KneeBoarding

 I know I have been way behind on my blog post but I’m going to try and do better from now on.  About a month and a half ago my friends and I went wakeboarding, which is what all my friends and I love to do in the summer.  One of my friends asked if any of us have knee boarded, none of us have so he brought his kneeboard along.  Everyone had a couple runs of wakeboarding but eventually we got to kneeboard.  I never realized how fun and easy knee boarding is. The only difficult part is when you first start getting towed you have to lay on the board and shimmy up to your knees and then you have to hold the rope with one hand while you take a strap you knees to the board,  After you’re all strapped in its smooth sailing from there.  It’s super easy to stay up because your center of gravity is lower to the ground, whereas wakeboarding is harder to stay up because your center of gravity is farther away.  Which makes sense because for wakeboarding you’re on your feet and knee boarding you’re on your knees.  I loved when we went wakeboarding, and tubing but I think I found a new favorite thing to do, knee board.  Now on knee boards there are no fins on the bottom so you can do 360s in the water and other tricks you couldn’t do with fins.  The first time I tried knee boarding I got up the first try, which is usually everyone’s first goal.  Right off the bat I tried a 360 almost got around but got hung-up when I was backwards.  My next run I figured out how to do a 360 and kept doing them, But my friends wanted we to jump the wake so I tried that.   I got a little bit of air but they wanted to see more.  So I complied to peer pressure and hit the wake again I got a little more air.  They kept telling me to go big or go home so on my final run I went as far out as the tow rope would let me and just whipped it back towards the wake.  Now the average height of air for a knee board is about two and a half feet.  On my last run I was going a little too fast and my friends said I got four to five feet of air, while I was in the air I was a little scared.  When I hit the wake my knees moved out of the straps, which isn’t a good thing.  In the center of a knee board there is a little knob, when my knees slid out it went over the knob and when I landed all of my weight went right on to my knee and the knob.  It was probably one of the worst pains I’ve ever had, besides breaking a bone.  I couldn’t even bend my knee it hurts so bad, when I got out of the water there was blood all down my leg,  I probably should have go stiches but I didn’t think I needed to.  I can’t wait to go knee boarding again next year; it’s my new favorite aquatic activity. 

Here is a picture of my knee after Knee boarding.