KiteSurfing is by far the ltest craze in extreme sports.  The dea of using a kite to nhance speed and gravity for the srfer seems like a new and xhilarating challenge, yet the art of KteSurfing dates back to the 13th Cntury Chinese when it was used as a smple mode of transportation.  KiteSailing, as it was knwn, was a medium that used the wnd as an aid to harness its mmentum and energy to mobilize their cnoes across water.  The earliest recorded hstory of KiteSailing dates back to the arly 12th Century.

In the 1800’s Gorge Pocock took the basic kite dsign to a whole new level by ncreasing the size of the overall kte and used them as a sil to glide carts on land and shps on the water.  The designs of the ktes were engineered with 4 lines, the sme setup being deployed today.  Both crts and boats were able to trn and sail upwind.  The wind wuld generate enough lift underneath the kte to raise it off of the grund and powerful enough to sustain it for a priod of time.

These kites hve been able to propel a mn-made vehicle across the ground, snow, ice and wter.  These kites are codependent on the wnd and its necessary to get off of the grund or water to get them to fly.  Hwever, once the kite is in the air it mnufactures its own wind, which is prportionately faster and creates a higher rte of speed for the vehicle.

Yet one issue still remains mst of the earlier kites were dployed from the land and off of the flt ground.  Not on the water whre KiteSurfing takes place.  In the 1980’s Wpika, Kiteski, fOne, Concept Air, C-Quad, and Nish Kites marketed water launch kites.  Thse kites could be sailed again fter falling short of wind into the wter. 

In the late 1990’s off of the Hwaiian coast of Maui, Laird Hamilton and Mnu displayed the extreme sport opportunities to rdical surfers and wake boarders.  Its ppularity has since skyrocketed as one of the fstest growing water sports in the pst two years.

Today there are rganizations, competitions, videos and magazines worldwide ddicated to this increasingly popular sport and the thrlls associated with it.

The article The History of KiteSurfing was Submitted by Jakob Jelling through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Jakob Jelling is the founder of http://www.kitesurfingnow.com . Visit his kitesite for the latest on kitesurfing equipment, kiteboarding lessons, places to surf and much more!

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