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MONDAY FRIDAY • Kite Trains, Arches, Multi-Line Stacks 10 am • Fighter Kite Line Touch World Cup • Special Friends Day, 10-noon & 1-3 pm 9 am, Fields D & E • Fighter Kites 10 am Field E • Sport Kite Events 9 am, Field B • Mass Ascension–Delta Derivatives TUESDAY 10 am, Field A • Terrific Tuesday Top Teams • Junior Dual-line Control comp 10 am, Field B • Camera Workshop 9:30 am • Sport Kite Events 11:30 am, Field A • Fighter Kites 10 am Field E • Mass Ascension – Cellular 1 pm, Field A • Totally Tubular 10 am Field B • Sport Kite Events 1 pm Field B • Club Camps 11 am – Noon • Mystery Ballet, 3:30, Field A • Individual Rokkaku Battle 11 am, Field A • Indoor Kite Competition, 6:15-9 pm, LB gym • Kite Museum Workshop Fly 1pm, Field A • Lighted Night Fly, 8 pm, Field A • Team. Rokkaku Battle 3 pm • FIREWORKS!!! Approximately 9:45 pm WEDNESDAY SATURDAY • Paint Me Patriotic, All Day • Sport Kite Events beginning at 9:30 • Children’s Events, 10 am Field A • Fighter Kites 10 am, Field E • Senior Fighter Kites Skills 10 am, Field E • Mass Ascension-Flat & Bowed 10:30 am, Field A • Kids for Today Events 10 am all day • Teddy Bear Drop, 12:30 pm, Field A • Kite Museum Workshop Fly 1 pm, Field B • Parade of Colors 1 pm, Field A • Fighter Kites 1 pm Field E • Rokkaku Challenge 1:30 pm, Fields A & B • Senior Ballet 2:30 pm, Field A • Sport Kite Events 2:30 • Red White & Blue Individual Rokkaku Battle • Cody Fly 2:30 to 3:30 pm, Field B 4 pm, Field A • Awards and Auction at the Long Beach Elks • Indoor Kite Flying 2-9 pm, Long Beach Gym • FIREWORKS!!! Approximately 9:30 pm THURSDAY SUNDAY • Handcrafted Comprehensive Competition • Sport Kite Events beginning at 9:30 am 9 am, Fields A&B • Memorial Fly 10 am, Field A • Fighter Kites 10 am, Fields D & E • Mass Ascension-Sparless Soft Kites • Dragon Attack! 11am, Field B 10:30 am, Field A • John Freeman Tribute Fly, 12:30, Field A • Hot Tricks 1:30-3:30 pm, Field A • Indoor Kite Flying 2-9 pm, Long Beach Gym • Fighter Kites Everywhere FLYERS: Remember, you must be regis- If you are interested in VOLUNTEERING tered and have an wristband in order to fly at any of these events there is a signup in a designated field. This is an insurance sheet at the Information Booth, located near requirement. Please check in at the Beach the north end of the Boardwalk. Director’s Trailer. 2011 WASHINGTON STATE INTERNATIONAL KITE FESTIVAL • • • OFFICIAL PROGRAM • • • 3 Featured Flyer: BAS VREESWIJK The Netherlands About 25 years ago, he started build- ing and flying kites. Before that he flew kites a few times as a little boy. Bas was living in Amsterdam and had to fly his kites in the street or in a park with a lot of trees. He made just ordinary edy kites from wrapping paper and wood. Now his kites are made from ripstop nylon. The technique that is used to make the illustration is appliqué. He and his wife wife, Sara, live in Haaksbergen, a small town in the east- ern part of the The Netherlands. http://www.playingwiththewind.nl 4 • • • 2011 WASHINGTON STATE INTERNATIONAL KITE FESTIVAL • • • OFFICIAL PROGRAM Featured Flyer: KARL LONGBOTTOM The United Kingdom Karl Longbottom, and his wife Sara, work from home in the wilds of the English/Welsh border. He is an engineer by trade and has been designing and making kites for over twenty years; fulltime for the past eight years. His kites include a range of traditional kites along with all manner of bird and pterodactyl kites, fight- ing Pants, Delta Sleds for both altitude sprinting and kite aerial photography. He has been running kite workshops for over 15 years and is regularly asked by schools and kite groups to teach his skills to others. More of his kites and work can be seen at: http://www.longbottom.org.uk 2011 WASHINGTON STATE INTERNATIONAL KITE FESTIVAL • • • OFFICIAL PROGRAM • • • 5 Five years ago, a group all over Europe. After spending De Rooy simply wandered out of people grabbed a close to two weeks watching the onto the beach, having met none antics and play of FLIC, The Flying of the team members