REVflyer

it all depends on your location requirements, you need room to move (kite & yourself) and a safe place to land.  I have 60 feet, down to less than 10, depending on where I'm to be positioned.  I also prefer thicker lines like 90# (or 100#) because it tangles less and it's more responsive than the thinner stuff.  I'd rather change something else than the lines to save a quarter of a gram's flying weight.

To turn, use your thumbs only (unless your last name is "smith"), pulling the handles creates a slide!  Turns are rotational: not left or right, but clock-wise or counter-clockwise.  Imagine you stop at every corner or intersection, gradually stop more & more often until it's quarter turn rotations, then go to eighths.  Try to hold your position and rotate on the center of the kite's rotational point.  Okay, try to rotate it on the tips instead, forward first, but backing up eventually as well.

The first thing to practice is the cartwheel.  You should be able to roll the kite over (from leading edge on the ground) and NOT drag that leading edge, instead balancing it on the corner.  S-L-O-W, stop, hover.  This means you don't have to do the "walk of shame".  For newbies, it's the first serious skill to acquire, because you don't need anyone to help you anymore.

Eventually you must face the leading edge at the ground and be confident you got it hovering steadily.  This is the spot where adjustable leaders are going to come into play.  How much "down" is tuned into the handles determines how easy it is to hold the kite inverted.  In low wind you might be walking backwards to hold a stationary hover. (from the pilot's perspective)

The most important part is to enjoy yourself,... Rev kites are a lifetime of acquisition pleasure and changing skills.  Every time you think you've got it all mastered, somebody lays a new thingy on ya' that is unbelievable!  You look forward to attending kite events and seeing friends who share the same activities.

Quit now, while there's still hope you can be saved from the dark-side's evil influence over your wallet and family's calendar.

you know Rich,

when all the Riders have this technique down (with Weider's execution style & consistency) he'll actually work it into the routines to keep them challenging,...

Pez down from the right,

quarter turn pivot, (forward rollover) to inverted hover,

half axel to a fade, instantly flick-to a 2 point landing thereafter, 

in unison as the music ends,

work on the geometry,

both Paul's stop jackin' around,

Laura quiet on the line,

Rich stop poking me

Walk when I do!

I'm after that "fade to flick-flak landing".  Ever seen Scott Weider do that?  Man it's a killer two step, but it happens so fast.  You do an axel, at half way around though you snap it powerfully into the flick position and then stick the landing.  I'm severely left handed so I'm working on execution in both directions, my preference is doing it towards the right side.  It will be awhile before I can stick this unconsciously though!  It's all a timing thing, but done at warp speed.  I have to work myself up to that pace each time I practice.  

as the sun comes up, dead calm and in the morning dew