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The Portsmouth Kite Festival, August 25th-26th
Posted Wednesday August 29th, 2007
By Alex Brown
| The last weekend in August was the kite festival by my home town in the south of England. |
| A local Best retailer, Traction Kites UK (TKUK), were putting on a demonstration of kite boarding on the land for the public over the weekend so we were all hoping for some wind. I traveled there with one of my friends who rides for the shop, Tom Kemp. |
| Unlucky for us, there was absolutely no wind and we were unable to kite at the event during our demo time. |
| We did however get one of my big kites, a Waroo Pro 17m, into the air which we could just about fly to show everyone what they looked like in the sky. |
| The event is mostly aimed towards smaller novelty kites and display kites. There were some really cool designs including a football, a huge fish and some big whale kites. |
In the evening the wind picked up a little and we were able to get some jumps in.
| Ade, a member of staff from TKUK, built us a really cool ramp to use in the demo. We got this out and rode it as well as we could in the light winds during the evening. |
| Frazer, the UK sales rep for Best, and Sebastian from Spain who is the EU Sales Manager came over on the Sunday for a little while. There was even less wind than the day before which was a real shame. Maybe next year we can get a demo on; I’ve found a forecast in advance which would be nice. |
