Surfing Waves

who on this forum skimboards as well as surfs? anyone any good? beginers?

yeah i have a cheap plywood board bought from st ives,its exallent took me and a mate a week to learn how to do it watching all the tourists around us who was doin it they all seemed to learn fast too . Hard to master thefirs time but after that 360s mad twists and turns and a move some one told me was a pot shoveif it was doneit on a skate board. great fun!!!

whats really fun if you like deeper water, is you can make a really shallow fin for it, like 1/4 inch deep, and like 2 feet long, and glue that down the center of the board, and it will give you more control to do fun stuff. You won't really be able to spin as well but you can carve and I find that more fun.

sounds cool! what did you make the fin out of? when you mean 2 ft long what do you mean, it sounds like it would snap off quite alot ,does it ? i found skim boardin is one of the sports that exercises your body all round and totaly knakers you out after a full on day of it !

*when you SAY 2 ft long what do you mean is that not a bit big ? how deep is the water you do it in[/b]

i think he meant 2 ft along the bottom of the board and sticking downwards 1/4 of an inch. correct me if im wrong.

yea, he got it. Ive experiemented with larger fins but its harder because you scrape bottom alot, so the 1/4" thick ones work well. Its like two feet long, along the bottom of the board, and I usally make em out of peices of two by fours. Try experiementing with diffrent shapes and see how they work, my favorite right now is like a streched out thruster, that got squished. See what you come up with.

I skimboard quite often, its handy when the surfs crap. Apparently ''skimboarding is the new surfing'' !?! I doubt that very much!?

Hang Loose

so do i! its more of a surfing spin off , still fun whatever (unless the surf is good) !!

anyone like vic boards? or does everyone just use woodys

whats a vic board
? (i bet it is stupidly obvious,and im going to regret askin stupid questions)

not really a stupid question... I probally would have asked something like it, its an abbreviation for victoria, I was thinking about getting one of their ultra-vacs

ahh! ive seen them not cheap do you do a bit of wave riding?

yea, or I try to. Ive done a lip snap, but thats all ive gotten on a woody, because they don't float, so its kinda hard to ride waves. and im too cheap to but a foam board. (:

at that price who isnT! (unless you have a good job) ive craked half my bigtoenail off skimbording and now i keep catching it on my surfboard OUCH!

Skimboarding - do it when surf sucks or you have come on shore for a little break

Best Boards - Zaps because they are just freakin awesome
TRicks- anything from carving on small waves to 360 shovets off the wave whatever floats yur boat
and as far as twiking yur board to be good ( if you have the money ) my freind put to stomp pads on his zap
you get some major air

ive gotten some nice arials on a 1/4... I can't find a good beach either... too flat... I need to bring my board up to washington or somewhere.

hey death frog i've read ur how to make a skimboard and u seem to know alot so i'm just about to start making a board for myself (a wood one) but i'm wondering how much rocker u'd suggest if any i should put in it, i'm gonna use it for flat land skimming (cuz i live in ontario and the biggest waves are up to my ankles in lake ontario

low foil, make sure it flows, 1/8"tail and 3/16" or so nose.

for that pourpose it doesen't really have to be an exact science, just something low.

so i shouldn't have any rocker in it just a consistant foil front nose to tail, and is there anything else u'd suggest like how would u do the rails?