Using String Winder Kites

Using String Winder Kites
Howdy, Corey Jensen with Wind Power Sports in Las Vegas, Nevada. The wind has died again for the moment. We have time for another one of my great little tricks. If you have a winder like this with your kite, these come from good kite stores not from K-Mart or mass merchandisers but they frustrate folks because they don’t know how they work. You just need one simple lesson. It is a marvelous winder. The problem starts when we assume that bringing in the kite and winding up the line is all the same job but you end up pulling against the wind and you are going to lose that game. It is going to be frustrating and gets to be a chore. First thing you want to do is either you or one of the kids walk the kite down hand over hand going towards you as you go. The kite comes down instead of being pulled in, so it is real simple. Takes a minute or two and the kite is on the ground and the line is not piled up in one place but rather in little piles all over on the ground. Then with the kite put away and the line on the ground you pick up your winder run the string between your finger tips like in the quick of your elbow and spin it using your finger tips like the guide on a fishing reel or sewing machine to guide the line back and forth onto the winder as you pick it up off the ground rather than pulling against the wind. The idea here is that somebody is going to have to wind up all the line. If you make it fun then maybe one of the kids will want to do it. Maybe not, but maybe and if it isn’t fun and you got stuck doing it it’s not a chore part of having fun. One of the kids come up to you and says, hey dad, let me do that. Say, okay but it will cost you a dollar because skills should be valued in our culture and not just.