Article: What Is A Kitewing?
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What Is A Kitewing?
You propably know what a Kite is, but have you heard about the Kitewing?
The kitewing is a lightweight hand?held wing shaped as a kite that can be used for sailing on ice, snow and land with a pair of skis, skates or a snowboard. This is done in wintertime. For summer use one can sail with the wing using roller blades, a mountainboard or a skateboard. I haven´t yet made it in summer, but winter usage is really cool. I mainly ride at frosen lakes, but snow-covered open spaces like moun-tains are maybe even better - You just need some more wind to get it going in the mountains. On plain ice you just need a little as 4-5 m/s of wind.
I´m no extreme rider, but some other people have found out that the wing is also capable of doing jumps. Well, several 100 meters...
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