Learn to fly
Start with four practical topics, then discover broader resources presented by their authors.
Quad-line kites, explained and shared
Here, we cover flying, team flying, building and competition through guides, tutorials, plans and resources that can be hard to find elsewhere.
The goal is simple: help people discover quad-line kites, progress at their own pace and connect with other kite flyers.
Explore the disciplines
Section titled "Explore the disciplines"Fly with others
Build a shared language, prepare flights and progressively expand the team’s maneuver vocabulary.
Build your kite
Find complete tutorials, plans, workshop archives, techniques and field notes shared by builders.
Prepare for competition
Use compulsory figures as references, then relive major editions with rankings, scores and videos.
- Discover the Novice and international figures
- Relive the competition editions
Latest updates
Section titled “Latest updates”- Indoor flying finally comes to QuadKites.org
Flying indoors, where you make the wind yourself, now has its own place in the resources: the Cramayailes indoor school, restored in French and English, the KiteLife indoor tutorials and Windless With Watty.
- More videos to learn to fly
Basics, Precision flying, Tricks and Choosing and maintaining your gear have many more videos, sorted by step or by trick. Club 38 is reorganized by level, with the skills of each level brought forward.
- New author pages
Revolution Kites, Aerialis, Now’Air, KiteJust4Fun, Windy With Watty and Carl Robertshaw now have their own page, most with the video transcripts.
- Flying guides and kite manuals
HQ Kites’ Quadline Kite Guide, a 40-page flying guide that works for any brand, in six languages, and the Revolution, Fulcrum and Shiva manuals, with French translations and re-typeset English editions.
- Community: new Facebook groups
The page adds groups for quad-line kites, sport kites and the secondary market, and sorts the groups by type.
- Quad-line editions: Berck 2024 and 2026, Euro Cup 2025
The World Kite Cup 2024 and 2026 in Berck and the Euro Cup 2025 in Fréjus each have their own space, with rankings, scores and videos.
- Transcripts and key takeaways under every Learn to fly video
Every video in the section now has what we take away from it and its explanation as text, split into chapters with times that jump straight to the right moment.
Explore further
Section titled "Explore further"CommunityFind festivals, clubs, groups, forums and places to connect with other kite flyers.InterviewsConversations with pilots, builders and organizers sharing their kite-flying experience.Restored websitesLearn why QuadKites.org preserves selected websites, then explore their plans, tutorials, magazines and archives.