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

  • Video: How to get on your skimboard

    Here’s a great video from Zap Skimboards on how to get on your skimboard using the one step drop. Zap employee and skimboarder, Steve Boomhower, takes you through the techniques needed to get on your skimboard smoothly and efficiently, so you carry maximum speed towards the wave. Enjoy!

  • Awesome Brad Domke Skurfing Video

    If you haven’t heard of skurfing, then this video featuring Exile skimboards rider Brad Domke, will show what its all about. Basically its a surfing a wave on your skimboard – you don’t start from the beach, you either paddle into the wave on your skimboard (like you would do on your regular surfboard) or…

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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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