What have you done to help your sport

[Thrillhouse]

This comes courtesy of BennyRay...

A simple question, what have you personally done to help or contribute to skimming? From the major (started a company, hosted a contest, funding) to the minor (brought a friend skimming, taught a little kid a trick, made a video on youtube). Think about it, then post.

Are you helping your sport grow?
Do you care?

[beachbum]

bought items from companies. dvds, board bags, boards, wax...everyone pretty much does that but without them there is no skimboarding.

And i try to answer people in this forum with knowledgeable responses on where to buy/whats better/what does this mean...i usually keep the sarcasm out of those type of answers.

One major thing that seems minor is helped eliminate the misconception that skimboarding is sliding across sand. Telling tourists/friends that there is a lot more to the sport and talking with them about it. Id say at least 75% of people only know skimboarding as sandsliding when i mention it. Its always "o i love to skimboard. It hurts to fall though when the board slides from under you. My brother has a board when we go on vacation i have a blast"...its usually immediately apparent they are sliding on standing water.



Good question though. In my opinion, growth for the sport within the community is great, but to most people established in the sport growth would be negative if it was outside of the community. Its great for new companies to emerge, contests to occur, video to be produced...all to those in the sport...Conversely, most growth media wise those in the sport would view as negative because no one wants a crowded beach.

[vicskim76]

I sucked Peluso's cock..

[(S3)]

I sucked Peluso's cock..

Posts like this piss me off. Grow up.

[erfon]

Im doing the only and the first online spanish magazine. Inspired in the great FSM (but you
know, coded by me :$, I just liked the idea years ago), We are going to release issue number 4, but you know, this is going to be the serious one .

I haveee.... helped to organize some contests and meetings, I own a spanish skim website & community.. errrhhmm, I skim... xDD, and yeap, I like promoting the sport as much as I can.

I like peluso too

[RexSkimmer]

i inform the people that ask me every time i go out what skimboarding is exactly

[Chev]

i inform the people that ask me every time i go out what skimboarding is exactly

This, all the time.

[Chrith]

videos, photos, help out skim companies every chance i can etc

[txsandskimmer77]

I have taken a few of my friends skimboarding and talked about skimboarding with other people who ask me what it was I was doing. Told them where they could purchase a skimboard there on the Island. Nothing major but I have been seeing a lot more locals get into skimboarding.

[3rd Coast Skimmer]

...Nothing major but I have been seeing a lot more locals get into skimboarding.

I don't know where you are finding these locals at. When I go to the beach here, I only see groms sand skimming. I go out usually 2X a week and have never seen you or any of the others on here that claim to be from Corpus.

As far as board sports here are concerned, it seems to be all about surfing and kiteboarding (which I think is cool).

I wish there were some skimmers here because I would enjoy having someone to skim with.

[txsandskimmer77]

I don't know where you are finding these locals at. When I go to the beach here, I only see groms sand skimming. I go out usually 2X a week and have never seen you or any of the others on here that claim to be from Corpus.

As far as board sports here are concerned, it seems to be all about surfing and kiteboarding (which I think is cool).

I wish there were some skimmers here because I would enjoy having someone to skim with.

Well apparently we don't skim the same spots. I have only been out two or three times this year only because I live an hour and a half away from the Island. I have seen a lot of groms at Bob Hall but I have seen a hand full of locals there too. I have seen two wave skimmers but mostly sand skimmers. I have not seen the two guys who skimmed the waves the last few times I was there though. One was on a Zap and the other had a Victoria Ultra.

[3rd Coast Skimmer]

Well apparently we don't skim the same spots. I have only been out two or three times this year only because I live an hour and a half away from the Island. I have seen a lot of groms at Bob Hall but I have seen a hand full of locals there too. I have seen two wave skimmers but mostly sand skimmers. I have not seen the two guys who skimmed the waves the last few times I was there though. One was on a Zap and the other had a Victoria Ultra.

I check Bob Hall Pier every time I go out, still never see anyone.

Bob Hall Pier = Flat
JP Luby = Oil Sludge
Caldwell = Flat

Fish Pass (my break) = best slope and best waves, still not what most here would call a shore break but reachable with a good board at high tide

Big Shell = killer shore break, but you cant skim it because the entire beach is very large (and sharp) crunched up shells. you will kill your board and feet.

