Kris's Powerkite Blog

well after a few days of waiting, the postman knocked the door and i took delivery of my latest Kite related toy.  from the outsite it looked nothing more than a plain white box with some postal stickers on it, but i knew exactly what was hiding inside this little box. hidden inside all the [...]

This was the question on my mind and the minds of others when i returned from a run along the beach with my new Speedo equiped buggy. if i had known how much of a can of worms i was about to open i would have saved up and bought the GPS unit to begin [...]

Well that is what i was hoping things would look like from my Buggy the following weekend when i arrived at the beach with a brand new 5m kite and a pile of scaffolding tube with wheels attached. after the usual head scrating i had managed to turn my pile of metal tubing into the [...]

Ok after a little bit of field testing i have come to the conclusion that a 3m kite is not really upto the job of getting me from one end of the beach to the other as nothing more than a blur, so i decided it was time to go bigger. my thought process was [...]

Well i decided that i wanted more from my new hobby. as Luck would have it my brother in law had recently bought a mountain board (read giant skateboard) to go with his kite. so we did what we have been doing for the last couple weeks packed up and headed for the beach, it [...]

I returned home and decided i wanted to get into Power Kites, so i started reading up on them and having a look around.I made the decision that i should go get somthing cheap to begin with so that if it turned out it wasnt for me i hadnt made too much of a dent [...]

It was a short while after my friend had launched his Kite i realized how much respect they demand. Whilst talking to him and running through the usual list of questions someone new would be expected to ask. my friend was halfway though an answer to a question, when without warning he disappeared off down [...]

I found myself standing in the middle of a field with the wind blowing a gale surrounded by three friends all of whom were all helping out trying to untangle a bunch of twists and tangles in a bunch of string. This was my introduction to power kiting. It all started one saturday afternoon when [...]