BTW I owned 3 kites like on the video...mine is a rainbow color...beautiful...I can still fly it on not real windy days....and I can make it do sommersaults and dives...I have a long line on it to do tricks.

My sons have the other 2 of my huge airfoils...one kid has the sail which can be used with a boogy board...skate board kind of thing as well as skis or snowboard. Snowboards are better than skis...you gotta know what you are doing on skis with those things... Ironically I do not downhill ski.

I still have a few other kites....I like to put lights on them and fly them at night....stops traffic...people think it is a UFO....that is a riot.

I can put a 150 foot line on those suckers and they will carry up to 4 lights...they are that strong. Heck, they will lift the likes of me on a windy day...which is why one does not fly those on a windy day unless one is on a moving object or likes to be dragged...

I would die flying like that now.

(I had a few friends trying to talk me into skydiving....my brother in law did it....I passed---I do not have good luck. Now I can not take an exciting movie...this stinks.)

Just so folks know...it doesnt matter who you are, what kind of shape you are in, were in, doesn't matter what you did, PN can hit you....once it does, there is no going back. This is not a Lance Armstrong story....I tried, but there is no going back.

BTW my skate-skis went to Colorado with my daughter....the speed skates that also clicked onto that boot system are under my bed....she has the sense not to use them....and my dopey son is trying to untangle the sail...(it was never tangled....that is how the knots are supposed to be tied-but it has kept him out of trouble for a few weeks...)

I got my daughters good Gary Fischer mountain bike in trade...and it has shock absorbers....she got some fancy $10K bike from her team.

now if I can just feel my hands long enough to make it worth getting into all that gear to ride....when it gets warm of course.

Did you know ice is 7 times harder than concrete? It is. I have learned that the hard way too.

I wanted to die at the age of 87 on my mountain bike in the Himalayas.....that aint gonna happen, and I hear there is a travel advisory for that area right now..