Tag Archives: wskc

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: World Sport Kite Championships

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

Issue 71: Kites… Life.

Quite often, it seems like we’ve got more pans in the fire than one could [...]

Issue 60: World Sport Kite Championships

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

2006 World Sport Kite Championships: Day 5

With a little wariness we woke up this morning, hoping to not here the howling [...]

2006 World Sport Kite Championships: Day 4

High winds and land sailers on the beach last night, gave some preview of what [...]

2006 World Sport Kite Championships: Day 3

Somewhere in this sleepy little town, in a small shop along Rue Carnot, there is [...]

2006 World Sport Kite Championships: Day 2

When it comes down to the World Championships, it’s not an easy thing to win [...]

2006 World Sport Kite Championships: Day 1

A bit under the weather this morning, perhaps something in the previous night’s dinner… We’ve [...]

Issue 47: From the Editor

The 2006 kiting season is off to a running start with summer fast approaching, and [...]

Issue 43: Letters to the Editor

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

Issue 43: World Sport Kite Championships

All right… We’ve just come through the first KITING World Championship event held in the [...]

Issue 43: World Sport Kite Championships (gallery)

Photos by John Barresi and Bud Hayes

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 39: AKA Corner

Most of you know by now that we’ll be hosting the World Sport Kite Championships [...]