Kites 101

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• You are looking at a great poster, that comes mounted on black colored wood.
• Wood mounting, or plaquing is a stylish and affordable way of protecting your prints and posters.
• This poster, which measures approx. 11.00 by 17.00 inches.
• In this process, your print is laminated directly to a board and the edges are finished with a bevel
• Your plaqued print will be protected against moisture, UV light, smudges and scratches.

Kite Surfing Black Wood-Mounted Art Poster Print – 11″ X 17″

To what lengths should each of the individual lines be set? Is there a universal ratio for these dimensions?

An EnCorps teachers candidate teaches students how to build a kite. www.encorpsteachers.org

Kite flying is no longer limited as child’s play but has evolved into a favorite activity for adults as well. It is thrilling to actually see a kite soar high above, waving gently above the tree tops. Interestingly, this simple idea has been combined with another activity to produce a new extreme sport. Combining the propulsive power of the kite and a surfboard, you have kite surfing.

Kitesurfing is a new form of extreme sport which is becoming very popular. This is an exciting why to escape the boring schedules of everyday living. The kite is used to pull the surfboard across the water.

Kite flying in itself is exciting enough, but when you combine it with another sport, the results can be totally explosive. In fact, back in the 1800′s, the Chinese has been using kites to propel carts and ships across unknown territories of the wide open seas. Initially it started as an alternative to horse power due to the harsh horse tax.

The potential of the kite was expanded when the creation of Kevlar and Spectra kites in the 1970′s. The turn of the decade witness the new development in the way kite is used and now we see them propelling snow skis, roller skates, canoes ice skates and water skis. November of 1984 saw a new development in the kite surfing industry – inflatable kites. The ‘Wipika’ was created in 1997.

This creation has inflatable tubes and a convenient inflatable bridled system that help it to be re-launched. In 1997, kite-boards were developed and this activity became a mainstream sport. Now schools teaching kitesurfing have also emerged.

Get an instructor to guide if you are starting out, it makes learning so much easier. One needs to know the right way to launch kites, to keep it flying and how to manage the lines. It is easy to misunderstand these complicated pieces of apparatus so a lesson from a certified instructor would be very wise indeed.

After the students have learned kitesurfing techniques they must learn body-dragging. Body drag pull the body upward as board surfing pulls the body forward. To embark in this sport, one needs to be prepared to invest more than 3000 just to buy the additional equipments such as gloves, wet suits and other peripherals.

Kitesurfing can be dangerous so it is restricted to some locations for safety reasons. This is not a concern though as there are many places you can go to kitesurf. Lastly, check your equipment and apparatus is up to the job and obey all the safety advice given at each location if you want to avoid unnecessary accidents.

In the Disney classic, Mary Poppins there is a great song about flying kites.  Its so cute to see the little family at the has such a wonderful time flying them.

I found the lyrics.  Enjoy!

Let’s Go fly a Kite Lyrics.

Mr. Banks:

With tuppence for paper and strings
You can have your own set of wings
With your feet on the ground
You’re a bird in a flight
With your fist holding tight
To the string of your kite

Oh, oh, oh!
Let’s go fly a kite
Up to the highest height!
Let’s go fly a kite and send it soaring
Up through the atmosphere
Up where the air is clear
Oh, let’s go fly a kite!

Bert:
When you send it flyin’ up there
All at once you’re lighter than air
You can dance on the breeze
Over ‘ouses and trees
With your first ‘olding tight
To the string of your kite

Londoners:
Oh, oh, oh!
Let’s go fly a kite
Up to the highest height!
Let’s go fly a kite and send it soaring
Up through the atmosphere
Up where the air is clear
Let’s go fly a kite!

If you’d like to see them sing the original here’s the vid.