the time to create lift. All the time!!! I end up like a person who's hand is on the glass aquarium with a rattlesnake inside. It's impossible not to move your hand when the snake strikes at it.. same thing.. only I find it almsot impossible to stand still! I move and it throws the kite off. I try to recover the kite on the last 1/2 of the 180 and it comes down. It's hurting my brain trying to get this move. I need a bloody mary... that's a handy kite learning tool. My friends helped me to think it out a little, but not enough to solve the mystery or get the move lodged in my head for good. Karen said she'll come record me soon and studying the video should help. Picture your Rev kite on tip...leading edge facing 9:00 located on the R. side of the window.. An easy 360... just fly it to the left side of the window... keep the momentum going and without turning your body, put your handles right where they were in the beginning to recover the 360 as it comes around. This should not be that hard! I feel the need to step away to keep the lines tight, but the cleanest 360's on spot are when I don't move my body.. Now how did I do that?! Oh well, practice will tell. On another note; Santa Cruz 2nd Annual Kite Festival is a go for June 7th. I added it to the Kitelife calendar, but not a lot of info yet. I know someone out there is excited about the invite. the fantastic aspect of this festival is that a Children's Hospice is putting it on. How sad, and how marvelous that we can fly for such a good cause. We don't know if they can do the logistics yet, but if they can, I'd like to do a walk through of the hospital.. We did this in the children's wings in Michigan. We couldn't always tell if the kids were girls or boys, but personally, I left the rooms with the thought and prayer that every child we saw would live. Not so in a hospice. Heart wrenching ... If we can add a smile to their day, it would be wonderful. If anyone out there has the time to help make this happen, please let me know. Tracy is looking into on her end. It's just such a distance from the airport and event. Darrin and Sue Skinner might be my drivers again.. I hope so... though they might be a bad influence on me. lol I think I can blame my new GPS system and my new van on them. They took me RV shopping on the way back to the airport. Wonder what they are planning this year. Hmm.. Well, I'll keep working on this silly move that's kicking my butt. It better look easy when I'm done. lol Nobody will care, but I'll know... Have a great day~ BB Penny~ wondering if a bloody mary will help.

Now I reallllly feel sad missing this. Sounds like even more then the great fun we always have flying rev's. Glad to hear there was such a great turn out too. I'll be jumping in and tangling with the best of you in the future. BB Penny

hey Skitch, If I make it to the ocean that weekend it would probably only be as far down as Ocean shores. Sorry, I'd love to get down there and fly. BB Penny

Hey Glen, I'm more then ok with this video. Much longer and it might have been boring. Thank you for all the time you all took to do this. You and I should talk about video taping a tutorial. I have to talk to Rev. about it later. Talk to you soon. BB Penny Hi Penny The video is only the last round. I was having a problem with the tape and the first round with Paul De Bakker had some bad spots in it. Glenn

Thank you Doug, and tell your wife thanks for watching it. I hope she can tell how much fun we're having and at the same time how intense we are. Baloo.. you might be a little older then me.. or not... but it is exhausting fun. BB Penny~Who thinks Lam didn't look a bit tired. Go figure.

This is the last round of the hot tricks shoot out video at Windless Kite Festival 2008 in Long Beach, WA. Glenn and Rachal Day took the video. I'm not sure it's the total round. I sat down and flew, and laid down and flew, but perhaps that was in an earlier elimination round. In any case~ it was a fun weekend. BB Penny ~Who thinks we need to get more group pictures at our events of the participants. Here's the link to the hot tricks video. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1009485866837776506

Once again thank you to the Day family for this video. This is the final round of hot tricks at Long Beach, WA's Windless Kite Festival. Lam and I fighting it out for first place. I won~ Thanks Lam The toughest move I think I actually did was the agitator.. it's the spin left, right left, ran out of room, it's a little sloppy, but going into Lam's space is ok in the N.W. Here's the link to the hot tricks video. BB Penny ~ who sure enjoyed the weekend. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1009485866837776506

So you send them away to a great site, but what about putting this on the Kitelife calendar? I looked for info here and nothing. ;( Not that I can make this one, but you guys have a great time. BB Penny

