11.10.06
View the latest video of the Ignitor,
Detonator & Cherry Bomb sport kites online.
10.20.06
South Padre Island (TX) Kite Festival
Nov. 4-5th
The event will feature kite flying lessons & demonstrations
by New Tech Kites. Come join the fun!
Contact GuyBlatnik@kiteshop.com
or 956-299-0731
10.16.06
Learn to POWER KITE!
Nov 23rd - 26th
Free lessons and demonstrations available by New Tech
Kites at the Dead
Bird Buggy Bash in Galveston, TX. Swing
by and join us over Thanksgiving weekend from Nov 23rd - 26th.
Oct 21-22nd
New Tech Kites is offering free kite flying lessons at the 20th annual
Outer Banks Stunt Kite Competition on October 21 - 22
at the Wright Brothers Memorial. Visit Kitty
Hawk Kites for more details.
10.03.06
One
Sky One World
Sunday, October 8th
International Kite Flying for Peace
Connect
with kiters all around the planet
9.28.06
AKA
National Convention
Des Moines, Iowa - Oct 2nd - 7th
9.18.06
Ready for smiles? Join us at the Family
Day Kite Festival
October 1st - San Francisco at Marina Green
9.14.06
Niagara
International Kite Festival
Oct 6 - 9th
Featuring the World's Largest kite from Japan and NTK designers Martin
Lester, Robert Brasington, Kathy Goodwind and Volker
Hoberg.
7.25.06
The blogging world has become amazed by a unique
and unsuspecting kite design created by our friend and
NTK designer Tim Elverston of Windfire Designs.
7.25.06
Videos of New Tech sportkites
Video of Carl Bragiel multiple kite demonstration using New Tech Desire ULs.
Team TKO flying Firestorms at WSIKF 2004.
Chris Shultz Flying a Mirage Stack at WSIKF 2004.
7.18.06
Taking the east by storm with a French Connection - Congratulations
Robbie Boerth
Robbie Boerth has been sweeping competitive East Coast
kiting events recently in the novice ranks. His kite of choice has been
his French Connection.
East Coast Sport Kite Championships (click for picture 1 picture
2)
1st place - Novice Ballet
Old Dominion Sport Kite Championships
1st place - Novice Precision
2nd Place - Novice Ballet
1st in Individual Outdoor Unlimited (click for picture)
New Jersey Sport Kite Championships
1st Place - Novice Precision
1st Place - Novice Ballet
6.05.06
Rockwall YMCA gives kites to the children of Afghanistan. Read
more about it and see the pictures here.
5.29.06
Kiteteam Ecuador goes Ballistic
on the equator.
5.18.06
Join us for Flight School on Jockey’s
Ridge in Nags Head, NC across the street from Kitty
Hawk Kites on May 31st.
5.16.06
The Flight School tour will stop at
the Kite
Koop in Chincoteague
Island, VA on Memorial Day, May 29th. Call the store for details and
come fly with us!
877.336.5554
5.03.06
Wildwood
(NJ) International Kite Festival
May 26-29th
Dodd Gross and New Tech staffers will be on hand providing free
sport kite flying lessons. For event info, check out Wildwood
International Kite Festival
4.25.06
NTK sponsored sport kite team Full
Moon places 3rd at the Weifang World Kite Championship
4.14.06
12th
Annual Maryland International Kite Expo
April 28-30th - Ocean City, MD
MIKE will feature a cast of international guests, including
New Tech Kites very own Dodd
Gross.
Featured events include mass ascensions and attempts to break several kiting
world records.
4.05.06
Happy days are here again! The famous Into
The Wind kite catalog is back for 2006. Click here to
get yours!
4.03.06
Get your April off to a good start - attend a
kite festival! April is National Kite Month. For a
schedule of events, click here.
3.21.06
An interview
with Martin Lester.
3.20.06
Why New Tech Kites loves 1976.
3.15.06
Join Kids
Voice on Saturday evening, April 29th, 2006 at
the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh for the launch of Kites
for Kids, a two-tiered signature event to raise awareness
and funds to fight child abuse and neglect. The April 29th indoor gala
evening will serve as a kick-off for the fall when the community will
be invited to a kite-flying event. The goal of the fall event is to
have 5,000 kites flying in the sky, one for each child KidsVoice represents.
For more information visit http://www.kidsvoice.org/gala.aspx.
2.23.06
78th
annual Zilker Park Kite Festival The longest running kite
event in the USA!
