I don't get how if you're, say, kitebuggying, and the wind is blowing in one direction, you can do this for more than 5 minutes... Is there some way to get back to where you started on a kiteboard, kiteskis, or a kitebuggy? It just seems like A LOT of effort to walk back to where you started...
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Like wallablack says... Whilst going in the same direction as the wind you go in a straight line....but when you go into the wind you move in a large zig zag motion side to side edging forward in small increments using the tension between the board and the wind to propel you.
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alright. so first you stand near the back of the board with both feet. with your back foot, you pop the tail down and jump right away. with your front foot, slide it up to level the board out. then you will land on all fours. its gonna take a longgg time to get it. took me almost a month. but once you get the hang of it, play with where you put your feet and all of that; get comfortable with the ollie.
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Having been in the path of a direct hit by Hurricane Claudette on July 15, 2003, I have to say that I'm not so sure about hanging around for something like that again.  The house I live in made it through Hurricane Carla in 1961 packing winds (COMING ASHORE) of 165 mph.  I now figure if it's barely a hurricane of say 74-80 mph, a category one, I will probably stay.  That doesn't mean I won't be scared as hell, but something of that size going North or South of here isn't going to cause me to leave.  We were blindsided by Hurricane Claudette sneaking up the coast overnight and caught EVERYBODY "with their pants down" so to say.  That was probably the scariest thing I've ever been witness to in my 43 years on this planet.  The wind was screaming past my front door right at 100 mph.  Had I known that was on the way we would have got the hell out of here.  One tornado took out huge trees right next door, while I only had to replace about five shingles.  That tornado went right over the house while I was putting all 240 pounds of me on the front door trying to close it.  The whistling was like screaming banshees.  The wind was howling.  I mean literally howling.  It still scares me to think about it. For most of my life I wondered what it would be like to ride out a hurricane.  Now I know.  Will I leave or ride it out?  Chances are pretty good I'm outta here.  Many "old-timers" and idiots thought they could ride out another hurricane.  Many of those "old-timers" and idiots didn't make through to tell us all about it.  Don't be an idiot.  Listen to your common sense and watch the advisories.  If this message helps to save your life or someone else's, then I haven't typed this in vain.  Good luck.
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you can pretend to start your wind up and step off with your opposite foot and throw over.  If your a right handed pitcher your first motion is taking a step back with your left foot.if you step off with your right you can do whatever you want except throw to the plate.  the opposite goes with left handed pitchers.
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Just like some people said, big tree are more easy to attach wind...people like to talk about BIG people, that's why :)
91977
the speed of the wind that pushes it along...
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I would take it to the shop and ask them to apply it. My only concern is that people often use rudders to compensate for bad paddling techniques, and it also changes the turning moment of the craft to the rear, so the kayak wants to pivot from the rear, not from the center. If it is to be used to compensate for a weather helm (turning upwind while paddling in a crosswind) maybe a retractable skeg would be a better alternative. The last concern is that if you are coming in with a following sea in windy weather, as your kayaks rear lifts with a wave, your rudder comes out of the water when you need it most, and that is when the craft will have a tendency to broach and tumble, which can be a real problem. The Europeans use a retractable rudder that is at least 1 meter from the aft of the boat and stays in the water at all times. Just thoughts to ponder, thanks for listening.
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I think It's all in the way you move your head honestly turn your head and arms in one direction and the rest of your body will follow but you are right if you do it before you launch it can make you lose some air just cause your body is reacting to to much to soon and try to think about the landing afterwards not just the spin  and of course experiment with how your body reacts to diferent moves until it becomes fluid---well good luck---
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i just started snowboarding this year, but i started learning to jump yesterday.  its pretty easy to just go off little ones the most important thing is DONT TURN IN THE AIR and try to land on your edge no matter what you will fall.  pick up some speed and ride over the jump and land with your nose facing right down the hill... once you have landed are out a few feet you can carve/edge/ stop... just make sure that none is following right behind you.  trust youself... and just go for it.  i dunno for me it was just kinda natural... just do waht feels right but DONT TURN IN TEH AIR i cant stress that enough.  and make sure your board is well waxed.  i hope this helps you.
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Since I was standing upon the earth’s surface before I started to levitate, my body would have a certain amount of kinetic energy prior to the levitation.  Upon levitating, this kinetic energy would “propel” me in the direction of the earth’s rotation.\n\nSo would I come down in the same place?  That would depend upon the resistance of my body to the friction of the atmosphere and the direction of the prevailing wind during the time period of levitation.  It might be possible for a very strong wind to push me faster than the earth is rotating or to push me perpendicular to the direction of rotation.  Or even "backwards."\n\nIn an “ideal” experiment, with no atmospheric friction, I should land exactly where I left the ground, give or take the distance of one step.
