Kite Surf

Kitesurfing, kiteboarding or flysurfing is an aquatic sport that uses a pipe and a prancha with or without lifts (a support structure for the fish). A person, with a pipe held at the waist through a device called a trapezium, is placed on top of the prancha, commands the kite with a bar, and over the water, and propelled by the wind that hits the pipe. To control it, through a bar, you can dislocate (orçar or arriver) by pulling a suit, hitting waves or performing jumps. This sport, relatively recent, is in a moment of great popularity and growing practice in Brazil and in the world.

The kitesurfer uses various equipment, first he connects a trapezio to his waist, and a belt that uses a hook made of steel, then he connects the bar to the trapezio, through the chicken loop (a lift with a gramp, on which side part of the bar and which is linked to the kite by half of lines (4 or 5 according to the model of the kite). According to the model, with a possible bar normally, 02 external and 02 internal lines, the first ones only connected to the escape board and the other ones to the attack In the photo on the side, you can see perfectly the prancha, the chicken loop, the bar and the lines, the photo does not allow you to distinguish the trapezium, which is on the athlete's waist.

Kitesurfing was invented in 1985 by two French artists Bruno and Dominique Legaignoux but barely gained any popularity in the mid-1990s.

The name is the combination of two English words Kite, which means pipe (papagaio in Portugal and pandorga, in Rio Grande do Sul, in Santa Catarina, in the whole of the Açores Islands, in Portugal and in the provinces of Cádiz – where in the city of There is even a Pandora contest in Chipiona, in Huelva in Andaluzia, in Spain) and Surf, the English verb to surf, which means to surf.