Wind and kite

A wide beach, open, clear, infinite but alive ... horses, dogs, cyclists, surfers, and of course, seagulls, cormorants, boobies and pelicans ... a very gentle wind, blowing north, veering to the east, leaving the pilot to fly into the swollen and cold Pacific Ocean. A long evening, the end of the austral winter. Four hours of flight with the Nirvana WW summarized in eight minutes in which the sun is lower in the Bay of Coquimbo (Chile), with Serena at the back. One afternoon practicing tricks, allowing the kite to slide, skid sideways, lift lazily ... an evening to remember.

A kite with a long tail inflatable, floating in the air and trace the trajectory of the kite creates interesting textures. If the tail has a pattern of fragments contrasted the effect becomes hypnotic ... that I was exploring with my friend Alfredo in Chile, playing with the kite Breeze and a tail of these features ... here are summarized in two minutes some afternoon testing

There are kites for all tastes and occasions ... when the wind and the heat of summer gives way to evening, kites and beach are a new equilibrium. Two comets, two girls and long minutes of magic without wind ...

Kites are generally wrong with the trees ... entangled, colliding with the branches, the wind is turbulent near them ... However, there is always a kite for every opportunity and every place and in the understory is possible to fly many types of kites, especially monofilament dynamics that are lightweight and maneuverable.

In a very hot spring afternoon we took refuge in a riparian forest along the river France, in the province of Salamanca. On the river ran a very gentle breeze, no more than 2-3 km h, but surprisingly laminar and steady. Of course, at a scale of few meters. I had with me I'll be back, the baby of the incredible number of zero wind kites synergistic Swiss builder Horvath. While some slept the siesta, enjoy the breeze and relaxing place with this kite.

When the wind assistance and the space is large is very fun to play with a stunt kite truquera as accurate and Nirvana. To the beat of a smiling Boogie Woogie (piano, of course) I was gearing the four things you do with an acro, thinking it over and connecting dance movements of the kite in the air to make great efforts sophisticated tricks, on the other hand, I end up leaving ... (yet!).

A video filmed in the delightful gay beach la Barca, near the city of La Serena (Chile) in the austral autumn 2010.

A move your feet!

One afternoon in the vast Pacific anticyclone along ... a gentle but steady breeze, damp and full of marine flavors. Kites fly almost alone, respond lazily to cover the window controls ... is no hurry, enjoying every meter run. Calm, concentration and the wind taking us to the kites and my ...

One of the reasons why I was getting into the kite and letting the glider was to do an activity related to the wind and the flight that was more participatory, especially with the family ...

While I was up with the glider on the chair and went flying kites with plenty of room to interact ... and is very rewarding little tricks and lessons to share with the children ... the magical moments become more special with this "small" company ...

My oldest daughter flying a kite at night synergistic Horvath. Varennes, Montreal, summer 2008.

We spent many fun times together ...

The beach of La Serena in Chile, I served as a training track. After two years of fighting with a variety of different kites and wind, I finally had the wind calm and appropriate to practice and coordinate the simultaneous operation of two acrobatic flight.

In fact, these kites had flown together before: they are Over Eolo my friend Gustavo Si (Argentina), so they also put their grain of sand ...

This was one of my first kite ... the HQ Tattoo, designed to fly with very light winds and almost no wind. One spring night my brother Marc and I went to the beach adventure of Salou and enjoyed flying and taking pictures, finding a wind that we saw a sea of black as the night gave the orange glare of distant lampposts a promenade ... camera on a tripod recorded the path traveled by the comet ...

Kites take you to many places ... and once you discover them flying and enjoying ... the sunsets are magical moments, no shadows, and often no wind ... a time of day to relax or to roll the world in slow motion ... And nothing better than a zero wind kite!

The bird of Ramlal Tien with more than 3 meters wide comet is a magnificent, elegant in the sky and a pleasure to fly it ... In this video are summarized in a few minutes of this great kite glides in a sunset of June 2010 Campello beach: