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BKSA gain national governing body status

2010-04-29T20:49:00.004Z

Well done to all those who put in the hard work to get this status.

Lets hope this helps the sport grow from strength to strength.

BKSA kiteival success continues

2009-11-15T09:39:00.003Z

After the final rounds, consensus was that Kiteval 2009 had been a resounding success. The first ever landbased freestyle kitebuggy and kite landboard competitions had been run at the three kiteival events with entries from some of the world's top freestyle kiters. There were even enough entries from the girls to run a ladies comp. Hats off to Mikee Allwood and Andy Preston for doing the judging, promoting and organising of the land side of things allowing it to run smoothly alongside the established kitesurfing events. Here's hoping that the sponsors (Buff, King of Watersports, and DeadMan Kitesurf as well as the local authorities & all the other supporting companies) were happy with the publicity & will be back for more next year.

Vansurf 2008

2008-09-12T18:36:00.001Z

Vansurf
What could be better? VW vans and kites?

Not quite a kite festival at the legendary Black Rock Sands, but a VW meet with a bit of kiting thrown in. Limited landbased kiting, but definitely loads of water based fun. Let's just hope there's a bit of wind eh?

£2.5m wind sport plan for Fylde beach - Blackpool Today

2008-08-28T19:22:00.000Z

�2.5m wind sport plan for Fylde beach - Blackpool Today

Best bit of news for a while!

Flexifoil Sting stars on Granada Reports Power Kiting Feature about Fleetwood Beach

2008-08-25T09:06:00.001Z

Granada - Feature about powerkiting on Fleetwood Beach. Hangtime Kite Shop Owner Alex teaches reporter Caroline Hacking how to fly a Flexifoil Sting

Atmosphere kite festival a big success

2008-05-05T17:32:00.001Z

Thanks to Al (rayens) the festival was a great success.

Many pics posted up on the Flexifoil forum here Flexifoil photo thread and even featured on the BBC's Southwest News Vid clip

First legal buggyjumping session at Ainsdale Beach 20th January 2008

2008-01-22T18:34:00.000Z

After a four year ban on kite buggy jumping, hard work by the AOSPKC chairman and other members of the committee has resulted in Sefton Council relaxing the ban. Buggy jumpers still need to obtain a special permit by demonstrating they have the necessary skills and knowledge to progress onto learning aerial kite buggy freestyle.

For more info see The Flexifoil forum and the AOSPKC home page.

Thanks to Carl-the-bullet for the videography

A K Bearings

2008-01-12T22:29:00.000Z

A K Bearings

The guy who runs this site is also known as MadAndy on the Flexifoil Forums

Look no further for all your kite buggy bearings, landboard bearings, skateboard bearings and mountain bike bearings.

Recommended for low prices, friendly and reliable service.

Cool Kiting Vids from Youtube

2008-01-07T19:51:00.000Z

Peter Lynn Kites - Newsletter

2007-12-13T19:45:00.000Z

Peter Lynn Kites - Newsletter

These interesting 'blogs' have moved slightly - so time for a new link!

The Sausage Scale (A kiter's alternative to the Beaufort Scale))

2007-07-29T08:34:00.000Z

Flexifoil Forums - View Single Post - The Sausage Scale (stop sniggering at the back)

Starting with the oft quoted 'Not a sausage!' and ends with 'Even the seagulls go home.' This is an alternative wind speed classifiaction scale for Kiters.

Gulfnews: Police 'harassing' kite dealers in Lahore

2007-02-20T11:06:00.000Z

Gulfnews: Police 'harassing' kite dealers in Lahore

Hopefully this is not the future of kite flying in the UK?

Kite flyers raise over £750 for charity in kite auction

2007-01-11T09:21:00.000Z

Flexifoil Forums - View Single Post - A Kite For Charity

This will restore your faith in human nature...Kiters bidding on a kite in an auction organised to raise money for the Air Ambulance and Breast Cancer Awareness charities have raised a grand total of £778.17. Kiters who could not afford to bid for the kite chipped in with donations to achieve this fantastic total.

Well done guys!

