*Lives 7 hours from the ocean and only goes to the beach once a year* "You will also have to practice skimboarding at least 2 days a week" I WILL NEVER GIVE UP
I go to a cottage on the bay side of Cape Cod once every year. The last few years I have tried transitioning from bay skimming to ocean skimming with very little luck. First of all the beaches are pretty rocky and I get worried about my board. (If you know any good cape beaches hmu) Secondly, I am bad at timing and run-ups because on the bay you can just throw the board and then chase after it. But this video helped out a ton with #2!
@@williametzler3743 it's hard - one of the hardest sports to get very good at. dont give up, but if you love it and want to progress you can always look to move when you're an adult.
UnseenProdigies try running into the ocean, you’re gonna get knocked by waves but you get better balance and you can work your way up to riding waves, if that doesn’t work try to practice on wet sand or really shallow water 👍
I guess im wrong about not having the option to live at the beach and practice "4 DAYS A WEEK" Your really encouraging. thanks for a reality check buddy
I wouldn’t worry about his opinion on how many days is required to be good... I mean the fact he goes 4 times a week and can’t even skim good says it all.... it’s about quality not quantity lads...
@@malikthetherapist1342 It's a TEACHING video. He's obvs a very good rider. Just because he can show you what happens when a person is learning - hell, even the most experienced have the silliest bails - doesn't mean he's not good. In fact, it shows he's actually a good skimboarder because he's able to show you the mistakes. #takealesson And as far as how many days/hours/etc... well it really depends on what level you want to be at. If it's just for fun, then who cares. If you want to be pro... then damn right, you gotta be out there as often as possible. Just like any sport.
Once I ended up tearing my thigh because I didn’t stretch besides waking up driving to the beach and bolting towards the waves just to fall over in pain
Don’t forget it’s really hard to run on a slope beach and very soft sand. Been doing some flat sand skimboard with small board and didn’t really progress much. I just bought my 52 carbon board and I will see how it goes! Good tips! Everything you said here is really true! I keep stepping on the nose of my board and couldn’t time the waves. 🙄
I finally reached my first wave ! It wasn’t pretty but I was shitting bricks once I realized I was actually going head on with it and I just felt it push my board up and towards the beach I barely managed to turn but I was super happy to finally get on a wave and stay on the board ! Thank you for all the tips I’ve been doing everything you say and I can’t stress enough how true this video is a good drop and timing is everything!
I bought my first skimboard 3 days ago I got a Maddog softop I learned to occasionally land a shuvit and I can side slip for I short amount of time I am enjoying the sport a lot thanks for the helpful tutorial
Very good show, I used to skim board with my home made board on Long Island, NY, Jones beach, fire island. About 53 years ago, the beach all to myself, forward flips and side flips. A lot of fun. Keep skimming on!
I live near the ocean but all the spots nearby (not further than an hour) have no shorebreak... So I have a couple options- 1. Drive a couple hours to some place with skimboarding waves 2. Just skimboard the sand 3. Freakin build up the speed to shred the board all the way to the outside and ride an actual wave. (I'm going to try all of the above) Sick video btw, really helpful
Thank you for the instruction! I'm thinking of getting a board and trying this at one of the local beaches. Practice makes perfect. You have a new subscriber. 😊
I pop shoved'it on the first day as well catch a wave on day one because of one reason. I watched blair colin's tutorials before going skimboarding and I have lot of experience skateboarding. I wouldn't be able to do it if I didn't skateboard* already. It's a very technical sport. Love it!
Great video, love how in depth you get regarding timing. It was also refreshing to see you ride back in on very small waves, its reassuring to see that you can ride and have fun on any size wave as a beginner. Thanks so much!
"Practice two days a week" i live in a landlocked country and don't even get to go to the beach every year but i really wanna learn it xD i got to try it out a few years back and it was so much fun c:
If you don’t live by a beach and want to have some type of practice for the one time a year you go get a long board and just get you balance turning all sorts of maneuvers its not the exact same but it will help you work on balance and controlling the board it took me a day to get nice effective skims coming from a snowboarding and skate/long board background still a-lot to learn but it was a bit easier to start
Finally got to the coast, first run I had 4 dislocations on 3 toes and a sprained foot, I fixed the toes in the water. After a few more runs (hops) I got it on my fourth while very slow going into the water I still rode it. I'm nearly 40 so I count it as a win and am happy I got that far...ready for the next beach trip.
