![]() ![]() For this reason they are usually used on the water. The inflatable parts of inflatable kites , that need to be inflated with a pump, help to hold the shape and also allow the kite to float on the water and therefore be re-launched. Kites are available in two major forms: inflatable kites and foil kites. Anyway, the principle is: if the wind intensity increases, the size of the kite to be used should decrease. Size to be used depends on the wind strength and on rider size of the rider. Kites can be of different sizes (common sizes go from 5 to 18 m2). The basic equipment for kitesurfing consists of: Kite Expression: The Expression Disciplines currently include Freestyle, Big Air, Wave Riding, Strapless Freestyle and Park.IKA responsibility is to manage the global administration of kiteboarding and combining world events into one united ranking. The International Kiteboarding Association ( IKA) is the Kite Class Association of the World Sailing , recognized by the International Olympic Committee as the governing body of windsurfing, kiteboarding up to the America’s Cup. Riders use wakeboarding obstacles to perform tricks on them. Park riding: Park riding is very similar to wakestyle.Wake-Style: it consist in doing tricks and aerials using a twin-tip board with bindings.Jumping / Big Air: it consists in boosting as high as possibile in the air.Kite waves: surfing the waves with a directional board.Slalom: it includes reaching starts, reaching courses, and obstacles to jump.Kite Foil: doing kite with a hydro foil board.Formula Kite (Course racing): races along a course involving both speed and tactics.Speed: speed events and records using a special directional board longer and with bigger fins than a normal board.Freeride: it is about having fun and learning new techniques.Tricks include rotations, big airs and 360 Surf Freestyle: a discipline which consists in realizing tricks with a kite and a surf-board without straps.Freestyle: a “free-format” that consists in using the board and the kite to get height enabling the kiter to do big jumps, rotations, board offs and other tricks.There are different kiteboarding styles that can be summarized as follow: On snow or ice, using a Kite a kite plus a snowboard or ski, this sport is called Snowkiting or Kite skiing or simply Snowkite. if the board is a Hydro Foil board, kiteboarding becomes Kite Foil Īnyway, it is common to call kitesurf or simply kite all kind of Kiteboarding.if the board is a surf board, kiteboarding becomes Kitesurfing.Depending on used board, kiteboarding is called in different ways: Kiteboarding is a sailing sport and consists in harnessing the power of the wind with a controllable kite while propelling across the water on a board, usually simmetric and similar to a wakeboard and called twin-tip board. ![]()
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