A personal bipedal watercraft includes a pair of skis. Each ski of the pair of skis includes a floating hull. A deck is secured to the hull. A binding on each deck is configured to receive a foot of a user. A plurality of paddle assemblies are moveably secured to an underside of the floating hull. The paddle assemblies each include a blade and a fin.

A water riding apparatus is provided for moving along the surface of water in cross-country skier type fashion. The water riding apparatus includes a first pontoon having an elongate hull and a second pontoon having an elongate hull. The first and second elongate hulls are connected together for relative parallel longitudinal motion by a gliding mechanism affixed to inner sides of the first and second elongate hollow hulls. The first and second elongate hulls include foot well openings allowing the user to stand on the bottoms of the hulls at a location below the water line of the hulls. The water riding apparatus further includes a personal stabilizer system for supporting a user in a standing position. The first and second elongate hulls can be locked in a parallel, transversely aligned relationship to allow alternative use of the water riding apparatus in a sitting, kayak-type fashion.

The disclosed invention is a user-propelled device with no moving parts. The user places a single ski on each foot, the skis being independent from one-another. As the user strides the natural motion of his legs causes the skies to rise and fall with respect to the surface of the water. This rising and falling motion, and the resulting weight shift of the user, engages and disengages a plurality of paddles. Through this natural motion, the paddles are engaged when the foot is moving backward with respect to the user, and disengaged when moving forward with respect to the user. The result is forward motion with a natural gait, with automatic paddle engagement and disengagement.

The disclosed invention is a user-propelled device with no moving parts. The user places a single ski on each foot, the skis being independent from one-another. As the user strides the natural motion of his legs causes the skies to rise and fall with respect to the surface of the water. This rising and falling motion, and the resulting weight shift of the user, engages and disengages a plurality of paddles. Through this natural motion, the paddles are engaged when the foot is moving backward with respect to the user, and disengaged when moving forward with respect to the user. The result is forward motion with a natural gait, with automatic paddle engagement and disengagement.

A water ski system which includes two essentially identical assemblies each assembly including a buoyant ski having a top surface, a bottom surface, a front, and a back configured to float on water. Each buoyant ski includes a pivoting paddle located on the bottom surface of the buoyant ski configured to deploy in a backwards motion and retract in a forward motion against a force of water in a motion similar to cross-country skiing. The device propels a user across water when manipulated. Each buoyant ski has a foot mount and a toe of a boot pivotally affixed to the top surface of the buoyant ski.

A water walking apparatus having two inflatable pontoons, each with respective holes in their top surfaces for a footwell. A platform support may expand and contract when in use so as to accommodate variable spacing between the pontoons. The platform support may include curved saddle, which straddles over the curved outer surface of a pontoon, securing the platform support to the pontoons. A platform upon which a user may sit may be connected to the platform support by a neck received into a hole in the bottom of the platform. The platform may include a backrest member, and a strap that may serve as a ladder step when the backrest member is rotated rearwardly and down, into the water to allow a user to step on the continuous strap and climb up onto the platform.

A one-handed paddle for use in pairs with paddleboards, each paddle comprising a longitudinal main shaft, an axial ski pole type grip on the upper end of the shaft and aligned with the shaft axis, an elongated elastic wrist/arm strap on an upper surface of the shaft near the grip defining a tunnel for the arm generally parallel to the shaft in an unstretched condition, and a blade on the lower end of the shaft, the blade set at an acute upward angle to the main axis of the shaft. The blade has an inverted, rounded L-shape, with an inwardly-facing upper shoulder extending inwardly above and beyond a lower inner edge of the blade, the shoulder configured to ride along the upper surface of a paddleboard during the push portion of a paddling stroke.

A water walking apparatus having two inflatable pontoons, each with respective holes in their top surfaces for a footwell. A platform support may expand and contract when in use so as to accommodate variable spacing between the pontoons. The platform support may include curved saddle, which straddles over the curved outer surface of a pontoon, securing the platform support to the pontoons. A platform upon which a user may sit may be connected to the platform support by a neck received into a hole in the bottom of the platform. The platform may include a backrest member, and a strap that may serve as a ladder step when the backrest member is rotated rearwardly and down, into the water to allow a user to step on the continuous strap and climb up onto the platform.