Category Archives: Kiting Experience

Issue 49: A Day at Vanier

Well, normally I’m excited, even energized, by a road-trip to a kite festival… Maybe it [...]

Issue 46: Betty’s Last Convention

This was Betty’s 14th convention; Her first was an impromptu, impulsive thing to attend the [...]

Issue 46: Kites vs. Kite Birds

AHMEDABAD — As many as a million kites soared aloft over Indian cities on January [...]

Issue 45: Kite Bugs

Someone came up to Ronda at Fort Worden 2001 and said “I found these at [...]

Issue 44: Tangents w/out Trivia

Quite a few people have talked about the decline of participants in our hobby and [...]

Issue 43: Mega Flag Experience

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

Issue 43: A Day in the Power Zone

As a long time sport kite participant, I’ve been around all kinds of kiting activities [...]

Issue 41: The Cuban Experience

Kiting is truly a passion! You know, every now and then Kitelife runs across a [...]

Issue 41: The Cuban Experience (Espanol – Vivencia Cubana)

Las cometas son verdaderamente una pasión! Ustedes saben, de vez en cuando Kitelife va detrás [...]

Issue 41: Flying High Down Under

Kitelife last reported on Bob Moore’s World Record Altitude attempt in our November/December issue, and [...]

Issue 40: Full Circle… Got Kites?

In the late 80s kiting saw the spread of home grown kite events around the [...]

Issue 39: Flying High, Down Under!

November 10, 2004 My name is Bob Moore, I live in Sydney, Australia and have [...]

Issue 37: A Newbie’s Adventures in Sport Kiting

Part 1: Spongebob made me do it. It was with the sense of dread common to [...]

Issue 36: Magic at Ocean Beach

What it is about certain people who magically promote happiness into your soul and even [...]

Issue 36: Re-discovering Kite Flying by Jorge Arellano

It was just the end of holidays, June 2004 to be exact. It seemed that [...]

Issue 33: Blowin’ in the Wind

Well, here we are back again – talkin’ about kites and other stuff that puts [...]

Issue 33: Extremes

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

Issue 32: A Fine Gathering on Kite Hill

Shucks, just another normal summer day in the upper left-hand corner of the map – [...]

Issue 32: Flying on Mt Hood

“Hey Wonder Boy, let’s go to Mount Hood and fly our kites” “Go where?” “Mount [...]

Issue 31: Rum N’ Max

A friend who lives about forty miles north of San Antonio, Texas sent me a [...]

Issue 31: Indoor Inspirations

Have you seen Indoor No-wind kite flying yet? Have you tried it? No? Well, hopefully [...]