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n. 1 (context surfing English) A short (often less than 6'), broad (sometimes extremely broad) surfboard designed to be ridden in the surf in a kneeling position, and often having traction pads in the central area as an alternative to wax, to help the knees grip the deck. 2 (context aviation English) A clipboard carried in the lap of an airplane pilot, on which basic flight data is recorded. 3 (rfdef: English) vb. to surf or water-ski using a kneeboard
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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.
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 wakeboarding and other modern watersports; 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, Steve Lis, 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.
A pair of knee boards is also a tool used by a mason to distribute body weight while kneeling on wet concrete.
Kneeboard may refer to one of the following:
- Kneeboard, surfboard ridden in a kneeling stance
- Kneeboard (flight), a flight accessory for pilots to hold maps, etc.
Usage examples of "kneeboard".
Hogan reached down and adjusted his kneeboard where he had clipped his chart of the area for this, his first combat mission in several years.
They were silent, making little notes on their kneeboard cards, occasionally glancing at the charts on the wall to remind themselves of the geography they knew so well.
Hogan glanced at the chart on his kneeboard which was folded several times, leaving only the immediate area visible.
He looked down at his kneeboard and began to write down the information on the weather and frequencies for his flight to Tan Son Nhut airbase outside of Saigon, Republic of South Vietnam.
He went forward and sat in his chair and pulled his kneeboard out of the drawer below the seat along with a couple of fresh briefing cards.
He placed one of the cards under the top clip of the kneeboard just below where the stupid little light, which never worked after the battery cover cap was lost, used to be and began copying down the weather and frequencies.
Hogan went back to his kneeboard and began copying down whatever information was readily available.
In the backseat Casey noted the TACAN position, heading, altitude, and airspeed on his kneeboard so that this could all be reconstructed later if need be.
He pulled his kneeboard out of his helmet and placed the helmet on the front seat in the briefing chairs.
He looked at the chart on his kneeboard and then at the terrain below them which was about to be swallowed up in the trailing edge of the cloud deck.
Phantom, his RIO, Jake Lamb, consulted his kneeboard and keyed the radio.
Reed grabbed a pen from the kneeboard strapped to his right thigh and asked Strike for the coordinates.
Jake began frantically flipping through the bundles of cards on his kneeboard, looking for the Air Traffic Control sector and frequency list.
Jake looked up the frequency on another kneeboard card and dialed it into the second radio.
I started pulling out my briefing sheet from my kneeboard, the handy device that snaps around your upper leg and holds all the mission briefing crap.