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From the Pousada La Dolce Vita is easy to arrive to the beach in order to do kitesurf with the maximum of pleasure. The Pousada, beyond to have a transport service until the beach, has places adapted in order to conserve the sport material. Canoa is a wonderful place for the kitesurf: it has an incredible panorama, red sandstone barriers and a constant wind that blows from the ocean. It can be taken off and be landed alone in order to enjoy two steps across the spectacular river. From the skillful part of the ocean there are stones that like barriers protect the beach. During the high be careful: the sand is not enough and if there is too much people on the beach is dangerous to land. |
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KITESURF SCHOOL PRICES: BRIEF KITESURF HISTORY The majority of the versions about the sprouting of the kites points the 2.000 years China as the origin place, where kites helped the navigation of boats and the transport of weighed material of construction. In the year 700, the Buddhist missionaries would have led to Japan kites that had started to be used to religious and military intentions (its racket served to intimidate the enemies and the height that reached helped in the comment of distant positions). |
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In the Second World War I, Americans had used kites as mechanism of defense against airplanes. In 1295, the Italian explorer Marco Polo is pointed as the responsible for taking the Asian invention to Europe, The English George Peacock is considered the father of the traction kite, for having invented, in 1826, in Bristol (England), a structure where a wagon was pulled for kites to the speeds of up 20 Km/h. Its alternative did not evolve very in almost 150 years, not to be for the experience of one of the pioneers of aviation, the American Samuel Franklin Cody, who sailed the Channel pulled for a kite. Jalbert, (U.S.A), created in 1964 the first kite that was inflated of air and, in the decade of 70, some Americans had started to use parachute to pull them into water. |
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| In 1977, the dutch Gijsbertus Panhuise obtains to patent an equipment where a person in a plate pulled by a parachute and, in 1978, a catamaran moved by a kite developed for the American Ian Day exceeds the 40 speed of Km/h. In the decade of 80, had been made some attempts – badly succeeded - to combine kites with canoes, skids, aquatic skids of ice, among others. One of them was of the Swiss Andreas Kuhn - that, on a similar plate of wakeboard and stimulated for an original equipment, raised the water: about 25 square meters,. Shown for the European TV, he was probably the first one to jump and raised with weak winds. But it was from the work of two families, an American and a Frenchman, also in the decade of 80, that it was initiated (chronology) so that kitesurf arrived at the form that has currently.
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In 1982, the American Bill Roeseler, a designer of Boeing, and its son, Cory, use a species of delta wing of rigid carbon fiber structure to pull them on aquatic waves. Already in 1984, the French brothers Bruno and Dominique Legaignoux, developed a kite with air chambers. An inflated air allow them to raise again the without needing the aid of third. The invention is patented. In 1992, Bill and Cory Roeseler they put for sale the product that had patented and called kiteski. In the following year, the kites of inflatable structure start to be solded in the market. In 98, it was disputed (Maui) The World-Wide Championship in the modalities Long Distance, Wave and Slalom. | |||||
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