Untitled - KiteLife

Sunday morning whistled in onsheets of rain, thunder, winds thatregularly topped 35MPH and warningsof tornados : perfect kiteflyingweather! Undaunted, the membersof KAOS began showing up at theDog-Gone-It ."This won't last long . See, it's lighterover in the west," someone said . Wepoked out head out of the door onlyto be momentarily blinded by aflash of lightning ."I'm beginning to pick up on certainatmospheric negatives, here,' Iresponded ."Not to worry," was the reply, "We'llbe flying by noon!'Indeed, as if some sort of storybooktale, it happened just as predicted.The clouds parted, the sunpopped out, and the winds blew (!)for just enough time to finish the restof the events . All in all, a beautifuland horrendously windy day .In a field littered with NBK's fromthe visiting Miami contingent, it wasBenji Brazell flying a Spin-Off takingfirst place honors in the ExperiencedPrecision. He was followed by RobertBono and Ben Gomez, individualflying members of the Looking SkywardTeam .Bono fared better in the Ballet,picking up a first . Aldo Ramirez tooksecond giving the NBK-flyers a onetwopunch with Bill Lee, flying aRazor's Edge taking third . ExperiencedPairs Ballet went to an intrepidWindswept team of Tom andSusan Mason who flew a gutsy routineto show that their win in Miami aweek earlier was no fluke . An inspiredperformance in spite of the fact thatan early crash managed to unseat aferrule connection on Susan's FireDart and the last 3/4 of the programwas flown with a broken wing . Secondplace went to the Looking SkywardTeam who flew NBK's .Winds that occasionally topped 35 MPHmade for interesting flying, particularlyfor stacked kites!There are big events, and thereare small ones . The size really doesn'tmake much difference . This is onegroup of folks who take their flyingseriously . . .and they take their fun thatway too! We'll be back for this onenext year!Dan Klos at the controls of his megastackof home-made quads . He claimeda new record for quads with 18 .