Great story. These days I wouldn't leave a kite out of my sight for five minutes without a big risk of losing it!

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Good to know, and I hope you continue to have fun with your kites.

At 56 you have many years of kite-flying time ahead of you. I'm 81, and didn't start until I was in my 60s.

Get one! I’m 24 and just flew a dragon kite that has been sitting in my garage for maybe 13 years and it was so fun

@@felreaverguy I'm glad the mice hadn't eaten it! Good to know that you enjoyed your flying, and I hope you have many more fun flights.

@@JimNichollsbro do it I’m about to get one for the first time in like 14 years

I'm glad to hear that the video helped, and that you're having fun with your kite. The octopus kites are great.

We can all learn new things, Dewey! You'll see that method used by someone else in one of my videos soon.

Just remember, Carl - keep your back to the wind, but don't get blown away! Everyone should fly a kite, and it should be made compulsory in my opinion.

Where i can order kite

That's a long time to fly one kite! A bit of a change would probably be a good idea.

I hope you have a lot of fun. Let me know how you get on.

Thank you for your kind comment. I'm glad the video was useful and I hope you have a lot of fun with the kite.

I'm glad it helped. I hope you and the family continue to have lots of fun with your kites. I'm still flying at 82, and will soon be uploading my 2,000th kite video to my channel.

Glad you enjoyed it, Michelle, and I'm happy that it actually helped.

I'm glad it was useful, and I hope you have a lot of fun with your kite. Let me know how it goes!

Finally flown the kite earlier today for the first time after purchasing all those months ago! Wind was a bit wild, but made the experience even more fun. Thank you for the good wishes and energy. Hope you find yourself flying a kite on a nice day sometime soon!

Happy to help! Have fun with your kites.

I'm glad you enjoyed it and I hope it was useful.

There are lots of sizes of Trilobite. That one is the 16 sq m, and I was using 300lb line.

That's hard to beat for a first kite - good choice, and I hope you and your son continue to have lots of fun with it.

I hope you have a lot of fun, which is what kite-flying should all be about. Let me know how you get on.

Glad it helped! Have fun with your kite.

I hope you both have a lot of fun!

Good to hear. Have fun!

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Kite-flying is great fun!

Of course, it wasn't designed for kite-fliers like you, Stefaan, but I hope it might be helpful for those who've never flown a kite and would like to try. Repetition is the best way to get people to remember things, I think!

I hope so too! The main thing is to find a clear area with no trees (not easy at a park), as they cause the wind to swirl as well as acting as kite traps. Stand with your back to the wind - it's amazing how many people try to fly against the wind - and if you've got the kite correctly assembled, it should fly easily. Good luck!

I hope you have a lot of fun. I'll be 82 next month, and still fly regularly. This weekend I uploaded my 1,897th video, and I hope to do a few more before I give up.

Glad you enjoyed it!

That's very hard to say without seeing them. Are they ones you've made or did you buy them? With kites that are bought, people often assemble them wrongly, particularly if they have a dihedral fitting on the spine for the side spars to fit into. It's sometimes easy for that to be turned the wrong way, in which case the kite will never fly. When you are assembling the kite, the ends of that fitting should be angled up towards you. There are many other reasons a kite won't fly, but it's hard to make a diagnosis without seeing the kite.

Glad you liked it!!

That's the biggest mistake most people make. It's much easier than that!

I don't buy many kites these days (I already have far too many!) but past purchases have mostly been from www.pictureprettykites.com and www.intothewind.com and also in recent years from various sellers on AliExpress, which is a huge source of kites and from where I've bought many of my soft kites particularly.

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Yes, I have a lot of kites, but probably not quite as many as the number of videos, but I've never counted the kites.

Thank you for the compliment. I loved Jack's programmes - and some are available now on Dave Knowles KZfaq channel at www.youtube.com/@DaveKnowlesFilmmaker . He uploads new ones regularly, and they are all fascinating glimpses of how life used to be.

I hope you have a lot of fun with your kite.

Thanks, Derrick. I often get asked at the beach how do you launch a kite, so I thought it might be useful for some newcomers to flying.

If you don't have a local kite shop (and most of us don't, these days) I'd suggest here: www.pictureprettykites.com/index.php . Have fun with your flying!

Maybe if your wife and daughter did some more kite-flying themselves they might come to appreciate which way is up!

@MooCowBlue Kites >>> FWIW, I am the same way. Trying to _verbally explain_ instructions to an assistant *ain't easy....*

You are welcome!

Quite different, I'm sure!

It's very hard to say without seeing the kite. The one in the video was not mine, so I don't have it for reference. But if there is a dihedral fitting on the kite - a plastic fitting on the spine with a slight V angle to it - make sure that the ends are angled up towards you when you fit the wing spars into it. Sometimes they get turned over, and it certainly won't work like that. Other than that, the tow-point may have shifted on the bridle lines, so you could experiment with moving that slightly up or down. Most butterfly kites are not great fliers, unfortunately, although there are exceptions. I do hope you get it to fly. Jim

A big area to fly is always good, because if there are trees or buildings nearby then the wind will be too swirly. Without knowing more about your kite I can't give any more advice, but I hope you can get it to fly and have some fun with it.

Glad you enjoyed it, Bruce.

On almost all single-line kites, the frame is at the back of the kite when it is in the air. If there is a dihedral (angled) fitting on the wings, they point backwards when seen from the ground.

That is ample for almost any kite, but the wind needs to be reasonably smooth, not too gusty.

I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I always use hoop spools, as in the video I made about them: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/frukjNiml8vdlI0.html .

Thanks, Scott - I'm hoping it will help a few new fliers anyway.

