Category Archives: Dual Line

Radio Equipment for Team Flying

Recently I had the pleasure of attending the first annual Rev Team Boot Camp led [...]

World Sport Kite Championships (WSKC 2012)

I arrived a day behind everyone else in France. My flight out of Portland boarded [...]

WSKC 2012 is coming!

That’s right, the eighth World Sport Kite Championships is scheduled to take place during the [...]

Issue 73: Kites… Life.

One of my primary areas of focus and interest over the past 2-3 years is [...]

Issue 72: Bay Area Sundowners – 30 years and still flying!

With their signature stacks of thirteen Hyperkites pulling 40’ long tails, The Bay Area Sundowners [...]

Issue 66: Kites… Life.

It’s always interesting when it comes time for me to write one of these, with so [...]

Issue 55: Taming the Bull

In issue 53 of Kitelife, we brought you the Riding the Bull article, an inside [...]

Issue 53: Riding the Bull

I was sitting around the office this past January and got an email from Carl [...]

Issue 43: ProFile with Cutting Edge

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

Issue 42: Team Tirades: Maneuvers 3

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

Issue 41: Team Tirades (maneuvers 2)

In the last issue of Kitelife, I discussed modifying an existing maneuver from another team [...]

Issue 40: Team Tirades (manuevers)

One of the goals of any serious team is to create a maneuver that is [...]

Issue 39: ProFile with El Fabuloso Team

Reading up on the 2004 World Team Championships in Berck sur Mer and talking with [...]

Issue 38: ProFile with the Bay Area Sundowners

When I started flying in August of 1990, I stumbled into my first kite festival [...]

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 33: Team Tirades: Consistency

This short edition is devoted to some of the ways a team can become more [...]

Issue 32: Team Tirades – Team Spirit

This edition of Team Tirades inspired me to discuss the things that really make a [...]

Issue 31: Team Tirades – Be Wise, Organize!

This is the first of what will hopefully be a regular, ongoing column in future [...]

Issue 3: Ballad of Austin EOL

How to start a Kite Team…or maybe not? The history of the Austin End Of [...]

Issue 3: Team Basics

LET’S STAY TOGETHER INTRODUCTION For a comprehensive study of team flying (which this is not), [...]