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…

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Popular Skimboarding Videos

  • 2010 World Championships of Skimboarding Video

    The United Skim Tour (UST) have just released the video for the World Championships of Skimboarding that took place a few weeks back at Aliso Beach in California. Check it out now – you won’t be disappointed.

  • Taiwan Skimboarding Mini Movie

    In 2009, Paulo Prietto and Steve Taylor from Exile Skimboards travelled half way across the world to Taiwan to teach the excited locals skimboarding. Here’s the video report.

  • 2010 Florida Skimboarding Pro/Am Video

    Here’s the official UST video from the recent Florida Skimboarding Pro/Am contest. If you have to skim small waves regularly, then pay attention to this video, because you are about to learn something!

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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,…

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