April Is National Kite Month – Let’s Celebrate!!!

[The Count of Merkur Cristo]

Ahhh...the simple pleasures (awake the Kid in you ),...devoid of TV, Gameboy, Xbox, Playstation, Cellphones and the like.

Just you and the wind...priceless!

So, to celebrate Kite month...I'm waiting on a Large Red Lobster Kite & Easy 500ft Winder .

"Every year in April Kite enthusiasts across North America celebrate the history and the future of the world’s favorite pastime by letting their kites fly. It is a month to celebrate the joy and happines that comes from letting out the line, letting your kite catch the wind, and letting that kite soar high into the sky.

April was chosen as National Kite Month because it was the month that perfectly symbolized hope, potential, and joy. As the first month in Spring, it is when most kite fliers are starting to bring their kites out of the closet and prepare for a summer
on the beach.

It is the month that while we spring clean and dust off the cobwebs, we can look fondly back on the memories of the year before while looking towards a bright future.

April is also the month that we see the last of the snow giving way to green lawns, a month that we are eager to get outside and be active. So why not do it with a kite this year"

Read More: National Kite Month

"Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it". Sir Winston Churchill

 

[mfury]

Start ‘em young, one of our favorite past times.

 

[House Boy]

Kites are cool, this got me to think of sending one to the great grandson, he'll be 2 this month his dad would be happy to fly it with him.

 

[DesertIguana]

Have not seen Kids flying Kits in many years. Recall during what I would call my childhood, Kits, and Kite String were sold many places.

 

[House Boy]

Have not seen Kids flying Kits in many years. Recall during what I would call my childhood, Kits, and Kite String were sold many places.

And we made our kites with news paper, just had to make sure dad was done coffee and reading the news paper

 

[DesertIguana]

And we made our kites with news paper, just had to make sure dad was done coffee and reading the news paper

I did same thing, if a commercially made Kite got hole in Paper Thin Skin, we recycled with Yesterdays Newspaper.

Recall 25 + years ago, prior to 1/1/98 there being a Kite Shop in Old Sacramento Tourist area, they must have been selling stuff as they were in business as long as I can recall. They sold the high end Kites, that you controlled with both hand, their they're called fighting kites.

Last night there was a TV Commercial for some wonder drug, where people were flying fighting kits, so kites flying is alive and well apparently.

 

[House Boy]

I did same thing, if a commercially made Kite got hole in Paper Thin Skin, we recycled with Yesterdays Newspaper.

Recall 25 + years ago, prior to 1/1/98 there being a Kite Shop in Old Sacramento Tourist area, they must have been selling stuff as they were in business as long as I can recall. They sold the high end Kites, that you controlled with both hand, their they're called fighting kites.

Last night there was a TV Commercial for some wonder drug, where people were flying fighting kits, so kites flying is alive and well apparently.

The good old days, we even made our own motor bikes and go karts, and didn't wear helmets. If you got hurt you didn't dare tell the parents how it happened.

 

[House Boy]

Hey Count let me know how the red lobster kite works, after reading your post yesterday I ordered one like that but with a dinosaur design for the great grandson.

 

[DesertIguana]

The good old days, we even made our own motor bikes and go karts, and didn't wear helmets. If you got hurt you didn't dare tell the parents how it happened.

Good Old Days, are what I call in G.O.D. Today maybe the reason we do not see the skies filled with Kites, is kids do not go out doos to play, they are consumed by electronics.

Your right we the generation that was effected by the last Draft for Vietnam, use to ride bicycles, play sports in street, make something to play with out of sticks, branches off tree, or junk we found. We got hurt, bruised, cut, broken bones, and got told your OK, go back out side and play.

If we played in City Park or Boys Club organized sports chance were you uniform was old and smell like the inside of a thrift store, recall playing Football at Boy Club in Miami. 90% of our helmet were leather, with no protection, or mouth pieces. Eating dirt was what you did, teeth occasionally broke, we did not know any better, as we were good enough to have made the team.

