Kymera thru Dogstake

[John Barresi]

A little video of my first day on the Kymera with a dogstake...

Credit to Chris Browning for the video, to Mikey Devereaux for the awesome dogstake, and to John Mason for his amazing patience when I bull-headedly trampled through his lines while flying.

[Reef Runner]

Well, that's different, for sure.................and pretty amazing............... I might add !

[Jynx]

Great example of something I will never attempt to do! ...Awesome flyin' JB!

...and thanks for showing the dog-stake function... Awesome work Mikey!

[Baloo]

At least you wouldnt have to walk too far for the walk of shame

[RobB]

Ok, what's up with that 'dogstake' ? I thought that a dogstake was just a metal ring that was screwed into the ground. I have never seen anything like that contraption. Looks like a lot of fun to fly like that... I also wonder if you have to fly backwards or you just switch the right and left handles...

I loose track of which way the kite is pointed when I'm flying normal, it must be real fun to keep track of the kite's orientation when you're flying with a dog stake.

[John Barresi]

True enough Baloo, although it could be the knock out of shame if the flier isn't careful.

Rob - Yeah, it's a mind-tweak when your perspective (angle) changes too much... The deal is, I've actually switched my handles so that if I look at the back of the kite and imagine it's actually the front, all is normal - EXCEPT, when I move forward to unload pressure, fade, jacobs ladder, etc, the kite comes toward me and possibly over my head, not away... So far, I've been able to do cascades, axels, snap lazy, kombo, two point landings, all pretty easily... The jacobs ladder, etc take a lot more work and thought to accomplish, the right wind helps a lot too.

For the record, some folks (like Lee Sedgwick) actually fly it backward (reversed controls)... Me, I don't want the added difficulty, I want the kite to respond normally, and most of all, I just want to be able to interact with it.