Kite Bytes

Looks like John and I are going to Vail January 12-15 for business. Funny how that falls over a weekend. There is a company there that offers snowkiting lessons so I think we’re going to give it a try! The name of the company is the Colorado Kite Force.
Also, today was the day that [...]

The flight and hotel is booked! I’m going to Cabarete in the Dominican Republic from December 9th to January 4th. Yep, that’s 25 days and I’m staying at the Extreme Hotel.
Trip was CANCELLED due to complexities.

We had a great time at Windfest 2006 in Nitinat on Vancouver Island (Google Satellite Map). I didn’t get to see much of the windsurfing competition but the kiteboarding events were awesome.
The boarder cross or kitercross was the most exciting to watch and the freestyle events was filled with big air and technical handlespasses, board [...]

Ron and John and I are heading up to Nitinat for Windfest August 11,12,13. It is a combination Windurfing and Kiteboarding weekend with contest, prizes and parties!
More Details
There will be 4 kiteboarding events:

Longwinder/distance - open event with mass start.
Hangtime event - open event
Freestyle event - max 50 competitors organised into heats.
Boarder Cross [...]

Canadian Kitesurf Challenge 2006August 23rd to 25th 2006 Iles de la Madeleine
Open to men and women as well as amateurs and professionals. For the first time, the North-American kitesurfers will be able to compete for the national champion titles. Furthermore, the Canadian Kitesurf Challenge will be the occasion for the winners to access the professional [...]

Ron and myself just got back from a wild weekend in Nitinat. Check out the Nitinat kiteboarding pictures. Also joining us were my sister Karli, my brother-in-law Francis, and my neice Amalia. The weather was supposed to be bad but we went anyway because you can never accurately predict the weather at Nitinat. This weekend [...]

Our kiteboarding pictures are up from our trip to Tampa and South Padre. Check them out here.
Also, we shot a short video of John kiteboarding which is embedded below.

Actual video link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDPZzBtYkvI

Hello from South Padre Island, Texas. We had a great day of kiteboarding today in the most amazing kiteboarding spot that I have been to. Key West, Florida was good but everything is bigger in Texas including the sand flats. There are literally hundreds and hundreds of square miles of shallow water to kiteboard. Johnny [...]

I didn’t think I would get to do any kiteboarding in Tampa, but John and I went out today and had a blast at a place called Ft. Desoto. Tomorrow we are going to South Padre Island for the weekend and have a couple of lessons. I have to figure out how to straighten out [...]

It’s about 11:30pm and I’m just packing up my things for my business trip to Tampa followed by a weekend in South Padre Island Kiteboarding. I’m too tired to post details but I’ll have lots of pics when I’m back next week. South Padre is in Texas ya hear!http://www.southpadreislandkiteboarding.com/