Sunday, March 5th
Austin, Texas
2.08.06
New Tech Kites will be exhibiting at the New
York Toy Fair
Feb 12 - 15th. Visit us at booth #157.
1.10.06
New Tech Kites was awarded “2005 Manufacturer
of the Year” by the Kite Trade Association International
at the 2006 Tradeshow & Convention. NTK is on a roll, winning this
award three out of the last four years.
12.01.05
Kite
Trade Association Convention & Tradeshow
Join us at the 18th Annual Kite Trade Association
Convention & Tradeshow
Jan 5 - 9th, 2006
Clearwater Beach, FL
For more information click here.
10.17.05
Dead
Bird Buggy Bash 2005
November 19th - 27th
Buggy on the beaches of Galveston Island Thanksgiving week
www.deadbirdbuggybash.com
9.26.05
AKA
National Convention
Join us on the beaches of Ocean
City, Maryland September 26th - Oct
1st for the American Kite Fliers Association’s
Annual Convention.
NTK designers Dodd Gross, Martin Lester & Buteo Huang will be in attendance providing demonstrations. For more information, visit www.aka.kite.org
7.15.05
They Come From The Land Down Under!
The Kite Factory is our wholesale distributor in Australia. Our good friends Philip and Annie Marie McConnachie are THE source for recreational, educational, and sport kites in the land down under. Philip is a master designer of huge display kites. Check out this link for some incredible deals on his show stopping creations.
7.07.05
Newport
Kite Festival
July 8 -11, 2005
Brenton Point State Park
Newport, RI
One of our favorite kite festivals! Learn to fly sport kites with NTK’s
Dodd Gross.
6.07.05
New Tech Kites is pleased to announce a new licensing agreement with Jones
Airfoils that will add the incredible Mirage rhomboid sport kite to
our offerings in 2006.
5.18.05
Have a question or need to ‘shout out’? Check out the new NTK
bulletin board.
5.04.05
For free New Tech Kite stickers, please send a self-addressed stamped
envelope to:
New Tech Kites
Attn: Stickers
7208 McNeil Dr #207
Austin, TX 78729
4.27.05
11th
annual Maryland Kite Expo
April 29 - May, Ocean City, MD
Dodd Gross will in attendance offering free
flying lessons in front of the Kite Loft.
4.14.05
LifeNet is bringing the World’s Largest Kite to Dallas, Texas for their
charity kite festival on June 11th. http://www.lifenettexas.org/default.html
4.13.05
We've just added a photo gallery that you can access here or
from the link on the home page.
4.07.05
Cherry Bomb Sport reviewed on www.kitelife.com
3.22.05
Spring is in the Air!
Just a few local kite festivals across the USA...
Smithsonian
Kite Festival
On the National Mall
Washington D.C
April 2
Kites Over Texarkana
Eagle Acres Ranch
Texarkana, AR
April 2
awrengal@wmconnect.com
Tennessee River Park Kite Fly
Chattanooga, TN
April 2
cjonesfly@earthlink.net
Kitemania
2005
Easton's Beach & St. Michaels Country Day School
Newport, RI
April 9 & 10
Second Wind's Fish Fest Fun Fly
Bodega Bay, California
April 16 & 17
secondwindkites@earthlink.net
3.16.05
North American Buggy Expo
March 29th - April 4th
Time to kite buggy on the dry lake beds of California and Nevada. Join us at www.nabx.net.
3.09.05
The 77th
Annual Zilker Park Kite Festival was post poned due to weather.
The new date is March 13th in Austin, Texas.
3.01.05
77th
Annual Zilker Park Kite Festival
Austin, TX
Sunday, March 5, 2005
2.10.05
Join in the fun at Huntington Beach, CA Kite
Party
Sponsored by The Kite
Connection
1.28.05
Two great articles are featured on www.kitelife.com
Read about Robert Brasington's Brolly Arts invitation to Utah.
Information on Austin's own 77th Annual Zilker Park Kite Festival.
1.28.05
Up
The River Indoor Kite Festival
Feb 4-6 Arlington High School
Arlington, Oregon
1.27.05
We are currently updating our online
catalog with the new 2005 product.
1.17.05
New Tech Kites was awarded the Kite Trade Associations "Manufacturer
of the Year" award for 2004. New Tech Kites was also awarded "Best
Booth" at the annual convention and tradeshow in Primm, Nevada. Click
here to see some pictures of the booth.
1.06.05
Visit New Tech Kites at the following tradeshows in 2005.
Kite Trade Association
Stateline, NV
Jan 10 - 14
www.kitetrade.org
Air-YO DVD Release Party
Jan 13th, 8:30pm Primm Valley Resort
American International Toy Fair
New York, NY
Feb 20 - 23
Booth # 157
www.toy-tma.com/AITF/
1.03.05
PASA SnowKite Summit - January 22-23
Come to Mammoth, CA and join PASA's Snowkite Summit, featuring a snowkiting free
ride event and manufacturer demos. For more info contact Christopher Nygard at
chrisn@pasakiteboarding.org / 252-207-9041
12.24.04
Happy Holidays from everyone at New Tech Kites.
12.07.04
The cure for too much Turkey over this holiday season: Kite boarding lessons
from Kitemare.
12.06.04
Kitelife.com is the kitefliers portal to the internet
New issue featuring
Dodd Gross interview.
11.04.04
11th annual Dead Bird Buggy Blast
With people still wearing shorts in Texas during the
month of November, the weather should be great for the 11th
annual DBBB. Join over a hundred power kite enthusiasts on the
hard packed beaches of Galveston, Texas as we savor deep fried turkey
and enjoy the regular on-shore breezes. Buggy runs up to 20 mile long
are sometimes possible. Folks come from all over the country to partake
in this casual annual kiting event. New Tech Kites will be offering
free trials and demonstrations of our Ballistic Power Kites. Please
join us!
10.11.04
The
Air-YO invades the Orient
9.09.04
'One
Sky One World' International Kite Fly For Peace
Sunday, October 10, 2004
8.26.04
27th
annual American Kitefliers Association Convention, competition & festival
October 11 - 16th Seaside, OR Among the many activities scheduled, Dodd Gross
will be featuring a Flight School for women only entitled "Tricks for Chicks".
New Tech's own Rob Cembalest will work as the Auction Chairperson for the event.
Join the AKA and tell'em we sent you.
7.19.04
TKO Sport Kite Team
New Tech Kites is proud to sponsor the TKO
Sport Kite Team.
See them in action at the Washington
State International Kite Festival or view some pictures of the team practicing here.
August 16-22 Long Beach, Washington
6.22.04
Big Bang Instructions
For those of you who have asked for more information on configuring your Big
Bang, the Big Bang
Instructions are now posted on our Downloads
page.
5.02.04
22nd Annual Rogallo Kite Festival
Kitty Hawk Kites 30th Birthday Bash
June 10-12 Jockey's Ridge State Park / Nags Head, NC
The Rogallo kite festival honors Dr. Francis M. Rogallo, NASA scientist
and inventor of the Flexible Wing, but it will also kick off Kitty
Hawk Kites 30th year on the Outer Banks. This three day festival
will feature Dodd Gross and the NTK Team offering free lessons and
demonstrations on the dunes of Jockey's Ridge.
Click here to visit the official website.
4.13.04
Kiting Adventure in Big Bend
Check out some pictures of
a Big Bend kiting adventure. Please note that this is an image intensive
page.
4.04.04
Kite Shop Finder
Looking for a kite shop near you? With our Kite
Shop Finder you can locate shops by zip codes.
3.27.04
Celebrate National Kite Month!
March 27th - May 2nd
Visit the National Kite Month
Website for great teaching resources, finding local events,
or promoting your own festival.
3.02.04
76th Annual Zilker Kite Festival
If you're in the Austin, TX area this weekend you should stop
by the 76th Annual Zilker Park Kite Festival. To visit
the official website click
here.
2.19.04
What's the buzz about at the New York Toy Fair?
It's
the Air-YO! To read more about the amazing Air-YO CLICK
HERE and to see a video of the Air-YO in action check out
our Downloads page.
1.22.04
Happy New Year!
New
Tech Kites would like to wish you a Happy Chinese New Year! It's
the year of the Monkey, do you know your Chinese Zodiac sign?
1.16.04
New Tech Kites wins Best New Single Line Kite at KTAI Kite
Trade Show.
The Parachute Kid by New Tech kites was voted the
"Best
New Single Line Kite" at the 16th annual Kite Trade
Association International show in Clearwater, FL. Click
to see the new Parachute Kid.
12.22.03
Visit New Tech Kites at the following tradeshows in 2004.
