Traction Kite

Le Buggy and Traction Cart

The principle is simple: the machine with two, three, or four wheels (in generally 3, but some of them up to 7!...) a powerful kite and sufficiently swift, an adequate equipped pilot, and now let’s roll, by preference on a clear ground.

 

Traction Cart - Definition, history and initiation : http://membres.lycos.fr/af2c/

 

Kite Jumping

Kite could let fly! When the kite let flying and begins to let doing figures in the air, we enter in the extreme world of the kite jumping.
The kite jumping is a derived experience of the classic kite, which aim is jumping thanks to the help of the kite.

It exists two sorts of jumps: the freestyle and the big jump.

- In freestyle, the “jumper” makes some less important jumps in length and altitude but it will execute some figures (from 360° to 720°), some flat spins, pirouettes or somersault. This practise corresponds to a state of mind “greedy for liberty” and for strong feelings.

- The big jump: it is a question of doing some jumps the farther possible. These jumps are close to the fifty metres. The record of the world of eighty metres is hold by Pierre Cardineaud, French (presented in Dieppe in 1998).

The kite jumping is preferably practised on a flat and dry sandy beach. It must not be forgotten that the kite jumping is an extreme sport, which requires the advice and the supervision of experimented initiates for the debutants.
This practise is very dangerous, that is why she is often strictly prohibited to the non professionals.

In order to offer to the audience a rich and varied presentation of the different kiting disciplines, the Dieppe festival punctually present in collaboration with the Dieppe Kite Club (Cerf-Volant Club de Dieppe) some buggy and jump demonstrations during the festival.

The professional monitors of the French Federation of Free Fly advise the novices of these extreme sports.

 

 

Fédération Française de Vol libre :

http://www.ffvl.fr/Vol_Libre/Cerf_Volant/Traction/index_kite.php

 

Jump by Net - Techniques, security, material, figures and news :

http://membres.lycos.fr/jumpbynet/