Fractured Axel

Bakardi · Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:05 am

Some things people have said;

Flying Deepspace ---Stranger "You can get one of them at the chemist for £4!"

Flick Flacking .85--- Grandma to grandson "Look he's turning it inside out"

YoYo's on DS ---"What kite is that?...........is it the 'tumbler'?"

After 5mins of my best freestyle, including YoYo's, Multi Lazys, JL's, WapDoWap's, Fades etc etc on DS--- "Thats great the way you make it land"

Friend ---"Can you still fly a kite in the winter?
Me ---"Yep, as long at it's not raining"
Friend--- "Why?"
Me--- " 'cause you get wet!"

Another friend--- "What string do you use?

My favorite --- Friend drives past........I've got fav song on Mp3, 8mph wind, banging the tricks out (talking Trick or Treat here).......stops and shouts "I knew it was you.........the kite looked like it was falling from the sky!"

And this classic "Dad....... can we go home now?"

:sigh:

Mike

Vee · Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:11 am

Bakardi wrote:
Friend ---"Can you still fly a kite in the winter?
Me ---"Yep, as long at it's not raining"
Friend--- "Why?"
Me--- " 'cause you get wet!"
Mike

Lightweight :lol:

moog · Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:13 am

I started flying with a cheap £25 kite on a playing field doing simple stuff like spins. Some young kids were watching me and a young girl said 'I was the best kite flyer she had ever seen' :oops:

I didn't have the heart to tell how rubbish I was at the time but for a moment there I felt my chest pump out with pride

kevspilly · Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:19 am

"I knew it was you.........the kite looked like it was falling from the sky!"

After 5mins of my best freestyle, including YoYo's, Multi Lazys, JL's, WapDoWap's, Fades etc etc on DS--- "Thats great the way you make it land"

Just adds weight to the fact that joe public just don't get trick flying :whatthat:

My most recent one was "your kite dosn't go very high does it"?

Mark E Mark · Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:41 am

I recently had three total strangers, and presumably kite novices, ask me "How do you do that think where the kite spins round on itself?"....after a bit of clarifaction it turns out that each of them was asking how to Yo-Yo the kite........Umm, not very easily if you've never flown a kite before, and not very easy to explain to a complete novice.

Another chap told me how it was "cool" how I landed my kite so that I was stood right by my pint.... :-)

fair enough, that was cool ;-)

hezz · Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:43 pm

moog wrote:
I started flying with a cheap £25 kite on a playing field doing simple stuff like spins. Some young kids were watching me and a young girl said 'I was the best kite flyer she had ever seen' I didn't have the heart to tell how rubbish I was at the time but for a moment there I felt my chest pump out with pride

My favourite quote was from back in 1996, whilst flying my Psycho alongside Brian flying his Stranger, in a park in Salford. Some local scally kids walked past and one said (in his best scally accent) "Eh, eh, mister, your girlfriend's better than you!"

:-D

Hezz

Jest_of_EVE · Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:09 pm

Think I've said this before in another thread, but last year flying a Gem I had some Gay-esque comments from a group passing chavs. 10 minutes later they walked by again and said how cool it was and I was 'the bomb' with that thing, etc. Double yoyo to axel to double unwrap into tipstand really helps

Mark

kraftyone · Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:28 pm

i was on the beach yesterday, having a complete mental block. After about 4 or 5 tip wraps in a row, and having just returned from checking the kite after a heavy landing a guy asked me 'does that take much practice to get the kite to spin like that?'

shamu · Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:34 pm

Best round of applause we ever get as a team if for synchronised landings

kareloh · Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:40 pm

kraftyone wrote:
i was on the beach yesterday, having a complete mental block. After about 4 or 5 tip wraps in a row, and having just returned from checking the kite after a heavy landing a guy asked me 'does that take much practice to get the kite to spin like that?'

Bastiaan · Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:42 pm

When I received my Next and proudly put it together displaying it in my living room and asking my wife what she thought about it said:
They all look the same to me.....

!!!!!!!!!!!! A next the same as a deep space???, what utter ignorance !!
She is kinda cute though...

Wockey · Mon Oct 30, 2006 2:42 pm

This morning the wife said to me............."IRELAND !!! cant you get one from town ??"

NB Glad I never told her where the last one came from....USA !!

DD · Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:28 pm

" You your kite wouldn't fly all goofy like that if you put a tail on it"

Ogre · Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:44 pm

"You spent HOW much!?"

kraftyone · Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:52 pm

from people in the office: "why are you always checking the weather online ALL DAY"

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