Author Archives: John Barresi

2004 Washington State International Kite Festival – Day 6

We’re headed into the weekend here at WSIKF, Friday morning greeted us with thick sea [...]

2004 Washington State International Kite Festival – Day 5

Here we are for yet another glorious day of kite flying! Comprehensive kite making competition [...]

2004 Washington State International Kite Festival – Day 4

And then the winds came… After a couple of the wonderful pastries and some coffee [...]

2004 Washington State International Kite Festival – Day 3

Wowee! Things are starting to build, showing even greater promise for the coming weekend. Early [...]

2004 Washington State International Kite Festival – Day 2

Events are underway!  We got up this foggy morning at 6am to make sure we [...]

2004 Washington State International Kite Festival – Day 1

“Well, as long as I’m here…” After a two hour drive from Portland with my [...]

Issue 37: From the Editor

Welcome to another issue of Kitelife, we’ve done our best to gather a wide variety [...]

Issue 37: Kites on the Internet

Since the internet has become more accessible to the global populace and web design software [...]

Issue 37: San Ramon Wind & Art Fest

Well, another great year at San Ramon goes down in the history books… Organized by [...]

Issue 36: From the Editor

Hello my friends, issue 36 is off and running! We’ve gone out of our way [...]

Issue 35: From the Editor

The picture at left shows yours truly (on right) sampling some single line in Malaysia, [...]

Issue 35: Letters to the Editor

When you browse the pages of Kitelife there is quite a bit that happens to [...]

Issue 35: Festival Layang-Layang

After a couple weeks of working with my good friend Troy Gunn I was ecstatic [...]

Issue 34: From the Editor

Here we are for another issue of KL… Even with a cold winter and minimal [...]

Issue 34: Letters to the Editor

When you browse the pages of Kitelife there is quite a bit that happens to [...]

Issue 34: Uttarayan Kite Festival in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Upon receiving an invitation to attend this event, we went back and forth on the [...]

Issue 33: From the Editor

Greetings and welcome to another issue of KL! Like studious squirrels, we’re feverishly working to [...]

Issue 33: Team Tirades: Consistency

This short edition is devoted to some of the ways a team can become more [...]

Issue 33: What’s it all about anyway?

For years I’ve watched kiting ebb and flow with the economy and those who come [...]

2003 AKA Convention and Grand Nationals (Day 6)

The final evening of our annual convention… I’m bringing a close to our daily updates [...]

2003 AKA Convention and Grand Nationals (Day 5)

Friday morning there were teams practicing all over the place… 9 masters teams came from [...]