Also, many of the teams and individuals prerecorded “introduction” segments that were played as they flyers were preparing to start their routines. When it became time to announce the sponsors, they had a few different versions of the “pitch” that made sure all sponsors got properly mentioned. Splitting off mic duties between Scott Fisher and Ann Vondriska Brinnehl worked very smoothly but, the sound booth also made liberal use of some prerecorded segments. One of many things I noticed that this festival did “right” was how they handled announcing for entire weekend. It’s a good thing he’s still young because many of us would have had a tough time keeping up the pace he did all weekend. Zach Gordon spent much of the weekend running around doing either individual routines, quad pairs with Eric Wolff, or flying team demos with both Chicago Fire and iQuad. Of course, the rest of Chicago Fire was there as well and I think it’s fair to say that just about every kite flyer in the general area of Illinois and Wisconsin was down at the park on at least one of the days. And, to bring it up to an even number, we’d also invited Zach Gordon of Chicago Fire to fly with us, to give us a nice 6 member team. We’d also drafted Mike Kory from IKE to fly with us, given he’s one of iQuad’s alternates and the writer of a guide to quad team flying. The IKE Kite Club which is just over a year old now was also beginning to arrive, immediately noticeable with their bright red t shirts. Dan Brinnehl got an early start on some KAP photography, meandering his way over to the Art Museum to capture some truly amazing pictures of a decidedly different looking building. If we’d flown much longer, we would have found ourselves IN Lake Michigan and I’m willing to bet it’d be pretty cold at that time of the morning.Īs the morning continued on, kiters began arriving at the field, setting up tents, cabanas and a huge array of kites. Unfortunately, it was rather tough finding any wind at all to fly in, and on top of that, somehow managing to keep the morning dew off of the lines, but, we managed to get them a little good footage at least. Scott Fisher from Gift of Wings had arranged for one of the local TV stations to come down to do some filming for their morning weather forecasts, so, we found ourselves out on the field at a sprightly 7am in the morning. Every once in a while, one would blunder into one of our lines and you could feel the impact.Īfter a long dinner at Buca’s ( a fantastic Italian place near where we stayed ), Saturday morning came around all too quickly. Up here, I might see 4 or 5 in an entire summer, and they are a good bit smaller. One thing that amused the three of us (we’re either from Vancouver or Victoria) was the sheer stupendous size of the dragon flies and the large numbers of them. While the winds were up and down, and coming from off the city, it was flyable and a nice way to unwind after a flight across the country.
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