When I started skimming back in the 80s, we used to steal construction signs ( sheets of plywood, basically ) and cut, warp and glass our own boards. Through trial and error we'd sand down rails and even try to make grooves or even tiny "fins" on the tail. They were usually big and clumsy but a ton of fun. Wasn't until much later I was able to afford my first foam board.

Just started skimming a few days ago. You make it look so easy!

@rb3166

4 жыл бұрын

Don't worry man it will become instinctual! Then you work on wave timing and that becomes instinctual as well. I taught myself in 1983 after seeing this miracle of fun in action at 15 years old. Foam boards didn't even EXIST til the late 1980s and then they were $200! OUCH! I made my own plywoods.

@gnilronalo1422

3 жыл бұрын

Me go bro om start yesterday

@natescholtz

3 жыл бұрын

I also got mine a few days ago and it’s epic

@ryanhummel5324

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@henrydyreyes9409

3 жыл бұрын

Same

I guess Sam was like hell no youll never catch me riding a boog for the boogie skim lol

Fire Dade. Sleeping on the job and no boards on the website!

The end cards are great for people that may have not seen your videos before to drum up more interest, good luck tomorrow I'll be rooting you on !!! Yeeww!

Your my favourite youtuber by far. Keep up the amazing work.

dude the boogie liner was clean! good video

soda, lemonade, sparkling - conklin 2019

Yessss this is what I’ve been asking for! ❤️❤️❤️

Can you do a video showing us how to stand-up boog???

@SkidKids

4 жыл бұрын

I will take that in to consideration! I will definitely try to get that going soon!

@longbeards2largemouthoutdo204

4 жыл бұрын

Skid Kids I wanna see how to do that too, and I’m just learning how to skim

Lowkey wanna see what Blair would look like if he brushed and straightened the mop

@notyou4430

4 жыл бұрын

Why low key

This was so helpful 😭 I need a new board for sure and this is dope, thanks bruh

My first skim was in 1989, on my mach 7 ! lol ate so much shell n crabs!

Thank u blair for this video i've always wanted to see a pro skimboarder ride a wooden board

Those pictures in bodyboard was sick and just wonderfull!!

Like first, then watch straight away!! 🤣🤙🏼 Good to see where it all started Blair!! Great fun, as usual! 🤣👍🏻

Ahhh Sam. Good to see him! Good luck with getting a Firefighter job🤘🏼🤘🏼 Sweet viiddddd

always stoked when u guys upload a video, its so entertaining, this is a video ive been waiting on now, because im practicing on a wooden board and im looking to see how much can actaully be done on one, anyway sick video as usual :)

This video is great! Please make more wooden skim videos🤙🏻🤙🏻

Great video as always! I finally got to the beach and tried some skimming but I am still having problems catching the waves. It feels like I am either flying out of them or the board sinks slightly under the water so I can't catch it when I get there. Guess I'll have to keep trying!

Y’all got me into skim boarding thx

Ya you ! Sick sesh with good boy swoopy king haha

Blair you were born for this...yeww🤙🏻 keep the new content coming bruh!!!!

both you and beefs tv are so dope hahahaha so funny that clip

This channel makes me happy.

The best video so far

Ok now I feel better!! I have all the old school wooden surfboard,skimboards, n I thought it was pretty difficult especially on the drop part, just dropping it but watching u try it. Makes me feel like not a total amateur even thought I technically am!!

Ayy man much love your such and amazing skim boarder and person❤

thanks for having us all along for the ride.

This is exactly the video i was going to request. I’m making a wood board modeled after the ex2. I wondered what you could do with wooden boards. Nice

@VBFva

4 жыл бұрын

Hey man looks like we had the same idea i litteraly texted him and told him to do this and he did

Crossover of the century!!!

The wave tho 😍

This videos straight gankster!! Stay hood Blair!!

