Kitesurfing Down a River

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Kitesurfing doesnt have to take place in a ocean. Rivers can be a kitesurfing playground, too.

Kitesurfing (also known as kiteboarding) primarily takes place in a ocean. But rivers offer a combined value of strong H2O currents total with breeze velocity, definition aloft speeds for a surfer. Plus theres no combined risk of being eaten by a shark.

The Hood River Sandbar in Oregons Columbia River Gorge is a sandy kitesurfing launch. Its one of a most practical places for stream kitesurfing in a United States since of its consistently windy conditions. Because many kitesurfing schools have been centered around a Gorge, its a perfect place for beginners.

The Hood River Kiteboarding Guide offers tips about maximizing a stream kitesurfing knowledge in a region, as well as identifies dangerous or difficult areas to ride. These guidelines include:

Photo by ColbyOtero.com

- Keeping an eye upwind to make sure a loose kite isnt headed in your direction.
- Keeping your kite low when riding downwind of alternative riders, as well as gripping it tall when riding upwind of alternative riders.
- Steering transparent of a Hood River part of a sandbar where a pros ride, unless youre a pro as well (it can be quite dangerous).
- Avoiding a jetty sandbar for a rising as well as alighting section since it is customarily crowded with families as well as children.
- Watching for barges coming through a channel to equivocate collision.

Another good place to practice or even comply with a amazing scenic backdrop is in Squamish River, British Columbia, Canada.

But thats a easy stuff.

If youre looking for something challenging as well as uncharted, you might want to cruise kiteboarding! a Lachi ne Rapids upon a St. Lawrence River. So distant it appears that only Julien Fillion has been a successful rider. This is no surprise deliberation a stream is 2.6 million gallons of H2O pouring over rocky terrain, shelves, as well as reefs.

This location is not for a inexperienced: Fillion had to pair up with Corran Addison as well as Yanick Larouche, fellow experienced stream surfers as well as kiteboarders, to use a Jet Ski for towing into a waves as well as to have emergency benefit upon standby during his initial ride.

Just how dangerous have been a rapids? Addison says, The converging currents emanate whirlpools as well as thick seams that lift downward towards a stream bottom thirty or 40 feet below. The bottom is littered with underwater caves, as well as substantially shipwrecks from a late 19th century.

While Fillion pulled off a float with minimal repairs (other than cracking his board in half), something as simple as being pulled down by a most violent wave in a rapids, Mavericks, would have tangled his lines as well as prevented him from resurfacing.

In his video, Fillion describes a stream kitesurfing knowledge as well as why he enjoys a sport.

Julien Fillion Kitesurfing Whitewater River Rapids from kiteroam upon Vimeo.

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