Drop-knee board

Abstract

The present invention describes a versatile drop-knee board having a fore section and an aft section suitable for wave boarding. The multi-purpose board of the present invention is provided with an aft section having crotch-sized width in order to allow a user's legs to kick within a general lateral outline of a wider fore section. The combination board can be utilized for surfboarding (both legs standing), drop-knee boarding (one leg standing and one knee down) or body boarding (body prone), preferably while wearing swim fins on the feet.

1 . A body board comprising:
 a. a fore section;   b. an aft section coupled to the fore section;   c. the fore section having a width of about 18 to 28 inches and the aft section having a width of about 1 to 9 inches, the board having a combined length of the fore section and aft section of between about 4 and 9 feet, the aft section having a length of about 1 to 6 feet.   
     
     
         2 . The board of  claim 1  wherein the width of the aft section is about 4 inches-9 inches thereby permitting a user's legs with the user in the prone position to kick within a lateral outline of the width of said wider fore section. 
     
     
         3 . The board of  claim 1  wherein the fore section and the aft section are a unitary piece. 
     
     
         4 . The board of  claim 1  wherein the fore section and the aft section are separate pieces coupled together. 
     
     
         5 . The board of  claim 4 , wherein the fore section and the aft section are coupled together at a junction. 
     
     
         6 . The board of  claim 4  wherein said fore and aft sections are coupled together at a flexible junction. 
     
     
         7 . The board of  claim 1  wherein said aft section is of consistent width throughout. 
     
     
         8 . The board of  claim 1  wherein said aft section is of varying width. 
     
     
         9 . The board of  claim 1  wherein at least one removable fin is attached to the underside of the board. 
     
     
         10 . The board of  claim 9  wherein said fin is a tail fin and is a slide-in fin. 
     
     
         11 . The board of  claim 1  having a core of polyurethane coated over with fiberglass. 
     
     
         12 . The board of  claim 1  wherein the fore section has a lateral outline which is substantially chest-size. 
     
     
         13 . The board of  claim 12  wherein the lateral outline of the fore section decreases in size from about 18 to about 28 inches to the aft section's width of about 1 to about 9 inches over a distance of about 0 to 24 inches. 
     
     
         14 . The board of  claim 1  wherein the aft section is narrower in its front end than in its rear end. 
     
     
         15 . The board of  claim 1  wherein the aft section is wider in its front end than in its rear end. 
     
     
         16 . The board of  claim 1  wherein said aft section is formed as an integral part of the board comprised of said fore and aft sections. 
     
     
         17 . The board of  claim 1  wherein the width of the aft section allows the user's legs to kick within the general lateral outline of the width of the fore section. 
     
     
         18 . A method of wave boarding comprising the steps of: (a) providing a wave board device suitable for conveying a wave boarding user to a first user selected aquatic wave boarding position wherein said wave boarding device is a body board having a fore section; an aft section coupled to the fore section, the fore section having a width substantially wider than a width of the aft section and wherein the width of the aft section is about 1 to 9 inches thereby permitting the user's legs to kick within a lateral outline of the width of said wider fore section when the user is in the prone position; (b) self-propelling the wave boarding user to said first selected wave boarding position; and (c) wave boarding the device by the user in any of a prone, kneeling and/or standing upright posture from said first user selected aquatic wave boarding position to a second, further aquatic position.