Our first visit to the Tulip Festival, a very unique venue.
[pro-player width=’580′ height=’450′ type=’video’]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uLl6bWzuIs, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-O6ESm2Lt4[/pro-player]
On December 22, 2010,
in 2006 Vids,
by John Barresi
John Barresi and David Hathaway, playing around on the buildings and boardwalk of Seaside (OR) in 2006.
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On December 22, 2010,
in 2006 Vids,
by John Barresi
One of our first videos, this footage was taken within the first 4 months of our formation… Borrowing from what we learned on the line with Stephen Hoath at the 2006 World Sport Kite Championships, we were literally learning to team fly as we were teaching it to others during the week of WSIKF… Note the original logo which changed before the end of the year.
This same event, another tall skinny dude made an appearance from Victoria (BC), he could fly the heck out of an SLE and never left our side – the infamous “mutant”, Steve de Rooy… Together with the rest of the gang, we earned the “WSIKF People’ Choice” award from both spectators and our fellow fliers.
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On December 22, 2010,
in 2007 Vids,
by John Barresi
One of our most iconic videos, IMHO… This was put together by Kris Smith at the 2007 Wildwood Kite Festival.
The Budget truck was parked on the beach, front and center in the festival, right where we flew for the better part of the week.
Same event, we actually had some of the folks on the boardwalk sticking $1 bills in our wingtips on the fly by, paid for our pizza! 🙂
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On December 21, 2010,
in John's Blog, Tutorials,
by John Barresi
For those who haven’t seen them yet, there are still selected video tutorials for Rev flying at LearnKites.com along with translated subtitles in several languages…
Example:
A full selection of 16 tutorials are also available in the Kitelife subscriber downloads section in both HD and iPod/iPhone formats.
- Larks Head Knot
Subtitles: English, Spanish, Japanese, Hungarian - Line Management
Subtitles: English, Japanese, German, Lithuanian, French, Chinese, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian - Line Equalizing
Subtitles: English, Lithuanian, Spanish, Japanese, Hungarian - Assembly and Disassembly
Subtitles: English, Japanese, German, Lithuanian, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Thai, Hungarian - Body, Posture and Grip
Subtitles: English, Spanish, Hungarian - Basic Hovers
Subtitles: English, Lithuanian, Spanish, French, Hungarian - Inverted Hover
Subtitles: English, Spanish, Hungarian - Side Slide
Subtitles: English, Spanish, Hungarian - Reverse Flight
Subtitles: English, Lithuanian, Spanish, Hungarian - Bicycle Rotation
Subtitles: English, Spanish, Hungarian - Sail Loading
Subtitles: English, Spanish, Hungarian - Tuning Theory I
Subtitles: English, Spanish, Hungarian - Flat Relaunch
Subtitles: English, Japanese, German, Chinese, Lithuanian, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, French, Thai, Hungarian - 3D Flying (Catch & Throw)
Subtitles: English, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Lithuanian, French, Chinese, Hungarian - Light Wind Flying
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Hungarian - Flic Flac
Subtitles: English, Spanish, Hungarian
While this project has been stalled for a few months due to lack of time and unfavorable weather, I’m looking forward to tackling a whole new set of topics as we head into 2011… At this point, I’ve already got more than 25 additional subjects on the docket for filming, stay tuned for news via the usual channels. 😉
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This was our first ballet music, and the first time we appeared with a full 8-person team – this video was taken at the 2007 Lincoln City Fall Festival… Members at that time were John Barresi, Steve de Rooy, Todd Rudolph, Egan Davis, JD Fabich, Justin Redington, Carl Bragiel and David Hathaway.
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On December 21, 2010,
in 2006 Vids,
by John Barresi
A little night flying fun with John Barresi and Steve de Rooy.
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On December 21, 2010,
in 2006 Vids,
by John Barresi
One of our earliest videos, from the Lincoln City Fall Festival in October of 2006.
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On December 21, 2010,
in 2008 Vids,
by John Barresi
The gang cutting loose at the Uchinada Kite Festival near the end of a long Japan trip, pilots are John Barresi, Steve de Rooy, Mike Kory, Jay Nunes, Bazzer Poulter and David Hathaway.
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In 2006, my friend David Hathaway and I attended the World Sport Kite Championships, he as a spectator / reporter for Kitelife and myself as a judge… In between the WSKC competitions, European Rev teams and fliers we doing mega flies with anywhere from 12-20 pilots and we were all over it, experiencing Rev team flying for the first time… Under the superb leadership of Stephen Hoath (Flying Squad) and Ben (FLIC), we learned a whole lot about Rev team formations and calling techniques.
Event report – http://kitelife.com/magazine/wskc06/
After that, David and I returned to our regular tour of Northwest competitions along with Todd Rudolph who was also just starting to get a handle on Rev flying…First up was the Cutting Edge Spring Fling in Ocean Shores, WA.
Messing around with really simple team maneuvers, we fully caught the bug and agreed that we would be a team as of that day… But who to recruit for our fourth pilot?
Well, turns out it would be already well known dual line pilot Egan Davis from David’s neck of the woods in Vancouver, BC… He literally hung out behind David, Todd and I for pretty much all of Friday before the competition started and clearly intrigued, he went home and practiced A LOT, enough to actually come out and join us at the following event.
Event report – http://kitelife.com/magazine/issue48/springfling06/content.php
As of this post, it’s been just a tad more than 4-1/2 years since the first three members of iQuad were stumbling through their first Rev team maneuvers without any assistance… Nearly (or a little more than) 100 events and thousands of miles later, we couldn’t have made a better leap with lots of memories, countless good friends, and even more importantly – a strong family.
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