AKA Region 7

09/02/2024

Testing out my nearly new Robert Brasington originals I bought from the master kite designer himself at the Callaway Kite Festival. Stunningly gorgeous in flight they are stable, beautiful, and easy to assemble. Thank you Robert for an amazing birthday weekend. Also a huge thank you to Kindle Rice and her crew for an amazing event once again. Best birthday ever.

04/19/2024

Heading to Bladen for an afternoon of kite flying at the Webster County Fairgrounds this Sunday April 21. Event runs 2 to 4 but I'll have kites up much earlier than that. If you're in the area please stop by and watch, say hello and bring or buy a kite for yourself and the family. I'll have my trailer on site stocked and ready for eager patrons.

08/02/2023

Squeezing in a little sleep today before heading to Hastingqs for a TV interview promoting the 3rd annual Grand Island Kite Festival on Aug 5th at the Veterans Athletic Complex on Nortqh Broadwell.

10/12/2016

NEED one of these for

08/25/2016

W0W a new kite festival in Atlanta? And most of us have heard of Portsmouth

Every year Portsmouth hosts an international kite festival. Tim, JJ, LIna and I decided to go and see them on Sunday! Lots of colour here, as you can see!

08/21/2016

Let's go Back , HERE https://youtu.be/mF2tyyhGops

05/04/2016

We are working on the first "Region 7" club fly (or anybody who wants to join us or watch. Father's Day weekend in Salina, Kansas. A come as you are on your own dime (no comps) free fly. Here is one of the fields we are considering for this event.

04/01/2016

It's the first Day of National Kite Month, April 1-April 30. For us kite fliers it usually means workshops, demonstrations and festivals but for the average Joe it may be just another item on your newsfeed. If that's you I'd invite you to dig an old kite out of storage and give it some air time. Maybe you know of a kite festival nearby or a group of fliers that get together. Either way take the kids and kites and enjoy some quality time reliving your own childhood memories.

For those already into kiting, I invite you to spread the joy of kiting to friends and neighbors, schools and churches. Wether it be a kite demo at the local YMCA or church, a workshop with elementary or other school kids. Just color the sky with some new friends. I turn 50 this year and I desperately want to see the hobby of kite flying passed on to another generation. There are so many beautiful kites out there designed by some amazingly extraordinary people. These kites need to be seen by the masses. So go out as often as you can this month and share the love in your heart by putting kites in the sky and in the hands of a younger generation.

Roger Kenkel
AKA Region 7 Director

08/22/2015

Voting ballots have been mailed out and should have hit your mailboxes by now. Please take the time to fill out your ballot and mail it in. In case your wondering Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump aren't on any AKA ballots.

Also convention registration is open. It's right in our own backyard this year in Enid OK.

REPRESENT, register today

07/11/2015

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