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[NormP]

Now there's a happy camper flier. My bet is you'll see him doing demos at a kite festival one of these days. 

[NormP]

What is the French Flic-Flac?

It is no more than an over rotated Flic-Flac. Rotate it until the nose is pointed back towards you and then unroll it.

I've got a short video of me doing a FFF with a Widowmaker UL , but I'd rather not waste bandwidth.

[mikenchico]

I let the daughter fly our best kites at 6 or 7 years old although even the Spin-Off UL would cause a face plant when a gust hit. But she could always get her feet swung back in front of her while being dragged even by the Team Kite, dig in her heels and use the kites pull to pick her back up. She asked how to land the kite like I did one night, I held her hands and showed her then turned away for a few seconds when I heard her screaming, she had relaunched, flown to the other side and landed perfectly first try. Kids have a much larger capacity to learn new things then us old dogs, if they have an interest they'll be out flying you in a few weeks. She got her own Rev 2 within a year, as soon as they were introduced, and had control of it in a few minutes unlike me.

[Krijn]

What is the French Flic-Flac?

It is no more than an over rotated Flic-Flac. Rotate it until the nose is pointed back towards you and then unroll it.

I've got a short video of me doing a FFF with a Widowmaker UL , but I'd rather not waste bandwidth.

No, the FrenchFlicFlac is a backflip-frontflip-backflip-frontflip-backflip-frontflip, I guess you may start with the frontflip also.


Krijn

[NormP]

What is the French Flic-Flac?

It is no more than an over rotated Flic-Flac. Rotate it until the nose is pointed back towards you and then unroll it.

I've got a short video of me doing a FFF with a Widowmaker UL , but I'd rather not waste bandwidth.

No, the FrenchFlicFlac is a backflip-frontflip-backflip-frontflip-backflip-frontflip, I guess you may start with the frontflip also.


Krijn

Yes, that's the French version, I'm referring to the American version
 

[DWayne]

A French flik flak aka the flip flop can be seen here @ about the 50 second mark.

Vendetta kite

Denny

[NormP]

Yep, just like Kirjn described it.

[Adamld13]

I let the daughter fly our best kites at 6 or 7 years old although even the Spin-Off UL would cause a face plant when a gust hit. But she could always get her feet swung back in front of her while being dragged even by the Team Kite, dig in her heels and use the kites pull to pick her back up. She asked how to land the kite like I did one night, I held her hands and showed her then turned away for a few seconds when I heard her screaming, she had relaunched, flown to the other side and landed perfectly first try. Kids have a much larger capacity to learn new things then us old dogs, if they have an interest they'll be out flying you in a few weeks. She got her own Rev 2 within a year, as soon as they were introduced, and had control of it in a few minutes unlike me.

I guess it all depends on how experienced the flyer is , age doesn't matter.
Faceplant flyers shouldn't be flying 3-4 hundred dollar kites.
Well ..unless u have money to burn.

[Ca Ike]

I let the daughter fly our best kites at 6 or 7 years old although even the Spin-Off UL would cause a face plant when a gust hit. But she could always get her feet swung back in front of her while being dragged even by the Team Kite, dig in her heels and use the kites pull to pick her back up. She asked how to land the kite like I did one night, I held her hands and showed her then turned away for a few seconds when I heard her screaming, she had relaunched, flown to the other side and landed perfectly first try. Kids have a much larger capacity to learn new things then us old dogs, if they have an interest they'll be out flying you in a few weeks. She got her own Rev 2 within a year, as soon as they were introduced, and had control of it in a few minutes unlike me.

I guess it all depends on how experienced the flyer is , age doesn't matter.
Faceplant flyers shouldn't be flying 3-4 hundred dollar kites.
Well ..unless u have money to burn.

THen I guess I should sell all my kites and go back to flying a nexus n jazz 

[Adamld13]

Something to consider....

[Adamld13]

Anthony, sometimes I think u just like to disagree with everything 
Have u ever considered being a lawyer? I hear they love to argue:P

[Ca Ike]

Anthony, sometimes I think u just like to disagree with everything 
Have u ever considered being a lawyer? I hear they love to argue:P

Yea I have but I'm not that good of a lier 

[mikenchico]

I've never met a broken kite that couldn't be fixed, I have met some that were not worth fixing. She laughed, we laughed, we have a lifelong bond (she isn't my offspring, just my daughter) hard to put a price on that.

 

There are more then a few other kids who may always remember that old guy who let them fly that cool kite.

[chilese]

I teach any new flier on whatever kite I'm flying at the time.

Granted, there is some elbow grabbing from time to time.

Broke some sticks. Increased wear and tear on many. One Vapor sail destroyed (replaced gratis by Mark Reed (thank you)).

All in all, it's something they remember. I've had people come up to me years later and tell me about the time they flew one of my kites.

If they never broke, we wouldn't need new ones and the boutique makers would be gone. Most of them are, in one way or another.

Order an expensive kite today. Blue Moon would be a good starting point. 

[Kitelife]

+1 John.

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