I live in Dewey beach in the summer. It was so sick seeing all the pros come down to the beach. One of thr best experiences right there. 🤟

Can you catch waves with a Walmart board like those are like 20 bucks it sucks for me becuase I'm broke and I live were the waves are flat in Brevard county Florida and all I got is a pretty lit wooden board with grip pads and wax its lit but I dont know if its the flat waves or me I wanna see you shread on a cheap Walmart bought one on flat waves that's basicly impossible

@foolanhi8183

4 жыл бұрын

VINNY V 1388 I skim on a wooden board and as long as you got grip it’s all good. Could get wax for it

@moritzb1418

4 жыл бұрын

VINNY V 1388 yeah for sure pleas

@rb3166

4 жыл бұрын

Make your own it's fun! For flats you can't beat slick Wilsonart plastic laminate on the bottom. Use Elmer's waterproof contact cement. One coat first to let soak in, then another to apply for the bonding, and rubber mallet from the inside outwards, then jigsaw, then router and sand a bevel. varnish the sides!

@lukegogolin7069

4 жыл бұрын

R B can this make a board go out onto water more? Because that’s my main problem I can’t seem to get my board to go out any further than just a couple feet before I start to sink into the water.

@rb3166

4 жыл бұрын

@@lukegogolin7069 It's a bit better than a half-inch plywood board because it's lighter and faster on the SAND, but to get out there you need to turn sideways. However to REALLY get out there you need a foamie and turn sideways. The Wilsonart board is a layer top and bottom of a 3/8 inch plywood. Like I said tough and fast on sand and you don't have to worry about pebbles wrecking your finish. GREAT for shorebreaks CLOSER to the sand. You marry the layers, pound with rubber mallet, then jigsaw it out after a few days drying. Choose your plywood with the grain longways and a nose-ward rocker bend already in. Look along the edge for the bend.

I love the wooden skimboard!!!

Great way to start my day

Blair, please make a video on how to boogieskim! I think it's awesome!

@phantomjosh2148

3 жыл бұрын

Your account was made exactly 13 days before I was born

@curbcobain

3 жыл бұрын

@@phantomjosh2148 Back in my day, we knew how to spell "your".

@phantomjosh2148

3 жыл бұрын

@@curbcobain auto correct you dumbass

You should do a video of boogie boarding on a skimboarding

Bruh im the one who recomended this vid im so happy

I was given a wooden skimboard that didn't float hardly and was pretty small for me. But I road that thing hard. It wasn't until later I saw someone using a bigger one made out of carbon fiber or plastic or whatever than white material is and I saw them riding into deep water to ramp waves and as a hard-core skateboarder I was so envious and jealous, I knew it was like a skimboard but I never knew what it was called. Turns out it was just a regular skim board mine was just super cheap thin and could only ramp a very shallow wave

Keep it coming with the fire content Blair 🤙

Great Show, You Old Mate still shreds! Beauty Kids, Unreal.

Killing it bro

those barrels look tasty🤩

Lmao I got the angle! Gymnopedies starts playing lol classic

That hot boogie footage : )

You good at this

Nice vid I have never skimmed but I’m gonna start tomorrow

Dude, what song is that comes in at 4:41? Kind of really digging that. BTW, the tiny board is giving me anxiety. Haha!

For some reason when I go the shop it says “opening soon” anybody know what that’s about?

@knellem

4 жыл бұрын

Idk

@unitedzone6445

4 жыл бұрын

Corona

@d_4_n_n_y

3 жыл бұрын

Same

He killed it

Are you gonna be at the florida skim contest at vilano beach?

I wish I lived on a beach like that

I have been trying to go on waves with a wooden skimboard because that’s the only one I have and you just said it’s very hard to go ride on waves so now I really want a pro skimboard lol

The end cards work if it’s a video I haven’t seen that looks good, but I’ve already seen most of your videos

What do u think of the catch surf beater board for a beginner

I love the music

your website is super clean i really like it,better than most tbh. Get some shirts pls! i would for sure buy one

Hey I love the coda I try to watch to get better but I. Ant

Originally I was a surfer,started windsurfing when I got thru the no wave but windy conditions. Moved up to kite surfing because gears are more easy to carry...Nowadays when there is no wave and no wind, there is skim.....

Right now I just got a wooden for the beginning of summer and I’m thinking of getting one that goes out more..any suggestions

I love skimboard woody 🤙🇵🇭

8:58 looks like mini Teahapoo waves!!!

good idea for a vid. my first board was a round woodie. had a small hole drilled near the rail so when flying down a flat beach a little stream of sandy water would shoot up......it was rad.

