News and updates from Sandskater
I stumbled across some old Sandskater photos on the internet last week. They were being hosted on Flickr, and were uploaded by our good friend Henry Irvine (Henbot!) These were photos that Henry had taken of the Sandskater crew on our skim and surf trips around the south west. There weren’t many, but the ones…
Instagram is a great source of skimboarding photos, and recently I set up Sandskater on Instagram to join in the fun. I have been busy following other skimboarding related Instagram accounts, and thought I would post some of the best accounts for you to follow. Exile Skimboards Zap Skimboards Victoria Skimboards Bill Bryan Mega! Skimboarding…
The high pressure that is giving us the current spell of hot and dry weather is not great for giving us any waves, so we have been looking for alternative activities. So for something to do, a load of us went rock climbing at London Bridge in Torquay. London Bridge is a natural limestone arch…
We often get a few emails asking where the certain beaches are that people have seen here on the website, and people have asked why we don’t post up the names of some of the spots. Some beaches are still secret spots, and have a strong local presence. In the past, on occasion, I have…
Lets start the week the same way we ended the last – with a video. The 10th Street Bros have got a new skimboarding DVD out this summer entitled “El Nino”. Here’s the teaser for it.
This is one of the questions I hear the most from all the up and coming groms. And the simple fact is that there are no hard and fast rules to getting on the team – it comes down to a combination of skimboarding ability, commitment and attitude. So with this article I am going…
Sandskater came about in 1989, when two school friends, Matt and Paul, were tasked with a CDT (Craft Design & Technology) project whilst at school. As we were into bodyboarding and surfing, we thought that it would be a cool idea to try and build a skimboard for the school project, that could be used…
Article originally published in 2004. As a Working Lunch viewer for a couple of years, I thought I would drop them an email to see if they would feature Sandskater on the program. For those of you which have never seen the program before, one of the features is “Rob on the Road”, where they…