previous- chunk of beach at the Squad and the other groups, the ly, and never left, becoming the Washington State Inter- two of them came back to North sole member who has made ev- national Kite festival, America with a plan. The plan ery single event iQuad has flown being to form a quad kite team and accidentally started at, with the exception of 2, in 5 in North America (at this point, years. iQuad flew for 6 straight While quad line a Revolution. we must tip our hat to Team Too days, building their team vocabu- Much Fun, who in fact have had a flying was certainly not a “new” in- lary and skills, every day adding quad team in North America for vention, with the first commercially in more people and tutoring oth- a few years before this.) and that available quads being debuted by ers in what for many was some- team became known as iQuad. Revolution Kites in 1988, over the thing they had rarely seen before. years they had never really taken iQuad had begun a few months The last time a quad team had hold in the same fashion the dual before their debut at WSIKF, but, been at WSIKF was sometime in line sport kites had. Any given fes- they always felt that first WSIKF the mid 90s, when England’s The tival could have dozens of dual event that they attended 5 years Decorators (also the original quad line kites spread out all over the ago was one of the key defining team, starting in 1989) came over beach, followed by a small hand- moments as a team. With very for WSIKF. By the end of the week, ful of quads. When John Barresi little beyond a bunch of friends it had become common to see 8 and David Hathaway went over and a bunch of Revs, the week be- – 12 Revs circling the skies as a to Berck, France for their annual came one of team building, with group, any time during the day kite festival, they found a quite a very few of those involved having and in one memorable moment, different picture. There were nu- any real experience with this man- flying during the night fly and the merous teams of quad flyers, from ner of flying. Core member Steve fireworks in a first for the WSIKF PHOTOS: KEITH SCHWARTZ/BEACHDOG.COM 6 • • • 2011 WASHINGTON STATE INTERNATIONAL KITE FESTIVAL • • • OFFICIAL PROGRAM festival. And in what was easily gone through more than 50,000 due to an engagement in Eng- the biggest surprise, the team won feet of kite line, vast amounts of land for what ended up becoming both the People’s Choice awards, suntan lotion and a good hand- a world record for the amount ot for Kites and People. ful of kites. They have also given Rev kites flown at once, reaching 47 kites at the Portsmouth Inter- A few Youtube videos later, clinics around the world, teach- ing others how to not only fly their national Kite Festival. This pre- iQuad picked up it’s first “official” vious summer, iQuad returned own Rev kites better, but, how to invitation to a kite festival and off once again to the sands of Long fly as a team as well. Through they went. Over the years, iQuad Beach, with the intent to break has flown at nearly every single these clinics, we now find that that record. Starting early in the major (and a lot of smaller ones there are quad kite teams spread week, the group began working too!) kite festival in the United all over the United States and with new flyers and experienced States. They have traveled to Can- when you go to most kite festivals flyers, running through the grid ada (where an alarmingly large these days, you can nearly always type arrangement that had been amount of the members have fine a group of Rev flyers working developed by Felix Mottram of come from…), Colombia, Eng- through some team flying moves. The Decorators specifically for the purpose of having large amounts land and Japan, likely racking up Five years later, this group has of flyers participating at one time. a more than 1000 plane flights in been around the world and back, By the time Friday afternoon came the process. They have flown on notching up close to 100 kite festi- around, the group was ready for sandy beaches, lush grass fields, vals in the process.