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The Pledge 2 Aug 2013 | 12:05 am
ONE SKY, ONE WORLD, and at least ONE KITE How invited kite fliers can support kite event organisers better than we have been. But first, just so as we don’t start taking ourselves too seriously; singl...
Drachen: Quiet Sophistication of the Barriletes Gigantes 10 Jul 2013 | 07:59 am
To help celebrate the release of the Drachen Foundation’s Wings of Resistance, The Giant Kites of Guatemala, I’d like to write this month about some of the very sophisticated kitemaking techniques whi...
Revoclinic 2013 9 Jul 2013 | 11:20 pm
Since Bolau announced the event on the various forum about three months ago, we motivated people, especially the intermediate and advanced level, taking care looking around when they fly, teaching the...
Kites in the Caribbean 9 Jul 2013 | 09:07 pm
Curacao, Bonaire and Aruba We spent one month traveling through different islands of the Caribbean visiting the kite festivals and meeting with the kite flyers. In all these islands, the kite compet...
Worth a Million 9 Apr 2013 | 07:48 am
Roughly 20 competitors, a dozen or so recreational fliers and a few hundred spectators attended the 2013 Windless Kite Festival in Long Beach WA during January of this year… During the event, MTP Stud...
Indoor Kite Flying Adventure 9 Apr 2013 | 02:25 am
Indoor kite flying offers a big window for expansion in the science and art of kite flying. Its unique features such as close contact with the audience, theatrical dramatization, team work and being w...
Drachen: A Tale of Two Collectors 5 Apr 2013 | 06:02 am
For almost thirty years I have collected Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) that have images of kites somewhere in the print. At the time, I naively thought that there would be very few of these, th...
How does Competition Evolve? 17 Mar 2013 | 12:01 pm
This is a topic near to my heart, and one that I’ve had the opportunity to explore from many angles as I’ve found myself in various roles over the past several years… At times, some folks have express...
Video Cumulus (2/14/13) 14 Feb 2013 | 11:59 pm
Just a few of the kite flying videos we’ve enjoyed over the past couple of weeks… Some new, some older, but all great representations of kiting skill and spirit. Spencer Watson’s Open Indoor Competiti...
ProFile: Lee Sedgwick 23 Jan 2013 | 06:26 am
Let’s start with some biography. I was born in a small town about 10 minutes from Erie, Pennsylvania, called Waterford, in 1955. I went to school there and started working at General Electric right ou...