I go to the beach usually about one week and 5 days not in a row but I skim board on wood and I’m good at it but most beaches near my don’t allow skim boarding because many reasons so I have to go to wells Maine to do it
I did it today and maybe I just have common sense but it’s pretty simple just have to do it. I only have a good run 1 out of 3 times but it’s still fun
I was looking to buy a skimboard and I don’t know which one to get. I’m looking for a low price as well: 200 or less. I just want to skim onto waves nothing fancy, but I do want to be able to catch waves
Watch ppl who are good, then replicate their motions, and be confident. When your confidence wavers, that's when you're gonna eat shit, and get bruised hips, bad back alignment,and possibly tear knee ligaments, and tweak your ankles.
... honestly, I wish I could go back in time, and not spend 25 years skimming. Torn labrum are a bitch. And the harder you rip, the more you damage your labrum. So be sure to do plenty of yoga stretching, and strengthening excersices, if you plan to skim on a regular basis. FACT
I wish I would have seen this before my first day of skimboarding. I couldn’t transition into the water, now I know it’s because I had too much weight on the nose. I am using a skimburger from southbayboard co, thinking about getting a zap pro since they are on sale now. But I still need LOTS of practice.
Thinking about starting to skimboarding (live 15 minutes From the beach ) Hoe do you practice in the winter? It mostly is dark after work (no lights on the beach.)
any free time you have during the day, weekends or days off mostly. even if it means getting 1 hour of practice, you just gotta make the most of it and can't spend too much time waiting around for the perfect wave.
Question I live in the Michigan area but currently in Florida and really want to start skim boarding but for half of the year it is winter and has a lot of snow and the half that is summer I have to go to school how could I improve on that schedule.
Hard to say, bud. Need A good beach with easy access. That is the problem for most people and skim, have to live near the beach and have the opportunity to practice often
A friend and I started with wooden boards and we didn't knew that you dont have to chase them.. big ouch lmao bruises and nice deep scratches on our feets was the result of that day first day We recently pick up some cheap but better sized boards ... we still blind on what to do but seen this video make a lot of sense on what we need to do now I been thinking on buying a proper size board and I was thinking on the exile ex1/2 or the Victoria fomie Any advice better I pick one of this ?
@@BeachLookingGuy thanks man I score a Victoria board for 75 bucks lol .. way better then what we been using this one is 54" and I also did what you suggested on your other video of how to wax for beginners Thanks a lot for the help and videos man🙏🔥🔥🔥
i dont wanna get good becuase i dont live near a ocean but i live 3 hours away from lake and i go there like 4 times a year but is it hard to just skim across the beach i n the shallow part or even just wet sand
Does anyone have any suggestions/tips for learning on the lakeshore? I have access to Lake Mi, but the beaches have quite a slope and the waves are very frequent and don't come very far up. This makes it very difficult to get good approaches: You have to run through loose, dry sand OR run parallel to the shoreline on a downward angle, due to the sloping shoreline. Extremely frustrating, but I dont want to give up because it's so fun and great exercise. Any advice is greatly appreciated!
sorry if im late on this. It's a tough situation. that type of skimming is just underwhelming after some time and like most activities, skimboarding is most fun with a great beach, friends and community. it's likely you will be doing this mostly alone and in rather unfavorable conditions. my personal advise would to just find something better to "pursue". if you really just want to go out anyways that is completely fine, I would just set my expectation that it's a side hobby to goof around with. if you're not a little kid under the age of 12 at least, i would definitely find something else because skimming is very hard to learn the older you get.
If you dont live near a beach to skimboard, you can make almost a slip and slide thing to learn the basics of skimboarding. It should help for the time being... then when you go to a beach you might be familiar with riding and keeping your balance. Not the same without the waves, but yeah 🤣
When I drop my board on the wet sand it keeps getting stuck. Does my skimboard needs to be waxed or something from the bottom? I just started skimboarding. I’ve tried riding my board parallel and when I drop it it just gets stuck. So I mostly try to do a water drop and that works, I manage to get on the board but also sink rather soon. My skimboard is 48 inches. I’m 5’3” and weight 140lbs. Any tips? Thank you!
it takes a lot of speed and finesse. also knowing exactly what the perfect timing and thickness of water. speed and finesse will keep the board from not sticking. a lot of time getting reps and trying different things will teach you the timing and amount of water necessary. one of the hardest things about skimming is the transition from running to sliding without losing speed or control. it's not as easy as it looks.
