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iQuad Short Demo – Lincoln City, OR

John Barresi — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:49:05 +0000

8-person performance in Lincoln City, OR.

Purple Rain @ WSIKF – Long Beach, WA

John Barresi — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:47:16 +0000

Quite probably our first ever 6-person demo!

Cut’n de Mist – Long Beach, WA

John Barresi — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 01:33:49 +0000

One of our first videos, this footage was taken within the first 4 months of our formation… Borrowing from what we learned on the line with Stephen Hoath at the 2006 World Sport Kite Championships, we were literally learning to team fly as we were teaching it to others during the week of WSIKF… Note the original logo which changed before the end of the year.

This same event, another tall skinny dude made an appearance from Victoria (BC), he could fly the heck out of an SLE and never left our side – the infamous “mutant”, Steve de Rooy… Together with the rest of the gang, we earned the “WSIKF People’ Choice” award from both spectators and our fellow fliers.

iQuad Long Demo – Lincoln City, OR

John Barresi — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:19:27 +0000

This was our first ballet music, and the first time we appeared with a full 8-person team – this video was taken at the 2007 Lincoln City Fall Festival… Members at that time were John Barresi, Steve de Rooy, Todd Rudolph, Egan Davis, JD Fabich, Justin Redington, Carl Bragiel and David Hathaway.

The birth of iQuad… 2006.

John Barresi — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:34:01 +0000

In 2006, my friend David Hathaway and I attended the World Sport Kite Championships, he as a spectator / reporter for Kitelife and myself as a judge… In between the WSKC competitions, European Rev teams and fliers we doing mega flies with anywhere from 12-20 pilots and we were all over it, experiencing Rev team flying for the first time… Under the superb leadership of Stephen Hoath (Flying Squad) and Ben (FLIC), we learned a whole lot about Rev team formations and calling techniques.

Event report – http://kitelife.com/magazine/wskc06/

After that, David and I returned to our regular tour of Northwest competitions along with Todd Rudolph who was also just starting to get a handle on Rev flying…First up was the Cutting Edge Spring Fling in Ocean Shores, WA.

Messing around with really simple team maneuvers, we fully caught the bug and agreed that we would be a team as of that day… But who to recruit for our fourth pilot?

Well, turns out it would be already well known dual line pilot Egan Davis from David’s neck of the woods in Vancouver, BC… He literally hung out behind David, Todd and I for pretty much all of Friday before the competition started and clearly intrigued, he went home and practiced A LOT, enough to actually come out and join us at the following event.

Event report – http://kitelife.com/magazine/issue48/springfling06/content.php

As of this post, it’s been just a tad more than 4-1/2 years since the first three members of iQuad were stumbling through their first Rev team maneuvers without any assistance… Nearly (or a little more than) 100 events and thousands of miles later, we couldn’t have made a better leap with lots of memories, countless good friends, and even more importantly – a strong family.