Category Archives: KL Archive

Issue 43: World Sport Kite Championships (gallery)

Photos by John Barresi and Bud Hayes

Issue 43: !Traditions! Wind Festival (gallery)

Photos by Mike Coletta

2005 World Sport Kite Championships – Day 4

“Easing into the day” is always my favorite way to start one… but it was [...]

2005 World Sport Kite Championships – Day 3

Thursday broke bright and clear – and without a whisper of wind! We went showered, [...]

2005 World Sport Kite Championships – Day 2

Morning broke with light overcast, and we discovered Team Atemoc right outside our window. The [...]

2005 World Sport Kite Championships – Day 1

Today’s event kicked off with team warmups on the competition field from 9:00am to 12pm, [...]

2005 World Sport Kite Championships – Day 0

We’re underway here in beautiful Lincoln City, Oregon!  We actually arrived at about 11:30 on [...]

Issue 42: From the Editor

Howdy folks, welcome to what we hope is anotherhowlin’ issue of Kitelife Magazine… The kite season [...]

Issue 42: AKA Corner

Did you know that all AKA members are covered for $1 million at a sanctioned [...]

Issue 42: Dave’s World

I’m honestly not sure how many times I have been to Berck. I was first [...]

Issue 42: Letters to the Editor

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

Issue 42: ProFile with Ron & Sandy Gibian

If we’re very lucky, at least once in our lifetime we’ll meet someone we just [...]

Issue 42: Innovative vs. Freestyle

As the sport kite scene was coming into it’s own in the late 80’s, many [...]

Issue 42: ProFile with Steven Bixby

I first ran into Steve Bixby down at Dave Shenkman’s Kite Party II down in [...]

Issue 42: Team Tirades: Maneuvers 3

In my last two discussions about team maneuvers I talked about the possibilities of altering [...]

Issue 42: Good Stuff: A documentary!

For the first time ever, a kite-related documentary film has received major recognition at the [...]

Issue 42: Empty Spaces: Sue Sedgewick

Susan M. Morris Sedgwick, age 50, passed away at her Millcreek Twp. home on Thursday, [...]

Issue 42: Laminating a Bamboo Spine

There is one aspect of bamboo spines in fighter kites I have never liked. I [...]

Issue 42: Freestyle World Cup

This was my first experience going across the ocean, let alone to a country where [...]

Issue 42: Cutting Edge Spring Fling

One of three annual events put on by the folks at Cutting Edge Kites, the [...]

Issue 42: Cutting Edge Spring Fling (results)

EVENT RESULTS: NIP 1st Ron Potts 62.733 2nd Jim McPherson 60.800 3rd Scott Ralston 58.300 [...]