Up to /~abw/kite/rec.kites Andy Wardley abw
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Re: Tricks on 75 foot lines.

Richard Beckett  <beckettr@ecid.cig.mot.com> wrote:
>Can anybody out there actually do many tricks on 75 foot lines?

Yep, and 150' at a push but it's just not the same.

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Freestyle flying is for me, very much about becoming one with the kite. It becomes an extension of my own movements. I have to "feel" the kite, sense what it is doing and try to understand what goes through its tiny carbon fibre brain as it flies. Only then when I grok the kite can I make it dance.
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...and you just can't get that with long lines. It's like using a dustbin liner for a condom: it's going through the motions without any feeling...

A

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