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Tim Allen

Hi

I caught the power-kiting bug way back in the mid-80's when I saw someone flying a big stacker at the Bristol Hot Air Balloon Festival. I’d never seen anything like it before; it was awesome the way he was swinging it around as if it were connected by solid rods rather than lines, and I just had to have one. Unfortunately reality took hold when I found out how much they cost - way beyond the means of a poor student, so I had to wait a couple of years before receiving a 4-foot stacker (remember them?) as a present. All this did was whet my appetite for more power, so after some frantic saving up I finally bought a Super 10 not long after. This kept me going for many years, and dragged me over many a field and beach both in the UK and abroad.

After a few years with only sporadic kiting, I got back into it in a big way early in 2004 after discovering the kindred spirits of the Royston Power Kiters. I'm now the proud owner of a 9.5m Sabre, 6m and 2m Samurais, a 3.5m Bullet, a Flexdeck and a Peter Lynn Comp XR buggy; so after all those years of desperately trying to hold on to the Super 10, I'm now enjoying the simple thrill of actually going with the wind. For me, traction is - literally - the way forward.