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well if the wind is not blowing then you will have high pressure and rising until the weather is about to change. not sure about the other stuff you typed under your major question.
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It's been forever since I've done it, so I can't give you an actual schematic (try a search engine for that.) I will give you some tips from my science olympiad glory days, however. I assume you're trying to lift the most weight?\n\nMake your sails out of the lightest material possible and with as little re-enforcement as you can get away with it. That way the energy going into turning the sails is minimized and they can rotate faster (and hence do more work.) Depending on size, posterboard or even paper with a balsawood backing usually works well.\n\nDo you know what will be turning the windmill? If it's a fan, try to find one like it and test against that. If you're using natural windpower, this will be harder to do. Only re-enforce the sails enough so they won't get torn apart.\n\nAs far as the string lifting the weights goes, friction is GOOD. You don't want it slipping and costing you energy and time, if time is an element. In all the other elements, friction is BAD. Break out the ssandpaper if necessary.\n\nAll of this is probably common sense, but I hope I did some good. Best of luck.
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Well, that isn't how kite-flying works. If the kite is getting farther away, it will be rising vertically as well as moving horizontally. \nI hope that this problem isn't from an aeronautical engineering course.\n\nBut given the statement of the problem, here's what you do:\n\nDistance from man to kite = sqrt(x^2 + 50^2)\nx is the horizontal distance to the kite, 50 is the vertical distance to the kite, and the above expression (the square root) is the hypotenuse of a right triangle, which is the distance from man to kite.\n\nThe rate at which the distance is changing can be found by taking the derivative of distance:\n\nd/dx (x^2 + 50^2)^0.5 \n= 0.5(x^2 + 50^2)^(-0.5)(2x) \n= x/(x^2 + 50^2)^0.5)\n\nThere are three more steps:\n1. Solve for the value of x when the kite is 130 m away:\nsqrt(x^2 + 50^2) = 130\n(x^2 + 2500) = 16900\nx^2 = 14400\nx = 120 (also minus 120, but that's an extraneous root, since it doesn't make sense)\n2. Substitute the calculated x value into the expression for the rate at which the distance is changing:\nd/dx (distance from man to kite) = x/(x^2 + 50^2)^0.5) = \n120/(120^2 + 50^2)^0.5) =\n120 / (14400 + 2500)^0.5 =\n120 / (16900)^0.5 =\n120 / 130 =\n12/13\n3. Since this number is the rate of change in the distance (in meters) for each 1 meter change in x, we have to multiply it by dx/dt (in m/sec) to get the rate of change (in distance) per second. Fortunately, we have been given that dx/dt = 8m/sec.\nSo the answer to the problem is (12/13) (8 m/sec.) =\n96/13 m/sec, which equals about 7.38 m/sec.
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When you have a difference of pressure in the air there is a "low" and a "high" zone (think weather forcast on the news). The high pressure zone naturally wants to "even out" with the low so air moves to it creating wind among other things. Actually the air doesn't just move, it gets sucked! It's the same principal with a vacuum cleaner, only instead of dirt you've got a kite. You also have the shape of the kite which can manipulate the wind force and give it lift. I can't say I'm a kite engineer(I wish though) but the angles are probably a key role in how the kite is better controlled.
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I LOVE to skateboard. It is THE MOST AWESOME SPORT EVER inthe world. people say "its just jumping on a skateboard". it's not that easy. And I'm not excactly blonde. Concky, you should try going up a vert and standing on your hand upside down while holding your board with your feet and other hand. when you do, tell me how many bruises you have.
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Time your entry into your spin.....Cross on one, step into it on two, then start spinning on three.......keep in mind you have to curve your wind up entering into your spin....\nWinding up your arms on the back inside edge will get you into your spin quicker.....\n\nThe stronger the pivot into your spin..........will help you gain the speed your looking for....\n\nGreat question..\nGood Luck to you!!
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It depends on the direction you are sailing.  When travelling across the wind, on a reach, the sails generate lift and get pulled toward the lower pressure created by the faster moving air rushing over the up-wind side of the sail.   The higher the reach, sailing toward the wind, the more lift is generated. The deeper the reach, sailing away from the wind, the less lift is generated. When sailing straight down or with the wind, the sails catch the wind like a parachute and the boat is plain old pushed.  All of this only works, however, if the crew adjusts the sails properly relative to the wind direction and course changes. So, is it push or pull?  It is a combination that depends on your direction of travel relative to the wind direction. Sailing closer to the wind there is more pull, further from the wind more push...