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Kiteboarding - fly through the water surface, on a board with a kite in his hands. Those who want them should have the skills to engage in behavior on the water and be able to make a kite and manage it. Those who buy the finished kite will need the ability to manage their own swimming ability. This sport is very interesting and has two more ancient sports: navigation and launch kites.

How to avoid danger on the water?
To refer to the main systems of navigational hazards of the sea and used lighted unlighted buoys milestones. The shape and design of navigation marks are not standardized and may have a different view, the description of which in each case is placed in the manual and in the "Notices to Mariners." However, in all cases observed uniformity titles, color, light characteristics and the type of figure types of floating signs belonging to one or another system enclosure.
When the cardinal system provides protection of navigational hazards floating warning signs on the countries of the world (the compass relative to north, south, east and west). Signs are called according to the direction in which the mark is located on the bank, the bank or other danger. For example, north buoy exposed to the south of the danger, and the vessel should leave it to the north and east milestone that shields Danger, located to the east of it, you also need to leave the east.
If a bank or reef is small, then it is designated a landmark or buoy cross set in the center of the danger, and the vessel can get around them on either side at a distance of 1 cable (185 m).
To facilitate the identification of buoys on them sometimes cause number.