John Barresi

1990 World Cup (page 6) http://www.kitelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/v2-4.pdf There might be more in other issues too. Sent from my iPhone using KiteLife mobile app

I don't know, sorry. The records are likely contained within the pages of American Kite Magazine, which I've been unable to secure rights to republish like we did with Stunt Kite Quarterly and Kite Lines. https://kitelife.com/library/ Sent from my iPhone using KiteLife mobile app

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I believe there have been at least one Aussie team in the World Cup (1990-1998) but not in the World Sport Kite Championships (2002-2016).

Opening narration was done by @Backspin23 (JD Fabich) by the way - one of the early members of iQuad.

Was a different era... YouTube wasn't quite mainstream yet, all the downloadable video files were still pretty small and there weren't a lot of multi-angle "music videos" around for kites outside of Benson and Co... Heck, even the online kite community was more cohesive, I remember this video pulled something like 1300 hits overnight - really lit my fire to keep 'em coming. More than you know, I'm glad to have been a part of your budding excitement.

End of the day, it's time on the lines, but nobody taught me this style of flying... I wanted to do more, wanted to fly when nobody else was able to fly, do things that no one else has done. That fires me up still... And now, I'm in the even more stimulated by showing others how to replicate this, to shorten the learning curve. I'm here to tell you, once you've got the "Rev 101" knowledge that I've discovered and assembled for my clinics and lessons, being able to whip out a Rev on 30' in the street in front of your house is something almost anyone can do without necessarily having to run around or even break a serious sweat. Half the time folks are actually handicapped before they even start due to tuning, lack of understanding of frame / flex dynamic, uneven lines, etc, etc... In most cases when I encounter a new student (novice or experienced), we go through a "strip down" to reset or refine these details - almost without fail, their experience is changed completely even without having learned new skills yet. Thanks for the props, glad to be paying it forward.

Churn and burn brother, use 'em up! Seriously, thanks.

Trivia side note as an American, last team from the US to win was Cutting Edge... 2006 2005 Before that, I don't believe we had a US champion since 1996 (Team Tsunami) when it was actually a different championship organizer (World Cup)... That ought to light a fire under somebody's butt. Here's the line up this year: China: Dalian Storm Team Win Sky Shanghai Colombia: Equipo AndeSky Equipo Atemoc France: Cerf-Volants Folie Les Mademoiz’Ailes Panam’Air Start’Air Malaysia: Team Silat Russia: Red Alert United Kingdom: Flame United States: Air Zone FourCe

Hi all, Just doing a civic duty and letting folks know about the World Sport Kite Championships (WSKC) coming up next month. It occurs every even numbered year - here are the now retired 2014 champions, Scratch Bunnies (from UK): You can see videos of many past winners here - Champion Videos Also, they've just published a 2016 event preview - 10th Edition Preview You can also follow WSKC updates on Facebook - facebook.com/WorldKiteChampionship/ Should be one heck of a battle.

YES! Finally! We just did an upgrade to this forum yesterday and you may have noticed a few embedded Facebook posts... The system now allows you to paste a Facebook post, photo or video URL and then press Enter or Return - give it 5-30 seconds to process then BOOM, it will be embedded in your post for easy viewing (same applies to YouTube, Vimeo and many other socially driven websites). NOTE: Posts do have to be set to PUBLIC for this to work. A link also pops up at the bottom of the post entry area right after the content embeds, in case you'd like it to just be the plain text URL. Have fun, use it wisely - best for sharing photos or videos that are not available elsewhere.

Nothing to do with kites at all, but this was so cool I have to share.

And my favorite video so far by teammate @mystainedskin (Scott Benz)...

Another official team member video, this one by @Flight Risk (Brett Marchel)...

One of our official team members @windpoacher (Eli Russell) getting it on... Funky!

Me too, lots of flavor - keep 'em coming Frankie.

Okay, last blog post for the day... One of my favorite photos ever. Yeah, kites are uplifting!

Another video that YouTube removed the audio from, here is the original...

Another fun video that is only up on Facebook...

One of the most popular videos I've ever made, now available for viewing only on Facebook, the media page on my personal website or right here...

Yeah, that's what I said...

Yeah, I like to move around a little... lol Video from 2005 or 2006.

Some videos I took just recently...

I clipped these out a while back... Too fun.

This is a video I posted only on Facebook in 2010, it didn't make the usual rounds.