I went back and after a toss and normal 360, I planted my feet and flew a 360 on spot. Woo hoo.. flew a little bit more and tried it again.. not so good. By the end of my fly time an hour later I was to tired to make it work. One of the main problems, beside not knowing the right combinations of moves is that I am an indoor kite flyer. What does that mean? It means I have to move my body or hands all the time to create lift. All the time!!! I end up like a person who's hand is on the glass aquarium with a rattlesnake inside. It's impossible not to move your hand when the snake strikes at it.. same thing.. only I find it almsot impossible to stand still! I move and it throws the kite off. I try to recover the kite on the last 1/2 of the 180 and it comes down. It's hurting my brain trying to get this move. I need a bloody mary... that's a handy kite learning tool. My friends helped me to think it out a little, but not enough to solve the mystery or get the move lodged in my head for good. Karen said she'll come record me soon and studying the video should help. Picture your Rev kite on tip...leading edge facing 9:00 located on the R. side of the window.. An easy 360... just fly it to the left side of the window... keep the momentum going and without turning your body, put your handles right where they were in the beginning to recover the 360 as it comes around. This should not be that hard! I feel the need to step away to keep the lines tight, but the cleanest 360's on spot are when I don't move my body.. Now how did I do that?! Oh well, practice will tell. On another note; Santa Cruz 2nd Annual Kite Festival is a go for June 7th. I added it to the Kitelife calendar, but not a lot of info yet. I know someone out there is excited about the invite. the fantastic aspect of this festival is that a Children's Hospice is putting it on. How sad, and how marvelous that we can fly for such a good cause. We don't know if they can do the logistics yet, but if they can, I'd like to do a walk through of the hospital.. We did this in the children's wings in Michigan. We couldn't always tell if the kids were girls or boys, but personally, I left the rooms with the thought and prayer that every child we saw would live. Not so in a hospice. Heart wrenching ... If we can add a smile to their day, it would be wonderful. If anyone out there has the time to help make this happen, please let me know. Tracy is looking into on her end. It's just such a distance from the airport and event. Darrin and Sue Skinner might be my drivers again.. I hope so... though they might be a bad influence on me. lol I think I can blame my new GPS system and my new van on them. They took me RV shopping on the way back to the airport. Wonder what they are planning this year. Hmm.. Well, I'll keep working on this silly move that's kicking my butt. It better look easy when I'm done. lol Nobody will care, but I'll know... Have a great day~ BB Penny~ wondering if a bloody mary will help.

I've been working on that move. Seems the faster I go, the more trouble I have. I've discovered if I plant my feet and don't move them I have better success. A 360.. actually a 180 and then recover to do the other half of the 180 for a 360. It's going to look much easier then it is when I get it down. BB Penny ~working on making the moves look easy.

That was awesome.. I'm looking for a cigarette. lol BB Penny

I am working on a move that perhaps one of you have mastered already. I can do it with a single handle, but not with two handles without over or underctrolling the Rev. I've seen the dual lines do it. Once in a while I can get a clean 360, but most of the time I'm struggling. I want to do a 360 on spot or with one step without changing my body direction. If you know the secret to this move, please let me know. If you don't, I'll tell you what it takes once I master it.. and I will master it. eventually. I saw Lam do a move with his sea devil indoors too. It was a layout, flip over sideways recovery.. Anyone doing that with a Rev yet? hmmmmm.. I see we flyiers have our work cut out for us. BB Penny~ who is sending Jerry Cannon prayers. Slower Rev flying. Penny's Mystery Ballet http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6465609089383270023 Kite Fairy Demo. It's missing the voice over.. I think the sound must have been down... so it starts:::: Have you ever seen a kite fairy? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6592665475602400591 Lincoln City, OR Indoor Kite Festival: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=786986055037678677

Gomberg Kite Productions,Intl Box 113, Neotsu, Oregon 97364 USA ph (541) 996-3083 fax (541) 994-9692 email David@GombergKites.com Eli might have some advice.. He's into traction. 503-738-9918 I don't have Jerry's # handy. Good luck. BB Penny

Hello, I'm trying to think of who we can send you to. KAP Kite Arial Photography, They have to lift equipment, though 30 - 50 lbs sounds heavier then most. Jerry Fincher of Fincher's Aire Force does some KAP. He would be listed in Bremerton, WA. Bruce Leftler (sp) Ken T. We'll have to try and get #'s for you. A kite that will lift that much will probably cost a bit, too. David Gomberg can probably help you out. I'll see if I can research some #'s tomorrow and get back to you. Good luck. BB Penny~ who has a lifting kite for candy drops.

