Category Archives: Kiting Experience

Kite Flying with Intent

After six plus years of doing sport kite workshops and clinics (both dual and quad [...]

Kite Purity Test

This was first published in rec.kites back in Christmas 1996. It has been updated slightly. [...]

Pothecary’s Corner: How we started – Part three.

Before I get in to this I would genuinely like to thank all those people [...]

Issue 74: A Novice Position in the Mega Grid

100 Rev kites in a 10 x 10 stable grid formation…. That was the plan, [...]

Issue 74: The Story Behind the Photograph

This is a photograph of Jeff Howard at El Mirage in 1998, and I have [...]

Issue 73: Kite & Bike Dreamtour VI – Part 2

So here we go again. After 8 years, I am about to experience my favourite [...]

Issue 72: Kite and Bike Dreamtour VI

Well, as I am sitting, preparing this years tour, in my thoughts I am reminiscing [...]

Issue 71: Dave’s World – Full Circle

Thirty years ago, I stumbled across a small kite festival at the D River Wayside [...]

Issue 61: iQuad in Japan: Part 2

So, when I last left off, I was moaning about how ill I was becoming. [...]

Issue 60: KiteChi with The Coreylama

I had a nearly complete piece written all filled with more things we can do [...]

Issue 60: iQuad in Japan – Part 1

Last fall at the AKA Grand Nationals in Ocean Shores, John and I were sitting [...]

Issue 59: A Valentine’s Story

I remember the first time I found out my husband, Chris, liked to fly kites. [...]

Issue 59: Laughs ‘n’ Kites

“The wind died!!”  Familiar problem?  How often have we moaned over loss of winds at [...]

Issue 57: Toro, Toro, Toro…

Red Bull gives you wings, all kinds of wings, even those on kites… Sadly, the [...]

Issue 57: The Cygnet’s Centennial

The Cygnet’s Centennial I’ve been extremely fortunate, I’ve have had many very special moments during [...]

Issue 56: ProFile with Pam Kirk & Mike Dennis

One of the joys and delights of working on Kitelife is the opportunity to “interview” [...]

Issue 51: What are you flying? Oh, nothing.

Yup, as the title suggests I built a flying zero, nothing, nada, zip, zilch! Well [...]

Issue 51: A bench in Canada…

Thank you “Everyone” for the outstanding honor you have bestowed on me. What a total [...]

Issue 50: Workshops… Magic?

Where to start? Well, I guess my age is where I begin.  I’ve been a [...]

Issue 49: Kids Day at WSIKF

We all pay our “lip service.” Everybody says it: KITES are for KIDS of all [...]

Issue 49: Flying in Patagonia

Patagonia Argentina, magic land, nature in pure state where the great Dinosaurs inhabited million years [...]