FinWood
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We were under the impression that it was broken. That's what he told us. I wasn't about to stand there and play doctor on him without calling for help first. Maybe things are different in Britain, but I was raised under the assumption that when someone is injured, you don't try to treat them yourself unless you're lost in the woods or stuck on a mountain somewhere. The understanding is that if someone has a broken bone, you don't try to move them, you call for help, then you keep them warm and alert. And, as I understand it, you don't feed them. It wouldn't even have occurred to me to do things any differently Most of these were done with a Blade 1 4.9 m. The kitedragging.avi video was a 3m Bee Cheers
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Kite killers would have been very helpful on the day that that snow video was filmed (Randy.avi). I ended up having to ditch the Blade in a row of trees and spent about an hour trying to get it out. The second half of the video, where I'm getting air, was filmed behind the trees, in an area that was sheltered from the wind. It was just too windy on the big field. On the first run I did on the main field before we brought the camera out, I got picked off the ground from a sitting position and somehow did a 360 in the air, against my will. It happened so fast I couldn't even remember how it felt, but apparently I looked like a rag doll. But it's all in good fun Mark sprained his ankle. When I called 911, they wanted to know the cause of the injury, and I told them, and then the ambulance took quite a long time to get there
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Good fun http://individual.utoronto.ca/rmcveigh/Main.html
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It's a 4.9. I would've been better taking my 3m Firebee that day though, it was too windy to get the flexi under control
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Last week here in the Toronto area we got hit with the first decent snowfall of the year. I took my Blade I down to take advantage of the soft landings before the wind had a chance to blow all the snow off the field. What this video doesn't show is me ditching the kite in a row of trees when I lost all control of it (kite killers are now on the horizon). http://individual.utoronto.ca/rmcveigh/Randy2.avi
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Alright, thanks mate
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Hi there, Just wondering if anyone knows why the kite killers at Coastguard Kites are 15 quid, whereas the ones at Trick of the Eye are only 5? Are the ones at Coastguard of greater quality in some way?
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I will also be willing to pay more than the ask price. Randall000@hotmail.com
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I am also interested! Is this kite still available?
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Thanks!
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Does anyone know of any sites with pics of the Blade mk1 line, or info about it? I find it very difficult to find, probably due to the difficulty of distinguishing between the two for search engines..
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How long is that Axel, Walrus?
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ZMAN, I checked out that post, your buggy looks awesome. Thanks for the tip; Aiken, I PMd you
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I'm very interested in building my own buggy. Do you have any pics of yours?
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Okay, well put it this way, how would it compare to a Bee for jumping? Because that's the only kite I've jumped with
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Thanks a lot all Now I just have to decide whether this summer will be about floating or buggying...
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Hi there, I haven't been on this forum for a long time now so I missed talk about the Flexifoil Bullet. Can anyone link me to any good reviews of it? Or just state your opinions Thanks a trillion
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Thanks a lot peterpan. My flying loc is pretty good, not a lot of obstruction at all actually. It's right on Lake Ontario and I've heard from different sources that it's actually supposed to be the best kiteflying location in the province.. In any case, it gets decent wind. I'm gonna have to do some more experimenting though I guess before I decide that it's enough wind with the short lines. Agger, thanks for the advice.. Unfortunately we were not smart at first and we just made things worse.. it got to the point where the handles were themselves up in the tree. Even with the handles off though, I had a hell of a time trying to pull the line through because it was so wound up and this tree had thorns about an inch long each. It was a painful experience
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Over the Christmas break a friend of mine put my Firebee 3m in a row of tall thorny trees (well actually, the kite went over the trees, but the line got tangled up in them pretty bad). We finally got the line out, but I lost a couple meters of length by the time it was over.. So now my lines are down to about 18m. Just wondering if anyone has experience with fairly short line lengths like this? I took it out the other day and got dragged around alright but didn't seem to get much lift. I'm not sure if this was because of the kite or just the type of wind (southerly, which is fairly uncommon where I live). What type of changes in performance should I expect out of a kite with shorter lines?