So where else is there to skim???

NO FREAKIN WHERE

[jesse]

photos, videos, buying stuff like that...

every time i see kids just learning to skim at the beach, i always ask if they have any questions, and try to help. usually end up trying to help them with their drop etc.

that main thing i'm working on is skimboarding in colleges. i think that's one area we're way behind, and i'm doing my best to change that...

[Walruz996]

photos, videos, buying stuff like that...

every time i see kids just learning to skim at the beach, i always ask if they have any questions, and try to help. usually end up trying to help them with their drop etc.

that main thing i'm working on is skimboarding in colleges. i think that's one area we're way behind, and i'm doing my best to change that...

And look at where we are now!

[vbskimva]

Buying clothes, DVDs, boards, wax, etc.

I've gotten 4 friends into skimming that have there own board now

And go to contests and put skim stickers on my stuff.

[ICantSwim]

DVDs, Boards...so far
Looking for a good skimboarding beach, since we don't have one yet!

[PierlessExile]

I'm with everyone else about helpin out the kids and talking to people about skimming. I dont know about anyone else, but to me, gettin my friends out to try skimmin for the first time, talkin to people about skimmin and helpin out beginners is really fun.

[Walruz996]

I probably hurt it more then help, I just tell people I surf...

[Rob Morris-old]

hahahahaha daveeeeeeeeed. your post your damn pictures of somewhere when its good cough sebastian cough, and bring like 20 kids there the day its crappy.

[Walruz996]

hahahahaha daveeeeeeeeed. your post your damn pictures of somewhere when its good cough sebastian cough, and bring like 20 kids there the day its crappy.

Haha, yeah.. That was my bad.

[CustomKO]

i will help it in time

[Jim Gordon]

This comes courtesy of BennyRay...

A simple question, what have you personally done to help or contribute to skimming? From the major (started a company, hosted a contest, funding) to the minor (brought a friend skimming, taught a little kid a trick, made a video on youtube). Think about it, then post.

Are you helping your sport grow?
Do you care?

Yes......

[ejb]

bought boards, and skimmed...and whipped out the chillpass on tourists that try to front

[3rd Coast Skimmer]

The only thing that I have done for the sport so far is to buy boards and vids, (and try to get Wind and Wave Surf Shop to understand that WZ boards are crap, carry conCept, or Zap.)

My big plan for contribution is to learn to skim well, so I can represent the sport well.


(Didn't mean to post twice in a row)

[Skuce]

Yes.

[LMSkim]

I buy boards. I got some friends into the sport as well. Probably a couple more things to.

[Islandboy]

Taught a lot of kids how to skim, some still skim.

Made videos, although they arent good they still show how the skim is in Bahamas.

Gave my little cousin one of the cutouts from our homemade woodie, which he used to cut other boards for kids.

Usually talk to anyone, or initiate conversation with anyone coming on the beach with a skimboard, or anyone interested.

[skimcentral]

I got barreled one day.

[Taylor Cadiz]

buying boards . dvds , mags , clothing , organized skim contests with my buddies. skimming to keep it growing.

[samcollett]

i hate skimboarding

[Jordann]

i made a video.

[amosb72]

i make vids
but that's more b/c i enjoy editing
however i do help people with skimboarding and explain to them what it is when I see them on vacation or something.
I show the golfers what skimboarding is, when it rains hard
i buy stuff, but then again who doesn't
I hav a skim stickers on my car, again, who doesn't
I help arange skim gatherings, sometimes, every once in a while.
try to get larger companies into the sport
and all around just try to tell people of the sport and whatnot
you know, spread the awesomeness around.

[nasolovesyou]

making videos, showing friends pics and videos, talking about skimming non-stop, taking friends skimming, pushing the "cool" factor, buying stuff from skim companies.

[SteveTaylor]

quit golf.

[drewgen]

you use to play golf? bad ass.....this is a good thread by the way. i just try to explain to as many people as possible where the level of skimboarding has been taken...that its so much more than jus going horizontally along the beach.....i just try to skim every day and spread the word