Having just pushed a long skateboard across Australia you'd be forgiven for thinking Dave Cornthwaite should have taken a rest. Instead, five days after flying back to the UK he picked up a newspaper only to find an article about something random, a kind of bicycle for water. There was a picture showing a man stood aloft this contraption, and merely through the act of bounce was he traversing the Thames. A bike? That bounces? Or skips? 'I wonder if I could cross the Channel on that,' Dave thought, and right there on a train to Basingstoke, BounceFree was born.

This website follows Dave's Aquaskipping adventures, the main one being just learning how to ride the bloody thing!

What is an Aquaskipper?
An AquaSkipper is like a bicycle for water, just with hydrofoils instead of wheels. The hydrofoils act in the water like aeroplane wings do in the air, so when the rider bounces up and down the AquaSkipper glides through the water. It's fun, it's good exercise and what's more, it's very, very unique. And here's the thing, if the rider stops bouncing, the whole thing sinks. Great.