Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 09:38:59 -1000 From: arch@cisco.com (Arch Mott) Message-Id: Organization: cisco Systems Subject: Re: alt.Nomenclature How about the one _so_ popular with beginning teamers: The 69: Two kites tangle causing each other to "go down". (Sorry, I know it's silly, but it's happened so many times it _had_ to have a name). -Arch. -- Arch Mott | arch@cisco.com | The Circus Theory of Project cisco Systems, Inc. | Voice:(415)688-8245 | Management: If you have too 1525 O'Brien Drive | FAX:(415)428-5080 | many balls in the air, throw Menlo Park, CA 94026 |---------------------| one to some other clown... = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = From: Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 04:07:46 -1000 From: root@qmw.ac.uk(0000-Admin(0000))) Message-Id: <2ogubi$ji3@beta.qmw.ac.uk> Organization: Elec. Eng. QMW Uni. of London Subject: Re: alt.Nomenclature I can do most of those :-) You Missed :- FlexiFoil Stack Shuffle. This is a complicated trick involving changing the order of kites in a stack by stalling them and having the end kite hook up and tangle with one higher in the stack. Linebreak Axel Have one line break while performing a power manouver. As the kite spirals gracefully, the flyer should be catapulted backwards and sideways, making a single axel on their back, pivoting around the remaining line. Recovery can be difficult! ____________________________Andrew Hawken______________________________ -- "However many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead" R Dawkins. Home : 0895 420110 QMW : 071 975 5542 AIIT : 0494 677045 Email : A.Hawken@QMW.AC.UK = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 07:22:38 -1000 From: mikec@micromuse.co.uk (Mike Carden) Message-Id: <2oh9ou$2k1@jake.micromuse.co.uk> Organization: MicroMuse Ltd, London, England Subject: Re: alt.Nomenclature : ____________________________Andrew Hawken______________________________ : Wrote :- : I can do most of those :-) Me too! with the added barbed-wire variation in places. : You Missed :- : [snip] Ditto. The Classic Superman. Arms at full stretch with the flexis desparately trying to pull them from their sockets, you perform a small bunny-hop and find yourself accelerating upwards and forwards in the classic superman pose. The Battering Ram. A logical extension of 'Classical Superman'. During landing your feet don't manage to go quite as fast as the ground and you trip forward being drapped head-long, face down into whatever is in your path. The Cork Screw. Being such an idot ( for holding on ) and with above average co-ordination, you manage to keep control (ish) of your flexi stack. By this time you are enjoying yourself and try a pass into the REAL flying zone. The flexis are now pulling in a completely different direction causing you to roll over onto your back, then your front, and so forth. The BT (British Telecom .. for those of you outside the UK ) While syncro flying the clever dickie manoeuvers left and below your kite (or stack) and then up. Not paying much attention you yourself dive and pull left. Hence the BT or seriously crossed lines! P.S. Anyone keeping a catalogue of these? -- |\ /|*| __ | MicroMuse PLC. | ALL VIEWS ARE MY OWN, SAD AS THEY MAY BE! | \ / |||_/ |__ | T 081 875 9500 |"His mouth started to speak, but his brain | \/ ||| \ | | F 081 875 9995 | decided it hadn't got anything to say yet | ||| \|__ | H 0895 854 743 | and shut it again." THHGTTG Douglas Adams = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 01:31:46 -1000 From: gerry@bicceri.demon.co.uk (Gerry Lawrence) Message-Id: Organization: BICC Cables, Erith Subject: alt.Nomenclature Howabout another list of names for all those manoeuvers that you are not so proud of, but seem to get the most air time with the people I normally talk to. Here are a few of my favorites: Machine Gun Landing (aka. thud thud thud thud ...) This flexi trick starts with the stack in a power dive in the centre of the window, then just before you recover with a snap L to the left or right, just get distracted and plough the stack straight into the ground. Works great with stacks of 3 or more. The Basic Blowout Another flexi trick is best done on soft sand or in water. Just power dive straight into the ground, and watch the flexi blow apart along the trailing edge seam. (This can be combined with the Machine Gun Landing though requires much practice to acheive blowout on the whole stack) The Radical Blowout Similar to the Basic Blowout, but here the flexi splits just in the middle of the ripstop. Pop a Spar I guess I didn't quite push it in hard enough! Pop a Spreader Maybe the wind is a little too strong after all! Pop off for a quick pint This one normally only happens when it starts to rain, and your kites get wet. The Ground Stake Stall After setting up your kite, ready to launch, pick up the handles, but leave the stake in ground. Launch the kite, and do a few fancy tricks. The last of these should require some running forward. As you execute this trick, catch a foot or shoelace on the stake. Fall forward, stretching both arms out in front, and land face down on the ground. This makes for a stunning stall, whatever the original trick was. Take Off 'n Trash Stake out the kite ready to launch, then as you walk back to the handles, listen out for the kite deciding all on its own to take off, and then dive straight into the ground, breaking at least one of the spars into bits. --- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gerry Lawrence email: gerry@bicceri.demon.