- Human swimming
with the body of the human as the water wing of the kite system
that employs also an air wing; the human body is tether-coupled with the
air wing; the total system is a kite system. Kiteboarders
body-tack by controlling the attitude of the human body while the body
is in the water; control of the air wing by tether control permits
downwind or upwind tacking.
Benjamin
Franklin is an historic grandfather of kite swimming.
- Another sort
of "kite swimming" is controlling conventional air kites on the surface
of bodies of water. To avert loss of the wing, special skills and even
special wing designs may be employed. Consider wings that
are inflatable. Consider ping-pong balls on chicken legs. Consider
non-wetting wing materials.
- Another sort
of "kite swimming" is the "flying" of a wing or paravane under the
surface of the water. The water kites or paravanes may be controlled to
do figures under water. This may be done for recreation, sport, or as
part of an energy-production plant.
- A
water-swimming human may act as the anchor of a kite system during
training for swimming. The air or water kite may be used to give
resistance to the forward progress of the human swimmer; track runners
sometimes use a kite or parachute to give resistance to forward progress
in the running effort. Differently, a water swimming
human might couple with an air kite for swimming downwind with the
help of a downwind-going kite system. But be careful, the human body
might look like bait to the sharks.
- An infamous
sort of "kite swimming" is the swimming to fetch a kite's wing that has
been inadvertently downed in the water. Swim out to get the wing; swim
with the wing to bring the asset back to harbor.
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- Another sort
of "kite swimming" refers to kite systems that have figure wings of fish
or other water creatures; the movement of the figured wings through the
atmosphere is a mimic of the fish or creature "swimming" in the sky. Sky
swimming? Fish kites. Figures of human bodies in a swimsuit doing
strokes that mimic water swimming. Consider a sky filled
with sea creatures doing controlled flight paths to mimic an aquarium or
ocean scene.
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