Every May a group of kite flyers gather together for a week of snow-kiting on the slopes of Langjokull Glacier in the west of Iceland.
Snow-kiting is dangerously addictive; even if you're just playing in the snow fall at your local park. Come to Iceland with us though, and you will be hooked for life. This is unquestionably one of the best snow-kiting locations on the planet.
My friends Rob and Einar at http://www.snowkiter.co.uk have been organising…
Every May a group of kite flyers gather together for a week of snow-kiting on the slopes of Langjokull Glacier in the west of Iceland.
Snow-kiting is dangerously addictive; even if you're just playing in the snow fall at your local park. Come to Iceland with us though, and you will be hooked for life. This is unquestionably one of the best snow-kiting locations on the planet.
My friends Rob and Einar at http://www.snowkiter.co.uk have been organising…
It’s common knowledge that over the last few years I have been suffering chronic, and often acute, depression. It’s a difficult thing to bear; sometimes near impossible. Yet, perversely, there are compensations (for me at least), which have managed to keep me sane during the hardest times.
Part of my pathology is that I’m relentlessly driven to find things to occupy my time and mind; leaving little or no space left for brooding.
This film, in…
So, here, after many months of delays (I know, I know, I promised this film would be ready for the end of March), is Kite Making Three.
In a way the delays have proved a Godsend. You'll probably notice that there're a distinct improvement in the time-lapse shots as the film progresses. Those in the first third of the film were all shot using my home-made dolly, with which I had been more than satisfied. But during an (all-too-brief) improvement…
The Flexifoil crew joined a horde of students on a beach in Wales this summer for the Beach Break Live music festival.
The event is one of the UK's premier student music festivals and was attended by over 20,000 students. Five days of sun, beach sports and music made for a fantastic time.
Flexifoil team riders, Craig Sparkes, Dave Roberts and Will Mckean, were on the beach the whole time; there to teach anyone who asked how to power-kite -…
This is a short, and very rushed, edit, of some of the footage taken during our testing day at SNOzone in Milton Keynes.
We really seem to be getting somewhere with this rig now: downhill it behaves very much like a sit-ski, although is more stable, and is able to carve turns just like a skier would: it's fast too - the first couple of runs the guys surprised me - I had to straighten out my run to keep up with them!
So it seems that we only…
2012 is shaping up to be a spectacular year at Ivanpah Dry Lake.
NABX (North American Buggy eXpo) will be celebrating its 10th Anniversary - and the guys are pulling out all the stops to make it the best yet.
That, and the fact the Flexifoil will be celebrating their 40th anniversary at the event mean that if you've ever promised yourself you'd go, 2012 is the year to keep that promise.
Expect a challenging Out & Back trial, buggy racing…
In March this year I spent a week in Kite Buggying Nirvana at the NABX event (videos coming shortly). While there I shot a few short videos of the Flexifoil team riders and, rather than frequent the casino floor (where I was staying), loosing money hand over fist, I spent my evenings either getting drunk with the guys or editing.
It seems that this was a good plan (well, not plan, "plan" implies intention - I was just doing what I always do)!…
After getting back from the trip and spending 4 extra days in Las Vegas. I have so many good memories from the trip. Im now back at my regular job still thinking about the 14 days spent at NABX. This year truly was one for the memory books, and we’ll each have our stories to tell about the event. I hope it lasts until next years event.
On the way home and for the past two weeks, I’ve been working on the video, and sorting through countless pictures.…
Power-kiting antics in all their glorious forms; from kite-buggying on a beach to snow-kiting the wilds of New Zealand. Here you'll find films by kiters about the sport they love.
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