{"id":39,"date":"2007-06-24T21:35:04","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T04:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiquewhite-badger-125150.hostingersite.com\/kites\/2007\/06\/24\/tai-chi-and-banners\/"},"modified":"2007-06-24T21:35:04","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T04:35:04","slug":"tai-chi-and-banners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/2007\/06\/24\/tai-chi-and-banners\/","title":{"rendered":"Tai Chi and Banners"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the horrible past few days, I had a great opportunity to try something new today \u2013 a Tai Chi class (really!). A few weeks ago (June 9th), as usual, I met an interesting person while sending my banners on their maiden voyage (my blue one wasn\u2019t quite finished as I still hadn\u2019t added the stars I had planned) \u2013 a Tai Chi instructor by the name of Ryan \u2013 at Doheny State Beach. Ryan and I chatted for a fair amount of time as I was flying and also let him fly my Rev 1.5 (it\u2019s almost as fun to watch others as it is to fly myself). As Ryan indicated he liked my banners (okay, I\u2019m proud of them), he asked me to come by one of his Tai Chi classes he was going to hold that was planned for today at the same place (Doheny State Beach). As I can ALWAYS use some more stress relief and certainly never tried before, I thought I\u2019d go. He also asked me to bring my banners.<\/p>\n

As usual, it was tough getting up this morning (between the stress and my sleep disorders, it was next to impossible) but I managed just the same. I got there just before ten and put up my banners. Not only was there a light but steady breeze but it was also a beautiful day. I\u2019ve also got to admit that Tai Chi was really great \u2013 very relaxing and I can\u2019t think of a more beautiful place (or day) to do it!<\/p>\n

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Following Tai Chi, most folks stuck around and socialized. I had brought my fighters with me again and spent quite a bit of time flying my Fandango, along with letting others give it a try. I think I might now have the hang of flying fighters (at least as a beginner). It was great fun watching others struggle and then learning how to fly the Fandango too. After that, I took the video attached to this entry to show them blowing in the wind. Stupid me, I forgot to bring my mallet and had to pound the stakes into the ground with a rock (which is the reason why they\u2019re leaning so much in the breeze \u2013 I couldn\u2019t get the stakes down as far as I wanted). I certainly hope I can do this again soon \u2013 it was a terrific way to spend the morning. Unfortunately, I came back and slept another seven hours. Oh well\u2026<\/p>\n

I think I might start finishing my arch kites. While the kites themselves are done, I haven\u2019t added the spar pockets, made the spars (each kite only has one \u2013 the vertical one), or sewn the kites together (they\u2019re sewn to the line that also serves as the horizontal spar).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the horrible past few days, I had a great opportunity to try something new today \u2013 a Tai Chi class (really!). A few weeks ago (June 9th), as usual, I met an interesting person while sending my banners on their maiden voyage (my blue one wasn\u2019t quite finished as I still hadn\u2019t added the … Continue reading Tai Chi and Banners<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17,33,38,52],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kites","tag-banner","tag-doheny-state-beach","tag-fandango","tag-kite-arch"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}