UK Windsurfing, Surfing, Kite-Surfing, Body-Boarding and Coastal Sports - Forces-of-Nature.co.uk

2007-01-10T17:35:00.000Z

UK Windsurfing, Surfing, Kite-Surfing, Body-Boarding and Coastal Sports - Forces-of-Nature.co.uk

A newly noticed kite / surf website -- parked here 'til I can get time to look at it a bit more before I comment.

Top weekend at the world-famous Blackrock Sands

2006-11-19T20:48:00.000Z

www.flickr.com

Rainfall Radar :: Rain Radar

2006-08-13T08:04:00.000Z

Rain Radar from the met office. A quick link as its not so easy to find from their front page.

BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Kite flyers arrested in Pakistan

2006-03-12T22:59:00.000Z

BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Kite flyers arrested in Pakistan

Seems the UK is not the only place to experience bans on 'dangerous' kite flying!

Kiteworld Magazine

2006-03-12T08:23:00.000Z

Kiteworld MagazineCool kiting stuff on sale incl Trebor vids

Flexifoil forums are down - exceeded bandwidth?

Wind Things Team site

2006-01-28T09:35:00.000Z

Wind Things Team site

A cool, regularly updated Team blog from the Windthings team.
Nice...

Saturday 17th - Two wheels nailed - one way at least

2005-12-19T08:27:00.000Z

Good afternoon at the beach....thanks to Bobby for taking some ace pics after thawing out following his hour in the water...

Ainsdale October Kite Festival 2005

2005-11-24T22:32:00.000Z

A few pics of the festival...

Two Wheels

2005-11-24T22:13:00.000Z

Dog Walk
Originally uploaded by Kendoko.

Thanks to Ken for this pic of me doing two wheels, pity I'm not looking the other way, but you can't have every thing ;)

The Kitebeach Extreme Sports Festival

2005-10-13T14:52:00.000Z

Possibly the biggest kite festival to be organised in the North West of England.

A 10 mile buggy race course, Free ride Area, Freestyle area. Large static kites, plus loads of ohter attractions. Should be good.

Oh when is it? 29 - 30 th October 2005

Peter Lynn Kites - Newsletters 2005

2005-09-15T19:12:00.000Z

A bit like reading 'A letter from America' I imagine - except that its from NZ!. Notes from one of kiting's 'Greats' from which you can feel the enthusiasm and excitement for all things 'kite'. Now I wonder what the latest breakthrough is that he mentions in September's Newsletter???

Flexifoil - Restricted Sites Register - list of kiting sites with known bans or restrictions

2005-09-06T17:43:00.000Z

Bit of self promotion here, but could be useful to those (few) kiters who haven't visited the Flexifoil Forums yet.

Also contains links to other flying site lists.

Click to see the list

Steadywinds.com

2005-07-03T09:28:00.000Z

Steadywinds.com
Getting regular hits from this other Kite Blog so it definitely deserves a link...from a guy in Canada with some cool KAP photos...gets updated more often than this page too ;)

Skypilot Kiteboarding: Index Page

2005-04-12T21:12:00.000Z

Skypilot Kiteboarding: Index Page Canadian Kitesurfing website

Flying High - Index

2005-03-31T07:57:00.000Z

Flying High - IndexKite buggy wheels at reasonable (very good in fact) prices, Secta buggies, Viokites all for sale on this site.
Just a shame the formatting is a bit quirky!

Flying Circus Kite Plan Page

2005-03-22T16:16:00.000Z

Flying Circus Kite Plan Page

Useful list of kite plans should you wish to make your own kite. From your basic daimond through to Nasa ParaWings and multi-cell foils.

Kites - Kite

2005-03-14T21:37:00.000Z

Kites-kite

Norfolk based kite shop. Clean site design.

Sunshinebits.com - Kites

2005-03-08T16:34:00.000Z

Games - Sunshinebits.com - Kites

Sunshine bits???? ...one really naff website here. If you buy anything from here you've got to be desperate. Or you've spotted a true bargain...NOT!
Hammocks aren't too bad though ;)

Prokites

2005-03-06T17:51:00.000Z

Online Kite Shop and review site.

