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Glossary of Kiteboarding terms
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All are welcome to send in glossary entries for the project, especially welcome is Bille.  Additions, corrections, descriptions, links, etc. are welcome. Histories are welcome. Spellings are invited.  Thanks to all the inputs during project construction!
  • Raley
  • Bille  ...  this is a trick that requires white hair and is done often at Lake Mohave at (9-mile).  Trick invented by http://www.thekiteboarder.com/2010/10/the-unstoppable-billy-floyd/   Billy Floyd
  • http://soundcityreading.com/rsstories5-6.pdf
  • n-strut kite
  • special niche kite
  • single-skin kite
  • water-relaunchable kite
  • TRX 2013 Kite
  • SS Rally (2012)
  • LF Envy
  • Blade Trigger
  • WH Rabbit Gang
  • F-One Bandit
  • Best TS
  • Core Riot
  • Cabrinha Switchblade
  • Ozone C4
  • Cabrinha
  • Slingshot
  • Ozone
  • Dakine
  • Naish
  • Mystic
  • GK
  • Litewave
  • Griffin
  • HQ
  • Flysurfer
  • paravane, paravanes
    • kiteboard
      • Airush
      • Best
      • Cabrinha
      • Caution
      • F-One Kites
      • Flexifoil
      • Gaastra
      • Globerider
      • Litewave Designs
      • Naish
      • North Kiteboarding Ozone
      • Peter Lynn Kiteboarding
      • Roberto Ricci Designs
      • Slingshot
      • Takoon
      • Wind Wing
      • inflatable kiteboard
      • surfboards as kiteboards
      • hydrofoils as kiteboards
      • kited hull
      • body as board
      • body as paravane
      • boat as paravane
      • ship as paravane
      • twin tip
      • directional
      • triple fin
      • inflatable board
      • Splinted airbeam board
      •  
    • Hydrofoil
    • Barefeet
    • Skis
    • Surfboards
    • SUPs
    •  
  • Kite types
    • C Kite
    • Bow Kite
    • Hybrid Kite
    • SLE Kite
    • Foil Kite
    • LEI Kite
    • NPW Kite
    • Struted kite, 3, 5, 7, 9
    • Strutless kite        VideoSLK01
    • Rigid Kite
    • Splinted-Airbeam Kite
    • Jalbert-evolute kite
    • Rigid-sticked kite
      • v
    • Kite types
    • One-line, two-line, three-line, four-line, five-line, n-line
    • Single-skin
    • Double skin
    • Triple skin
    • N-skin
    • Train Kite
    • Stack Kite
    • Tree Kite
    •  
  • Kite names
  • Board names
  • chord
  • span
  • aspect ratio
  • strut
  • short-line kiteboarding
  • long-line kiteboarding
  • uninhabited-board kiteboarding
  • speed kiteboarding
  • mid-tether cabin
  • two-wing kiteboarding
  • stack kiteboarding
  • double-board arch-kite kiteboarding
  • bivouac kiteboarding
  • Safety terms
    • self rescue
    • body dragging
    • v
    • v
    • v
    • v
    • v
    • v
    • v
  • boat-based kiteboarding
  • shore-base kiteboarding
  • measures
    • 1 m/s = 1.9438 knots
    • 1 knot = 0.5144 m/s
    • Beaufort scale     wiki/Beaufort_scale
    • 4m2   meaning. 5m2, 6m2, etc.
    • 8m    meaning   8m,  5m, 4m, 3m   etc.
    • v
    • v
    • v
  • TT
  • waves
  • knots
  • lines
  • chicken loop
  • harness
  • board
  • kite   (complex of three sets: resistive set, tether set, wing set; the resistive set may be a wing set itself); sometimes just the wing set is seen as "kite."
  • bit, board bite
  • angle, board angle
  • sheeting
  • depower, depower range, depower procedure,
  • looping the kite
  • kiteboarder
  • bladder, bladder repair
  • boosting
  • gust grabbing
  • jumping, jump
  • transition, transitions
  • down winding
  • up winding
  • training
  • PKS Self-Launch Beach Anchor
  • kiting
  • photography
  • Board terms
    • stance width
    • handle
    • fin
    • blank
    • decoration
    • shape
    • flex
    • strap
    • strap tongue
    • pad
    • strap
    • adjustments
    • accessories
      • camera
      • generator
      • cellphone
      • fishing gear
      • first-aid kit
      • compass
      • map
      • wetsuit
      • food
      • water
      • vitamin C
      • whistle
      • flashlight
      • line
      • needle
      • thread
      • transmitter
      • flag
      • cash
      • identification
      • airbeams
      • booties
      • accessory signal kite
      • water drogue
    • ready-to-ride
    • ready-to-assemble
    • delamination
    • stripping
    • v
    • v
  • wetsuit
  • leash
  • KB incidents, accidents, crashes, fails
Other sites that have kiteboarding glossaries:  

Consider also: sailing glossaries, kite-energy glossary,

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