Best story I can tell is about my buddy I call Fat Fred, he tried out a Freshmen for H/S Basketball team, big FAT FRED got cut, could not move, could not jump well. Coach call Fred, FAT FRED saying he was too fat to do anything on the Coach Court. Next year as Sophomore Fat Fred is back trying out, coach picks him for team, FAT FRED went on mission if off season, looseing weight, almost 100 pounds, getting better at skills.

At one point coach say I recognize your name, you not same guy I called FAT FRED? Fred says I am just lighter, faster, and good at shooting basketball. Fred went on to play in college, got scholarship at Division 3 School. Nickname from Coach stuck, FAT FRED.

Today kids are protected, or over protected. Cars have seat belts, better have your baby in a child seat, kids were bicycle helmet, and if you go to a Youth Baseball or Football Game the kids have same equipment as Pros have. If you some kids coach you better not say, or call kid fatie, chubby, four eyes, or skinny, or you will be fired, removed, or sued for everything you own.

 

[House Boy]

Good Old Days, are what I call in G.O.D. Today maybe the reason we do not see the skies filled with Kites, is kids do not go out doos to play, they are consumed by electronics.

Your right we the generation that was effected by the last Draft for Vietnam, use to ride bicycles, play sports in street, make something to play with out of sticks, branches off tree, or junk we found. We got hurt, bruised, cut, broken bones, and got told your OK, go back out side and play.

If we played in City Park or Boys Club organized sports chance were you uniform was old and smell like the inside of a thrift store, recall playing Football at Boy Club in Miami. 90% of our helmet were leather, with no protection, or mouth pieces. Eating dirt was what you did, teeth occasionally broke, we did not know any better, as we were good enough to have made the team.

Best story I can tell is about my buddy I call Fat Fred, he tried out a Freshmen for H/S Basketball team, big FAT FRED got cut, could not move, could not jump well. Coach call Fred, FAT FRED saying he was too fat to do anything on the Coach Court. Next year as Sophomore Fat Fred is back trying out, coach picks him for team, FAT FRED went on mission if off season, looseing weight, almost 100 pounds, getting better at skills.

At one point coach say I recognize your name, you not same guy I called FAT FRED? Fred says I am just lighter, faster, and good at shooting basketball. Fred went on to play in college, got scholarship at Division 3 School. Nickname from Coach stuck, FAT FRED.

Today kids are protected, or over protected. Cars have seat belts, better have your baby in a child seat, kids were bicycle helmet, and if you go to a Youth Baseball or Football Game the kids have same equipment as Pros have. If you some kids coach you better not say, or call kid fatie, chubby, four eyes, or skinny, or you will be fired, removed, or sued for everything you own.

Those were the days, thanks for the memories. I’d like to add that strollers now have warning labels not to fold your kid in the stroller

 

[Chef455]

Two nice kite experiences so far this year.

1) Throwing a few casts in a local pond/park and noticed a mom and her kiddos struggling to get their kite up. Cautiously offered my assistance and they accepted. Kite went up and was still flying when I left.

2) Spyed a sad kite stuck in a tree on my route. Next day said kite was on the ground having been retrieved from the tree and weighed down by a few rocks. Next day the kite was gone, I hope by the original pilot.

People are kind more often than not. YMMV

 

[Mojo88]

Mu dad’s favorite saying was “Go fly a kite" I took it literally and would walk to the neighborhood school and fly my kite. I would imagine if you would tell a kid that today they would have no idea what it meant. Also the thought of walking somewhere alone wouldn’t happen.

My son lives out and his kids are able to walk out of the house and fly their kites. Last year in the spring we took them fishing at the pond and flew kites in the afternoon. They talk about that day and can’t wait to do it again. Some of the best times are doing the simple things.

 

[Old Hippie]

When I was in elementary school back in the last century we had a class experience building kites. A buddy and I got some clear plexiglass rod and made a kite out of Saran Wrap. People would get seriously bothered watching us standing in a field apparently staring at nothing.

Another wind-related pastime was making parachutes with an old bandanna, some string and a large steel nut. Wad it all up and throw it as high as you could. Next to our school the local market suddenly started wondering why all the nuts and bandannas were littering their roof...

