Category Archives: Competition

Issue 60: World Sport Kite Championships

What can I say? World? Yes, 13 teams from 7 countries competed this year. Sport? [...]

Issue 60: Lincoln City Indoor Kite Festival

Yep – we’re headin’ off to the Lincoln City Indoor Kite Festival again. Sure, we’ll [...]

Issue 60: Weifang International Kite Festival

Between the 19th to the 24th of April 2008, the 25th Weifang International Kite Festival [...]

Issue 59: Windless Kite Festival

Yeah – Kite-fests come in all shapes, sizes, and flavors…  From the “biggies” like the [...]

Issue 59: Up The River Indoor

Yep, it’s another Indoor Festival.  Seems like that’s about all a kiteflier gets to do [...]

Issue 57: AKA Corner

People ask me all the time how I got in to kite flying. The answer [...]

Issue 57: AKA Grand Nationals

There are kite festivals, and then there are Kite Festivals!  But there is only one [...]

Issue 57: Tokyo Bay Flight Party (results)

Free Flight Precision Dual Line 1 Kazuaki Akimoto 65.60 2 Tadahiko Matsumoto 65.57 3 Masahiko [...]

Issue 57: Camas Indoor Festival

As the weather starts to turn chilly and the opportunities to fly outside begin to [...]

Issue 57: South Padre Island Competition

Windchasers Kite Shop, owned and operated by Guy Blatnik, held the 11th Annual SPI Kite [...]

2007 AKA Convention: Day 5

Well, unfortunately, it had to happen sooner or later this week, the day was for [...]

2007 AKA Convention: Day 4

Here, lets get this out of the way early this time. When I woke up [...]

2007 AKA Convention: Day 3

With daily updates that have been filled with dire weather predictions, I certainly expected today [...]

2007 AKA Convention: Day 2

So just how did the day turn out after such dire predictions of rain, lightning [...]

2007 AKA Convention: Day 1

And welcome to the 2007 edition of Daily Updates from the AKA Grand Nationals! This [...]

Issue 54: Lincoln City Indoor

It’s February already? WOW, where has time flown? Maybe time to think about our old [...]

Issue 54: Tricks Party South

New competitors and seasoned flyers alike traveled to Huntsville in March to compete in a [...]

Issue 53: Mid-Florida Regional SKC

If you judge the success of a comp only by the number of flyers entered, [...]

Issue 53: Zilker Park Kite Festival

Every now and then, something goes right for a change. Oh, it’s nothing we’ve done [...]

Issue 53: Up the River Indoor

This business about going to Arlington is getting to be decidedly “old hat.” I’d certainly [...]

Issue 52: Windless Kite Festival

The winter in the northwest can be an odd time. From about May to the [...]