Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 13:09:00 -1000 From: mrichter@vx9000.weber.edu (MICHAEL RICHTER) Message-Id: <21APR199416092099@vx9000.weber.edu> Organization: Weber State University Subject: Bicycle (Shuffle) Recently, there has been some discussion regarding kite maneuvers and stunts. Among others, a bicycle or shuffle move was mentioned for a REV. As I understand it, this move will cause the kite to execute a propeller type spin while maintaining (or even gaining) altitude. However, I am still somewhat unclear as to the hand movements necessary to execute this maneuver. Assuming you start with the kite in the middle of the window, hands parallel, thumbs back, where do you go from here? Could someone please elaborate? Thanks in advance. ********************************************************************** * Michael Richter * ...Look well therefore to this One Day * * mrichter@cc.weber.edu * for it and it alone is Life. * ********************************************************************** = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 03:33:30 -1000 From: reich@nosc.mil (Ronald S. Reich) Message-Id: <9404221333.AA01917@cod> Organization: Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University Subject: Re: Bicycle (Shuffle) Date: 21 Apr 1994 16:09 MST From: mrichter@vx9000.weber.edu (MICHAEL RICHTER) Subject: Bicycle (Shuffle) >Recently, there has been some discussion regarding kite >maneuvers and stunts. Among others, a bicycle or shuffle move >was mentioned for a REV. >As I understand it, this move will cause the kite to execute a >propeller type spin while maintaining (or even gaining) >altitude. However, I am still somewhat unclear as to the hand >movements necessary to execute this maneuver. >Assuming you start with the kite in the middle of the window, >hands parallel, thumbs back, where do you go from here? Could >someone please elaborate? THE SKILLS REQUIRED INCLUDE: 1. Ability to hover the Revolution Kite (Rev) in the upright position. 2. Ability to hover the Rev in the inverted position. 3. Ability to hover the Rev with the leading edge perpendicular to the ground. 4. Ability to Side Slide the Rev in both the upright and inverted positions. Now, execute each of the above skills one at a time and as you hold that postion, take particular not of your hand positions. Next, realize that, as the kite rotates, your hands positons will smoothly cycle through these different positions in a systimatic fashion. When executing the slow motion turn, If you want the kite to travel sideways at the same time the you will have to apply the hand position of skill #3 above as the leading edge passes through the 45 degree element of the turn. By careful execution of this skill you can cause the kite to travel horizontally, giving the illusion that the kite is rolling forwards or backwards. Forwards is call the "Roll", Backwards is called the "Moon Walk". Good Luck, Good Wind, Good Friends Ron Reich = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 09:18:53 -1000 From: pwmeek@garnet.msen.com (Peter W. Meek) Message-Id: <2pbsat$hu5@nigel.msen.com> Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, MI (account info: +1 313 998-4562) Subject: Re: Bicycle (Shuffle) MICHAEL RICHTER (mrichter@vx9000.weber.edu) wrote: : Recently, there has been some discussion regarding kite maneuvers and stunts. : Among others, a bicycle or shuffle move was mentioned for a REV. : As I understand it, this move will cause the kite to execute a propeller type : spin while maintaining (or even gaining) altitude. However, I am still : somewhat unclear as to the hand movements necessary to execute this maneuver. : Assuming you start with the kite in the middle of the window, hands parallel, : thumbs back, where do you go from here? Could someone please elaborate? Basically, you do a series of sideways slides just as the ends of the kite go through vertical. As you probably know, the Rev will fly sideways if you get it fore-and-aft neutral and pull one of the handles a little towards you. If you pull the handle attached to the end which is highest while doing a one-hand-tilted-forward-one-hand-tilted-back spin and push the lower end, the kite will have upward impetus most of the time. This can be refined by giving more back-tilt to the rising end of the kite and less back-tilt to the dropping end when the kite is horizontal. The theory is clear enough; it takes considerable practise to get the timing down pat. When done right, the Rev rises like a rocket while spinning. You can 'look' at the hand positions needed by doing very slow spins and moving the kite up and down at each angle. Get the series of motions down, watch one end of the kite, synchronize the series with the motion of the kite-end you are watching (each series starts when the watched end comes around to the same position.) Now -- learn to do it in the opposite direction, so you don't have to unwind your lines by hand. The bicycle name comes from the tendency to rotate the hands relative to each other as you push and pull; it looks like cranking a bicycle pedals backwards with the hands. I don't think anything but the fore- and-aft motion is needed, but I've never seen it done any other way. Maybe the up-and-down motion helps synchronize the tilt timing, since the maximum changes in tilt will be at the upper and lower extremes. -- --Pete "A man who would spend money on a psychiatrist needs his head examined." = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =