Monthly Archives: December 2011

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Event Puts St. Ignace on World Stage

  Brainstorming Session Tuesday: How To Meet Hospitality Demands of Ice Sailing Championship By Mary Petrides With more than 100 athletes expected to compete on the ice of Moran Bay in the World Ice and Snow Sailing Association’s world championship in February — and national and international media reporters and […]

MUST – the New Winter Sailing Device

  This has actually happened! After 30 years of winter sailing and racing in variety of venues and conditions our group of enthusiasts and champions have finally decided to combine our knowledge and skills to design and build a universal and affordable device suitable to anyone. MUST is designed for […]

Kiting Terminology

Taken from popeyethewelder 1/2 Axel (Axle): (kite trick) a 2 line stunt kite trick that is a neat way of changing direction rather than a carved turn. At the edge of the window, having done a ground pass, release the top wing and then pop the same side. The kite […]

Impressive Pictures from Italy

  The snow season has started. Italy has some beautiful snowkite spots. They are spacious and offer lots of touring posibilities. Because they are so spaces kiting with a normal tube kite is possible. Offcourse nice snowkite from Ozone is easier. You can launch and land more independent. But also […]

The Snowkite European Championship heads to Reschensee

  The Snowkite European Championship 2012 will kick off on the 20th January, at Reschensee, in Germany. This is the first European contest in snowkiting ever held in the old continent and it will be sanctioned by the International Snowkiting Association. Snowkiting or snow kiteboarding is new variant of kiteboarding […]

Snowmobiles Added To Festival

Vintage and antique snowmobiles will be added to this year’s winter festival at St. Ignace, which will span about 10 days and include pond hockey and the World Ice and Snow Sailing Association (WISSA) world championship. The St.Ignace News