Complete this text using these words
behind, fly, higher, invent, invented, kite, launched, power, than, worried
Cory Roeseler is a mechanical engineer who
likes to (1)
things. He came
up with the idea of kiteboarding in the 1990s.
He used a(n) (2)
to catch
the power of the wind and to allow the board
to launch off the water for a few seconds and
(3)
L. When Roeseler was a
teenager, he was the first person to try kite-skiing.
He didn't water-ski (4)
a boat
like other people, he decided to use wind
to ski below a kite. More
recently, Roeseler (6)
a new
kind of wakeboarding boat that has a sail on
the back. Roeseler's boat also has a tower which
is six feet higher (7)
other
wakeboarding boat towers, so the wakeboarding
rope is placed (8)
. This allows
the wakeboarder to jump higher in the air. Roeseler's
friend, Jeff, was a bit worried before testing the new
equipment because he hadn't seen anything like it
before. He needn't have (9)
- as the
boat went faster he started moving quickly across the
water and then (10)
high into the air