Category Archives: Reports

Issue 43: Northwest Stunt Kite Championships

What better way is there to finish off a week of team competition down in [...]

Issue 43: Southern Oregon Kite Festival

Despite a few organizational changes within the Port of Brookings, and false rumors that the [...]

Issue 43: Westport Windriders Festival

After this weekend, there will only be one competition left in the competition year and [...]

Issue 43: North Coast Stunt Kite Games

On the third weekend in July for the past twenty years kite fliers have been [...]

2005 World Sport Kite Championships – Day 4

“Easing into the day” is always my favorite way to start one… but it was [...]

2005 World Sport Kite Championships – Day 3

Thursday broke bright and clear – and without a whisper of wind! We went showered, [...]

2005 World Sport Kite Championships – Day 2

Morning broke with light overcast, and we discovered Team Atemoc right outside our window. The [...]

2005 World Sport Kite Championships – Day 1

Today’s event kicked off with team warmups on the competition field from 9:00am to 12pm, [...]

2005 World Sport Kite Championships – Day 0

We’re underway here in beautiful Lincoln City, Oregon!  We actually arrived at about 11:30 on [...]

Issue 42: Freestyle World Cup

This was my first experience going across the ocean, let alone to a country where [...]

Issue 42: Cutting Edge Spring Fling (results)

EVENT RESULTS: NIP 1st Ron Potts 62.733 2nd Jim McPherson 60.800 3rd Scott Ralston 58.300 [...]

Issue 42: Kites For Wishes Festival

This was Guam’s very first Kite Festival. David Gomberg and I were very lucky to [...]

Issue 42: North American Buggy Expo

Our friend Steve Irby is in the ‘A’ line with us as we board our [...]

Issue 42: Lincoln City Indoor Festival

As one of three annual kite events put on by Sandy Pfaff and Ron Sears [...]

Issue 42: Kite Buggy in Buenos Aires

During the last weekend in April, April 30th through May 1st, the Alto Vuelo Kite [...]

Issue 42: NWSKL Annual Meeting

John Barresi and I had high expectation as we headed out to attend the Northwest [...]

Issue 42: Condon Kite Festival

Located in Eastern Oregon, the Condon Chamber of Commerce wanted to organize their very first [...]

2005 East Coast Stunt Kite Championships – Results

NIP – Novice Individual Dual-line Precision Score 1 Chris Mitchell 70.90 2 Andy Burtchfield 41.20 [...]

2005 East Coast Stunt Kite Championships – Day 5

What a great week it’s been here in Wildwood, getting to see all my old [...]

2005 East Coast Stunt Kite Championships – Day 4

Sunday was the final day of outdoor sport kite competition, and we’re headed into our [...]

2005 East Coast Stunt Kite Championships – Day 3

On the first day of sport kite competition at this year’s ECSKC, and with Rick [...]