Before revision: thumbtime=1|A person kiteboarding in Kanagawa, Japan in 2022 After some concepts that emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s and some designs were successfully tested, the sport received a wider audience in the late 1990s and became mainstream at the turn of the century.
After revision: A person kiteboarding in Varberg, Sweden in 2022thumbtime=1|A person kiteboarding in Kanagawa, Japan in 2022 After some concepts that emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s and some designs were successfully tested, the sport received a wider audience in the late 1990s and became mainstream at the turn of the century.