A kneeboard is a board ridden in a kneeling stance. Kneeboards are ridden in ocean surf, or while being towed behind a boat on a lake or river.

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Kneeboard riders generally wear life jackets or wet suits and catch the wave by paddling and kicking or dipping their hand in the water . Advantages to kneeboarding include an extremely low center of gravity, less wind resistance, the ability to ride higher and farther back in the tubes, and taking off on a steeper part of the wave. Towed kneeboarding is an offshoot of kneeboard surfing; kneeboard riders compete tricks, and expression session events. Towed kneeboards have a padded deck contoured to the shape of the shins and knees and a strap holds the rider to the board. Towed kneeboarding declined in popularity with the advent of

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and other modern

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; however, it still enjoys popularity among water skiers and newer models of the kneeboard are still in production. A kneeboard is a good piece of equipment to start out on for boat-towed sports—the low center of gravity often makes it easier to get up on than a waterski or wakeboard, which both require standing up. Surf kneeboard innovators include George Greenough,

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, Peter Crawford and Ron Romanosky. Till Wipperfuerth is one of the actual top performers in kneeboarding, since he became champion of the Tunilake Kneeboard Masters. Kneeboarding is also a very easy alternative weight boarding

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* * {{cite web , url = http://waterski.about.com/od/beginnersknee/a/kneebd_starts.htm , title = How to start , access-date = 2006-05-20 , archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060529202021/http://waterski.about.com/od/beginnersknee/a/kneebd_starts.htm , archive-date = 2006-05-29 , url-status = dead Towed water sports Surfing equipment Kneeling

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