wondering if anyone was into skimboarding. this is a hobby i am thinking of taking up this summer since i have nothing to do untill sept28. if theres any skimmers here, what type of board are you running? wave riding? or just sand skimming?

 

Last week at Shasta behind my boat, lots of weight, Tequila and boobies!

 

wake surfing is sick, but skimboarding is more economical for me. looks like you guys had a blast last week though!

 

We went wake boarding and wake surfing yesterday. And we had some jet skis there too.

 

is skimboarding where you throw down the disk, run to catch up with it, then fall over as soon as it touches the water?

 

Yep

 

I used to skimboard back in the day when the surf was small or the tide was fucked up. If you are a beginner, any board will do really.

 

i'd try it, but the cops would probably arrest me for registration on the board or something.

 

Oh no! Not water maggots!

Where did you go? Lake Beryissa?

It's all fun and games until you pull up to the dock and pay $5.00/gallon

 

Believe it or not, I skimmed semi-professionally for 3 summers when I was in high school. By "semi-pro" I ain't claiming I made any money or anything, I just got free boards from J Gordon and a couple spring suits from O'Neill.

The nearest beach to my house is 26th ave, a world class skim spot with overhead shorepound.

 

skimming:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...3676768&q=skim

Edit :turn the speakers off.

 

that's a lot of effort to be on the board for ~4 seconds at a time.

 

No we just went to melones. Its huge and so warm right now. We filled up before we went. And yeah we brought a couple of smokers.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaT5az_Upm0

skimming looks fun! sevenstock 9 i will definately hit up the beaches down there.

 

its too sick! http://www.cramikskim.com/Videos/run...stin_boone.htm

 

Pretty crappy quality video, but the waves are going off and these guys are skimmin' good.

I can't wait for summer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO0dv-clIkk

 

that shyt is ****** sick i love how some of the just got eatten by the big waves lol

 

ooohhh... saw some Wedge in that one. I need to hit that place up this summer.

 

When I lived in SC for a few months I hit up 26th one time. It was a pretty fun wave. I went to this other place off PCH too. My buddy referred to it as "2 mile" or something because it was two miles out of SC.

 

i picked up skimming last summer. hard as hell. maybe cuz im a big fellow with a higher than normal center of gravity.

how bout an rx7 meet at the beach>??

 

that would be pretty fun. i started last summer too, but i suck. LoL. well it didnt help that i tired to start in oahu on sandy beach. that place is killer.

 

Fumanchu, that was probably 4 Mile.

I live about three blocks from 26th ave...a little 26th skim/BBQ meet might be fun. We oughtta wait 'till it warms up alittle bit, though, 'cause skimming in a fullsuit is begging for ball-rash.

 

4 mile, 2 mile, Mavericks, what's the f'n difference?


It never warms up in Santa Cruz.

 

ahh. i cant wait till it warms up. then more meets will start popping up

 

I was learning to skim until this bulldog got ahold of my board at the beach....

Its pretty easy (and really cheap!) to make your own:

Take a profile from a known good board
cut it out of some plywood
soak it in water for a day or two
weigh it down with the correect rocker bent in until it dries
varnish+varnish+varnish

Total cost: about $15

At least that's how I did it. It worked pretty well as far as I could tell, but I never got very good at it.

--Alex