Video: Dancing With A Kite At The 12th Annual Windless Kite Festival (Amazing!)

 The 12th annual Windless Kit Festival was held last month in Long Beach Washington... and before you go off thinking this is some sort of twisted joke about trying to fly kites with no wind, you really need to watch this video! It shows Spencer Watson flying a 4-line Revolution kite (I have one of these!) flying indoors and winning the AKA Open Individual Indoor Unlimited competition. By moving away from the kite you make your own airflow for the kite to be able to fly, and with ultralight kites and no wind to disturb the air, fabulous things can happen in the hands of talented people like Spencer.

 This is such an awesome display of eye-hand coordination. If you've never flown a 4-line kite like a Revolution, you cannot even begin to imagine how difficult it is to control. And having this delicate of a touch while always being in control is mind-blowing to me. 

 I wish we could make all the video games on Earth disappear and that kids (and adults) would do things like this instead... there would be almost no limit to the good that would come from that! Plus, we'd brew a whole new generation of people that would be fascinated with the art of moving thru the air, that magical thing that you and I call flying. Open up your mind... go fly a kite!

Video screenshot of Spencer Watson wining at the Windless Kite Festival in January