BEAUTY OF KITESURFING

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Last Updated: Sunday, 28 October 2018 Published: Saturday, 27 October 2018

Kiteboarding is a surface water sport combining aspects of wakeboarding, windsurfing, surfing, paragliding, and gymnastics into one extreme sport. A kiteboarder harnesses the power of the wind with a large controllable power kite to be propelled across the water on a kiteboard similar to a wakeboard or a small surfboard, with or without footstraps or bindings.

"Kitesurfing" is a style of kiteboarding that's specific to wave riding. Kitesurfers use standard surfboards or boards shaped specifically for kitesurfing.

There are different styles of kiteboarding, including freestyle, freeride, downwinders, speed, course racing, wakestyle, jumping and kitesurfing in the waves. In 2012, the number of kitesurfers has been estimated by the ISAF and IKA at 1.5 million persons worldwide.

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ABOUT WINDSURFING

The entire history of windsurfing revealed, from the first windsurfer, to the shortboards, to the short and wide designs that made windsurfing fun and easy again Newman Darby. The history of windsurfing started in 1948 when Newman Darby, a 20 year old American created a floating platform which looked more like a catamaran than a windsurfing board on which he mounted a sail.