@@BeachLookingGuy Thank you! I appreciate the tips. I'll keep working on it and getting reps in. Good to know it's part of the process. Im excited to hit the beach and keep at it.
I just fractured my ankle, perhaps I should have come to RUclips first lol oh well… 4 more weeks until I get my boot off and then I’ll take things more slowly again next time.
@@BeachLookingGuy i just started skimboarding and I skate for 1/2 year(i can ollie , kickflip and tre shuv...) But skimboarding is really hard i can't even do a shuvit cause I slip off the board and fall, maybe cause I have no traction pad? (I try for 2 day)
there are thin wooden boards best for riding "flat land" without much or any waves at all. my board is much thicker because riding on deep water needs more volume and stability.
I don’t know if it’s my board the water or me but whenever I try to ride out to a wave my board instantly sinks when I hit the decently deep water. Any tips on how to fix this?
Beach Looking Guy Agreed. The footage in video where you demo the crawl looks like it can last. I had surfaces like that/ which looked similar in Southern England. Finding a good slope in my region now can be done, but it’s often a passing event, across 1.5 to 2 hours.
Hey I noticed you were still replying to comments which is sick. I got a skimboard for like 20$ from some store by the beach. It looks weird tho, it’s like very very round, almost a circle. And it has no grip on the back. Is this a different kind of skimboard ?? Or did I waste 20$?
How important is to go with back foot first? I actually noticed that I get uncomfortable and much slower when putting my right foot first on the back rather than entering with the left on front. Should I reset this addiction and begin to slowly train my back foot first entrance?
it takes time and practice until you get comfortable. when i went from front foot first to back foot first i changed the way i held the board. i already had a way i liked to ride, so i just needed to switch the way i was holding it. what ever foot rides on the tail should be the same hand that holds the tail.
welll if you are insanely passionate you can find your way to living close to a "decent" beach and skimming every day. depending how old you are, it may or may-not be worth it. but in the end it's a novelty sport for fun that honestly like 75% of people aren't really built for in the first place. it takes a ridiculous amount of dedication of running, falling, understand your spot and how and when it works best. it also helps to be thin athletic body type, a great runner, swimmer, stamina, agile, anticipation and balance skills.
Well, there's some serious practice behind that move, not as easy as it looks. Hey look, I'm 62, I started skimming at 57 at my son's insistence, I'm no super-athlete, former college cross-country runner, but that doesn't equate to sh&% on the waves, just throw that board in the surf over and over and over, don't get frustrated, by biggest mistake as a beginner was not equating speed with success, it's no secret, you need some serious speed before the drop in order to skim well. Like that cute blonde headed away from you on the beach, you gonna let her walk away or you gonna talk to her? (what I, in turn, have taught my son...) Quit watching the waves, like that chick, you go for it, get on that board and into it, over and over and over. Hey, its the beach, have fun!!
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*Lives 7 hours from the ocean and only goes to the beach once a year* "You will also have to practice skimboarding at least 2 days a week" I WILL NEVER GIVE UP
I go to a cottage on the bay side of Cape Cod once every year. The last few years I have tried transitioning from bay skimming to ocean skimming with very little luck. First of all the beaches are pretty rocky and I get worried about my board. (If you know any good cape beaches hmu) Secondly, I am bad at timing and run-ups because on the bay you can just throw the board and then chase after it. But this video helped out a ton with #2!
@@williametzler3743 it's hard - one of the hardest sports to get very good at. dont give up, but if you love it and want to progress you can always look to move when you're an adult.
@@BeachLookingGuy I am looking at coastal colleges, and yeah I can do tricks like 360s and 360 shuvs but wave riding is so different.
