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Throughout history, kites have been used for everything from passing the hours on a spring day to Ben Franklin's famous electricity experiment. The Wright brothers even flew them as a way to get a better understanding of aerodynamics.
Kiteboarding, also known as "kitesurfing," was introduced in Maui, Hawai in 1996 by a French windsurfer named Manu Bertin. Since then, this sport has grown to become one of the most extreme sports. Kiteboarding is a mixture of wakeboarding, snowboarding, surfing, skateboarding, windsurfing, and hang gliding.
Most of the people that see a picture of someone kiteboarding are like-"Whoooooo, that is radical. Where is the boat that pulls you?" Well guess what? There is NO boat, just the kite harnessing the power of the wind. Kiteboarding is a very easy sport to learn. Any body can do it, but it is also one of the most dangerous sports and lots of people get hurt and even die without proper instruction. This is why you cannot just go out and buy a kite. You need lessons before you adventure into this sport, because without proper kite control people can end up flying into trees, telephone poles, buildings, or getting dragged on the beach or on grass until they hit something for them to stop. This is why you have to respect the power of the kite. The kite has so much power and sometimes it feels like you are getting a lift by a helicopter. |
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