Snowkiting

Snowkiting is a sport and a variant of the Kitesailing that you can run in winter on snow-covered, open spaces. It requires a suitable towing kite and skis or a snowboard. With enough wind you can fly the kite and pull him over the snow. As with all Kitesailing sports, make sure that the lines are under enough tension, since otherwise the kite collapses into itself and falls, caused for example by directly driving behind the dragon / ' drive to the dragon in'. The speed record is currently at 111.2 km / h The " snow kite mecca " in the Swiss Engadine Silvaplana is, in Italian Vinschgau Reschensee. There races are held regularly. Meeting point of kiting scene is also the Rittner Horn in South Tyrol, at over 2,200 meters above sea level.

A new spot in Wipptal in North Tyrol enables new sport Freeride Snowkiting. On good days, there is the constant wind still fine -piste.

Even as a child was practicing Dieter Strasilla, inspired by Otto Lilienthal, near Berchtesgaden in gliding. In the 1960s, Dieter Strasilla began in Germany and Switzerland (1961 in the U.S.) with parachute - skiing and perfected in the 70's a kite-skiing system by developing a paraglider and the lines led to a rack on the pilots, who was connected to a universal joint. This allowed the pilot to rotate the body in any direction and to cross with the Kitesegel to go upwind or uphill to then move in free flight at will. In the early 1980s used Dieter Strasilla and Andrea Kuhn this system in combination with grass skiing, converted karts, surfboards and Skurfs (similar to a wakeboard ) and thus belong to early kitesurfers.

In the 80s, some alpine skiers caught in a frozen bay in Erie, PA on, with a control provided with linen rectangular parachute to ride with the wind skis. This was followed Kiteskifahrer on many frozen lakes and fields in the U.S. Midwest and the East Coast. Lee Sedgwick and a group of Kiteskifahrern in Erie, PA, were early ice / snow - Kiteskifahrer here.

1982 Wolf Beringer began with his " short linen Parawing system" skiing and ski sailing on. This system has been used in several polar expeditions skizusegeln with carriage, sometimes very long distances were covered. Ted Dougherty started making sails for ski sailing, and Steve Shapson built sailing, in which two handles were used to easily control the kite can.

Mid-80s took Shapson the ice sailing an old zweileinigen kite and tried on the frozen lake in Wisconsin to sail with the wind. Shapson presented the " kite-skiing, " sports in Poland, Germany, Finland and Switzerland. He also used grass skis to sail on grass meadows Kiteski. Some of the early European sailors were Kiteski Keith Stewart and Theo Schmidt, who also drove one of the first with kites water skiing. The American Corey Roessler has developed a Kiteski system for water skiing with his father William and started to win at windsurfing races, where reigned strong tailwinds.

The following terms describe the sport of " towing kite " or some refer to " Power Kiting ": kite buggying, kite skiing, kite surfing, kiteboarding, Skisailing, Skisailing