Christmas parade on Black Friday

Every year on Black Friday, my lion dance association would participate in the Liliha-Palama parade. Why a Christmas parade has two different lion dance groups performing isn't the problem. The problem this parade was the massive amounts of wind we had this weekend. The Force of the Wind (let's call FTW) was strong enough that it almost overcame the force I applied to my Lion (FML). AS the FTW increased I found it harder to keep my lion head up with sufficient FML. So in response to the FTW I applied a rotational force in order to maybe get some tangential acceleration in the desired direction. The tangential acceleration force plus the FML was enough to overcome the FTW and allow me to move my head sideways against the chilly winds.



Lesson learned: If you raise a kite-like object, whether or not it has mass, it will behave like a kite and catch the wind. And I really wanted to got to the Cicadian rhythm presentation.:(