kneeboards

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• kneeboards — n. short surfboard controlled by the knees (Sports); clipboard that pilots use during flights for holding maps and checklists …   English contemporary dictionary

• Kneeboarding (towsport) — Kneeboarding is an aquatic sport where the participant is towed on a buoyant, convex, and hydrodynamically shaped board at a planing speed behind a motorboat. In the usual configuration of a tow sport kneeboard, riders sit on their heels on the… …   Wikipedia

• Kneeboard — A kneeboard is a surfboard ridden in a kneeling stance. Kneeboards are ridden in ocean surf, or while being towed behind a boat on a lake or river. Kneeboard surfers generally wear swim fins and catch the wave by paddling and kicking. Advantages… …   Wikipedia

• Surfing — This article is about stand up ocean surfing. For other uses, see Surfing (disambiguation). A surfer performing a late drop …   Wikipedia

• Surfboard — For other meanings see Surfboard (disambiguation). A stack of boards in Waikiki during a surf competition …   Wikipedia

• Kneeboarding (surfsport) — Kneeboarding is a discipline of surfing where the rider paddles on his belly into a wave on a kneeboard , then rides the wave face typically on both knees. The typical kneeboard is between five and six and a half feet in length, with a wide round …   Wikipedia

• Z-Boys — The Z Boys were a group of skateboarders from Los Angeles in the 1970s who are credited with popularizing skateboarding and essentially creating the punk/skater subculture that now exists. Their name is derived from the Zephyr Competition… …   Wikipedia

• surfing — /serr fing/, n. the act or sport of riding the surf, as on a surfboard. Also called surfriding. [1915 20; SURF + ING1] * * * Sport of riding breaking waves toward the shore, especially with a surfboard. The sport originated prehistorically in the …   Universalium