Snowboarding in Greece

Snowboarding is a winter sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow while standing on a board attached to a rider’s feet, using a special boot set onto a mounted bindingIt was developed in the United States in the 1960s to 1970s and became a Winter Olympic Sport in 1998. Since snowboarding’s inception as an established winter

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Parasailing and Parascending

Parasailing, also known as parascending, or “parakiting” is a recreational kiting activity where a person is towed behind a vehicle (usually a boat) while attached to a specially designed canopy wing that reminds one of a parachute known as a parasail wing. The boat then drives off, carrying the parascender or wing and person into the air. If the boat

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Water skiing and Wakeboarding

Water skiing and Wakeboarding The predecessor of the modern sport of water skiing was called aquaplaning, which came about when the manager of a seaside resort in California towed some reckless swimmers who had swum too far out back to shore on a big wooden crate, this in 1900. After the development of motorboats a couple of decades later, water

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Windsurfing in Greece

The sport became popular in Greece in recent year with the victory of Nikos Kaklamanakis at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. Greece is a country which offers perfect wind conditions to practice windsurfing. The world association of professional windsurfers, the PBA, organises every year since 1993 the World Championship in the Greek islands and more especially in the island of

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