Kite Air

2005-03-06T17:38:00.000Z

A UK based online kiting community based around a central forum, with reviews & pic galleries too.

Ainsdale on Sea Beach Website

2005-03-06T17:31:00.000Z

A fairly basic website on Ainsdale Beach Kiting

Air 51

2005-03-06T16:59:00.000Z

Another novel combination. This website on the joint subjects of 'Kite Sports' and 'Technology' is different at least.

On entering the page today, you're hit with an almost full page 'City of Heroes' graphic...WTF...but there are some interesting links...in fact its probably more interesting than this...hey, come back!!!

Air Kites

2005-03-06T16:48:00.000Z

A somewhat confused and disorganised front page greets you on visiting this Kiting site. The usual forum, reviews etc. not much updated since June 04.

Powerkiters Gallery

2005-03-06T15:37:00.000Z

Online gallery for south of England based group.

NoseRiders

2005-03-06T15:33:00.000Z

Interestingly named gallery and clothing shop site.

Screaming Lines Distribution

2005-03-06T15:20:00.000Z

This website give the impression of a somewhat shady kiting equipment distributor, in that they do not give an obvious address or even location. Reading their newsletter, however reveals that they are based in Hertford. Some interesting product lines however, including:

Viokite
KiteTrack
Kans
Flex Boardz

Extreme Kites Australia

2005-03-06T15:17:00.000Z

Australian powerkiting website with forum, reviews links and so on.

Wind Dreams

2005-03-06T15:15:00.000Z

South Wales based kiting website. Covers all forms of kiting from stunt through to power.

Hengist Kites

2005-03-06T15:11:00.000Z

Bournemouth based kite shop.

New Forest Power Kiters

2005-03-06T15:10:00.000Z

Homepage for this New Forest based group of powerkiters. Sponsored by http://www.hengistkites.com/.

This is another group who have managed to obtain a flying site of their 'own'. Necessary because all kite flying of kites over 2m in size has been banned in the New Forest.

Magic Odyssey

2005-03-06T15:07:00.000Z

A Cleethorpes based shop featuring a novel combination of magic and kites.

Go Fly a Kite

2005-03-06T15:05:00.000Z

US based kite distributor and manufacturer. Concentrating on the single line, stunt and windsock market.

Brookite Kites

2005-03-06T15:00:00.000Z

Possibly one of the oldest commercial kite makers. Definitley the forst kite that I didn't make myself came from these guys. Seem to have been overtaken by the recent boom in powerkiting. They still have a few, somewhat dated looking, smaller foil designs.

Active Edge

2005-03-06T14:58:00.000Z

Kites (as part of a paragliding outfit) for sale from Harrogate in Yorkshire.

Boom Kites

2005-03-06T14:51:00.000Z

Webspace of the Austrian kite maker Boom. Boom produce the Skite, the first kite designed specifically for Snowkiting.

Foil Zone

2005-03-06T14:48:00.000Z

A website devoted to foil kites, particularly for kitesurfing.

Kite High

2005-03-06T14:42:00.000Z

Another cool NL Kitesurf site.

North Hants Buggy Club

2005-03-06T14:40:00.000Z

Homepage of a buggy club who've got their 'own' field. Well sorted guys ;)

Kites On Board

2005-03-06T14:36:00.000Z

Homepage of a East Sussex based kitesurf school and shop. Misleadingly has Camber Sands on its page title?

Kite Cinema

2005-03-06T14:34:00.000Z

List of Kitesurfing downloads from Dutch site Kite Cinema.

Kite Central

2005-03-06T12:59:00.003Z

Internet kite site. Kite website with forum, gallery, windmap. Fairly basic, but seems to work OK.

Imperium Aer

2005-03-06T12:59:00.002Z

A Basingstoke based kite buggying web site. Site name has a nice classical bent ;)

Forces of nature

2005-03-06T12:59:00.001Z

A wind powered sports and kiting website

F-one

2005-03-06T12:59:00.000Z

Site seems down so I can't tell you what its all about.