SAME
Wallus Sullaw I love 15 hours and go one week a year but I use a homemade slip and slide
I have been sliding across the water on a piece of wood for 20 years and I learned a lot from this vid! Thanks shaka brah.
can you make it in deeper water than the shore waves? i can only skim 4 seconds until i get in ankle deep and it drops under the water
UnseenProdigies same
UnseenProdigies try running into the ocean, you’re gonna get knocked by waves but you get better balance and you can work your way up to riding waves, if that doesn’t work try to practice on wet sand or really shallow water 👍
@@PyroCraig use foram boards for that
First time skim boarding and I fell on my back and had a muscle spasm and couldn’t breath
I fell on my ass and broke my tail bone 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😭😂😂
Hi that’s called getting the wind knocked out of u
welcome to skimboarding, come back again soon! lol
Lol similar thing happened to me. I threw the board and jumped on it and fell backwards 😂.
Tommy From Wii Sports yup. My first time doing it I kept jumping on front foot first and sticking the nose into the sand. Great day 👍🏻
I guess im wrong about not having the option to live at the beach and practice "4 DAYS A WEEK" Your really encouraging. thanks for a reality check buddy
I wouldn’t worry about his opinion on how many days is required to be good... I mean the fact he goes 4 times a week and can’t even skim good says it all.... it’s about quality not quantity lads...
thanks, malik
@@malikthetherapist1342 It's a TEACHING video. He's obvs a very good rider. Just because he can show you what happens when a person is learning - hell, even the most experienced have the silliest bails - doesn't mean he's not good. In fact, it shows he's actually a good skimboarder because he's able to show you the mistakes. #takealesson And as far as how many days/hours/etc... well it really depends on what level you want to be at. If it's just for fun, then who cares. If you want to be pro... then damn right, you gotta be out there as often as possible. Just like any sport.
@@tnrigaud3169 well said. Glad there are people who can recognize this 🤙
So if you go to a beach once a year and skimboard ona bodyboard im not gonna be good?
This made me laugh
only god can answer that one..
just got my first skimboard the other day, ever since then i have been using a bodyboard
@@jacobgodde6576 Bodyboards are fun too
@@mantchova update: someone stole my skimboard whilst i was swimming in the water. Now i do not have a skimboard
Once I ended up tearing my thigh because I didn’t stretch besides waking up driving to the beach and bolting towards the waves just to fall over in pain
daaaamn, same shit happend to me 2 weeks ago
I hate it when that happens.
I live near clearwater beach. There really are no waves, you can really only sandslide there for skimboarding.
Law Dawg I’m here right now and the waves are shit
Law Dawg I’m hear now for vacation and I can only wave slide
Law Dawg I live near grand isle beach and can't find any good spots down the beach
Thats fun too
@@dailyyy_ yea only for so long though
I'm from the UK and I grew up 5 mins walk from a beach. I will never ever live anywhere I can't walk to the beach from.
I absolutely destroyed my legs trying to skimboard for the first time yesterday so now I'm here
Shave them first.
Don’t forget it’s really hard to run on a slope beach and very soft sand. Been doing some flat sand skimboard with small board and didn’t really progress much. I just bought my 52 carbon board and I will see how it goes!
Good tips! Everything you said here is really true! I keep stepping on the nose of my board and couldn’t time the waves. 🙄
It took me a year to get my first decent tube, skimboarding Is about patience, nice video Frank
Super helpful man, especially the water timing section, thanks!!
No problem
I finally reached my first wave ! It wasn’t pretty but I was shitting bricks once I realized I was actually going head on with it and I just felt it push my board up and towards the beach I barely managed to turn but I was super happy to finally get on a wave and stay on the board ! Thank you for all the tips I’ve been doing everything you say and I can’t stress enough how true this video is a good drop and timing is everything!
Awesome, thanks for coming to share
but i cant go to the beach everyday, not even every month. Man ill stay at home feeling sorry for myself i guess
Same 😔
I bought my first skimboard 3 days ago I got a Maddog softop I learned to occasionally land a shuvit and I can side slip for I short amount of time I am enjoying the sport a lot thanks for the helpful tutorial
Impressive also good pick for a starters board🤙🔥
i go to the beach 3 times a year usually and i skim all day every day with a wood skim so i decided to buy a real good $250 board for this summer
Very good show, I used to skim board with my home made board on Long Island, NY, Jones beach, fire island. About 53 years ago, the beach all to myself, forward flips and side flips. A lot of fun. Keep skimming on!
right on! thanks for sharing
Well I live 1 mile away from the ocean so I got the skim board today and I'm 11 I just got one to try skim boarding and this helped a lot thanks!
