Ditching surfboards to skimboard huge waves might be a growing trend. Brazil's two-time skimboarding world champ Lucas Fink has been on a roll skimboarding legendary big wave surf spots. In December, ...
Skimboarding in big waves is a niche genre. Not many dudes are out there doing it. However, one of them is Brazilian skimboarder Lucas Fink, who has been in Nazaré ...
Getting management to open up to his idea, to taking off for the wave before he even saw it, Keen dials us in on the challenges he faced. Last week, professional skimboarder, Austin Keen rode the ...
Born out of creativity and desperation, skimboarding was conceived in Laguna Beach, California by the local lifeguards as a way to ride the predominantly shorebreak waves of their hometown – glass-on ...
Tucked in a secluded cove off the surf track in Laguna Beach, maverick swell stalkers jockey for waves, which they’ll catch, not by paddling but by sprinting smack into them. It’s surfing as head-on ...
A new adventure sport called skimboarding is taking over the shores of Juhu. An experienced city-based athlete gives us a ride of the new wave This month, a group of youngsters has been patiently ...
As pelicans scanned the seashore, dozens of athletes did the same Friday afternoon at Vilano Beach. The birds were in search of their next meal; the latter was on quest to catch the next wave. More ...
The first time Garth “the Worm” Wyckoff saw a skimboard, he thought: “What is that? I want one.” Forty years later, the voice of Laguna Beach’s most prestigious skimboarding competition — a ...