Category Archives: Kite Columns

Issue 9: Tangents and Trivia

Chapter Nine – You Want To Do What? This chapter really starts way back in Detroit, [...]

Issue 9: Dave’s World

The Same, But Different, and More So Most American fliers are incredibly jealous of the [...]

Issue 9: Kites… Life.

Christmas In April Throughout my life, April has been a special month. As a child, [...]

Issue 8: UK View

Hi everyone, happy new year. Well this issue’s column isn’t so much a waffle about [...]

Issue 8: Novice Class

School’s Back In Session Welcome back to class. I hope everyone is practicing precision, having [...]

Issue 8: AKA Corner

National Kite Month! Greetings from the AKA! By now, you have probably already read about [...]

Issue 8: Visual Eyes

Going Beyond Dimension Last month I wrote about using the camera to convey space in [...]

Issue 8: Buggy Newz

I’ve been reading the various kite magazines and noticing the articles on power kiting and [...]

Issue 8: Cheating for Fun and Profit

Know No Boundaries This should be fairly simple, yes? You fly or step over the [...]

Issue 8: 4play

4 Lines — One Roof Flying quad indoors is quite different from anything else. Indoor [...]

Issue 8: Doin’ it Indoors

The 540 Flat Spin Of late, I realize that I’ve gotten away from the techniques [...]

Issue 8: Dave’s World

At Long Last… Momentum! Like a push-turn at the bottom of a power dive, kiting [...]

Issue 8: Tangents and Trivia

Chapter Eight – Hey Mister! Can I Make One Of Those? In the last chapter [...]

Issue 8: Kites… Life.

Give us Time to Say Goodbye When Leaving #Life It is a sad day. On [...]

Issue 7: Doin’ it Indoors

In the last issue I discussed some ways to begin finding a place to fly [...]

Issue 6: Death of a Hero

At the AKA Convention, we were saddened to learn of the death of Olan Turner, [...]

Issue 3: Kites… Life.

Well, here we are again! Thanks for joining us for the third issue of Kitelife. [...]

Issue 3: Tangents and Trivia

So, here we go again! Has a month passed already? I’m not sure about the [...]

Issue 3: AKA Corner

In our last column, we mentioned a lot of reasons for joining the AKA: the [...]

Issue 3: 4play

They say music soothes the savage beast.  Trust me, a kite zipping through the sky [...]

Issue 3: Visual Eyes

Films Filters and Miscellany Before I go into more specifics about setting up shots, I’d [...]