What is kitesurfing?
Kitesurfing or Kiteboarding it is flying over the water pulled by the kite on a small surfboard or a kiteboard. This is a relatively new sport, everyday gaining new fans around the world.
Who is kitesurfing for?
Kitesurfing can practice everyone: men, women and kids. Is "relatively easy".
The equipment is basicaly the kite and the board.
Kite is usually inflatable, LEI or C-shape, are typically made from ripstop nylon with an inflatable plastic bladder that gives the kite its shape and also keep the kite floating once dropped in the water.
Board can be either a twin tip board, as well as a directional surf-style board, generally come with footstraps that allow the rider to attach and detach from the board easily.
Harness comes in seat (with leg loops), waist or vest types. The harness attaches the rider to the control bar.
Control Bar is a solid metal or composite bar which attaches to the kite via the lines and allow control the kite.
! Safety is essential in the sport.
How goes the kitesurfing course?
The content of the lessons is individually tailored to your abilities and progress, without skipping any steps during the course. The most important is safety.
You start with a trainer - small kite without tubes and with no risk of being dragged. After mastering the most basic maneuvers, we change the trainer kite for a larger, inflated one. In this step you learn to start it and land it safely. It's time then to enter the water. Doing so called "bodydrags" the kite pulls you through the water and you have to perform various maneuvers. After mastering the kite in the water and on land we teach the waterstart, until you alone can go upwind.
Most people complete this steps within 10 hours of lessons.
Facing onto the Atlantic Ocean, Cumbuco also has perfect conditions for kitesurfing and windsurfing, with mild air and ocean temperatures and strong and consistent South East trade winds from June to February. Sand dunes behind the village also create a thermal effect and act to boost the wind speed. There are more than 300 km of beaches in the State of Ceara, which are popular for practicing downwind trips and kite safaris.
__________________________ Jericoacoara is a small fishing village cum beach hippie mecca in Ceará, Brazil, some 300 km west of Fortaleza. Jeri, as it is affectionately known, is the kind of idyllic place where many travelers end up deciding to stay for longer than they had originally planned. Jericoacoara is a place removed from the hurried modern world of screeching sirens, maniac deadlines, traffic jams and endless lineups. A place where streets are paved with sand, where beaches stretch as far as the eye can see and where warm water marries with palm swaying breezes. Until about 20 years ago, Jericoacoara was still a secluded and simple fishing village. There were no roads, no electricity, no phones, no TV's, no newspapers, and money was rarely used. Since 1984, the area around Jericoacoara was declared Environmental Protection Area (APA) and became a National Park in 2002. This brought many building restrictions and tourism controls what help to preserve the area. Electricity arrived in the village and today, hot showers and air conditioning are no longer luxury articles. However, illumination of the streets is forbidden by local law.
__________________________ Canoa Quebrada (meaning broken canoe in Portuguese), known as the pearl of the east coast of Ceará, Brazil, is an international tourist beach resort 164 km south from Fortaleza, in the municipality of Aracati. This small fishing village, among dunes and cliffs, has good views and is becoming popular with tourists. The main street of Canoa, where most accommodation, restaurants and shops are concentrated, is called Broadway. The nights of Canoa Quebrada are known for animation and diversity. The Tourism Authority of Ceará rates Canoa Quebrada as the most important tourist attraction of the state, after Fortaleza. Tourist activities include outdoor activities such as excursions in dune buggies, horse riding, sailing in a 'jangada' boat, mountain biking, sandboarding, kitesurfing and windsurfing.
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