I was back at Kings College, Taunton today after a two week break due to the bank holiday weekend and once again working with the Royal Marines section of their combined cadet force.
I have been brought in to offer some alternative activities as part their adventure training programme.
Today I ran an introduction to Power-kiting, teaching the basics of set up and set down, basic flying with 2 and 4 line ram air kites and a bit of theory around the wind window.
We started by discussing the wind window, wind direction and strength and quickly moved on to the students flying some small 1.4m 2 line kites. It took a little while to get used to the techniques but once mastered we moved onto some 1.2m 4 line kites where the students managed to fly the kites in smooth figure 8 cycles and some even had a go at using the brakes to turn the kite.
If the weather conditions are right in a few weeks time I aim to let them loose with a range of 4 line kites from 1.8m - 3.8m.
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