A body hull is used in the new water sport of body hulling. The body hull comprises a front panel that extends approximately to the thigh of a person wearing it. The body hull further has a back panel and buckles for connecting the two panels under the person's arms. In one embodiment, the front panel is a relatively flat skiff-like hullform design, but it has a slightly convex shape centered along a longitudinal axis. The person wraps a tow harness behind his shoulders and under his arms and attaches the tow harness to the control bar or handles of a kite. When in the water, the person controls the kite to pull him across the water surface on the body hull front panel. For high winds, the outside surface of the front panel has a shallow vee or deep vee hullform centered along the longitudinal axis. The shallow or deep vee hullform enables the body hull front panel to smoothly penetrate the waves as the person hydroplanes across the water.
A body surfing device for allowing a rider to bend an upper buoyant board relative to a lower buoyant board during a ride in order to allow enhanced flexibility and maneuverability when riding waves. The bending can come from a hinge, such as a rope cord interlaced between the upper board and the lower board. The hinge allows the device to be foldable so that combined with removable straps for attaching the lower board to the rider, the rider can walk with the attached device when entering and leaving the water. The straps can be used to attach a top edge of the lower board about the waist of the rider, and dual straps can be used to attach the lower board about each of the upper thigh regions of the rider. The device is light weight, buoyant and is easy to use by the rider in a folded position. The device can include a tip end on the upper board having inwardly angling upper and lower edges, and side edges having both inwardly angling upper and lower edges, so that the angled edges allow for less resistance of the device when moving through the water.
