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...YOUR KICKS Hey, nobody ever lost money selling kids new ways to break their neck--hence the K2 Evolution Four kickboard ($199), this summer's answer to the Razor Scooter. The kickboard is an unholy combination of skateboard and scooter geared toward stunts. Safety-minded kids may prefer simply to play in traffic...
...Barbados--the first man to swim the Atlantic. Towing a supply raft into which he slithered each night after swimming six to eight hours, he had left the Cape Verde Islands--some 3,800 km away--55 days earlier. Critics might cavil about his use of flippers and a kickboard, but to his waiting wife and two children, he was a much hugged hero...
Lars A. Rierson '87's craft was the smallest of all the entrants--a kickboard. "I've been on three boats. I tried to wreck one of them and the other two I used to get warm on," said a shivering Rierson...
Actually, the nearest many swimming candidates get to the water in preseason practice is the shower room, although some have been known to take a dip now and then on the sly. But this is unofficial and recreational--if pushing a kickboard for forty laps is your conception of a good time...
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