Kitesurfing and Community
Some people say, kitesurfing is the coolest thing in the universe. One of the reasons why it so communicative is, you cannot start alone, so you get in contact with other kiters. Maybe the main reason, that creates this caring kitesurf community. On the kiteboard you feel the fascination of surfing. Anyway, as soon as you are on a kite-spot, you are part of the kite-community. Normally surrounded by cool and helpful people. Kitesurfers are cool people.
Why Kitesurfing Is Gaining Popularity
If you want to get into kiteboarding, but don’t know how, or if you’re already an experienced surfer who wants something more challenging than just riding a board in the ocean, the Woodboard will give you all of the fun of surfing without any of the fear!
Kitesurfing, a sport that has been around for two or three decades, is experiencing a major surge in popularity. Not only is it fun and exciting to ride on the wind with a kite—it’s also an amazing history of development.
The Basics of Kiteboarding
Kitesurfing is a sport that combines the thrill of windsurfing with the freedom of surfing. It’s also a great way to get in shape, as it requires you to move your arms and legs as much as possible.
A kite is incredibly easy to use—with nothing more than four lines and a bar, you can start flying in minutes. It’s also super lightweight and durable, so you won’t have to worry about breaking it. Once you master the basics, you can try the first rides.
For starting kitesurfing we recommend hardly a kite-school. Never try to learn it by yourself. Or with a “friend”.
Different Ways to Ride
Freeriding
You grab a bidirectional kiteboard, a freeride kite and ride in flats, chop or waves, but almost always hooked. You feel this close connection to the water and wind, what makes this sport so fantastic. Freeriding is that, what most people do the whole kitesurfing career.
The best part about freeride kitesurfing is that it’s accessible to anyone—you don’t need any special equipment or training, so you can try it out with no risk at all. Freeriding is possible on any kitebeach.
Old School – Hooked
The old school community is the oldest in kitesurfing. Usually they are kitesurfing already for many, many years. They jump high with big kites, do some rotations, take out their foots of the straps, or run over water. The trick, they are showing have names like frontroll, backroll, kiteloop, kiteloop late backroll, onefooter, boardoff or jesus walk.
Its big fun watching them, sometimes they do their tricks close to the shore.
Freestyle – Unhooked
You grab a board with boots and a freestyle kite and jump. But the difference to old school tricks is, that you release the connection between the kite and you, so that the kite with full power is in your hand and not on the harness. Kite-surfers call it unhook.
Freestylers are really athletes, sometimes the movements of their tricks is too fast to watch.
Big Air
Like the name already suggests in big air disciplines counts the height. Riders use the waves as a kicker and boost into the air. The most important big air event happens in South Africa every. Heights about 30 meter can be reached if the wind is strong enough. Winds up to 35 knots are there not a rarity.
Strapless Freestyle
For people, that are not into kitesurfing it is not understandable, how this it possible: To jump, do some rotations, take the board in your hand, and land safe on the water without crashing – all that without any connection to the board. Well, it is not the supreme discipline for nothing. Many years of riding and training hard are necessary to do the first strapless jump.
Strapless Waves
Maybe the most elegant way to kitesurfing. Riding the breaking wave when the wind comes from the right direction is a big thing. Unfortunately, there are not that many places, where the conditions are perfect. Best place for long braking waves and constant winds is definitely Peru,
Foiling
Kitesurfing is a sport that combines elements of flying, sailing, and surfing. Today we have many different types of kitesurfing equipment available, in shops or for purchase online. Including boards made from wood or carbon fiber composite materials designed specifically for this sport. But be careful, not everything that glitters is valuable.
The Evolution of Kitesurfing Equipment
With the Woodboard company, there is a brand on the market, that produces the finest rides on this planet. The combination of Austrian design and knowledge, sustainability, highest quality, an own woodboard forest, happy riders, factory in the European Union, makes this brand unique.
The boards are handcrafted with wooden cores, the graphic design is based on individual artwork. The idea was so successful that it spread all over Europe, America and now people use it almost all over the world!
Sustainability at Woodboard
But what is the impact of the environment?
We only have one planet, so treating the environment well, is a must. The largest carbon footprint occurs during production. Therefore the lifetime of your kiteboard matters. Woodboard uses the highest quality materials and have decided to keep the graphics of their kiteboards for years. That extends the lifetime – and the longer a product lives – the more sustainable it is.
To keep the ecologic footprint little, Woodboard tries hard to get all materials for their kiteboards from local suppliers. Even if they are more expensive. 95% of the materials and work is done within a circle of 300 km from their home base.
The Woodboard Forest and Environmental Impact
Woodboard was checking out different programs of green gas compensation. Finally, they decided to procure their own woodland.
The Woodboard forest is located right next to their home base in Austria. With it´s almost 1 hectare it captures around 10 Tons of CO2 yearly.
This covers the CO2 emission of our production and additional some transatlantic flights of the woodboardfamily.
Kitesurfing is fun, come on board!