@cokomairena

27 күн бұрын

that flying stream sounds cool

謝謝您的分享，我用的就是木頭的板子～^_^

Just started and I have a wooden board what’s the difference between that with wax then a plastic one with wax and grip

Amigo.. con una tabla pequeña como la del comienzo igual se puede montar una hola?? Graciasss!!!

I live in Ecuador and plan to make a homemade wooden skim board, do you have any recommendations?

i just started learning but i dont really know what board to buy

So I just got my first skimboard Starting this summer and I hope I don’t give up to easy lol

Hey im a relatively knew skimborder and I want to know how waxing the board works, do you need to still wax it if you have traction pads? If yes, are you supposed to apply wax to the traction pads? Etc.

@MatthewHyatt

4 жыл бұрын

Don't need too wax with pads but slapping some speed wax on the bottom will help a lot

Hey this question is for skid kids. I just got a skimboard for my bday the brand it bullet proof surf and it’s about hip high. Is it a good board for skimming?

@SkidKids

3 жыл бұрын

I think it might be too small if it is only up to your hips. Still good to practice with though

@Joeyrizz_

3 жыл бұрын

Skid Kids ok thanks!

Hey...where are the dang skimboards

@MatthewHyatt

4 жыл бұрын

I was looking for this comment. Lol

So cooooooool

Started abt 3 yrs ago, I have a zapskim but yet I can do many thing but I can barely fully ride a wave

Here’s how you make your own 1. Take a big piece of paper and make an outline of the board 2. Buy a piece of plywood and put the outline on it 3. Cut the board out with your outline 4. Sand the rail down 5. Dip the tip in water for 24 hours 6. Then make your rocker by placing a weight where you want the bend to be and put the tip more in the air 7. Sand some more and that should be it

My 2nd and 3rd boards were 34" home-made 3/8" plywood boards! One resin, the other Wilsonart. Slick marble! FAST but I couldn't get out. I had to do it with extreme speed! Then I made wooden Victoria copies...... Then Wilsonart Victoria shapes! FAST! This was 1983-1990.

@lincwtf8527

2 жыл бұрын

i have never used a skimboard in my life and i just purchased one that’s 35 inches. i bought a small one so i could somewhat fit it in a backpack and i’m now realizing that’s probably too small for someone who’s 130 pounds like me but i don’t live anywhere near and ocean so i would never really have any waves either way. do u think a 35 inch board would work fine for my situation?

Cool!!!!!

What board do U ride? I’m about 90kg aswell now 54”?

I live in switzerland... so no sea... so no skimboarding for me... I just skimboarded once when i was in french

is there a weight limit for skim boards?

Just throw it up there!

What brand is the pink bodyboard?

I want to go there

イケメンや…かっこいい

What area do you guys skimboard in

Can you do a more in depth review on the exo

Bro it’s been over more than one year and the shop is still not online, I really wanted a decent skimboard because I have a wooden one now but it sinks so fast, i need to go so fast to keep it from sinking...

So I have a question when do u guys think the shop is gonna be open cause it currently says opening soon

@SkidKids

3 жыл бұрын

my goal is to have a shop going Starting January 1

@joeydadurka9749

3 жыл бұрын

@@SkidKids ok thanks for letting me know

My EX0 has the same design as the one in the video

where’d you get the shirt in the beginning?

Bought octopus traction pads for new dude cruise. Instantly peeled... any suggestions?

@MatthewHyatt

4 жыл бұрын

Sandpaper the area before application like 140 grit

@SkidKids

4 жыл бұрын

Use 140 grit then a finer grit like 60 or 80 to really polish the area where you are going to put the pads. Then ensure the area is clean by wiping it down with acetone

Where was this filmed

Are zap and exile made by the same manufacturers?

this board is ten times better than my board

I checked out your website today and it said opening soon a year after this video just was wondering when it will open if you can reply it would be great thanks

Wooden boards ah we call them the Aborigional coconut Island wooden boards discovered a long time ago. Who would ride on it, only the brave!

This is sick🤙🏼 never seen someone rip a wooden skim

Outback SPORT?!? BALLIN'