Got my shuv it’s(backside and front side) on my second session but I came from a skateboarding background so it was a bit natural.
I figured since I’m sorta good at skateboarding I would be decent but Na skimboards are completely different
@@blackshortsi.n.c3447 I’ve done a bit of wakeboarding, so that helps
We out here in my home state FL and I've skateboard for 5 years hoping it's close enough for today's 1st skim ride brah
In from Wisconsin down in your homestate in vacation hoping it's like snowboarding. 😂
DO A VIDEO THAT COVERS THESE THINGS:
MONKEY CRAWL FOR BEGINNERS
WATER DROPS
BACK SIDE CARVES
Is there a "please" in there somewhere?
@@TheLarryBrown NOPE
If you're beach looking guy, and you spends hours at 'the beach'. Then I'd have to be "beer looking guy".
hmm, maybe "bar looking guy" ahah!
Then I'm "computer looking guy."
I live near the ocean but all the spots nearby (not further than an hour) have no shorebreak... So I have a couple options-
1. Drive a couple hours to some place with skimboarding waves
2. Just skimboard the sand
3. Freakin build up the speed to shred the board all the way to the outside and ride an actual wave.
(I'm going to try all of the above)
Sick video btw, really helpful
This has been the most helpful video I have seen on learning how to skim board. Thanks man
Thanks so much for sharing! Glad to hear you enjoyed the video
The drop and not chasing the board is number one
Thank god im only a few blocks away from my beach 🏖 I cant wait to learn this summer
Thank you for the instruction! I'm thinking of getting a board and trying this at one of the local beaches. Practice makes perfect. You have a new subscriber. 😊
This video is my mantra, I watch it everytime I feel like I'm not making progress.
Glad you like it, bro! keep grinding
I pop shoved'it on the first day as well catch a wave on day one because of one reason. I watched blair colin's tutorials before going skimboarding and I have lot of experience skateboarding. I wouldn't be able to do it if I didn't skateboard* already. It's a very technical sport. Love it!
awesome! skating is a great compliment to skim boarding
Great video, love how in depth you get regarding timing. It was also refreshing to see you ride back in on very small waves, its reassuring to see that you can ride and have fun on any size wave as a beginner. Thanks so much!
Yeew thanks a bunch for sharing! 🤙🤙
"Practice two days a week" i live in a landlocked country and don't even get to go to the beach every year but i really wanna learn it xD i got to try it out a few years back and it was so much fun c:
skating is the next best thing. I probably would have kept skating more if i never had the beach so close.
Thanks. I'm about to try first time . Ordered a catch surf beater 54.
If you don’t live by a beach and want to have some type of practice for the one time a year you go get a long board and just get you balance turning all sorts of maneuvers its not the exact same but it will help you work on balance and controlling the board it took me a day to get nice effective skims coming from a snowboarding and skate/long board background still a-lot to learn but it was a bit easier to start
absolutely! i love skating around before skim sessions in the parking lot.
me living in salt lake watching this 😐
Thanks 😊 so much for teaching me how to skimboard
Sasha Miceli Demajo always glad to help
Clear and concise, super helpful. Wish this video was around when I was learning, could have shaved years off my progress
Glad it was helpful!
Finally got to the coast, first run I had 4 dislocations on 3 toes and a sprained foot, I fixed the toes in the water. After a few more runs (hops) I got it on my fourth while very slow going into the water I still rode it. I'm nearly 40 so I count it as a win and am happy I got that far...ready for the next beach trip.
Yew! gotta start somewhere!
You count that as a win? Man would I hate to see your "agony of defeat" video.
I went to the beach today for the 4th time and i landed my first shov-it
I go to the beach usually about one week and 5 days not in a row but I skim board on wood and I’m good at it but most beaches near my don’t allow skim boarding because many reasons so I have to go to wells Maine to do it
I think I’m the only skimboarder in ireland. I’ve never seen anyone on a skimboard at the beach
That's A bummer. Sorry to hear that bro, Stay strong 😂
Toxic TryHard bro I’m in Ireland too if you wanna meet up
Jordan Albon what county
Toxic TryHard umm Ireland?
