Highest kitesurfing jump

What to remember

Over the North Sea near Hanstholm, South African Joshua Emanuel rose 36.2 m on August 8, 2023, riding a 7 m kite.

Kitesurfing uses a large power kite to pull a rider on a board across the water. The rider wears a harness linked to the kite by lines, usually 4 or 5, and steers with a bar that also works as a throttle depending on the strength of the wind.

After early designs were tested in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the sport reached a wider audience in the late 1990s and went mainstream around the turn of the century. It borrows from paragliding, surfing, windsurfing, skateboarding, snowboarding and wakeboarding.