I received this email from Deb and Lee Parks via Maggie Conrad: Here's what we have in mind for this year's indoor kite show. Entitled: "Bellissimo" Theme: A Classical Masquerade Ball Dress: Dressy Clothing, Venetian Masks, Jesters and such Music: Classical, Ballroom, Waltz, Tango and whimsical interludes How kewl is that? Now I'm really excited. See you there. BB Penny Slower Rev flying. Penny's Mystery Ballet http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6465609089383270023 Kite Fairy Demo. It's missing the voice over.. I think the sound must have been down... so it starts:::: Have you ever seen a kite fairy? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6592665475602400591 Lincoln City, OR Indoor Kite Festival: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=786986055037678677

My husband finally rode and drove my new van. He told me, "Honey, I'll be riding in it enough, there's no hurry." Hey, He liked it. It was a comfortable 5-hour drive to the Arlington, OR "Up the River" 4th Annual Indoor Kite Festival. It’s already the 4th year and the kids return each year a head taller then the last. Tiffany has been off to college, but she came in to town on Sunday to say hello and give the Rev. a pull. We flyers love to come to this small town. We almost feel a part of it. We look forward to seeing Judy, Carmen, our favorite infamous mayor, the women from the chamber, and especially the kids in town. The kitefliers are all about serious kites, the kids are too. Some like to jump in and be in the skit, but they are all waiting to have another turn flying the Revolution, and Jerry Cannon's dual line. Thank you so much Jerry for the kid’s lessons! What can those kids do on the Revolution Indoor Kite? I am going to tell you. It makes me smile and tear up just thinking about it. Can you do this on your indoor Rev? Forward up... Forward Overhead... Reverse it back to land it. That's a complete Reverse overhead. Reverse up.. turn it and fly it out. 360-- How's that?... "Agressive"... The kids said.. "mean" They have to manhandle the kite to do a full 360. They have no problem doing this. Left and right turns with the bottom wing going up. Pull turns with the top wings. Stopping a forward overhead behind them. Some could throw it. Brody must be about 10 years old and he was good at it. 40 (know, won't say) something yr. old Maria showed me a new toss! Of course, the first thing Maria told me was that she couldn't fly this kite, she wasn't coordinated. lol That woman flew the pants off this kite. She was tossing the Rev up and launching it from the toss repeatedly!! I'm going to have to go to the gym and try her version. These people have no idea how much they impressed me. Lorain's little boy was just getting over a bug, so he didn't feel like flying, but he said he would come back next year and fly the Rev. I'll bet he does. Abby was another one who said she wasn't coordinated. I know that feeling. I can't throw or catch a ball, but I can fly a kite, and so could Abby! She did excellent for her second try in a year. Arlington is usually the place where I try my new routine. We tried my new USA Tribute It needs more r/w/b. I'll work on that. I have a few pictures up on my space. Steve and I are not very good photographers. www.myspace.com/penny_lingenfelter I've added the Arlington album and the windless Indoor Long Beach album. All the pictures came from Rachela and Glenn Day. Thank you again! If it seems like it's a lot of pictures of me.. well, there are.. lol that's what the Days gave me. They did a wonderful job catching some jump roping rev on stills. In Arlington, Stephanie is a senior now and the official photographer. She and her posse were there. They all gave the kite a go and got a kick out of it. Troy, Josh, Melody, Deseri, and others. They all did so well. This town needs a kite club. Rick and Kelly from Columbian River Kites.. I think.. I know I'm going to have it wrong.. ;( , Colleen, and Kirsti were worker bees, cooking, making feathers, admissions, etc. So much work they all do. Our llama Angel, Kirsti Hays, showed her support for the Mayor of Arlington. When they called her to the judging box, she walked our with a black bra over her T-shirt. Way to go Kirtsti. I wasn’t that brave. I gave the Mayor a card showing my support. Did the flyers have fun? Absolutely! They had two competions!! Amy Doran AKA Charlie Chaplin, swept the field taking first place in every competition, even Mystery Ballet. As Charlie, she had the crowd in stitches. I took second with a wrapped wing after a guillotine.. Bud Hayes took 3rd place. I did not write down the placing of the competitions. You can check out the scores. <http://www.nwskl.org/> Dick Curran added a lot of fun and color to the event. lol.. Yup, he still looks funny. It was almost a shock to see him in regular clothes. I've known him for close to 20 years, and it's hard to remember when he wore plain clothes. His kites flew like dreams and the circus music he chose was fitting. Kyle was in town and flew a hot tricks shoot out against Toby. What a great idea that was as their part of the mystery ballet. It showed the town a shoot out and gave the flyers a mystery ballet. All of the flyers showed great improvement from last year.. now don't get me wrong.. I don't mean they were bad last year, some were new, some were darn good, but the kewl thing about this sport is that it's still new and innovative. and the flyers will continue to create and improve.. that's why we love this sport.. You know.my syndrome…. next year I'll get good. Jennifer Brown, Toby.. Dave... Connor... Dick, Jerry, Amy, Bud, Allen... all awesome flyers and next year.. they'll all be better.. I’m going to go practice. BB Penny ~ who is so excited- Lincoln City Indoor Kite Festival is next month! Slower Rev flying. Penny's Mystery Ballet http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6465609089383270023 Kite Fairy Demo. It's missing the voice over.. I think the sound must have been down... so it starts:::: Have you ever seen a kite fairy? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6592665475602400591 Lincoln City, OR Indoor Kite Festival: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=786986055037678677

