MartinG wrote:Those of us starting out without the benefit of a coach tend to rely on the Dodd Gross Flight School DVD to try to understand tricks. In the video Dodd says "The axle is your first slack line trick. If you can snap stall you can axle. If you can't execute good snap stalls, don't move on to this lesson", so one can become a bit obsessed with trying to perfect it; replaying the video over and over again to see what the kite and hands are doing means the soundtrack works its way into your subconscious like a mantra! If only there were more than half a dozen people interested someone could make an updated video to reflect what can be done with modern kites - I'd buy "Craig's comete in a day" or the equivalent. Probably still wouldn't be able to do many tricks, mind you.
This is ALL helpful as far as I'm concerned...
What I AM discovering more and more is the types of wind strength...I'm trying to go out as much as I can so the wind is generally different each time- I was practicing g the snap stall using the push technique and trying the side slide too....I think one of the most basic things I've been learning is arm and hand position whilst watching the kite...it reminds me when I first tried to drive a car...my mind was focusing on a lot of things at once...but after a while I stopped wondering where my hands were on the wheel and moved my eyes ahead of me instead of directly in the front of the car...