Kite surfing is amongst one the fastest growing extreme sports in the world today, the sport has grown at a remarkable pace since the early 80s. Basic element of the sport have been around since the thirteenth century, the ancient Chinese use the same method as used today to transport themselves around using wind power so they could commute their canoes on the rivers.

The same method is used in this modern day in the exciting world of kite surfing the new age of extreme sports. A gentleman called Mr George Pocock had taken the basic elements of a standard kite and reinvented it by making the kite bigger and connecting it to a cart, four lines are use to control the kite, moving the cart across land and because winds where strong enough the cart can be lifted so that it could be sailed across land for an incredible amount of time, you would not believe it but the same method and design is still used in 2009 to power kite surfers across the water.

Carts where design to doge the horse tax that was imposed on the public, so these guys replaced horse power with wind power. The kites could move at remarkable speed across land or sea, they were solely dependent on the wind so they could manoeuvre of the ground, no one would believe that such as basic man made device would be the inspiration for the activities it’s used for today.

In the late seventies and eighties two brother by the names of Dom and Bruno Legaignoux designed kites at that time, the French brothers patented the early kite and the same design is still used today. Mr Laird Hamilton and Manu Bertin both decided to take kite surfing to another level and both were the reason why the sport has become so popular. Extreme kitesurfing is one of the most newest form of extreme sports with a large following of supporters.