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Boardsports are sports that are played with some sort of board as the primary equipment. Surfing, first mastered in the Pacific islands, was the first board sport. Eventually, it was expanded to land applications, often with the addition of wheels. more...

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Many board sports are classified as action sports or extreme sports, and thus often appeal to youth. Board sports have had a history of being dangerous, "punk" or reckless, and thus were marginalized in the sports community. However, many board sports have gained mainstream recognition, and with this recognition have enjoyed wider broadcast, sponsorship and inclusion in institutional sporting events, including the Olympic Games.

Classifications

There are a variety of board sports, which are characterized by terrain:

Water

Surfing

The grandfather of all board sports, is a surface water sport that involves the participant being carried by a breaking wave.

Windsurfing

Also known as sailboarding. A water sport involving travel over water on a small 2-4.7 meter board powered by wind acting on a single sail. The sail is connected to the board by a flexible joint

Bodyboarding

Wave riding consisting of a small, roughly rectangular piece of foam, shaped to a hydrodynamic form. The bodyboard is ridden predominantly lying down, (or 'prone'). It can also be ridden in a half-standing stance (known as 'dropknee') or can even be ridden standing up.

Wakeboarding

A surface watersport created from a combination of water skiing, snow boarding and surfing techniques. As in water skiing, the rider is towed behind a boat, or a cable skiing setup.

Skurfing

Another fast growing boardsport is skurfing a mix of surfing and more conventional water sports in which the participant is towed behind the boat.

Kneeboarding

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.

Kiteboarding

Involves using a power kite to pull a small surfboard, or wakeboard on water. Other variations are to use a wheeled board or buggy on land, or skis or a snowboard on snow.

Skimboarding

A discipline of surfing involving riding a board on wet sand or shallow water. Not usually competitive, it is considered a miscellaneous beach recreation activity.

Riverboarding

a boardsport in which the participant is prone on the board with fins on his/her feet for propulsion and steering

Land

Skateboarding

Uses a board mounted on wheels, and often ridden on a "half-pipe" or in urban settings. The most famous skateboarder, and early pioneer of the sport is Tony Hawk.

Streetboarding

Similar to a skateboarding, but also influenced heavily by snowboarding.

Mountainboarding

Similar to snowboarding, but on snow-less peaks (in between winter seasons). The board is wider and sturdier. Mountainboarding is similar to skateboarding in the way that mountainbiking is similar to regular biking. MBS Mountainboards

Kite landboarding

Similar to Kite Surfing but the kite is used to pull the rider along flat ground (often a hard packed sandy beach) on a mountainboard.

Pineboarding

A recreational boardsports that takes wheelless boards and skates across fallen pinecones in forrests.

Rope boarding

Uses a board hanging from a rope, ridden by swinging through the air, and landing on elevated platforms of launching off the tree it hangs from.

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