Category Archives: Issues (1998-2011)

Issue 59: AKA Corner

The American Kitefliers Association was founded in 1964 by the late Robert M. Ingraham of [...]

Issue 59: Dave’s World: Hat Trick in Kuwait

Ever since the Mega Kite Series was first started, we’ve been dreaming of the chance [...]

Issue 59: Drachen Archives: Kites in Mexico

Being A Part of Kiting History with the Drachen Foundation Drachen seems to always be [...]

Issue 59: KiteChi with The Coreylama

I want to change the world. Well, at least the AKA kite world. I want [...]

Issue 59: REVisions – Clinics and more!

As I am writing this (a little late as usual but, as I’m now the [...]

Issue 59: A Valentine’s Story

I remember the first time I found out my husband, Chris, liked to fly kites. [...]

Issue 59: Revolution Indoor Trains

I would like to share with you some experiences flying Revolution Indoor stacking. This article [...]

Issue 59: Laughs ‘n’ Kites

“The wind died!!”  Familiar problem?  How often have we moaned over loss of winds at [...]

Issue 59: Empty Spaces: Ralph “The Hawq” Offredo

I don’t remember the first time I met Ralph Offredo, but most likely it was [...]

Issue 59: Featured Store: High Mountain Kites

Each month we’ll be featuring one of the fine retailers who have been so supportive [...]

Issue 59: Festival Layang-Layang

Once upon a time there was a fast growing industrial town in Malaysia called Pasir [...]

Issue 59: SPI Kite Festival

Last year, when John Barresi and I came back from South Padre Island, we vowed [...]

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 59: Kite Party 6

6 years ago, a few members from Gone With the Wind’s  forum decided to get [...]

Issue 59: Uttarayan Festival

PREFACE: even this chronicle is trying to be a specific one focused on a kite [...]

Issue 59: West Coast Rev Clinic

(Editors Note : We took a different approach with this article. As both John and [...]

Issue 59: Fort Worden Kitemakers Conference

When I heard my name announced at the banquet at the Washington International Kite Festival, [...]

Issue 59: Owls and Dragons

On Tuesday 25th March 2008, eighty freshman students at Temple University’s Engineering College took over [...]

Issue 59: Montana Snow Rodeo

Did you know that there is a small group of kiteboarders who live in Bend [...]

Issue 58: From the Editor

Many years ago, when I was hanging out in kite focused IRC groups and participating [...]