Tag Archives: competition

Issue 73: Kites… Life.

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

Issue 73: World Sport Kite Championships

– Click here to read this report in Spanish – – Haga clic aquí para [...]

Issue 72: Lincoln City Indoor Kite Festival

Well, we’re back at it. Off to Lincoln City, OR again… Since it’s the end [...]

Issue 69: SPI Competition

November 7-8, 2010 It was great to have the South Padre Island Kite Competition/Festival back [...]

2009 AKA Convention: Day 6

Holy smokes was it cold this morning! While there were rumors of impending snow, the [...]

2009 AKA Convention: Day 5

We appeared to have a larger number of particiants in our morning workshops today, likey [...]

2009 AKA Convention: Day 4

The schedule was pretty relaxed today with comprehensive kitemaking competition continuing both indoors and out, [...]

2009 AKA Convention: Day 3

The first wave of todays morning workshops were “Recruiting for Fun” by Gayle Woodul, “Judging [...]

2009 AKA Convention: Day 2

Tuesday morning saw quite a deluge of rain, still cold, putting a slight damper on [...]

Issue 68: Fighter Kite World Cup

First of all, a big thank you to Chuck Lund for representing us to the [...]

Issue 67: AKA Corner

May this find you well and thinking about, or doing things with, kites. Here in [...]

Issue 67: Ocean Shores Intl Kite Challenge

Oddly for a person who was used to doing a festival every few months in [...]

Issue 66: Uchinada Kite Festival

– Click here to read this report in Japanese – 日本語はこちら Meeting up with George [...]

Issue 65: AKA Corner

I hope this finds you well and thinking about kites. Here is the latest from [...]

Issue 64: The Soul Fliers

Memorable ballet routines, like works of art, consist not of a planned series of strokes, [...]

Issue 64: Windless Kite Festival

This little indoor festival is in it’s EIGHTH year… …and getting better every year, too! [...]

Issue 64: Windless Kite Festival (photo gallery)

Issue 62: Choreographing Ballet Routines

Editor’s note : The pictures included in this article are from the 2008 AKA Grand [...]

Issue 60: World Sport Kite Championships

What can I say? World? Yes, 13 teams from 7 countries competed this year. Sport? [...]

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 [...]