Toxic TryHard Ireland’s is a country
The first time I heard of a skimboard was when I was at a garage sale and I got the thing cheap
I’ve skim boarded for 3 weeks and can rep waves easily but I think it’s Bc I use to skate board
awesome! keep shredding!
I did it today and maybe I just have common sense but it’s pretty simple just have to do it. I only have a good run 1 out of 3 times but it’s still fun
I was looking to buy a skimboard and I don’t know which one to get. I’m looking for a low price as well: 200 or less. I just want to skim onto waves nothing fancy, but I do want to be able to catch waves
thanks for asking! check this out ruclips.net/video/AYHFPtOoP-Y/видео.html
Get a skateboard
What is your board made of and what would be the best board to actually ride waves, like carbon fiber or fiberglass or something else??
Watch ppl who are good, then replicate their motions, and be confident. When your confidence wavers, that's when you're gonna eat shit, and get bruised hips, bad back alignment,and possibly tear knee ligaments, and tweak your ankles.
... honestly, I wish I could go back in time, and not spend 25 years skimming. Torn labrum are a bitch. And the harder you rip, the more you damage your labrum. So be sure to do plenty of yoga stretching, and strengthening excersices, if you plan to skim on a regular basis. FACT
yo frank its your boy with the beard from Colorado, sick skim vid brah
Ahhhhhh key
Yew, thanks for stopping by!
Since I wakeboard skateboard and windsurf I was able to catch waves sideslip and land tricks in 2 days
Can you please do a video on how to wrap a wave
skim with the groms use your arms and hips. Right when you reach the middle of the wave
@@YoungCutta ok thanks
Love it! Now I'm hooked
Can I do this on rivers with sand?
ehhhmm, kinddaaa lol
I wish I would have seen this before my first day of skimboarding. I couldn’t transition into the water, now I know it’s because I had too much weight on the nose. I am using a skimburger from southbayboard co, thinking about getting a zap pro since they are on sale now. But I still need LOTS of practice.
Better late than never! Good luck
@@BeachLookingGuy thanks for the reply, subbed and liked!! Appreciate all the content you post. I really enjoy your videos.
@@gns257 awesome, thanks for the kind words
Thanks that helped me alot im still a beginner
I struggle the most with bogging. Maybe I need to turn the board sideways more. Cool vid. GOD bless. JESUS CHRIST loves you.
u can also do this in a shallow part of a lake
Good useful tips man. Thank you for your videos. What board(s) are you using on this video?
couple different shapes from exile
Thinking about starting to skimboarding (live 15 minutes From the beach )
Hoe do you practice in the winter?
It mostly is dark after work (no lights on the beach.)
any free time you have during the day, weekends or days off mostly. even if it means getting 1 hour of practice, you just gotta make the most of it and can't spend too much time waiting around for the perfect wave.
What about the board not sliding well on the wet sand. Is there slick paste or whatever you call it.
yea there's speed wax but it's not necessary. might just need to keep working on being light on your feet
Probably did 500 runs between Thursday and Sunday last week. My feet kill.
So does your face.
Question I live in the Michigan area but currently in Florida and really want to start skim boarding but for half of the year it is winter and has a lot of snow and the half that is summer I have to go to school how could I improve on that schedule.
Hard to say, bud. Need A good beach with easy access. That is the problem for most people and skim, have to live near the beach and have the opportunity to practice often
Ok thanks
A friend and I started with wooden boards and we didn't knew that you dont have to chase them.. big ouch lmao bruises and nice deep scratches on our feets was the result of that day first day
We recently pick up some cheap but better sized boards ... we still blind on what to do but seen this video make a lot of sense on what we need to do now
I been thinking on buying a proper size board and I was thinking on the exile ex1/2 or the Victoria fomie
Any advice better I pick one of this ?
