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Stake flying...
I've done a lot of stake flying, it's great fun. I have some advice
for folks wanting to try this:
- practice in moderate, but steady wind.
- use a sturdy kite. You will crash many times and destroying
a kite will only discourage you. I learned this using a
Spinoff and broke three spines before figuring things out.
- try not to think too much about what you are doing. I found
that the more I thought about it ("okay, now pull on the
right handle to get the kite to go to the left...") the
worse I got.
A funny things that happened to me once:
I managed to control the kite so that I could do a wing-tip
stand on my shoulder fairly consistantly. Of course no one saw
me do this, so when people were watching me, I tried it. I
bashed myself in the head on that attempt. Joanne always asks
me if I have my bicycle helmet with me when she sees me
setting up for some stake flying.
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Marty Sasaki Harvard University Sasaki Kite Fabrications
sasaki@noc.harvard.edu Network Operations Division 26 Green Street
617-496-4320 10 Ware Street Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
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