A skimboard and the right beach are one of the best combinations for a great day at the beach. This is a great sport for water sport lovers that enjoy speed, waves and have the ability to carry out this fun sport. From its inception till now skimboarding has come a long way, and like waves, has grown, crashed, and come back again.
Some people may still not know what this sport we are talking about is. If you are one of them, it is likely you have seen one but have confused it with a surf board. Do not worry, you are not the first and will not be the last. Even Sports Illustrated described skimboarding as surfing when commenting on the first front cover with a skimboarder doing his magic at Laguna Beach.
In this short article we will look at three questions people ask themselves about this sport. The questions we will be looking at are: where does it originate from? What happened to the sport in the 1980s? And, where is it heading nowadays?
Where does this sport come from? It comes from Laguna Beach City California. It was there that lifeguards first started to use suitably shaped wooden boards to slide up and down the beach. From these humble begins a worldwide sport was created with fans all around the world find new ways to take this sport to its limit.
In the decade of 1980 it first exploded in popularity and then flopped in the later years. Fortunately for us, it regained popularity in the mid 90s and has not looked back since.
Nowadays, a skimboard is a regular sight in any of the big surfing and wind surfing sites. It is used as a secondary board when there are no waves by millions of surfers while others focus on mastering this challenging, but incredibly fun sport. - 31489
Some people may still not know what this sport we are talking about is. If you are one of them, it is likely you have seen one but have confused it with a surf board. Do not worry, you are not the first and will not be the last. Even Sports Illustrated described skimboarding as surfing when commenting on the first front cover with a skimboarder doing his magic at Laguna Beach.
In this short article we will look at three questions people ask themselves about this sport. The questions we will be looking at are: where does it originate from? What happened to the sport in the 1980s? And, where is it heading nowadays?
Where does this sport come from? It comes from Laguna Beach City California. It was there that lifeguards first started to use suitably shaped wooden boards to slide up and down the beach. From these humble begins a worldwide sport was created with fans all around the world find new ways to take this sport to its limit.
In the decade of 1980 it first exploded in popularity and then flopped in the later years. Fortunately for us, it regained popularity in the mid 90s and has not looked back since.
Nowadays, a skimboard is a regular sight in any of the big surfing and wind surfing sites. It is used as a secondary board when there are no waves by millions of surfers while others focus on mastering this challenging, but incredibly fun sport. - 31489
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