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2005 KTAI Trade Show – Day 4
Knowing full well that things would be slow with all of the late night socials last night, we slept in and arrived at the show around 10am… This gave me an opportunity to speak to a few of the...
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We don’t hear from our visitors HARDLY enough, and are always thrilled to post comments when we get them… It’s your feedback that helps us streamline, and gives us additional insight into what we do...
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Issue 40: Dave’s World: KTAI
The “Gomberg Crew” has just returned from the 17th Annual Kite Trade Convention — this year held in Primm Nevada. As many of you know, this is an annual exhibition where manufacturers and distributors...
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Issue 41: AKA Corner
Proclaim that April is National Kite Month and Win Big! Kite Month is coming and we’re announcing the biggest prize ever!! All you have to do to enter is get your local government to officially...
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2006 KTAI Trade Show – Day 1
Wow, off to another KTAI trade show… Having gone to the one in Primm last year, I was really looking forward to spending some time in sunny Florida! I left out of Seattle via United on the 4th around...
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2006 KTAI Trade Show – Day 2
After my usual stop at Starbucks and the playful realization I should probably approach them about sponsoring Kitelife, my associate Rob and I wandered up the registration desk just before 9am to pick...
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2006 KTAI Trade Show – Day 3
Up for another early morning, we found ourselves back at the convention center around 9am and browsing the trade show which officially opened today… 59 booths contained 22 exhibitors, and 59 retailers...
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2006 KTAI Trade Show – Day 4
Wheeeeeeeeeeee! Going about our morning in the usual fashion, we headed straight for the field around 10am for the last day of demo flying on the beach… Winds were quite low for most of the fly,...
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2006 KTAI Trade Show – Day 5
Welcome to the last day of the 2006 KTAI trade show daily updates at Kitelife! While I love doing this, it is tiring work and I found myself glad this was the last day when I woke up this morning…...
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Issue 46: Dave’s World: KTAI
We’re traveling home today from sunny Florida where we’ve spent the past week at the Kite Trade Association convention and trade show. Sorry to be updating you a bit late in the week. Early...
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Issue 50: AKA Corner
After six years, this will be my final AKA column for KiteLife. Most of you know I’m stepping down as president. And so I want to take this opportunity to thank the magazine and congratulate them for...
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Issue 51: AKA Corner
Hello from the new president. The AKA is part of my family, and I am honored to serve as the AKA president. I’m not sure how many of you have ever read the purpose of the AKA in the bylaws. It’s...
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2007 KTAI Trade Show in Albuquerque NM – Day 1
Welcome to another year at KTAI… The other side of the kite world, where retailers and manufacturers meet up to share ideas, make deals and release new products for the first time. I flew into...
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2007 KTAI Trade Show in Albuquerque NM – Day 2
Wow, what a full day! I’ll tell you, this may be one of the smallest trade shows I’ve seen in my last three years of attending (18 exhibitors and 30-something retailers), but the general mood on the...
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2007 KTAI Trade Show in Albuquerque NM – Day 3
Oh man, this morning was a tough one but after a little oatmeal and a lot of coffee, I started to get the cobwebs shaken loose, and just in time. At 8am, I joined David Gomberg to give a seminar for...
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2007 KTAI Trade Show in Albuquerque NM – Day 4
Good evening folks… Although the main portion of trade show came to a close last night with the awards banquet, a full day of product demonstrations was scheduled for those who wished to stay and try...
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Issue 53: AKA Corner
Greetings to all in kite land from here in Minnesota where the lakes are still frozen, but not safe to walk on (there goes our 10,000 flying fields for another season), and all the fields are squishy...
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Issue 58: Goin’ Across the River to KTAI
Somehow, this just doesn’t feel right… I mean, this IS a “kiting” event, right? And for me that normally means one or two days of packing and a day on the road, then the combined delight of staying...
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Issue 64: KTAI Trade Show
Attending my fourth trade show in as many years, this is always one of my personal favorites to attend and a high priority for the Kitelife travel schedule. In my experience, the trade show provides...
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Issue 70: Kite Trade Association Intl Trade Show
Arriving early in the morning on Monday, Takako and I took the opportunity to explore some of Las Vegas before meeting up with Ben D’Antonio, Joe and Dave Hadzicki later in the evening for our drive...
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Issue 71: AKA Corner
NKM and the AKA online… If you want to have a great time celebrating the arrival of spring in April, you’re invited to join the biggest kite happening ever planned in North America. The AKA (American...
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Issue 76: KTAI Trade Show 2011
21st annual – Las Vegas, NV I always look forward to this event… It’s not what you’d call a “kiteflier’s event”, but if you’re in the business and keen on learning about the industry as well as the...
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Issue 76: Kites… Life.
What a great year we had for kiting in 2010! At least that’s my opinion… I don’t mean in terms of measurable growth, but in the little changes I’ve seen in the mentality at the 18 kite festivals I...
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Behind Closed Doors at KTA
The Gomberg Team has just returned from the Kite Trade Association Convention in Las Vegas. KTA is an unusual gathering. To begin with, it is a closed show. The public, or kite fliers for that matter,...
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Video: Skydog Kites at KTAI
Dodd Gross has posted this to YouTube, an insiders view of Skydog Kites at the 2012 Kite Trade Association Trade Show in Las Vegas this past January. Walk through of the Skydog Kites LLC trade show...
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