For recreational purposes, sail boats have been the first and most obvious example of making use of wind energy. The invention of the kite has been claimed by the 5th-century BC Chinese philosophers Mozi and Lu Ban and by AD, paper kites were certainly being flown.
But at the time, the patent did not result in any commercial interest. They patented an inflatable kite design in November of , a design that has been used by companies to develop their own products. In , New Zealander Peter Lynn pioneered the 3 wheel kite buggy making it popular worldwide.
The development of modern-day kitesurfing by the Roeselers in the U. The KiteSki was commercially available in The kite had a rudimentary water launch capability and could go upwind.
In the late 's, Cory's ski evolved to a single board similar to a surfboard. In , The Legaignoux brothers developed and sold the breakthrough "Wipika" kite design which had a structure of preformed inflatable tubes and a simple bridle system to the wingtips.
Cody also developed a working canvas kite boat that in successfully crossed the English Channel. In the s, the development of Kevlar and then Spectra flying lines led to better kite control through increased efficiency and durability, the material being much lighter and less prone to stretching.
In , Netherlands inventor Gijsbertus Adrianus Panhuise received a patent for kitesurfing, defined as a water sport in which an individual is pulled by a kite or parachute-type device on a floating board, the first incarnation of a kite being used for what the sport is now. By the mids, inflatable kites were in the early stages of design, piloted by Bruno and Dominique Legaignoux, two brothers from the coast of France who would later develop Wipika.
Early forms of kiteboarding continued to evolve through the nineties, with Corey Roesler racing his kite ski contraption in the Gorge designed in part by his father George Roesler, who was a Boeing aerodynamic engineer , and Laird Hamilton cruising in the waters of Maui. While beginning to garner some commercial interest, both were merely cruising downwind, making the sport unmarketable to the majority of people.
They replied with a VHS tape. The Roeselers sold him one. But the sport was a work in progress. There were no safety releases; if a kite, caught by a gust, went out of control, the kiteboarder went with it. The problem was obvious. In the late nineteen-eighties, a few years before Moore discovered kiting, Don Montague started his own experiments in aerodynamics.
A windsurfer and his sail need to balance each other: only heavier riders can counterbalance the large sails necessary to draw power from low-speed winds. Montague weighed only a hundred and sixty pounds; in competitions, when the wind was low, he had to strap weights to his back.
He longed for sails that were both lighter and more powerful, and decided to try to design them himself. At first, Montague took a traditional approach. Sitting in the middle of a large sheet of mylar, he drew an outline of the sail he wanted in felt pen. He then placed battens—stiff strips of material, usually fibreglass—on the sheet, like ribs. And yet this process seemed, to him, alarmingly imprecise. Montague wanted to explore the space of design possibilities in a methodical way, and, from the floor, it was difficult to track changes from one design to the next.
What he needed was software that let him move the battens virtually. Montague is dyslexic. Montague decided that he needed software that would let him play directly with sail designs, and recruited a small group of programmers who worked out of a garage in Maui to build it.
It insured that all the parts of the sail would fit together and created a blueprint for the final product. But simulations, he found, were less useful than experience on the water, and so he tested his sails by surfing with them. His tests were driven primarily by feel. Was the sail breathing enough? Was it too stiff? By the early nineties, Montague had perfected his more powerful windsurfing sails. His designs—which he refined as the head sail designer at Gaastra Sails and, later, the head of R.
Like Moore, Montague heard rumors about the Roeselers and their kite ski; in , he met Cory, the younger Roeseler, in Maui. They talked about turning kite-skiing into a sport of its own.
But Montague was skeptical: the wind was just too strong. Even though you can do it, no one else can. Kitesurfing or Kiteboarding is an adventure surface water sport that has been described as combining wakeboarding, windsurfing, surfing, paragliding, and gymnastics into one extreme sport.
Kitesurfing harnesses the power of the wind to propel a rider across the water on a small surfboard or a kiteboard similar to a wakeboard. The terms kiteboarding and kitesurfing are interchangeable. There are a number of different styles of kiteboarding, including freestyle most common and utilises standard kite and board , wake-style flatter water using board with bindings and wave-riding which is focused on big waves using a board designed for wave riding.
In fact, the kite sport is pretty new and was mainly developed at the past few yearsBut the kitesurf concept was invented long long time ago, when the Chinese were using kites as a simple mode of transportation during the 13th century. But the kitesurf concept was invented long long time ago, when the Chinese were using kites as a simple mode of transportation during the 13th century.
The kites were engineered with 4 lines as it is setup today.
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