How Skimboarding Can Improve Your Surfing, with Blair Conklin Laguna Beach sandslider on the benefits of going finless ...

Last week, professional skimboarder, Austin Keen rode the Kelly Slater Wave Pool at the WSL Surf Ranch, making him the first person to ever skimboard the wave pool. (And even though he did it ...

A compilation of Brad Domke surfing his skimboard No, this isn't surfing. And, no, that doesn't matter. Florida's Brad Domke has made a name for himself in the surf world, but not for riding a ...

Give Blair Conklin a board – literally any board, including those that very narrowly resemble anything close to a traditional surf craft – and let him go. From soft-tops to skimboards to ...

As one of skimboarding’s pioneers flatly admits, his sport is about 25 years behind surfing in terms of popularity. But as skimboarding gains converts each day from other new board sports, Te… ...

Is he surfing on a finless board? Tow-skimboarding? Or perhaps skurfing —the hybrid term that Domke occasionally calls his exploits. Some are in argreement.

There’s a problem with Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch. In fact, it’s a double-edged sword scenario: the 11x world champ set out to create a perfect wave, and he did just that.

A compilation of Brad Domke surfing his skimboard This 2014/15 highlight reel shows just how far Domke pushed the limits of skimboarding.

If skimboarding is 25 years behind surfing, as Haines sees it, it’s because it’s a much smaller market, says Steve Pezman, former editor of Surfer who now publishes Surfer’s Journal.

Give Blair Conklin a board – literally any board, including those that very narrowly resemble anything close to a traditional surf craft – and let him go. From soft-tops to skimboards to ...