Tag Archives: festival

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: Montana Snow Rodeo

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

Issue 58: Dave’s World

I keep hearing that the good festivals are slipping away and that few gatherings seem [...]

Issue 58: IGA Coolum International Kite Festival

Last April 2007 while attending the Weifang Intl Kite Festival in China, I met and [...]

Issue 58: Dead Bird Buggy Bash

What does a clumsy land dwelling, single-line kite flying, Yankee- decide to do for Thanksgiving [...]

Issue 58: Wind Party 2007

I’ve been at this a few years now, and I’ve had a chance to learn [...]

Issue 58: Yokohama Kite Festival

25 November dawned on clear skies, oodles of sunshine – – but NO WIND!!!! Not [...]

Issue 58: Great Texas Kite Club Fun Fly

It all began in 2006 when a couple of Texas kitefliers suggested we do a [...]

Issue 58: Townsville Kite Fest

We just finished attending the Coolum Kite Festival in Coolum Beach, QLD Australia, Sep 22-23, [...]

Issue 58: Cape Fear Kite Festival (photo gallery)

Editor’s Note : I’d meant to run these pictures last month, but I was mistaken [...]

Issue 58: Wind Party 2007 (photo gallery)

Photos by Gabriel Palmioli

Issue 57: Tokyo Bay Flight Party

When I started flying in the early 90’s, many of the top sport kite pilots [...]

Issue 57: Dieppe Kite International

Perception is a funny thing. Growing up in Western New York State, on the US–Canada [...]

Issue 57: Niagara Falls International Kite Festival

Back in 1848, there was a dilemma. It was desired to have a bridge that [...]

Issue 57: Santa Cruz Kite Festival

The phone Rings… it’s Scott Weider,  and he says,  ”Hey Buddy. Wanna Go to Santa [...]

Issue 57: Callaway Kite Fly

My wife and I took our four month old daughter to Callaway, NE for the [...]

Issue 57: Carolina Kite Fest

The 20th annual Carolina Kite Fest was held on October 27th and 28th  at the [...]