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How to Make a Sode Kite
Step-by-Step—Page 3 of 3
The MBK 1-Skewer Sode
How to Make a Sode Kite
Flying!
Firstly, if it's very windy outside, stay home! This is a light-to-moderate-wind kite and won't like being launched in a gale.
Assuming there is some breeze outside, just dangle the kite at arm's length until the wind catches it. As long as you feel the kite pulling, let out line slowly by taking loop after loop off the winder.
Out in the Field
Sode-kite stories of my real-life flying experiences are worth checking out!
Illustrated with photos and videos, of course.
Another
approach is to get a helper to hold the kite up and let it go, on the
end of maybe 10 or 20 meters (about 50 feet) of line. This way, the
kite soon gets high enough to make it easy to let more line out.
If the kite persists in looping around and not going high, just keep adding tail until it settles down. The picture up there shows 5-year-old Aren flying this latest version of the 1-Skewer Sode in a gusty breeze. Some extra plastic was added to the tail loop to settle the kite down a bit.
Have fun flying, and I hope you've enjoyed learning how to make a sode kite!
As mentioned earlier, there's more kite making on this site than you can poke a stick at. :-)
Want to know the most convenient way of using it all?
The Big MBK E-book Bundle is a collection of downloads—printable PDF files which provide step-by-step instructions for many kites large and small.
That's every kite in every MBK series.
