kiteboarding

Watersport that combines elements of surfing, sailboarding, and paragliding. Using a platterlike board with footstraps or bindings, and harnessed to a large hand-controlled kite, kiteboarders use the power of the wind to ride, sail, and fly across the water. Kiteboarding began in the mid-1980s, when brothers Bruno and Dominique Legaignoux of Southern France and Oregon's Cory Roeseler simultaneousl...