does anyone here practice the art of trick and ballet kiting?

[coriat]

ok, forget the ballet kiting.
does anyone here trick-kite? :rolleyes:
For those who do not know what trick kiting is, here are some links for you!

vliegerwereld.nl (dutch site) (http://www.vliegerwereld.nl/trickkites/)
from the same site, click any of the links to get a cool video (http://www.vliegerwereld.nl/sorenson/index.htm)

ok, i'm not that good, but im not really bad either :) I just wanted to know if there are more people here who practice this wonderful art :D:chug:

[coriat]

you could at least say something like; " WHOAH that looks cool! how can i learn that?".

i had the chance today to fly together (pair up) with one of hollands' best trickers! yay, so much fun!

he learned me the powerfade...
powerfade video, very small, 800 kb. (http://www.vliegerwereld.nl/images/movies/dynafade7.avi)
but i cant do it like in the movie....YET! :evilbat:

:cool: :rolleyes:

[mtw]

It's been a long time since I last flew a kite. I don't remember what it's like. I do know that whenever I happen to be walking on the beach and there's a person using one of those trick kites, I'm scared he'll mess up and impail me with it.

[Kortez]

I'm not familiar with trick kiting. But in my younger days, I was one, bad kiting-pimp

(bad as in NOT GOOD) :D

but this looks really cool... and fun :)