Spent Saturday afternoon flying with my son.
After watching him butt scud 5 feet with each loop on a 2M Beamer, my wife asked to pick up the handles.
Long story short, she walked away with a big grin. Said "Pulls harder than I thought." and "Now I see why you like this so much."
After talking about what she should try "next time", I think things are looking up...DAKITEZ - 6-3-2011 at 09:02 PM
if you can get the family involved that is great for you. That makes for a lot more fly time in your future
for the rest of us to try and balance family time and fly time can get rough. It is easy to take the family for granted since they are always around,
but the wind not so much.Kamikuza - 6-3-2011 at 09:18 PM
Sweet! Mrs Kuza just screams and tries to let go when the kite pulls ... although she did get out on the water in Thailand with a depower LEI and did
some dragging ... yes I was puzzled :onocando - 6-3-2011 at 10:13 PM
I have 4 sons, the eldest is the one that loves kiting. Is hard to get his brothers involved as they race downhill MTB
at present kiting is not extreme enough for them, I call them bloody SOOKS :roll:labrat - 7-3-2011 at 08:00 AM
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Originally posted by DAKITEZ
for the rest of us to try and balance family time and fly time can get rough.
Always has been, he will be 10 this summer. My wife works a schedule opposite me so one of us is home with the kid as much as possible. Grandparents
fill in for the overlap. I usually fly alone while she is at work and he is at practice.
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Originally posted by DAKITEZ
if you can get the family involved that is great for you. That makes for a lot more fly time in your future
Exactly why I was so excited... She should be more accepting of the kid and I running off now that she gets it. :Dlabrat - 7-3-2011 at 08:06 AM
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although she did get out on the water in Thailand with a depower LEI and did some dragging
That puts her one up on me...:wee:snowspider - 7-3-2011 at 12:50 PM
My wife has no clue what we do , she has only seen me jump up and down in the park. I take that back she has a big life insurance on me , maybe she
does know!flyjump - 7-3-2011 at 12:54 PM
My fiancee is too scared to try flying the kite, but she agreed to going to JIBE for our HONEYMOON!!! ahahahahaha i feel like i won the loterylabrat - 7-3-2011 at 02:37 PM
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I have 4 sons, the eldest is the one that loves kiting. Is hard to get his brothers involved as they race downhill MTB
I only have one son. But given time to think about it, if your other boys come around, and/or you have a few more, you would have the beginning of
your very own bash with each trip.:bigok:
Homemade kite and cat with a singed tail
labrat - 7-4-2011 at 05:10 PM
I came home today to find my son making a garbage bag power kite. Bale rope power lines and mason line brake lines.
To cut the mason line, he used a lighter. And the cat was feeling affectionate at the time.
Result: my son, chasing a purring cat with a candle tail.
Oh, yeah. No wind.shaggs2riches - 7-4-2011 at 06:37 PM
yikes!!! that lighter business is scary. love that you got the whole family out there. Hopefully the wife will give it a try this year. My oldest has
little interest right now even though he got a 1.5m imp last year for his b-day and a atb for Christmas. I think his little brother will be the one to
pick it up when the time comes, but who knows. It would be a dream to have the entire family hooked, so we could all go when the wind picks up. Wait
trying to build a quiver for one is expensive enough let alone a quiver for five.