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------------- = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 03:12:12 -1000 From: reich@nosc.mil (Ronald S. Reich) Message-Id: <9404141312.AA18296@cod> Organization: Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University Subject: Re:: alt.Nomenclature Date: 13 Apr 94 19:38:59 GMT From: arch@cisco.com (Arch Mott) Subject: Re: alt.Nomenclature Arch Mott writes: >How about the one _so_ popular with beginning teamers: >The 69: Two kites tangle causing each other to "go down". >(Sorry, I know it's silly, but it's happened so many times it >_had_ to have a name). "The 69" is a variation of or perhaps a prelude to the "Wrap and Split" whereby two kites fly follow the leader up the center of the wind window. Then execute a single paired wrap at the top and dive, follow the leader toward the ground. Prior to reaching the ground, one flyer execute a 90 degree right turn and the other flyer will execute a 90 degree left turn. The twist in the lines will move rapidly toward the flyers. After the kites have separated about 50 to 100 feet both kites will turn up and head back toward the center where they meet and execute an unwrap in the appropriate direction so as to remove the twist created by the initial wrap at the top. They exit the unwrap in a follow the leader formation headed straight up the center. The FLIGHT SQUADRON also uses the term "Wrap and Split" to indicate the the practice is over and it is time to wrap up our lines and leave the field. Still Learning and Sharing, Ron Reich = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 05:06:19 -1000 From: R.J.Green-SE1@cs.bham.ac.uk (Robin J Green) Message-Id: <2pgm9b$c92@percy.cs.bham.ac.uk> Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK Subject: Re: alt.Nomenclature In article , Gerry Lawrence wrote: >-] >-] Howabout another list of names for all those manoeuvers that you are >-] not so proud of, but seem to get the most air time with the people I >-] normally talk to. "The Post Speed Wrap" When flying in the only local open area, the football pitch, fly your kite (delta, flexi, whatever) at speed in low fast ground sweeps, then do some tricks at altitude, walking forwards to slow down the vertical dives, etc. Then switch back to long ground sweeps. At this point your kite will sweep along the ground and the lines will intersect with a goalpost (or streetlight) and wrap itself with a spectacular couple of rotations around the offending fixture ending with a heartwrenching "smack!", very firmly attached. The audience will applaud and watch as you unwrap your broken kite from the vertical fixture and promise yourself an eye test for depth-of-field next week. "Masterful Baiting" The art of keeping kite inches in front of a barking dog, landing across the field from it and taking off a second before the two intersect. And has anyone else noticed how your kite becomes an instant landmark for dogs to use as a scent marking spot? In an evolutionary light this will become more and more prevolent as dogs cotton on to it being an efficient way of marking large areas of territory... - Robin Green. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 17:12:31 -1000 From: mws@mael.soest.hawaii.edu (Michael Sawyer) Message-Id: Organization: University of Hawaii SOEST Subject: Re: alt.Nomenclature In article , Gerry Lawrence wrote: > >>>> Start Forwarded Message from Darrin.Skinner@ebay.sun.com >>> > >-] >-] Howabout another list of names for all those manoeuvers that you are >-] not so proud of, but seem to get the most air time with the people I >-] normally talk to. >-] >-] Here are a few of my favorites: >-] And, of course, for those of us who don't want Carpel Tunnel syndrome, and fly with handles: The chase: This is that valiant attempt you make to catch up with the handle you just dropped before the kite manages to put about 10,000 wraps in the line on its way down. (Of course, you never can get quite close enough to catch it. :> ) -- Michael Sawyer - My opinions are mine, not necessarily UH's, NSF's, or NASA's University of Hawaii Physical Oceanography/Satellite Remote Sensing RIPEM public key available, MD5OfPublicKey: C53C8744A87664168D135C0763DCCC1D = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 20:42:59 -1000 From: andrew@tug.com (Andrew Beattie) Message-Id: Organization: /usr/lib/news/organisation Subject: Re: alt.Nomenclature R.J.Green-SE1@cs.bham.ac.uk (Robin J Green) writes: >"Masterful Baiting" > The art of keeping kite inches in front of a barking dog, > landing across the field from it and taking off a second > before the two intersect. Good fun, but don't expect any sympathy from the dog owner if you slip up and the dog kills the kite. >And has anyone else noticed how your kite becomes an instant landmark >for dogs to use as a scent marking spot? This is a difficult problem. When it has happened *once*, all other dogs in all flying fields will insist on doing likewise :-( Andrew = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =