Firstly... thank you to Stephen Tonkins for selling me his DS and everyone I met at Epsom for the One Sky One World event.. Adrian (Atho), Popeye, Piero, Russ + Mrs Russ, and everyone else whose name I've forgotten!!
Well, due to an absolute shocker of a week, daughter in hospital for three days with a partial collapsed lung amongst other things, I decided to go to St Annes beach to give the DS it maiden flight.
Bearing in mind I've not flown a "proper" kite before, I think I did o.k. I can axel at both edges of the window, fade launch, tip stand, dodgy looking coin toss, landing and my abiltiy to recover astounded me!
The only real issues I've had today is when trying to snap stall.... I can seem to do it, I can't side slide, and when I attempted 1/2 Axels all i seem to get is tip wrap, even though I think I'm giving enough slack. Need to learn a bit more about fade control!!
Any advice on the above would be grateful... and I can see this becoming addictive ( couldn't get the grin off my face going from one edge of the window, axel, then to the other, axel to unwind lines.)
Just to add insult to injury, some one ran up the back of my car on the way home!!!!!
Tim