EXTREME SPORTS By Agatha Rozhkova and Iryna

EXTREME SPORTS By Agatha Rozhkova and Iryna Shevtsova 4 -E course

FLYBOARDING

WHAT IS IT? Flyboarding – it’s a wonderful sport for people who have dreamed to learn to fly, but who are scared of heights. Have you ever wondered how it would feel to be a dolphin? What would it be like to shoot through the water, jump into the sky and dive back into the waves? Through flyboarding you can actually experience this! Thanks to flyboarding anyone can be as free as a dolphin. With a flyboard beneath your feet you are able to jump 15 meters out of the water, float over the waves or jump into them and swim faster than you would have ever imagined. And the greatest thing is: flyboarding is easy! You don not need experience to be able to flyboard.

If the fascinating jumping — cliff diving close to the exciting flight with no less spectacular dive, the flaybording — it’s an amazing mixture of adrenaline and kite surfing, surpassing all of these water sports on the emotional and spectacular component. It’s a real flight over water to perform amazing tricks. And if you’ve always wanted to feel yourself in the role of James Bond, the flaybording — exactly what you need for such a spectacular experience.

HOW DOES IT WORK? A Flyboard rider stands on a board connected by a long hose to a watercraft. Water is forced under pressure to a pair of boots with jet nozzles underneath which provide thrust for the rider to fly up to 15 m (49 ft) in the air or to dive headlong through the water down to 2. 5 m (8 ft).

THE HISTORY OF FLYBOARDING The Flyboard was invented in Autumn 2012 by a. Frenchwater-craft rider, Franky Zapata. He is a aquabike world champion. The design allows the device to climb out of the water and be stable in the air. This was achieved by the underfoot propulsion and hand stabilization. The French. Institut national de la propriété industrielle(INPI) granted Zapata a patent for his invention. The Flyboard was the subject of a lawsuit from competitor. Jetlevwhich was dropped without prejudice in March 2013. The device was presented to the public for the first time at the jet ski World Championship 2012 in China. Since its introduction in 2012 the Flyboard has sold around 2500 units. The first Flyboard World Championships took place in. Doha, Qatar in October 2012. In the 2015 season of. America’s Got Talent, a flyboard enthusiast named Damone Rippy performed Flyboarding as his act on the show.

From the outside it seems incredibly dangerous actions available only to the most extreme personalities. In fact, it is a water fun is available to the majority, in fact quite simple training. Realizing flyboard management principle, it is already possible to easily hang over the water, and at a more advanced level — and even perform various spectacular stunts in the air during a flight over water.

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