Thank you. I'm glad it was useful.

Thank you!

It depends on a lot of things, like how low is low? And how much money are you prepared to spend? Delta kites are probably the best to look at for light wind, as many of them will fly in a very light breeze.

www.pictureprettykites.com/kites-line-winders/

@@JimNicholls Thankyou so much

You're welcome!

Common sense seems sadly lacking sometimes!

Sorry, I don't know.

@@JimNicholls oh ok

I never use them, and have seen people have problems with them breaking, but I guess if you use a strong enough one and don't over-stress it, then it should be fine.

Good kites stay in the sky if there's a good breeze and you know how to fly them.

Do you mean just a video, or somewhere to buy it? A couple of my videos are kzfaq.info/get/bejne/araBdZp9rsuUnY0.html and kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kJ2hg9uhqK6blmg.html . To buy, I'd suggest www.pictureprettykites.com/single-line-kites/luna-moth/ . It's a lovely kite - a little fragile, but I've only once had trouble with mine, and with careful handling it's fine.

Really appreciate this. Such a beutifull kite.

You're welcome!

I can't tell you. I don't know what kite you have, whether you assembled it correctly, where you're flying it and what the conditions are like, etc. Many factors affect kites, but for a start I'd suggest trying again in more wind since you seem to think there was not enough before.

It's similar to the one you have at 2:36. It seems there was more wind than what's shown in your video. Maybe I'll have more luck at the beach

@@prsnr42 The beach usually produces the smoothest wind, and is where I almost always fly. Luckily it's only 5 minutes from my house.

Welcome to my channel. I'm glad you like the video.

@@JimNicholls yes i do ..😀tanks

Not really, Amy. I always just ad lib such things, but I'd say you will find it very hard to get a four-year-old child to appreciate what's involved. By seven they might take more notice, but most children just want to run around with their kites, and I think it's up to responsible adults to be on hand to ensure safety, not rely on the children to do what's right. Here's a link (if it works) to some information David Gomberg used to have on his website. It's a bit high-level for children, but that's really the point I was making. web.archive.org/web/20190212182515/www.gombergkites.com/nkm/safety.html

What kind of string are you using?

I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Glad you like it!

I can't answer that question without knowing a lot more about your situation. The easiest kites to fly are probably deltas or diamonds - take a look at these videos: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fpZ1lK6ksNjKcqM.html and kzfaq.info/get/bejne/asCHqZSTnJbPoJc.html . There are many others you could choose as well, and whatever you buy you'll probably have fun.

My line mostly comes from here: www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002090074298.html?spm=a2g0s.8937460.0.0.32e72e0eYbYyL8 .

Me too, but as I'm 82 now, it was a very long time ago!

That depends on where you are. I'm in New Zealand, where we have no kite stores, so all my kites have been bought on the internet. My favourite kite store is www.pictureprettykites.com in the USA, but a lot of my kites have come from China, bought from various sellers on AliExpress. Postage costs have made buying from overseas a lot more expensive now, but the Chinese sources are still reasonable.

Thank you!

A lot of them do, but some don't. There are many cheap kites, and some are made so badly that they will never fly well. But a lot of them fly very easily, although maybe they are not strongly made and so will not survive very long but can give a lot of fun while they last.

No video, sorry. When I have a problem with a bridle line I just keep trying until I find the right setting.

Well, I hope they're all using that knowledge to actually fly one!

No fly!

@@JimNicholls then you need to learn from Lahoris 🤪

They are a different thing entirely, and I don't fly them. I guess there are sites specializing in them if you do a search.

@@JimNicholls Thanks

Thank you! I hope all is well with you.

I'm glad it was useful. Have fun!

If I had to run, I think I'd have given up kite-flying long ago (I'm 81).

Most of them fly fairly well, but usually a bigger kite will fly better than a small one.

@@JimNicholls thank you

I hope you get yourself a kite and have lots of fun.

Most of my kite reels have 250 feet (75 metres) of braided dacron line. I have one or two longer lines (1000 feet/300 metres) but don't often use them.

Thanks and where do you buy that circle handle?

Sorry, my first answer to this disappeared. I live in New Zealand, where no-one sells those reels, so I've had to import all mine from the USA and China. Most have come from Into The Wind and Picture Pretty Kites in America. Both are good to deal with.

My sister bought 3 pieces of 3 dollar delta kites

By the way i live in indonesia Medan city

It looks like fun, but it's not my style. I'm nearly 81, so I don't think I'll start learning how to do that now.

Because I'm crazy, I guess.

Most kites can fly high, but the higher they go the smaller they look so there's not much point to it.

I hope you enjoyed the exercise! I've been known to run myself (not so much now that I'm 82), but only to help launch a kite in marginal conditions. Once it's up, running is a waste of time unless you keep on going for ever, which can be a bit exhausting.

Most children (and adults) find kite-flying easy if you just use a bit of common sense. The wind needs to be fairly stable, but otherwise there's no reason a kite shouldn't fly. It's hard to visualise the problem you describe - "central line" perhaps means the flying line? There's no way that should be "pulling over a corner" if the kite is properly assembled and the line tied correctly to the bridle.

I haven't dared show my antics when I really fly - it would horrify some of my viewers! But yes, all those are essential for any real kite-flying.

Dan, you forgot fighting off mad dogs ( and even worse , their owners) drinking lots of water , helping kids fly their kitesand looking at lovely ladies passing by

@Vincentone1970 You obviously have the right attitude to kite-flying! I agree, especially about the dog-owners (truly rabid, some of them) and the lovely ladies, which we don't get enough of unfortunately.

It's not difficult. Most people work it out for themselves.