NEWS

-  (July 29) We have been invited to be part of the XII International Kite Festival of Colombia, that will be held from July 30 to August 16, 2005. This year the different kite demonstrations will be at the cities of Medellín, Bogotá and for the first time, Ecuador will be visited too. El Fabuloso Team will arrive for the main day of Festival, on August 15 at Bogotá and then we will depart immediately because our jobs and studies do not allow to stay more than that. We want to thank Inés Uribe and Jairo Montoya for this FABULOUS opportunity for our team.

-  (June 25) WORLD SPORT KITE CHAMPIONSHIP 2005: it is over now and these are the results:

Congratulations to all the teams that competed!
We definitely know that hard work and compromise are required to get the World Cup and we also know that the emotions and nerves lived there are intense.
At Kitelife Magazine webpage all daily events were related day by day and they also published many pictures:

http://www.kitelife.com/archives/wskc05/index.htm

-  (December 30, 2004) WORLD SPORT KITES CHAMPIONSHIP 2005: the organizers put a website where you can find all the information about the next Championship in Oregon, USA:

http://www.worldsportkite.com

El Fabuloso Team was studying their possibilities to attend the next world cup. Many difficulties were added one by one: lack of time to prepare the routines correctly because of troubles with jobs and families; lack of good level equipment for this competition level; economic problems to afford the expenses of the trip and finally, we want and need to organize our team kite national championship.
After serious study we get the conclusion that it is better to let pass this time and to focus on 2006 championship. We are very sad because we could not know Oregon and the American kite flyers that helped us a lot. It must be the next time. There will be one.

-  (June 3, 2004) We updated our website. Videos and pictures were processed and we sent CD's to some teams and people from around the world. We must send some more.
We are planning the way to make our FT kite lightest and we are changing the bridles of the JAWS in order to make axels. We are trying to land as the better of the world do.

-  (April 30, 2004) We needed time. We couldn't send good information from France. Here we put a picture and the final positions of the championship.
Competence was very hard because they have a different flight style and we hadn't kites for winds of 4 km/h. But we were very appreciated and were into 40 members mega teams, in a hazardous following. We are writing a complete report and processing the pictures and videos. We need time.

POS          Team                                      Day 1                     Day 2                    Day 3              Final
                                                      Precision/Ballet    Precision/Ballet     Precision/Ballet
  1   Element'Air (France)                   74.90/52.76        74.92/85.88           84.20/86.56         82.89
  2   Tame Bird (France)                     51.88/80.16         71.38/78.16            81.72/84.20          79.36
  3   Cutting Edge (USA)                     74.88/79.48        56.32/69.92           77.32/78.08         77.44
  4   Kamikaze (Japan)                        75.94/73.56        65.32/73.96           77.86/81.16          77.23
  5   Watnu (Germany)                         72.36/60.56        73.82/72.20           76.34/70.36         73.18
  6   Garuda (Germany)                        70.18/72.44        72.52/74.76           71.66/72.16          72.85
  7   Tatoueurs du Ciel (France)          68.78/74.24        58.72/73.60           61.58/72.92          69.55
  8   Windy Magic (Japan)                  66.50/45.40        70.70/67.04           67.80/71.76          69.33
  9   Scratch Bunnies (UK)                  63.72/48.68        64.74/68.04           60.60/67.16          65.92
 10   Air Zone (USA)                          63.72/64.60        60.34/60.88           59.52/62.32          62.80
 11   Flame (UK)                                  65.28/54.08        56.32/63.88           60.96/59.84          62.49
 12   Neo (Japan)                                46.02/59.60       51.40/61.40            63.50/66.16           60.62
 13   Matrix Management.(UK)             50.44/49.16        45.02/62.04           59.10/60.64           58.05
 14   MVM (USA)                                 40.38/44.72        55.28/61.08           54.22/55.08          56.42
 15   Equipo 2600 (Colombia)               40.28/41.92        37.14/DQ               53.92/55.76          47.97
 16   El Fabuloso Team (Argentina)      16.04/27.72        44.44/46.04           43.22/47.44          45.28
 17   Team Malaysia (Malaysia)              DQ/DQ                DQ/20.84           21.78/32.28           18.72

-  (April 13, 2004) after a long time without updates because practices, we now update the English page in order to publish here what we could inform while we are at Berck sur Mer. We can not promise we could do it or if it will be everyday, because we depend on available cybercoffes and if we have time to go for them. Please do not send us mails; it is probably we could not answer them while we stay at France.

-  (January 10, 2004) We made a BENEFACTORS page in our web site in order to thank all those who help us to reach the World Championship at Berck sur Mer, France.

-  (December 03, 2003) We made an agreement with Alto Vuelo, the first kite manufacturer of Argentina: they are now the sponsors of El Fabuloso Team going to France 2004.

-  (November 9, 2003) We have been invited to participate in the International Kite Festival from 12th to 14th January 2004 at Ahmedabad in Gujarat (India). Unfortunately we must refuse to assist because we do not have enough time to practice to the Championship at France 2004. We wish to go to India in 2005.

- (October 16, 2003) We have been invited to participate in the World Team Sport Kite Championship at Berck sur Mer, north of France, April 17 to 25, 2004. After pinch ourselves to confirm we are not dreaming and think it a lot, we decided to go. We have already begun with preparatives, they are so much. We need more than one sponsor.

to see more pics of the previous editions, visit:
http://www.aka.kite.org/?wskc/2003/     &     http://www.cerf-volant-berck.com/

Poster de Berck sur Mer 2004

- (August 30 & 31, 2003) We have demonstrated at the Third Rosario's Kite Festival  "Pintemos el cielo de Rosario" 2003. Proudly we can say it was with a great success. More than 10,000 people on Saturday and 15,000 on Sunday. It was the public premier of Team Tropita: they started our demo. Brave children.

- (June 25, 2003) We have received by air mail a box with a 3 hours video of '90 kiteflying competences. In the box there were also many routines on paper that will be helpful for our learning. The box was offered and sent by Al Hargus III, from USA, an extraordinary man. He appears in some of the routines in the video.

- (June 10, 2003) We have been invited to the Third Rosario's Kite Festival  "Pintemos el cielo de Rosario" 2003.
We are practicing the routines for Senior and Junior teams for this occasion.
A new team is preparing: Team Tropita.