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  • Kiteboarding is not an Olympic sport. Debut: Paris 2024. "Kiteboarding consists of an athlete riding a board across the water which is harnessed to a hand-controlled and wind-powered kite.

    It is billed as blending elements and characteristics of wakeboarding, surfing, windsurfing, snowboarding, paragliding and skateboarding."

  • J. Faust holds that kiteboarding is a FFAWE system and the system is a kite; the two wings are coupled by tether set; one wing is the complex of the board and the pilot; the other wing is strictly an air wing. The lower wing is sometimes in water and sometimes in air. Both wings deflect the media. 

  • UPWIND - Launch of a Sport - History of Kitesurfing
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July 27, 2020, post by Joe Faust
Wing Foiling with hand-held wing  (has early ice winging kin; also wing skateboarding)

Pilot ligaments as kite lines in "just wing" or free-winging kiteboarding :: wing foiling
Pilot holding wing kite system: pilot ligaments and bones form tether set of kite system. Pilot holds wing. Anchor system: kiteboard or hydrofoil.

Wing foiling
See kin: ice wing skate sailing      sites.google.com/site/icewinghomepage/
July 19, 2020, post by Dave Santos
Top Five 2020 Design Trends in Kite Boarding

Number One Trend- "Lighter Kites" (as Dave Culp foresaw, 20yrs ago).
Top 5 Kitesurfing Gear Trends      
May 24, 2020, post by Dave Santos
New Yorker on Birth of Power Kiteboarding

How Hackers Invented Kiteboarding
By James Somers,   September 13, 2019
"An unusual design process combining recklessness, imagination, and computers created one of the fastest-growing sports in history."

Commentary:  
One makes allowances for the New Yorker covering kites, as if their iconic dandy peered thru his monocle at the things. Everything has to fit a preconceived thesis. Most likely kitesurfing was invented by a Polynesian on a surfboard with a kite centuries ago. Certainly George Pocock deserves credit in modern kiting as the original historic master of power kiting;--better ask any kite expert, not some New Yorker.    Dandy New Yorker thinks about kitesurfing

Nevertheless, its a great thing that the New Yorker condescends to write about kites at all. They are clever enough to get a lot right. The biggest gap in the latest article is that the Roeseler father-and-son team is not brought into the writer's contact circle, depending instead on secondary adopters. Once again, Don Montague gets a lion's share of narrative without having been as central as depicted. Giants like Peter Lynn, Dave Culp, and Jeanne and Ray Merry do not figure. It's a sort of George Plimpton trope, the game New Yorker type giving it all a go.

New Yorker kite coverage is superior to the Philistine rags; Forbes, WSJ, Bloomberg, and the like. Money still matters, but not so crassly. Perhaps it's good that the New Yorker does not write more on the subject, or one might have to subscribe.
April 15, 2020, post by Dave Santos
Roots of Kitesurfing: Greek Precedent?

It's all Greek to me :)             Ιστορία του αθλήματος.
Greek precedent for kiteboarding or kitesurfing?
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Ed adds:
  • Translated clip: "Ever since the 13th and 14th centuries, the use of kites has been recorded in the region of China and Polynesia, as the driving force for propelling boats to perform transport."