Straight trajectories by Aerialis Kites

Transcript

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   Three kinds of straight lines

   0:49

   Hi, and welcome to a new tutorial. Today we're taking a closer look at flying straight lines. To make it simple, we can put the straight trajectories into three different groups: vertical, horizontal and diagonal. The vertical ones: flying straight upwards, then turning and flying a straight line back towards the ground again, like this. The horizontal ones: flying straight across the wind window, then turning 180 degrees and flying a straight line back to where you started, like this. Diagonal: starting at the top and ending at the bottom on the opposite side of the wind window, or starting at the bottom and ending at the top on the opposite side of the wind window.

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   Compensating for gravity

   1:37

   This is important: when you fly horizontal or diagonal lines, you'll need to compensate for gravity. When flying to the left, extend your left hand a little in front of you and put your right hand a little closer to your body. Put your left foot in front of you too. Now your body position will be just correct, and your kite will have the correct sideways angle of attack, compensating for gravity. Your kite will look just like this. When flying to the right, extend your right hand a little in front of you and put your left hand a little closer to your body. Put your right foot in front of you too. Now your body position will be correct. Once again your kite will have the correct sideways angle of attack, compensating for gravity, and now your kite will look like this.

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   Verticals and horizontals together

   2:44

   Okay, now let's put it all together. Verticals, up and down, with split screen: thumbs back when going up, thumbs forward to brake when going down, like this. And again, now with a close-up view of the hands and the wrists: thumbs back, turn around, thumbs forward to brake and slow the kite down. Now horizontal lines. Going right: extend your right hand out in front of you while pulling your left towards your body, right foot in front. Going left: extend your left arm and put your left foot forward, right hand towards your body.

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   Diagonals and footwork

   3:47

   Diagonal, up right: extend your right hand out in front of you while pulling your left towards your body, right foot in front. Diagonal, down left: extend your left arm and put your left foot forward, right hand towards your body. The same diagonals, now watch my feet: going right, right foot forward; going left, left foot forward. Here's another diagonal, this time up left: left arm and foot in front, right arm towards your body. And up right: right arm and foot in front, left arm towards your body. And a closer look at the footwork: going left, left foot in front; going right, right foot in front.

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   A bonus tip

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   Finally, a bonus tip for you: point the top of your handles in the direction your kite is flying. When flying to the right, point your handles to the right, and when flying to the left, point your handles to the left. I guess that's about it for this time. I really hope you liked my tutorial and that you can use some of this stuff the next time you go flying. Thanks for watching, and bye bye.