Category Archives: Competition

How does Kite Competition Evolve?

This is a topic near to my heart, as I’ve had the opportunity to explore kite [...]

Virtual Freestyle 23 is underway!

Geographically difficult to attend competitions? Want to test your mettle and show off your freestyle [...]

History of Sport Kite Competition – Pt 2

How do you compare Apples to Oranges After the 1987 SKC season ended our imaginative [...]

History of Sport Kite Competition – Pt 1

The Wanderings of a “Kite Addict” [box type=”note” style=”rounded” border=”full”]Editor’s note: This is the first [...]

World Sport Kite Championships (WSKC 2012)

I arrived a day behind everyone else in France. My flight out of Portland boarded [...]

WSKC 2012 is coming!

That’s right, the eighth World Sport Kite Championships is scheduled to take place during the [...]

Kite Flying with Intent

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

Issue 78: What is Virtual Freestyle?

Video kite competition, online! We’ve been watching Virtual Freestyle (VF) with great interest since the [...]

2010 AKA Convention: Day 6

Last day of AKAGN, I started off my morning with a visit to Ben Dantonio’s [...]

2010 AKA Convention: Day 5

Our morning workshops consisted of “Traveling to Kite Festivals Outside the USA” by Cliff Quinn [...]

2010 AKA Convention: Day 4

Thursday morning started off with pretty good weather and early winds off the land, so [...]

2010 AKA Convention: Day 3

Another absolutely amazing day in Seaside with sun and warm weather all day, and while [...]

2010 AKA Convention: Day 2

My morning started off with a quick jaunt over to the Convention Center for a [...]

2010 AKA Convention: Day 1

First day of AKAGN in Seaside, OR… Brings back nostalgic feelings, as this was where [...]

Issue 74: Kites… Life.

Competition, is it time to MIX it up? To provide a small disclaimer, this article [...]

Issue 73: Kites… Life.

One of my primary areas of focus and interest over the past 2-3 years is [...]

Issue 73: World Sport Kite Championships

– Click here to read this report in Spanish – – Haga clic aquí para [...]

Issue 73: World Sport Kite Championships (Spanish)

-Haga clic aquí para leer el informe en Inglés- – Click here to read this [...]

Issue 73: Westport Windriders Kite Festival

Welcome to our “Mid-Summer!” Yep – we’re on our way to another one again, about [...]

Issue 72: Lincoln City Indoor Kite Festival

Well, we’re back at it. Off to Lincoln City, OR again… Since it’s the end [...]

Issue 69: SPI Competition

November 7-8, 2010 It was great to have the South Padre Island Kite Competition/Festival back [...]