Flying the Kite

Chris Maxa: Hi! I am Chris Maxa with The Kite Loft. Today we are going to learn how to fly a kite. In this segment, I am going to teach you, how to read the wind and learn, how to let your kite ascend and get it airborne.

After, weve gone inside and we picked up the kite the kite we wanted and weve chosen it down to the perfect kite. Assemble the kite, you learned all the parts, you chose the right line and some decorations.

Now, weve come out here to the flying field and we have chosen the beach, where we have a beautiful offshore wind and in reading the wind, you want to take note of which direction its coming from and how fast and hard the wind is blowing. Today, its perfect, we have an ideal 12-13 mile an hour wind, and its coming from the offshore, so it a really creates a nice comfortable breeze. Perfect kiting weather.

What we do now in this segment, ready to how a launch our kite. If youre going to take a kite, put in your hand, I am going to switch to the other side and allow the kite to get in my left hand, while I hold the kite spool in my right. I allow the kite to get airborne, while holding the slow, grasp it with both hands and allow the kite to catch updraft and ascend into the air. Youll notice the kite starting sway back and forth a little bit, thats because I am holding it back its being tethered. If I allow the kite to ascend by letting out more and more line, youll notice that stability improves. What you want to do is, you want to allow your kite to achieve the perfect height. All the while of course holding your spool and then we are going to able to add line laundry and windsocks and decorate our kite. Well get to that in the next segment.