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May06

Blossom Kite Festival Video

on May 6, 2011 at 10:17 pm

Thanks to Skyamese running a Flip video recorder, and Mike VanMeers’ kindness in letting us capture the final score sheet, we have been able to put together an almost complete video of the First Annual Blossom Kite Festival Rokkaku Challenge, complete with official scores after each heat. We’re missing only the end of the second heat, when a Junior Squadroneer went on the lam and Skyamese had to give chase.

 

First Annual Blossom Kite Festival Rokkaku Challenge (150MB MP4)

 

 

 

 

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Apr15

Blossom Kite Fest News

on April 15, 2011 at 8:43 pm
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Here’s the quick wrap-up on the National Cherry Blossom Kite Festival.

The day started out chilly, and the wind was near dead. However, the sun came out and the wind blew well by the end of the day. Chrooke, Skyamese, Lady Vader, the Tattooed Lady, Kalika, Complex, Bryan, and Nancy all attended.

Chrooke entered his logo rok in the kite-making competition, and got compliments on how well it flew.

Complex and Chrooke flew in the rokkaku battle, with Kalika catching and Bryan judging. The first heat was disastrous, but we got a couple points back in the second heat. Finally, Chrooke piloted an amazing third heat that took the team from nothing to third place.

Complex’s Photo Slideshow:

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Dec27

A Return to Flying

on December 27, 2010 at 8:10 pm

A letter from your Scribe:

Despite all of my commitments to attack 2010’s Overbearing Responsibilities and fly kites more, this year’s been difficult for me. I gather that it’s been difficult for everyone to get out there and fly. Jobs and kids have kept all of us from flying half as much as we’d like, which you can easily see from the silence of our Events calendar.


You can also check out photos through Twitpic (also linked from MidnightSquad)

Today’s gusty winds (and Sweetie’s gift of thermal underwear for Christmas) helped reinvigorate my resolve. I took an Expanding Object and my soft power kite out to the local field and has a fine fly. Apparently “Wind Advisory” means the wind doesn’t stop at sunset!

I had a couple dogs and people interested in the kites. The dogs all ran off when the power kite came back towards them, but I talked for a while with a man interested in KAP (and in boomerangs — I learned a thing or two that could have saved me some bruises).

So now I’m going to try to more regularly throw on some warm clothes and make quick trips outside to fly a few kites. It’ll still be a challenge, but hopefully this will make life a little brighter during the dim winter and unfriendly weather. I hope I can also help encourage others to come out and fly this season, however briefly.

–>complex<---

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Events

  • Blossom Kite Festival Rescheduled: 4/10
  • MIKE - Ocean City, MD - 4/29 - 5/1/2011
  • 2010 Smithsonian Kite Festival

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