Following the success of the 2005 Winterlude Kite Demonstration event, the school Kitesurfingschool.org Ottawa (VL Kites) and the NCC again teamed up to organize a kite demonstration event for Winterlude 2006 on Feb 11 and 12. Again, this is the world first large scale winter kite demonstration even...

After the successful first large scale kite demonstration event last year, Kitesurfingschool.org (VL Kites) is again invited by the National Capital Commision to provide another kiteskiing/kitesnowboarding demonstration event for 2006 Winterlude (Feb 11 and 12, 2006) at Dow's lake, the heart of the ...

I will deliver a kiting presentation on the Main Stage at the Ottawa Trail-Head show this Saturday at 4:00 PM. When kiting presentation shares the same stage as bicycling, hiking and canoeing presentations, you know that it is getting main-stream. I will be showing kiting equipment on stages and pre...

Sunday was a beautiful sunny day but again, the wind was offshore, light and variable. The demonstration area was, however, very good due to some snow fall the night before. The wind was very light and team could only kiteski with the largest kites available for the event. The riders have done an ex...

Every February, Canada's Capital Region is host to Winterlude, North America's greatest winter festival. Three fun-filled weekends of excitement and activity await the whole family! From spectacular ice carvings to an amazing playground made of snow, Winterlude is a great way to take in the best of ...

Kitesurfingschool.org Ottawa has been invited by the National Capital Comission of Ottawa to provide a kitesnowboarding/kiteskiing demonstration event at the heart of Down's Lake at the center of Ottawa Winterlude (the world's longest skating ring). Ottawa Winterlude is the world's famous event and ...

I have seen videos of some professional kiters kiting on snowboards and IT'S A JOKE! Quite a few of them simply don't know how to handle the stuff without fins (of course they also afraid of the bad landing also) Ride finless allow one to ride on snow the same capacity as one can ride on water (exce...

is there any other kitesurf groups that you know ??

Check http://www.kitesurfingschool.org/mlist.htm

It has the most completed list of kitefora, mailing lists in the world!

P.S., The list does not include the Arcuser group, kite-surf.com forum yet but will be so in the next update

Hung.

... and Best should still give you a kite or two! This is not the objective of creating kitesurfingschool.org The objective is to hep new kiters and to promote the sport (receiving compliments from all kitesurfers like you is a bonus ;-) Now the site is officially "open source" so let's hope that t...

Hi Hung Used the 14 in similar conditions a few weeks ago, 10-20+ knots with 2m waves, had a great time, no problem staying out and having fun while everyone else was changing kites, loosing ground, getting blown around. The 14 is a great compriomise between a big and small kite, still big enough t...