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I can imagine that the Pro is even better! Kudos to Rev for being able to improve on an already great kite!
#GOMER PYLE GOLLY GIF SERIES#
The B Series feels much more precise than my Rev 1. My B Series is so much smoother than my Rev 1s. I know it's been a while since this thread was posted but my two cents: It also has helped me to justify the extra money I spent on a pro over getting a regular mid-vent "B". It tells me that even though I am not getting hundreds of hours of practice a year I am still making some progress and moving forwards. I'm happy that I've started to feel the differences and notice the differences. If there is any way to fly the pro even a bit out of it's recommended range, that is the kite I want to fly.
#GOMER PYLE GOLLY GIF FULL#
My spins are more stationary and centred, my inverted hovers more level, inverted slides cleaner, reversing has better controlled (and I'll take any control I can get in reverse as it is a struggle), in general far less wobble than I manage with the other two even using the full vent which has slipped to second choice. I can't make a perfect apples to apples comparison because my pro is a mid vent and the B-Series are a std sail and a full vent but, damn, everything works a lot better with the pro now that I have gained more skills. Now, almost a year later and and more hours of flying under my belt (the last six weeks of endless snow, rain and hurricane winds not withstanding) I find my kite of choice is the pro. In short, I wasn't expecting a pro kite to make me any better at flying. I was not afforded a sudden increase in skill by switching to a Pro and that was okay since it would be a kite to grow into for me and even the best tools in the world cannot make a bad carpenter good. Flying my pro last year did not feel any different to me than flying my regular "B" kites.
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Scrawny teenager Billy Batson would shout, "Shazam!" A bolt of lightning would then strike the boy, granting him the powers and abilities of these ancient heroes, transforming him into Captain Marvel.Ĭould the comic book truly be the origin of this word? Most likely! We searched "Shazam" in Google Books to see the usage of the word over history in print.I believed back when I ordered my pro series, and still believe now, that a beginner or flyer with just average skills would not see a lot of difference between the two.
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It is technically an acronym, for Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles and Mercury. Even the venerable Oxford English Dictionary defines it as an "invented word earliest recorded use in the date range 1930 - 1969." Both Merriam-Webster and the Online Etymology Dictionary trace the origin of "Shazam" to the Fawcett comic, circa 1940. So the big question is: Why did Gomer Pyle use the word "Shazam?" Was that some kind of colloquial interjection from rural North Carolina? Was it something that actor Jim Nabors heard folks say while growing up in Sylacauga, Alabama? Did a writer on The Andy Griffith Show make it up?Īctually, by all accounts, the Captain Marvel comic books came up with the word. Only, on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., when Gomer would declare, "Shazam," he would not transform into a superhero. Gomer's verbal arsenal contained several dumbfounded exclamations, including "Surprise, surprise, surprise," "Golly!" and "Shazam!" It was one of the catchphrases of Gomer Pyle, of course, the naive Mayberry mechanic who famously joined the Marines.
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Do you know these celebrity guest stars on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.?īut the young kids sitting on shag carpeting on Saturday mornings in the mid-'70s, they likely already knew the word "Shazam!" from a wholly different source.