Kitesurfing is the natural evolution of extreme wind-powered watersports. Combining traits of windsurf and wakeboard, the powerful air-foils and lightweight boards give the kiteboarder higher performance capabilities than ever before. In its short but exciting history kitesurfing has brought together the most exciting components of other extreme sports. The simplicity of the kite-board concept allows every rider the ability to create their own ride styles that reflect their creative imagination and personal expression. With every new move the definitions are changed and the sport continues to expand in possibility. Nobody knows what kiteboarding will look like in the future. But already at the present time kiteboarding has expanded into snow-kiteboarding and has taken new directions into foil-boarding and land-boarding.
Eventually, in Japan many different variations of the art (Jiu-Jitsu) took shape, including Karate, Aikido, and Judo. But these arts were missing essential pieces of what the complete art of Jiu-Jitsu originally held. Soon the day of the Samurai came to an end, the gun replaced the sword, and new sportive ways to practice martial arts were developed. This lack of reality created years of confusion in the martial arts community, a confusion that legendary Bruce Lee would later refer to as the 'classical mess'. The 'sport arts', such as Judo and Kendo were wonderful in the way of offering their practitioners a safe way to realistically train the techniques of their system, but often limited their practitioners with too many rules to maintain effectiveness as a combative style.
Mountainboarding is one of the fastest growing action sports worldwide. Often described as a combination of snowboarding, skateboarding and BMX the sport is widely participated in, visually stunning, and definitely extreme. The top Mountainboard riders are pushing the limits of the sport further and further each year with the top freestyle riders doing inverted aerial maneuvers and multiple spinning freestyle tricks, all while riding over dirt, grass, asphalt, and even ski resort slopes during the summer months. Tracing it’s roots back to the 1970’s the sport is actively participated in by over 1 million athletes worldwide *(cited by the Wall Street Journal, April 16th, 1998, pg.1, sec. a). Many of the active participants in All-Terrain Boarding come directly out of the snowboarding, skateboarding, BMX, Surfing, Mountain Biking, and Wakeboarding. Mountainboarding is a huge cross over sport, and has drawn attention and participation from all of these other sports.