It sounds like you are all are going to have years of fun ahead of you Litsong. The passion in this sport is all about learning to fly new moves. Even after flying for many years I love it when you learn to do something new. It's only as limited as our imagination. Even if the move has been done before, it's still new to each flyer when they learn it. Kids learn quick, but there's more out there to discover and it's awesome fun working on it. Keep looking up! BB Penny ~ who answered this email twice before and pushed the back button. Don't do that.. it doesn't work well. lol bb

hello Wil, Yes, many of fly 1.5's indoors or learned on them. Even the SLE switched out. Try hooking straight to the kite top and bottom of the vertical spars. You can even leave pigtails on it, so it's ready to be hooked up at all times. Long throw, or SUL handles will make it easier. Lowering your hands on the handles will make it easier, giving you more control. It is harder to learn on a 1.5, but very doable. Enjoy. BB Penny

Hello Wen's Sherpa, If you let kids try your kite, you will share indoor kites, perking other's interest and helping the sport to grow. At least one child will probably fall down and bump their head on the floor. So you are taking a chance. It might be best to start out with the kite flyers that come to fly. If you add lessons, a short time frame like 12 - 1:00. Probably not even that long, but a few times in the day. When I do a school assembly, I like to ask for volunteers from the clases to help hold a kite parade. With kids, musics and kites, the schools really enjoy it. Then flyers. Later on you can have kids kite making and a kids parade.. or even now, if someone is willing to take that on. In a small school gym, I split the kids into two age groups and had two assembly's. The kids sat on 1/2 of the gym floor, and the flyers flew on the other 1/2. All the kids eyes were on the kites. I like to pull up the principle or gym teacher, or ask the kids and they all hollor the name of the favorite teacher. I teach them how to launch the kite.. and you know how that goes the first couple of times. It's not as easy as it looks. I teach them how to catch it. Then pull up a kid about 5-6 and have them catch it. The teachers say it is the best assembly they ever had. There will be lots of ways to run an event, indoor, school assembly. I hope you hear from others what they do that works. Best Breezes, Penny ~who hasn't met wen and his famly yet.... Come to Long Beach, WA

You look great Wen, and you sound like you are having a super blast. BB Penny