Pick whichever you like And can afford
@@BeachLookingGuy thanks man
I score a Victoria board for 75 bucks lol .. way better then what we been using
this one is 54" and I also did what you suggested on your other video of how to wax for beginners
Thanks a lot for the help and videos man🙏🔥🔥🔥
Mauricio Fernandez good to hear, have fun
just got a board ,so good to know
yeeww good luck
I tried skim boarding my 6 year old cousin can ride on the sand and it looks like there is no water there so i never know when to throw it down
At my beach there aren’t much in the way of waves, so what tricks and stuff can I do?
i dont wanna get good becuase i dont live near a ocean but i live 3 hours away from lake and i go there like 4 times a year but is it hard to just skim across the beach i
n the shallow part or even just wet sand
this type of skimming in the video is very rare even in north america. skating is the next best thing imo
i rly just wish i had a proper skim, wooden boards aint gonna do it. There is also no skim shops in south africa where i live 😢
plenty of people skim wood boards fine.
Does anyone have any suggestions/tips for learning on the lakeshore? I have access to Lake Mi, but the beaches have quite a slope and the waves are very frequent and don't come very far up. This makes it very difficult to get good approaches: You have to run through loose, dry sand OR run parallel to the shoreline on a downward angle, due to the sloping shoreline. Extremely frustrating, but I dont want to give up because it's so fun and great exercise. Any advice is greatly appreciated!
sorry if im late on this. It's a tough situation. that type of skimming is just underwhelming after some time and like most activities, skimboarding is most fun with a great beach, friends and community. it's likely you will be doing this mostly alone and in rather unfavorable conditions. my personal advise would to just find something better to "pursue". if you really just want to go out anyways that is completely fine, I would just set my expectation that it's a side hobby to goof around with.
if you're not a little kid under the age of 12 at least, i would definitely find something else because skimming is very hard to learn the older you get.
What sucks is I live in the mid west and only go to the beach once a year...
JOOGJACK you and about 95% of the other comments 😢
I don’t go a lot a year but when I go I go for so long like 4 to 9 hours
What's the best warm up before skimboarding.
I do toe touch and stretch ham strings. Just starting slow with warm up runs also
i wanna learn how to skim but i leave an 1-2 hours away from the beach rip and only go to the beach once a year lol
If you dont live near a beach to skimboard, you can make almost a slip and slide thing to learn the basics of skimboarding. It should help for the time being... then when you go to a beach you might be familiar with riding and keeping your balance. Not the same without the waves, but yeah 🤣
Try skating bro
@@BeachLookingGuy makes sense but i feel like skim boarding would give more of a thrill than skating
When I drop my board on the wet sand it keeps getting stuck. Does my skimboard needs to be waxed or something from the bottom? I just started skimboarding. I’ve tried riding my board parallel and when I drop it it just gets stuck. So I mostly try to do a water drop and that works, I manage to get on the board but also sink rather soon.
My skimboard is 48 inches. I’m 5’3” and weight 140lbs.
Any tips? Thank you!
it takes a lot of speed and finesse. also knowing exactly what the perfect timing and thickness of water. speed and finesse will keep the board from not sticking. a lot of time getting reps and trying different things will teach you the timing and amount of water necessary.
one of the hardest things about skimming is the transition from running to sliding without losing speed or control. it's not as easy as it looks.
@@BeachLookingGuy Thank you! I appreciate the tips. I'll keep working on it and getting reps in. Good to know it's part of the process. Im excited to hit the beach and keep at it.
Wow this just amazing material. Must take some high education to know this kind of stuff
Just wayyy too much time at the beach tbh
Right 6 hours go by fast when I'm swimming. Hard to stop. F wind
I just fractured my ankle, perhaps I should have come to RUclips first lol oh well… 4 more weeks until I get my boot off and then I’ll take things more slowly again next time.
Wonder how well seasoned skaters like myself transition into skim boarding
it helps a lot. will depend on the beach/waves you're trying to skim. but learning should be pretty easy. still very hard to master although
@@BeachLookingGuy i just started skimboarding and I skate for 1/2 year(i can ollie , kickflip and tre shuv...) But skimboarding is really hard i can't even do a shuvit cause I slip off the board and fall, maybe cause I have no traction pad? (I try for 2 day)
@@hiimarobot1903 always use good traction, but it's gonna take some practice. Nothing comes easy with skim
@@BeachLookingGuy thanks you!
Is a skimboard like a thin peace of wood but in a board shape cuz I think urs is thicker than mine
there are thin wooden boards best for riding "flat land" without much or any waves at all. my board is much thicker because riding on deep water needs more volume and stability.
