Author Archives: Dave Shattuck

Issue 43: ProFile with John Chilese

I first ran across John Chilese’s name as a result of a Google-search… I’d been [...]

Issue 43: World Sport Kite Championships

All right… We’ve just come through the first KITING World Championship event held in the [...]

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 [...]

Issue 42: ProFile with Steven Bixby

I first ran into Steve Bixby down at Dave Shenkman’s Kite Party II down in [...]

Issue 42: NWSKL Annual Meeting

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

Issue 41: ProFile with Bob Childs

We got to talking around the Kitelife office, discussing those areas of kiting that we [...]

Issue 41: ProFile with Dan Whitney

Dan Whitney has likely befriended more kiters than any other retailer alive if you take [...]

Issue 41: ProFile with Shawn and Patty Tinkham

When we first approached Shawn and Patty Tinkham about the possibility of a Kitelife  interview [...]

Issue 41: Flying High Down Under

Kitelife last reported on Bob Moore’s World Record Altitude attempt in our November/December issue, and [...]

Issue 40: ProFile with Aerial Experience

In a time when the kite flying community is very much reaching out for greater [...]

Issue 40: ProFile with Robert Valkenburgh

On a trip to a kite festival in Taiwan last September, I was exposed to [...]

Issue 40: ProFile with Rob Vreeland

A couple of years ago Steve Hall of GWTW and I were yakking about kite [...]

Issue 40: Wind Party in Buenos Aires

Every now and then, some concept or idea comes along and just “smacks” you between [...]

Issue 39: World Kite Museum

What’s happening at The World Kite Museum (WKM)? Well… Actually, a fair amount! Way back [...]

Issue 39: Whidbey Island Kite Festival

Well, here we go again… Charly and I are off to another Kite Festival – [...]

Issue 39: Whidbey Island Kite Festival (gallery)

Photos by Dave “Geezer” Shattuck

Issue 37: We’re on a roll!

We’re ON A ROLL, pilots!!! Yep, BIG Kitelife Doin’s… Kitelife’s growing again… You may have [...]

Issue 37: Kite Classifieds

Enabling you, the flier, to buy and sell used kites and paraphernalia… That’s what Kite [...]

Issue 37: Going to Grayland

‘Lo again. Every year, traveling partner Charly and I go to several Kite Festivals. Each [...]