King of the Bay Exhibition - August 20, 21, 2005

[OliverG]

Donít Miss the West Coastís World-Class Kitesurfing and Windsurfing Event

King of the Bay is the best opportunity to see Big Air Kiting and
Freestyle Windsurfing at their Mind Blowing best!

Local talent will dominate the event going all out with huge air, outrageous tricks, speed and style during three days of aggressive amateur heats. Pros will thrill fans with exhibition heats and lots of free clinic demonstrations.

The first 100 kids on Saturday, August 20th will get a free kite. Get the whole family stoked on the wind, water and good old fashioned fun in the sun.

Free family demos and clinics include:
- Introduction to kiting

- Trainer kite demo area

- Introduction to Windsurfing

- Windsurfing simulator demo


(Clinic participants earn free raffle tickets)

Awesome gear and apparel for the board sports enthusiast raffled daily at 3 p.m.

See you on August 20 & 21

Questions? Please contact Helm of Sun Valley
650-344-2711 or Katie 650-283-4990, katie@helmsports.com

[Bullroarer Took]

I'm curious about the "Pros will thrill fans with exhibition heats and lots of free clinic demonstrations." Last year's competition only got a few good hours of wind and I suspect that a lot of pros couldn't be bothered to return.

[Guest]

So it's going to be a pro "Exhibition"? What does this mean? Is there a list of the pro's that are going to show for the weekend? Last year when the wind showed the pro's went off, but I thought it was a competition. How are things going to change this year. Will the big names show for a exhibition?

Dewey

[Bullroarer Took]

Here is a list of the actual events, all amateur:

Freestyle Amateur Kiting $60
Freestyle Amateur Windsurfing $60
Womens Freestyle Kiting $60
Kiter Cross $60
Windsurf Figure 8 Race $30

[Guest]

Can we assume those are entry fees and not prizes?

[elli]

Two years ago the wind was blowing and it was a lot of fun, so much fun I started this sport. Last year wind was not as good.

So no pro competition this year? Would be interesting to see the list of who is coming.

[Guest]

When are they going to post who is in this event???

Do they really have no pros comming???

Is this going to be a competition between locals ???

Bummed if that`s true !!!

[OliverG]

It's hard to figure anything out because it seems very little is done to promote this event. Same goes for some of the other Bay events, such as the Kite Classic, which no one bothered to post here, so I did, but I don't always have time to keep up with every single thing and post it here. What ends up happening is often people don't even know about events until they're over and they end up being "insider" events.

[Guest]

I looked on their site and no information on competitors.

[KillaHz]

I looked on their site and no information on competitors.

Just to name a few:
Ruben Lenton
Mark Doyle
Damien LeRoy
Cameron Dietrich
Antoine Jaubert
Brian Wheeler
Brian Lake (kite skimmer)
Kirk Peterson
Leshai Miller
Jesse and Shawn Richman
and of course...Gary Bronson