I don’t know if it’s my board the water or me but whenever I try to ride out to a wave my board instantly sinks when I hit the decently deep water. Any tips on how to fix this?
go really fast, one step drop and have a good fibreglass board
On the east coast it is a lot harder I think
Good vid. Interesting to know you can do 6 hour sessions! Even if I could, I think the tide and wind changes here - don’t leave so long a window
It's not often, but some days the skim goes on from morning till afternoon
Beach Looking Guy Agreed. The footage in video where you demo the crawl looks like it can last. I had surfaces like that/ which looked similar in Southern England. Finding a good slope in my region now can be done, but it’s often a passing event, across 1.5 to 2 hours.
Awesome video very very true thanks for the tips
yew, no prob!
Ive got into the skimboarding bc I saw it on tiktok 1 time and I just saw it in the shop and I bought it for 29Euros so like 35Dollars
That is wonderful
then I'm sorry but you're probably never reach a wave with that board
Hey I noticed you were still replying to comments which is sick. I got a skimboard for like 20$ from some store by the beach. It looks weird tho, it’s like very very round, almost a circle. And it has no grip on the back. Is this a different kind of skimboard ?? Or did I waste 20$?
Yousif Abdullah sounds like a little kids board from walmart
Why does it stop as soon as I stand on it though 😭
Me too! You have to either go a bit deeper and move with the board
Maybe cause ur jumping on it. Try stepping on it. But I’m a beginner so idk
What beach will you be on
How important is to go with back foot first? I actually noticed that I get uncomfortable and much slower when putting my right foot first on the back rather than entering with the left on front. Should I reset this addiction and begin to slowly train my back foot first entrance?
it takes time and practice until you get comfortable. when i went from front foot first to back foot first i changed the way i held the board. i already had a way i liked to ride, so i just needed to switch the way i was holding it. what ever foot rides on the tail should be the same hand that holds the tail.
crawl>bff>fff
@@BeachLookingGuy but I'm already holding the tail with whatever foot is on the front
@@BeachLookingGuy is there something I gotta change beside that?
@@brunoalexandre9907 hard to say, but switching hand placement is a good spot to start
I have a board but I think it’s too big for me if that’s even a thing
What type of skimboard floats the best? Thanks
boards made with foam and fiberglass. but you will still need a lot of speed and technique, they don't just float.
Thanks so much bro🌊👍
I can slide on sand but I flip over when I hit the water
there go my dreams of skimming, i go to the beach once a year
welll if you are insanely passionate you can find your way to living close to a "decent" beach and skimming every day. depending how old you are, it may or may-not be worth it. but in the end it's a novelty sport for fun that honestly like 75% of people aren't really built for in the first place. it takes a ridiculous amount of dedication of running, falling, understand your spot and how and when it works best. it also helps to be thin athletic body type, a great runner, swimmer, stamina, agile, anticipation and balance skills.
When you drop, is it really necessary to put your hands down on the board? I saw him doing it a few times
No
Well, there's some serious practice behind that move, not as easy as it looks. Hey look, I'm 62, I started skimming at 57 at my son's insistence, I'm no super-athlete, former college cross-country runner, but that doesn't equate to sh&% on the waves, just throw that board in the surf over and over and over, don't get frustrated, by biggest mistake as a beginner was not equating speed with success, it's no secret, you need some serious speed before the drop in order to skim well. Like that cute blonde headed away from you on the beach, you gonna let her walk away or you gonna talk to her? (what I, in turn, have taught my son...) Quit watching the waves, like that chick, you go for it, get on that board and into it, over and over and over. Hey, its the beach, have fun!!
I'm a kid and I don't have that time
But do you think 1 hour a day of skim-boarding could get me somewhere?
Oofy Duckie just have fun, do what you can & don’t worry about it 😊
Seems pretty exclusive. Just go try it yall
have you tried it?
I just broke my arm this morning 10 minutes in to skim boarding
Noooo 😔
Which material does he use?
Good tips!
Glad you think so!
What board do you have
Purchased a 15 dollar Skim board lol. Will it be any good to use ?
depends how big you are. those are usually for small children
I’m better than all my friends but i can’t tell if I’m doing all of the steps right, i think it might just be the waves