Issue 39: Whidbey Island Kite Festival (results)
Open Individual Indoor Unlimited Jerry Cannon Ray Underwood Egan Davis Scott Davis Tristan Underwood Wayne Turner Novice Individual Precision Ronald Potts Rudy Yeung Jennifer Brown Tristan Underwood...
View ArticleIssue 39: Whidbey Island Kite Festival
Well, here we go again… Charly and I are off to another Kite Festival – to fly a bit, watch the comps, and mostly to just go hang out with kite-folks. Believe me – it doesn’t GET any better than this…...
View ArticleIssue 42: Cutting Edge Spring Fling (results)
EVENT RESULTS: NIP 1st Ron Potts 62.733 2nd Jim McPherson 60.800 3rd Scott Ralston 58.300 4th Rudy Yeung 58.267 5th Todd Rudolph 51.533 Tie Breaker 6th Jennifer Brown 51.533 Tie Breaker 7th Moon...
View ArticleIssue 42: Cutting Edge Spring Fling
One of three annual events put on by the folks at Cutting Edge Kites, the Spring Fling marked the first outdoor Northwest Sport Kite League event of 2005, drawing fliers from all over Oregon,...
View ArticleIssue 43: Westport Windriders Festival
After this weekend, there will only be one competition left in the competition year and everyone is vying for a spot at nationals and for the coveted blue jacket that every flyer goes after for each...
View ArticleIssue 44: Washington State Intl Kite Festival
Coming straight off the Summer Heat sport kite competition further north in Ocean Shores, I rode down to Long Beach with my good friend David Hathaway late on Sunday afternoon… Unlike last year when I...
View ArticleIssue 45: Pacific Beach Kite Festival
It all started off so well-organized, peaceful, and relaxing. Little did we know what we were in for. We got to Pacific Beach on Thursday evening, waited out the Friday morning fog by having breakfast...
View ArticleIssue 45: Whidbey Island Kite Festival
Fall had set in, marking it time for the Whidbey Island Kite Festival. This is truly a robust festival with single line displays, dual line displays, and hot tricks. It is a very well orchestrated...
View ArticleIssue 46: Windless Festival
For the third year in a row, the NWSKL and World Kite Museum in Long Beach, WA have brought this home-grown indoor festival and competition to another level… Thanks to Scott Davis and those who...
View ArticleIssue 48: Wind Dancer Sky Dazzle
As we made our way to Seaside for the the second outdoor NWSKL event of 2006, I thought back to last year when winds were in the upper teens and twenties for most of both days and pouring rain… Flying...
View ArticleIssue 48: WKM Sport Kite Workshop
All right, so we find ourselves loading the kite-van on Friday morning, May 11th – headed for John Barresi’s first “Instructing” engagement with the World Kite Museum. And, amazing as it sounds, we’re...
View ArticleIssue 49: Ocean Shores International Kite Challenge
Well… I’m off to a kite fest again. This Friday night, I’m headed for the “Ocean Shores International Kite Challenge” in Ocean Shores, Washington. To say that I’m familiar with the place is a bit of...
View Article2006 Washington State Intl Kite Festival (WSIKF): Daily Updates – Day 1
Welcome to WSIKF! We arrived around 10pm on Sunday night, after driving up directly from the Summer Heat sport kite competition held in Ocean Shores over this past weekend… Checking into the Super 8,...
View Article2006 Washington State Intl Kite Festival (WSIKF): Daily Updates – Day 2
Wednesday kicked off with a heavy bit of the classic northwest ocean mist we get here at times, and lasted until about 10 or 11am… From then on it was warm and mostly sunny, making for another amazing...
View Article2006 Washington State Intl Kite Festival (WSIKF): Daily Updates – Day 3
Thursday… “Handcrafted Comprehensive Competition,” the program says, and further mentions that the rules and guidelines for comprehensive kitemaking competition as published by the American Kitefliers...
View Article2006 Washington State Intl Kite Festival (WSIKF): Daily Updates – Day 4
WOW, what a day! It all started with a 6:45 alarm, followed by the extra nice Continental Breakfast here at the Super 8 in Long Beach, WA. They put on a fine morning spread, and we all had enough to...
View Article2006 Washington State Intl Kite Festival (WSIKF): Daily Updates – Day 5
Today was a most interesting day that started out with a 7:00 AM wake-up call. The first order of business was to reassemble a couple of Rev 1.5s so we could free up the shower curtain rod in order to...
View Article2006 Washington State Intl Kite Festival (WSIKF): Daily Updates – Day 6
Yep, this one’s late… Couldn’t be helped, however. After nine days on the road, the last two of ‘em getting only 4-5 hours of sleep per night, I was just plain wiped out. So there comes a time when all...
View ArticleIssue 50: Whidbey Island Kite Festival
Well, we’re off again – headed north this time, off to the annual Whidbey Island Kite Festival at the northern end of Puget Sound. And we’re late getting away as usual, so it’s the normal Friday...
View ArticleIssue 50: REVisions: WSIKF Recap
It started as a simple idea this spring. John and I, with the ever growing iQuad, would simply pitch up on the WSIKF beach, setup camp, and fly team revs all week long, with as many people as we could...
View ArticleIssue 51: Camas Indoor
Okay, where to start with this one? Gosh, I don’t know. This is the very first time for this event, and I’ve kind of been into it from the gestation-point. So let’s start there… I received a phone...
View ArticleIssue 52: Windless Kite Festival
The winter in the northwest can be an odd time. From about May to the beginning of October, there’s a kite event almost every two weeks but, once we’re into October, it quiets right down to nearly...
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