Patent ID: 7425017

Claim:
A sport board, comprising: a longitudinally extending lower platform having a center section, a forward end section, and a rearward end section, a longitudinally extending upper rocker platform having an upper surface for supporting both feet of a user, said rocker platform having a center section, a forward end section, and a rearward end section, binding structure atop the upper surface of said rocker platform for securing the feet of the user to the rocker platform, means for hingedly connecting the center sections together, said means for hingedly connecting comprising upper and lower hinge members, respectively, affixed to the upper rocker platform and the lower platform, each hinge member including a pair of laterally spaced flanges and each flange including an aperture, and a hinge pin extending through the apertures and connecting the hinge members and respective platforms together, the apertures in the flanges of one said hinge member being elongated and oblong in shape and the long sides of the oblong aperture being disposed vertically and perpendicular to the platform with which the hinge member is associated, the hinge pin connection enabling the rocker platform to move vertically up and down, the opposite sides of the rocker platform to tilt relative to the lower platform, and the forward and rearward end sections of the rocker platform to pivot towards and away from the corresponding end sections of the lower platform in a teeter totter manner, first and second spaces, respectively, defined on opposite longitudinal sides of the hinge pin connection, the spaces being formed between the forward and rearward end sections of the upper rocker platform and the upper surface of the lower rocker platform, and first and second compressible members, respectively, disposed in said first and second spaces, said compressible members cushioning the landing of the rider by resisting pivoting and closing movement of the rocker platform towards the lower platform.