Category Archives: 2005

Issue 44: Steveston SKC

It’s our one trip up and over the border to our Canadian friends for the [...]

Issue 44: Cleveland Kite Festival

No one is really sure exactly how many times the Cleveland kite festival has taken [...]

Issue 44: Collingwood Kite Festival

This was my 8th year to Edmonton and just like the Children of the Wind [...]

Issue 44: Golden Gate Challenge

On Saturday, September 3, 2005, the Bay Area Sport Kite League held their annual championship, [...]

Issue 44: Crescent City Labor Day Fly

Earlier this year I attended the Southern Oregon Kite Festival in Brookings Oregon, where a [...]

Issue 44: Lewis & Clark Exposition

It’s been three weeks since the first competition of the fiscal year. Including this event, [...]

Issue 44: Washington State Intl Kite Festival (gallery)

Photos by John Barresi

2005 AKA Convention and Grand Nationals – Day 6

Up and at ’em for the final day of this year’s nationals, I tumbled out [...]

2005 AKA Convention and Grand Nationals – Day 5

With my longest competition day ahead of me, we wandered down part way towards the [...]

2005 AKA Convention and Grand Nationals – Day 4

Waking up early yet again, I stolled down the boardwalk to see scores from Experienced [...]

2005 AKA Convention and Grand Nationals – Day 3

Having had a brief two hour doze after completing yesterday’s update, another amazing day of [...]

2005 AKA Convention and Grand Nationals – Day 2

Welcome back to another daily update folks, and in all directness, I’ll ask you to [...]

2005 AKA Convention and Grand Nationals – Day 1

And full circle it comes… The last time the AKA Convention (AKAGN) came to Ocean [...]

Issue 43: From the Editor

Wow, what a full season it’s been! Kitelife has been represented at nearly a dozen [...]

Issue 43: AKA Corner

Since the demise of the publication, Kite Lines, the kiting community has been without an [...]

Issue 43: Dave’s World

Three years ago, I took Susie on a quick holiday to Istanbul. It was a [...]

Issue 43: Letters to the Editor

We don’t hear from our visitors HARDLY enough, and are always thrilled to post comments [...]

Issue 43: ProFile with Cutting Edge

I’d never done a face to face interview before, and who better to start with [...]

Issue 43: Tangents w/out Trivia

I’m sure that you have all heard many people talk about the “Power of Positive [...]

Issue 43: Mega Flag Experience

Walking inside the Mega Flag is an absolutely remarkable feeling. The light filters down in [...]

Issue 43: ProFile with Brian Champie

I first met Brian Champie at Kite Party #1 in Huntington Beach.  This big Teddy-Bear [...]