How to Move a Flying Kite

Video Transcript

" Howdy, Corey Jensen with Wind Power Sports in Las Vegas, Nevada. We are going to learn a little thing I call kite chi. Our cultural is so visual, we got our eyes watched on the kite all of the time and I teach people as the kite does a loop in the sky do an unloop on the ground untwisting your lines as the kite twists. It is really not about your lines because the left right thing isn’t going to change but it takes your eyes out of the equation for a moment and it gives your fingertips a chance to learn the language the kite is using to tell you not so much where it is, that’s important, but more importantly where it is headed. If you can learn that, without having to be looking at the kite, that opens the doors to all other kinds of flying. First of all you are much more responsible in the field because you see the people that are walking within the radius of your line before they ever get there. By taking things out of the visual realm, you got to figure that your neuropath ways in your brain are like a really rutted road and it is really hard for the neurons to get out of those ruts. By turning your back to the kite for a second, it distracts your eyes and your brain has to look somewhere else and it looks to your fingers and the tactile connection you have with the kite. It gets those neurons out of that rutted visual pathway. Your eyes need to be paying attention to other things on the field than just the kite. You still like to look at it because it is a beautiful thing but it is not the thing you need to be fixated on. You have to remain in complete control. "