An avid flier since 1990, John has earned 31 National Championship titles in sport kite competition and has worked hard to promote kiting worldwide as owner and proprietor of KiteLife.com. Over the past decade he has been highly active on the kite performance scene as the founding member of Team iQuad (retired 2013), leader of three world record mega flies (101 kites in 2019) and currently flies lead position on Team KiteLife.