So I have a friend training to become a kiteboarding instructor and he asked me if I wanted to come try it out. I said sure, sounded like it could be fun granted we would just be covering the basics. We took the training kite out to the local soccer fields, unfortunately not much wind but it was fine because I was just learning the controls. Despite my person not flying off the ground or doing much other than flying a huge kite I really enjoyed it. It’s awesome to get the kite high in the air, steering it back and forth, feeling like your arm wrestling the wind. The most intriguing part for me was the idea of harnessing gusts in a call and response manner, you could really feel the power. You get a understanding of how strong the wind is. I could only think of how much humans take for granted here on Earth, those who stop to smell the flowers are few and far between.
This was what I was kind of expecting
Here are some bad pictures of what actually happened
