Go Fly A Kite....
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Sean Bradley
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Seeing how nice the weather is in TX makes me want to cry like that baby right now.
If you want some fun look up sport kites! I have a nice Prism kite. They have two lines so you can steer them and they have connect cables if you want to link them. Different styles and sizes. All sorts of fun stuff!
And the weather is like that over here in Florida too! 60° F right now.
And the weather is like that over here in Florida too! 60° F right now.
CPU64
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No I don't mean those giant kites either. The kites that people fly in Brasil are about 20" tall, with a tail that can be over 20' long. Made of 3 bamboo sticks and silk paper.
These kites can fly very far with very little wind, are fully maneuverable (left and right turns and full dives)
The main thing with kite flying there was to add a very fine coat of powdered glass on the line and literally battle other kites and cut the line. If you're good at it, you can dive after the cut, and capture the kite and that becomes your kite.
Its as if there's a "code" to kite flying. If a cut kite floats down, you can see a ton of kids running down the street after it. Whoever touches/grabs the kite or line first, keeps it. In the years I lived there, I've never seen anyone disobey the code and try to take a kite away from someone who caught it.
I had a friend there who would fly every weekend, and when he cut a really nice kite, he'd give me the can (you wind the line on a can) and took off in his car after it.
Good times.
These kites can fly very far with very little wind, are fully maneuverable (left and right turns and full dives)
The main thing with kite flying there was to add a very fine coat of powdered glass on the line and literally battle other kites and cut the line. If you're good at it, you can dive after the cut, and capture the kite and that becomes your kite.
Its as if there's a "code" to kite flying. If a cut kite floats down, you can see a ton of kids running down the street after it. Whoever touches/grabs the kite or line first, keeps it. In the years I lived there, I've never seen anyone disobey the code and try to take a kite away from someone who caught it.
I had a friend there who would fly every weekend, and when he cut a really nice kite, he'd give me the can (you wind the line on a can) and took off in his car after it.
Good times.
CommanderFluffy
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theres no nice weather here in canada to fly a kite.. and i have a huge kite!
dung0beetle
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Me and the kids went out to fly kites Sunday, but we got to the park and the wind stopped blowing 
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