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Berck-sur-Mer Kite Festival

Date: Saturday 9th - Sunday 17th April 2005
Location: Berck-sur-Mer, France
Organised by: Office de Tourisme de Berck-sur-Mer / GÃ©rard Clement
Official website: http://www.cerf-volant-berck.com

Three pages of photographs from the first three days of the 19th Berck-sur-Mer International Kite Festival. Click on any photo for a larger version.

The Flying Squad are regulars at this fantastic festival and as new members of The Flying Squad, aeolian attended Berck-sur-Mer for the very first time. All the months of practice during the winter in the cold, rain and snow finally came together as the team put on an enjoyable display in front of the thousands of people gathered on the sea front to watch. Quad line megateams also took place as The Flying Squad combined with the French group Team Flic to fly as many as fifteen kites in the sky at the same time. Film crews from various television channels filmed the spectacle and almost everything else that that was going on in the three large arenas.

There was always something happening as the invited flyers flew their kites and put on displays. Sport kite teams included Element'Air and Overdrive, whilst Richard Debray's routine was just totally awesome. If this is an example of the level of skill that is to be expected at the Freestyle World Cup then it too will be an event to remember.

Team Flic held a 'Flic Party' in the marquee on Monday night in which they entertained everyone by doing human renditions of their ballet. The Flying Squad were also encouraged to put on a 'display' and a large 'megateam' ensued, followed by a mass dance circle around the inside of the marquee as just about everyone was dragged to their feet to join in...

On arriving back we were pleased to find a superb photo of us had made it on the the cerf-volant-berck webpage - cheers guys.

The festival doesn't finish until Sunday 17th April, so if you can get along to it, DO!

Links to other photos, videos and reports:

http://www.keaps-kiter.com/pixfilm.html Photos & video.
http://pyj.atelierkites.com See 'galerie'.
http://s.tf1.fr/FluxJt/jt13d13042005/jt13d13042005r18.asx French TV, TF1 news video.
http://chaoskiter.piranho.de/Homepage_Chaoskiter/Berck_sur_Mer_2005.htm Photos & report.
http://www.awita.com/tiki-browse_gallery.php?galleryId=40 Photos.
http://www.willemsens.net/galeries/berck2005/ Photos.
http://www.thestyleshouse2.freeserve.co.uk/elf/berck05.htm Photos & report.
http://www.gombergkites.com/update/291.html and http://www.gombergkites.com/update/292.html
http://www.drachenwelt.at/berck2005/index.htm Varied selection of photos & video - including a particularly scary photo of GÃ©rard.
http://www.team-4-fun.de/H-Berck2005.htm
http://www.awita.com/tiki-browse_gallery.php?galleryId=41

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