Hanglos

2005-03-06T12:31:00.000Z

Dudtch kiting site

Kiting UK

2005-03-06T12:23:00.000Z

Very basic kiting website. Despite its name seems only to concentrate on the South Coast of England.

UGGITT

2005-03-05T10:12:00.000Z

A personal Powerkiting and ATB website.

Kitez search engine

2005-03-05T10:06:00.000Z

Kitez brings a lazy way to search the web for your favourite kite sites, direct from your browser address bar. For example, to search for kite clubs, just enter http://clubs.kitez.com/ and you will get a listing of kite clubs.

DMOZ Kites

2005-03-05T09:58:00.000Z

DMOZ is an 'open' directory. Human edited so not too much SPAM. This link has various subcategories such as Traction, Shops, Kite Aerial Photography and so on.

Kite Ireland

2005-03-05T09:47:00.000Z

Kiting in Ireland. One of the best places in Europe for kiting by all accounts. And then you have 'the Craic'... what more can you ask?

Race Kites dot com

2005-03-05T09:44:00.000Z

One of the nicest kiting websites I've seen. Racekites.com has all you need really. Reviews, weather, a forum. Nice.

Wirral Sand Yacht Club

2005-03-05T09:43:00.000Z

WSYC seems to be one of the biggest and most active clubs in the UK.

Derby Course Kiters

2005-03-05T08:41:00.000Z

The home of Derby Course Kiters, the UK's largest traction kite group. based in Derby no? A pretty good web site, no news updates since this time last year though.

X-Zone Wind Powered Sports Extreme

2005-03-04T19:23:00.000Z

X-Zone are organisers of the National Powerkite Freestyle Series, the only board and buggy freestlye series in the World. They are not, obviously, web site designers and are probably too busy enjoying themselves to update things, but hey WTF....X-Zone is Coool.

Kite Zone

2005-03-04T19:15:00.000Z

Scotland based web site with the usual forums and chat room etc. Cool looking design, but seems not to have been updated for a while. Doesn't seem to have recognised that Poerkiting is banned at Lytham beach for example.

Kite Fantastic

2005-03-04T19:10:00.000Z

A cool kiting website (based in N Yorks) with active forums, reviews and a regular run of competitions where you can win free kiting stuff. Yes thats FREE stuff to win.

Cobra Kites

2005-03-04T19:02:00.000Z

Quite an extensive website from a US based kite shop. Interesting to note that they appear to still have Flexifoil SkyTigers and a Blade MkII for sale. Either they have a lot of very old stock, or powerkiting is a year or three behind the UK.

HOLT - chandlery, dinghy and yacht equipment.

2005-03-04T11:28:00.000Z

HOLT - chandlery, dinghy and yacht equipment.

A useful resource for pulleys, wichard QR shackles, ropes etc.

Kite Portal

2005-03-03T23:48:00.000Z

A Top 100 kiting site list.
Feel free to boost my ranking on same by clicking the link at the right hand side of the page.

Traction Kiting Scotland

2005-03-02T23:20:00.000Z

St Andrews based kiting group.

Wymondham PowerKite Club

2005-03-02T23:12:00.000Z

A club, for powerkiters, in Wymondham. Where's Wymondham? Well, my curiosity is up, because, though I've got some idea of all the places mentioned thus far, I've got no idea where Wymondham is. So, Multimap here we come...

CLICK FOR MULTIMAP

...oh and there are two! One near Leicester and one near Norwich. Which one are we talking here?...Norwich. Ok thanks, now I know where two more places are.

2xs Kite & Surf shop

2005-03-02T22:57:00.000Z

West Sussex based shop.

Avon Kite Fliers.

2005-03-02T22:54:00.000Z

Bristol based kite group. Organiseers of the Bristol Kite festival, one of the biggest in the country.

Scottish Power Kite Association

2005-03-02T22:52:00.000Z

Providing insurance and working to secure flying sites for Powerkiters in Scotland.

Devon Kite Club

2005-03-02T22:49:00.000Z

Contact Group for Devon kite fliers of all persuasions.

