Kiteboarding enthusiasts try to help sport catch a wave - Orlando Sentinel
Kiteboarding enthusiasts try to help sport catch a wave - Orlando Sentinel : Top Sports Kiteboarding enthusiasts try to help sport catch a wave - Orlando Sentinel : Top Sports: "ELBOURNE -- A.J. Morgan's business attire is a T-shirt, shorts, sandals and a shark-tooth necklace wrapped around his neck. A sand-in-your-shoes bronze tan reflects his love for ocean breezes.
The unconventional salesmanship approach works for a world that unfolds once you get the equipment out of the van and into a river or ocean. Kiteboarding -- a hybrid mix of windsurfing, surfing and wakeboarding, with an added jolt of aerodynamic push -- remains a baby trying to gather momentum in the world of extreme sports.
Originating more than a decade ago thanks to the innovative minds of brothers Bruno and Dominique Legaignoux of France, participants are attached to a kite using a waist harness, with their feet buckled onto a board. A bar about two feet long allows them to control the kite, which hovers about 90 feet above. Depending on the wind and surf conditions and expertise, they can be launched over the water anywhere from 15 to 50 feet and dangle upside down with the wind caressing their face.
His office is a yellow van -- filled with kites, boards and harnesses -- and for leisure time, a cooler of cold beverages."
The unconventional salesmanship approach works for a world that unfolds once you get the equipment out of the van and into a river or ocean. Kiteboarding -- a hybrid mix of windsurfing, surfing and wakeboarding, with an added jolt of aerodynamic push -- remains a baby trying to gather momentum in the world of extreme sports.
Originating more than a decade ago thanks to the innovative minds of brothers Bruno and Dominique Legaignoux of France, participants are attached to a kite using a waist harness, with their feet buckled onto a board. A bar about two feet long allows them to control the kite, which hovers about 90 feet above. Depending on the wind and surf conditions and expertise, they can be launched over the water anywhere from 15 to 50 feet and dangle upside down with the wind caressing their face.
His office is a yellow van -- filled with kites, boards and harnesses -- and for leisure time, a cooler of cold beverages."
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