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Skim Boarder.

ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,911 moderator
edited March 1, 2005 in Sports
Being under the weather for the past few days, I wanted to get out of the
house. Santa Cruz is often nice when it's cloudy on my side of the hill.
So off I went.

Not much happening but found these skim boarders on the other side of
the surfers. Skim boarder's ride a thin sometimes disk like board that is thrown
into the surfline and ridden.

They were a barrel of fun to watch.

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Comments & criticism are welcome.
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    ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,911 moderator
    edited February 13, 2005
    Here's another...

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    ian
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    DeeDee Registered Users Posts: 2,981 Major grins
    edited February 13, 2005
    I like this one!
    ian408 wrote:
    Here's another...

    15835494-M.jpg

    ian

    They are fun to watch, I had a conversation with an adult skim boarder, it was quite interesting, his reasons, something along the lines of not drowning... :):

    You got a good action shot there! It was gray, gray, gray all day, and nasty cold. The kind of day you want a nice picture window overlooking the ocean while you are safe and warm beside a roaring fire in the fireplace with a nice warm throw over your knees, a good book, and a nice hot cup of cocoa or tea. But instead I was out in the nasty cold!
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    CosmicCosmic Registered Users Posts: 219 Major grins
    edited February 15, 2005
    Great clarity on these action shots! I like the colouring better in the first one, but it also seems the most grainy.

    Nice captures though. I'd love to give skim boarding a go. thumb.gif
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    KalamataKalamata Registered Users Posts: 97 Big grins
    edited March 1, 2005
    Cosmic wrote:

    Nice captures though. I'd love to give skim boarding a go. thumb.gif

    Nice shots, and thanks for bringing back memories of something i use to do on the north shore of Oahu as a kid. funny how this water related sport has never caught on in Oz.
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    jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,005 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2005
    nice shots
    not easy to get when shooting into that white foam very nice stop action and fun to look at Jeff
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    Red BullRed Bull Registered Users Posts: 719 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2005
    I love the 2 photos. Skim boarding is a ton of fun. Pretty hard to learn and stay on the board, but once you do, its very fun!clap.gif
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    ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,911 moderator
    edited March 1, 2005
    Red Bull wrote:
    I love the 2 photos. Skim boarding is a ton of fun. Pretty hard to learn and stay on the board, but once you do, its very fun!clap.gif
    As kids, we made our own out of plywood. Varnished those bad boys and then
    off to the beach. Hella fun times.

    Glad you enjoyed them!

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