Portsmouth Kite Club

2005-03-02T22:47:00.000Z

Fractured Axel, or Portsmouth Kite club....mostly for those interested in dual line sports kites....according to its website.

Carmarthenshire Land Sailing Club

2005-03-02T21:37:00.000Z

The club formed to re-open access to Pembrey (Cefn Sidan) (and hopefully Pendine Sands too sometime)in Carmarthenshire Wales

The Kite Society of Great Britain

2005-03-02T21:32:00.000Z

The Kite Society of Great Britain seems to be the umbrella group under which all regional groups come. Don't know how formal this arrangement is, but they have a great list of kite groups and stockists which give members a discount.

Wirral Sand Yacht Club

2005-03-02T21:29:00.000Z

Based at Hoylake on (you guessed it) the Wirral. This may be one of the largest Sand Yacht clubs in the UK.

What's that got to do with kiting I hear you ask...? Well a kite buggy is classed as a form of Sand Yacht. A class 8, to be precise.

Kent Kite Surfing Club

2005-02-27T19:01:00.000Z

The web home of the Kent Kite Surfing Club. Nice site.

The Northumberland Power Kite Club

2005-02-27T18:46:00.000Z

Club based in Northumbria. Site currently being updated.

West Wittering Buggy Club

2005-02-27T18:27:00.000Z

Club formed by users to ensure the continued availability of the beach at West Wittering.

Poole Kites' Club list

2005-02-27T18:20:00.000Z

Pool Kiteflyers list of other clubs...

Troy's Kite World List

2005-02-27T18:18:00.000Z

A list of kite clubs around the world.

Royston power kiters

2005-02-27T18:17:00.000Z

From their website...

We are an informal group of Kite Flyers that meet on the Therfield Heath in Royston

(Weather and wind permitting).

Northern Kite Group

2005-02-27T18:15:00.000Z

From their website....

The Northern Kite Group is for anyone interested in building and flying kites.

The Group caters especially for those living in the Yorkshire / Lancashire corridor of towns stretching from York to Liverpool, although it is open to all and has members from all over the UK.

South East kiting Association

2005-02-27T18:12:00.000Z

From their site...

SEKA is an open group of kiting enthusiasts, formed to fulfill the following objectives within the South East UK:

* promote all forms of kite flying: traction, sport, display
* provide information about local kiting sites and activities
* organise kiting events: impromptu weekend fly-ins, social events, festivals
* co-ordinate negotiation with local authorities to secure access to flying sites
* enjoy kiting!

Ebay

2005-02-27T17:46:00.000Z

Ebay can be the source of some bargains, but do a bit of research first. Have seen kites go for more than their new price on here!

Halfords

2005-02-27T17:44:00.000Z

No they don't sell kites...yet...but you know where to go to get those bike racks or roof bars to strap your buggy to, don't you? ;)

ATB Shop

2005-02-27T17:42:00.000Z

As the name suggests, and ATB shop that has branched out into selling some powerkites. Based in Swindon.

Street Life Skates

2005-02-27T17:39:00.000Z

Cornwall based extreme sports shop. Busy website... all products from skateboards through to powerkites.

Storm Riders

2005-02-27T17:37:00.000Z

West Sussex based wind and water sports shop.

Celtic Kites

2005-02-27T17:36:00.000Z

Cardiff based kite shop. Cool Welsh Dragon on a board in the website logo.

Western Isles Kite Company

2005-02-27T17:31:00.000Z

Outer Hebrides based kite shop. From their website...

The Western Isles (Outer Hebrides) are a perfect place for kiting, that's why we moved here. We can offer you a place to stay, a cooked breakfast, packed lunch, evening meal and the most stunning kiting locations you may ever see.

Air Head

2005-02-27T17:30:00.000Z

West Sussex based kite shop. Nice up to date website.

Reactive Watersports

2005-02-27T17:29:00.000Z

Plymouth based watersports shop.

Extreme Kites

2005-02-27T17:27:00.000Z

Warrington based kite shop.

I have to say I know Andy and Phil who run this shop and they are OK guys. Just check they are in before you set off as they are most likely to be out testing some of the stock. ;)