Kite Trade Association
Clearwater, FL
Jan 13 - 16
Booth # 224
www.kitetrade.org
Spielwarenmesse International Toy Fair
Nuremburg, Germany
Feb 5 - 10
Booth # E-21
www.toyfair.de
American International Toy Fair
NY, NY
Feb 15 - 18
Booth # 157
www.toy-tma.com/AITF/
12.19.03
Kitting
Can Help Save An At-Risk Child
Thanks to generocity of Grady Brown, 200 at-risk youth in Cocoa,
Florida will have a special holiday season with his gift of New Tech Kites.
Click here for
more info and a picture.
12.08.03
Ballistic Power Kites Debuted at DBBB
Ballistic Power Kites by New Tech Kites
made their debut at the 10th annual Dead Bird Buggy Blast,
held over the Thanksgiving weekend on the east & west beaches
of Galveston, TX. DBBB is one of the largest gatherings of
land sailors and traction kiters in the US.
View pictures of Ballistics in action.
For more info on DBBB visit the DBBB 2003 site.
9.05.03
World’s Largest Flag Kite flown at the Washington
State International Kite Festival in Long Beach, Washington.
Click here to
read the whole article and to see pictures.
8.18.03
Aug 31 - Sep 1 - 1st Annual Lone Star Kite Competition
DeSoto, TX
For info contact Sandra & Warren Harris
of Eden Kites :
wharris@connect.net or
call them at 972-839-7115
8.07.03
For
the latest information on Flight School U.K. edition,
check out the Flight
School U.K. webpage
Schedule:
Shipley Country Park - August 16th
Portsmouth Kite Festival - August 22nd
Murlough Beach, Ireland - August 27th & 28th
Bristol Kite Festival - August 30th & 31st
A special thanks to Martin Harris for organizing these events and to Dave Maddocks of Spirit of Air for his sponsorship
7.04.03
Have a Happy 4th of July weekend from all the gang here at NTK!
Good winds, y'all!
7.01.03
Learn to Fly Sport Kites This Weekend ! - Nags Head, NC
Kitty Hawk Kites presents: A fourth of
July weekend Flight School session!
Flight School by Master Instructor Dodd Gross
Take advantage of this unique
professional class that teaches both the basics of dual line flying perfect for
the first time flier and the most advanced dual line tricks being performed today! A
two hour hands on training session with the Master!
Class Times
Friday July 4th 11 am and 2pm
Saturday July 5th 11 am and 2pm
To schedule your Flight School session, contact the fine folks at Kitty Hawk
: mail@kittyhawk.com or
give them a call at 1.800.334.4777.
6.25.03
Here we grow again!
We've just expanded our ranch (that's Texas speak for offices and warehouse)
here in Austin by one third to better serve you. Yeehaw!
5.22.03
Be
on the lookout for Flight School - UK edition...
August 23-25th @ Portsmouth
International Kite Festival, Southsea Common, Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire
August 30-31st @ Bristol International Kite
Festival, Ashton Court, Bristol
more dates to come...
4.29.03
Spring Games
May 1 & 2nd, Myrtle Beach, SC. Sponsored by Klig’s Kites.
Will feature Flight School by Dodd Gross. Event will be held on the beach in
front of The Boardwalk Motel, off 23rd Ave.
Great
Lakes Kite Festival
May 16 - 18, at the State Park in Grand Haven, Michigan.
Sponsored by Mackinaw Kite Company. Featuring Flight School
by Dodd Gross.
25th Annual Wright Kite Festival
June 13 -15, Wright Brothers Memorial, Kill Devil Hills, NC. Sponsored
by Kitty Hawk Kites. Featuring Flight School by Dodd Gross.
4.18.03
3rd Annual LONE STAR KITE FESTIVAL
Easter Weekend Saturday April 19 and Sunday April 20, 2003
10am to 5pm - Meadow Creek Park -- DeSoto Texas. See you there!
3.09.03
75th Annual Zilker Park Kite Festival!! Hope to see you all there! Click
here for more info.
2.14.03
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY FROM NTK!
1.20.03
This year at KTAI, despite outrageous efforts to have the "best booth snack",
we may only theorize that our good ol' Texas BBQ made people too
full and lazy to actually vote for us. We did however come away with the prestigious
MANUFACTURER OF THE YEAR award for 2002! Which, we are told is a
much better
award anyhow, ...but we still haven't seen our chef, whom was last
seen shakin his head, bugging into the sunset... and has yet to be
heard from.