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windsurfing

the sport of sailing standing up on a sailboard that is equipped with a mast, sail, and wishbone boom
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The southern city of Dakhla, which offers one of the most beautiful spots worldwide, has become a leading destination for amateur and professional kiteboarding championships.
Kiteboarding also requires a stiff wind, while little or no wind is best for wakekiting - anything over 8 or 10 miles an hour makes it too difficult to control the kite.
At the kiteboarding centre, the only one of its kind in the Gulf and run by Oman World Tourism, this is exactly what Alexander teaches his pupils who, on completion of the course, earn a kiteboarding licence
For the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, kiteboarding will be a demonstration sport.
He's had two runner-up finishes in the Junior World Kiteboarding Championships in Spain, and had gotten so used to competing against older kiters.
Filipino-Norwegian Christian Tio saved the Philippine campaign with a kiteboarding silver medal in the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Kiteboarding in Hurghada - Photo courtesy of Trip Advisor CAIRO -- 12 August 2018: Tourists from all over the world enjoy kitesurfing now in the Egyptian city of Hurghada's Gouna, Macadi, and Soma Bay.
March 15: 10:00 -- 17:30 -- Flying Phantom Series racing window; 10:30 - 13:30 - 2018 Inter-School Optimist final; 13:30 - 14:00 - Foil Kiteboarding display; 14:00 -- 17:30 -- GC32 Stadium Racing.
In the women's fleet, the reigning International Kiteboarding Association (IKA) Formula Kite World Champion Daniela Moroz, from the US, showed she is human after all when she missed out on winning two of today's five races.
A total of 150 competitors from 39 countries have assembled at the Abu Dhabi Sailing and Yacht Club (ADSYC) to contest eight of the 10 classes chosen for Rio, as well as an open kiteboarding competition containing one of the sport's rising stars.
Actualites Eecrit par Dakhla Omayma Khtib Dakhla Kiteboarding World Cup 2014 Sous le haut patronage de SM le Roi Mohammed VI, l'evenement phare du sport au Maroc [beaucoup moins que]PKRA[beaucoup plus grand que] (Profesional Kiteboard Riders Association) a marque son retour le 18 mars pour une 5eme edition du Dakhla kiteboarding world cup.
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