O.H.

 

[Mojo88]

When I was in elementary school back in the last century we had a class experience building kites. A buddy and I got some clear plexiglass rod and made a kite out of Saran Wrap. People would get seriously bothered watching us standing in a field apparently staring at nothing.

Another wind-related pastime was making parachutes with an old bandanna, some string and a large steel nut. Wad it all up and throw it as high as you could. Next to our school the local market suddenly started wondering why all the nuts and bandannas were littering their roof...

O.H.

The bandanna with the nut makes me think of Easter. I would get an army man with a plastic parachute and a balsa glider in my Easter basket. They usually ended up on a roof somewhere.

 

[gitapik]

Good Old Days, are what I call in G.O.D. Today maybe the reason we do not see the skies filled with Kites, is kids do not go out doos to play, they are consumed by electronics.

Your right we the generation that was effected by the last Draft for Vietnam, use to ride bicycles, play sports in street, make something to play with out of sticks, branches off tree, or junk we found. We got hurt, bruised, cut, broken bones, and got told your OK, go back out side and play.

If we played in City Park or Boys Club organized sports chance were you uniform was old and smell like the inside of a thrift store, recall playing Football at Boy Club in Miami. 90% of our helmet were leather, with no protection, or mouth pieces. Eating dirt was what you did, teeth occasionally broke, we did not know any better, as we were good enough to have made the team.

Best story I can tell is about my buddy I call Fat Fred, he tried out a Freshmen for H/S Basketball team, big FAT FRED got cut, could not move, could not jump well. Coach call Fred, FAT FRED saying he was too fat to do anything on the Coach Court. Next year as Sophomore Fat Fred is back trying out, coach picks him for team, FAT FRED went on mission if off season, looseing weight, almost 100 pounds, getting better at skills.

At one point coach say I recognize your name, you not same guy I called FAT FRED? Fred says I am just lighter, faster, and good at shooting basketball. Fred went on to play in college, got scholarship at Division 3 School. Nickname from Coach stuck, FAT FRED.

Today kids are protected, or over protected. Cars have seat belts, better have your baby in a child seat, kids were bicycle helmet, and if you go to a Youth Baseball or Football Game the kids have same equipment as Pros have. If you some kids coach you better not say, or call kid fatie, chubby, four eyes, or skinny, or you will be fired, removed, or sued for everything you own.

Electronics are definitely a contributor. Another one, here on the beaches of NYC, is the banning of kites during summer months. Too close to the crowds can result in an injury. Too close to the dunes and you're tromping on the Piping Plover's nesting grounds.

Sucks. So now I wait until off season. This is my 8 foot delta. High flyer and goes up on the lightest updraft. Riis Park, Brooklyn in late September:

 

[The Count of Merkur Cristo]

View attachment 1822111 Ahhh...the simple pleasures (awake the Kid in you ),...devoid of TV, Gameboy, Xbox, Playstation, Cellphones and the like.

Just you and the wind...priceless!

View attachment 1822122So, to celebrate Kite month...I'm waiting on a Large Red Lobster Kite & Easy 500ft Winder .

"Every year in April Kite enthusiasts across North America celebrate the history and the future of the world’s favorite pastime by letting their kites fly. It is a month to celebrate the joy and happines that comes from letting out the line, letting your kite catch the wind, and letting that kite soar high into the sky.

April was chosen as National Kite Month because it was the month that perfectly symbolized hope, potential, and joy. As the first month in Spring, it is when most kite fliers are starting to bring their kites out of the closet and prepare for a summer
on the beach.

It is the month that while we spring clean and dust off the cobwebs, we can look fondly back on the memories of the year before while looking towards a bright future.

April is also the month that we see the last of the snow giving way to green lawns, a month that we are eager to get outside and be active. So why not do it with a kite this year"

Read More: National Kite Month

"Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it". Sir Winston Churchill

...btw the Mrs. is waiting on her Large Easy Flyer Butterfly Kite.

"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly". Lauren Bacall