skimboard to bodyboard

[pootle77]

Hello, ok a little background first. I'm doing a year long challenge for charity where I do 52 new things. Included in the list is surfing, skimboarding and bodyboarding. Each time I do a "new thing" I record footage using a GoPro. Well this week was skimboarding. I purchased a beginner friendly eva skimboard and attached a surf mount to the front...kind of thinking I would continue to skimboard after the taster so attaching the mount wouldn't be a waste. However, I sucked !! Not just a bit, A LOT !! It seems balance and me don't work. The night ended in a&e with a fractured big toe. Won't be trying that again. Now though I'm left with a skimboard and a mount. My question is, rather than buying a bodyboard and another mount..is there any way I could turn the skimboard into a bodyboard ? Its the right size, but needs more buoyancy I think. Is there anything I could do to convert it ? Thanks in advance

[pandarturo]

I've never heard of it. But I guess my imagination is nowhere near that of some of the manufacture think tanks.

[dtc]

If you google you will be able to find videos of people surfing on skimboards (like actually standing and going along a wave etc). So if they can surf, you probably can body board as you need less flotation to bodyboard than to surf. But you will likely need a fairly powerful wave -not necessarily too big but not small and mushy. So just give that a go.

As to adding flotation - might be hard. All I can think of is gluing the skimboard to a bodyboard (bodyboard underneath) or putting 1/2 bodyboard (or just some foam) on the top. Will ruin both boards forever though.

I am not sure how well a go pro mount will go on a bodyboard - the foam might be too soft; and having camera right under your chin sounds like a bad idea to me