UK skimboards and skimboarding
Founded in 2000, Sandskater is the leading skimboarding website in the UK. Our website contains over 25 years of skimboard advice, information, tutorials, contest results, photos and videos. As such, it serves as an archive of UK skimboarding history.
Popular Skimboarding Tutorials
Choosing a skimboard
Choosing a skimboard for the first time is no easy task. With the large range of boards now on offer there are lot to choose from. Picking the right board from the beginning will mean you get maximum enjoyment from day one! Hopefully this quick guide will give you an idea of what to look…
Skimboard Construction
Gone are the days when round pieces of wood were used as skimboards. A modern skimboard uses some of the most advanced materials and construction methods available. Technology adapted from aerospace industry results in a high performance board built to take the extreme forces involved in riding shorebreak waves. There’s a lot of exotic materials…
How to look after your skimboard
Skimboards aren’t indestructible, if they were, they would be too heavy to ride! Your skimboard can last anything from 6 months to 3 years depending how you ride it. It is common for riders who are just starting out to be quite hard on boards while they are learning. As you get better, and perfect…
Popular Skimboarding Videos
Paignton Skimboarding Video
Here’s the first of 2 mini skimboarding videos filmed at Paignton and Preston beaches. It features the usual Paignton Grom Crew as they hit up Paignton during some shin to knee high waves that came through at the end of May. Thanks to Chris Danby for the filming & editing (shot and edited entirely on…
Video : Boardwalk Blowout 2008
Sandskater team rider, Adam Wootton, alerted me to this video, it’s from the 2008 Boardwalk Blowout held in Florida, USA. The reason i have chosen to post it here is that the conditions for the Boardwalk contest are very similar to the conditions we regularly get in the UK. But it’s the level of riding…
2010 Hossegor ESL Teaser Video
The teaser video is out for the 2010 ESL contest to be held at Seignosse, Hossegor at the end of August. It looks like the UK is going to be well represented again this year, so the dates for your diary are 27/28/29 August – come and join the party. Here’s the video to give…
Latest posts
A return to skimboarding
Its been a few years since I was last on a skimboard, but this all changed recently after a rainy day meant a few of us met up for a pint at the local pub. A lot of good ideas have been hatched over a pint or two in the past, and this time was…
Choosing a skimboard
Choosing a skimboard for the first time is no easy task. With the large range of boards now on offer there are lot to choose from. Picking the right board from the beginning will mean you get maximum enjoyment from day one! Hopefully this quick guide will give you an idea of what to look…
Photo Report: 2013 UK International Skimboarding Contest
What a fantastic weekend we all had down in Cornwall at the UK International Skimboard Contest. There was worry over the conditions, but it all came together in the end, and we were blessed with 2ft glassy sets, and connectable siders. Everybody had a blast as usual, and after the obligatory drinks on Saturday evening,…
