Category Archives: Competition

Issue 39: Judging the Judges

Why should we judge the Judges? Competition is done, scores are posted, who cares? The [...]

Issue 39: AKA Grand Nationals

If there is one event that I try and make a point of always attending, [...]

Issue 39: Whidbey Island Kite Festival (results)

Open Individual Indoor Unlimited Jerry Cannon Ray Underwood Egan Davis Scott Davis Tristan Underwood Wayne [...]

Issue 39: AKA Grand Nationals (gallery)

Photos by John Barresi

2004 AKA Convention – Day 6

Welcome to the last day of our 27th annual convention… The morning brought more seminars [...]

2004 AKA Convention – Day 5

After finding some much needed coffee, I wandered over to the convention center yet again [...]

2004 AKA Convention – Day 4

Finally, a day off… After being tied to the sport kite competition fields for my [...]

2004 AKA Convention – Day 3

Good day, good flight… Workshops continued this morning, while many of yesterday’s competitors were scanning [...]

2004 AKA Convention – Day 2

Hello and welcome to another day of the AKA Convention!  Today we had the first [...]

2004 AKA Convention – Day 1

Drum roll please… Oh yes ladies and gentlemen, the American Kitefliers Association annual Convention is [...]

Issue 38: Washington State International Kite Festival (results)

People’s Choice Flier Neil Dawson Dick Curran Ronda Brewer People’s Choice Kite Eric Wilson Pink [...]

Issue 38: Fighter Kite World Cup

The Call went out to all fighter kite fliers to meet at the 2004 Washington [...]

Issue 38: Steveston Sport Kite Competitions

Whew, what a weekend we had July 24th and 25th… After a few late glitches [...]

Issue 37: Crazy Eddy 2

Hi! Welcome to part two of my Crazy Eddy kite arch project. If your just [...]

Issue 37: Northwest SKC 2004

Registration Friday night starter the 18th Northwest Stunt Kite Championships with a friendly get-together at [...]

Issue 36: World Team Sport Kite Championships 2004

Let’s start out with some background on how I came to attend the World Sport [...]

Issue 36: World Team Championships (gallery)

  Photography by Azemi Ariffin (Malaysia), Georges (France), Kamarul (Malaysia), Noralia Azemi (Malaysia), Watnu (Germany) [...]

Issue 34: 2nd Annual Windless Kite Festival

Your family is taking a weekend trip to Long Beach Washington for the three day [...]

Issue 33: Extremes

I’m a creature of extremes. Most of my kite flying happens either indoors or while [...]

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 [...]