The Flexifoil Book Of Power Kiting

The Flexifoil book of Power Kiting is your key to unlocking the mysteries of kite-power. All the way from buying your first kite to carving up the sand, sea and snow on buggy or board - this book is 100 per cent dedicated to helping you maximise your kite-powered fun. With ever more sophisticated and powerful equipment on the market, power kiting - both land and water based - has become a genuine extreme sport so you need to know what you're doing and how to do it safely. But it's also the fastest growing extreme sport on the planet - so go on, get yourself a kite, find some wind and get power kiting! Jeremy Boyce is a freelance writer, journalist and translator working almost exclusively in the field of traction kites and kiteboarding.

A guide to the amazing adrenaline-filled world of kite-powered traction action.

Provides step-by-step instruction for designing a variety of kites, and offers tips on material selection and flying techniques.

The inexpensive paperback edition of the book on kites in history, in teaching, and in therapy. Includes appendices documenting the qualitative research on kites in teaching at the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde.

A complete guide to kiting -- from flying a paper kite at a park to para-kiting over the ocean featuring detailed descriptions of equipment, step-by-step photographs, guidelines for choosing a kite, setup, safety and more.

Includes a brief history of kites, types of kites, how to fly a kite, and how to make your own kite.