Some people might not know but Texas has some great beaches especially for skimboarders. We're going to go through some beaches that all skimboarders have to hit before they get too old and leave this world.
Corpus Christi/Padre Island National Seashore: This beach is located just off of Padre Island in South Texas. This beach is huge and long over 70 miles long and is a great place for skimboarders. It's not very developed and has an enormous amount of nature. This beach is also a great place to go camping. This park also has some great dunes and sand. This place is also famous for windsurfing.
Galveston Island: This island is 27 miles long and more than 3 miles wide. This island used to be home the Native Americans. This island is also where the greatest American natural disaster ever recorded in history happened. 6,000 people lost their lives in 1900 due to a hurricane. There are a few beaches to skimboard on but mostly it's a cool place to visit because of it's history.
Mustang Island/Port Aransas: This island is just south east from Corpus Christi. This place has some very interesting landscapes and some great beaches for skimboarding. This island is 18 miles long and from the air it looks almost like a strip of bacon.
South Padre Island: This beach has been a popular vacation spot for many years due to a resort on the island and it's nice beaches. South Padre is a barrier island which means that it's a relatively narrow strip of sand that parallels the mainland coast.
For anyone living in Texas or the surrounding states you know how popular Corpus Christi is and how great the beaches down there can be. Skimboarding and summer are just around the corner.
Skimboarders, get your boards waxed up and ready to hit the waves, summer will be here before you know it.
http://www.SkimBoardPros.com
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Skimboarding and the Lime Light
Compared to other popular sports such as surfing, football, soccer, golf, basketball and other mainstream sports, skimboarding is like a 6 month old baby that is about ready to have a giant growth spurt.
Just in the last few years skimboard sales and products have sky rocketed and the number of kids and young adults picking up a skimboard is growing substantially every year. Youtube has definitely helped the skimboarding industry because it's been able to show a huge audience what skimboarding truly is. Most older adults have never even heard of a skimboard. Now you can go onto the internet and type in skimboarding and thousands of pages of information and videos are at your finger tips.
Whenever I head to the beach now I'm amazed at all the skimboarders and how popular it's grown over the last decade. When I was a kid which has been some time I would never see a skimboarder, it was body boarding or surfing.
It's great to see so many young people picking up this sport and especially inland skimboarding. The great thing about this sport is you don't need an ocean and waves to go out and have fun. All you have to do is find a muddy puddle, river, pond or lake and you can have a riot all day long with your friends.
In this awesome day and age of technology it's good to see kids still going outside and having fun. When I was a kid I had the first edition of Nintendo but I still spent most of my time outside with my friends raising havoc.
http://www.SkimBoardPros.com
Just in the last few years skimboard sales and products have sky rocketed and the number of kids and young adults picking up a skimboard is growing substantially every year. Youtube has definitely helped the skimboarding industry because it's been able to show a huge audience what skimboarding truly is. Most older adults have never even heard of a skimboard. Now you can go onto the internet and type in skimboarding and thousands of pages of information and videos are at your finger tips.
Whenever I head to the beach now I'm amazed at all the skimboarders and how popular it's grown over the last decade. When I was a kid which has been some time I would never see a skimboarder, it was body boarding or surfing.
It's great to see so many young people picking up this sport and especially inland skimboarding. The great thing about this sport is you don't need an ocean and waves to go out and have fun. All you have to do is find a muddy puddle, river, pond or lake and you can have a riot all day long with your friends.
In this awesome day and age of technology it's good to see kids still going outside and having fun. When I was a kid I had the first edition of Nintendo but I still spent most of my time outside with my friends raising havoc.
http://www.SkimBoardPros.com
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Skimboard the Snow
We know it's the middle of winter, there's a foot of snow on the ground and your spit freezes before it hits the ground. However that doesn't mean you can't get your board out of the closet or garage and start waxing it up. Skimboarding season is only 2 or 3 months away depending on where you live in the world. We know most skimboarders are getting cabin fever right about now unless you snowboard in the off season. For those of us who don't snowboard the best thing for us is to do is sit, dream and wait for the warm weather to come back either that or fly to Hawaii or Australia.
Here's a novel idea. How many of you have tried taking your skimboard out on the snow? We have and let me tell you it's a fun and wild experience trying to skimboard across the snow. We just recommend that you find some soft snow and not a hard patch of ice. I can guarantee that you'll wipe out and you want to make sure your landing is a semi-soft one. If you've ever been tubing, sledding, snowboarding or skiing then you know how it feels when you hit a patch of ice or some hard snow with your face or head.
This is one way to kill the skimboarding winter blues. Just because it's colder than a witch's finger out there doesn't mean our skimboarding spirits have to get cold too. The winter blues is not fun especially for those who love the warm weather. Just keep thinking positive and think how spring time is right around the bend and will be here before we know it. We'll be hitting those waves in no time.
We wish everyone a good time. Go grab your board and go have some fun.
http://www.SkimBoardPros.com
Here's a novel idea. How many of you have tried taking your skimboard out on the snow? We have and let me tell you it's a fun and wild experience trying to skimboard across the snow. We just recommend that you find some soft snow and not a hard patch of ice. I can guarantee that you'll wipe out and you want to make sure your landing is a semi-soft one. If you've ever been tubing, sledding, snowboarding or skiing then you know how it feels when you hit a patch of ice or some hard snow with your face or head.
This is one way to kill the skimboarding winter blues. Just because it's colder than a witch's finger out there doesn't mean our skimboarding spirits have to get cold too. The winter blues is not fun especially for those who love the warm weather. Just keep thinking positive and think how spring time is right around the bend and will be here before we know it. We'll be hitting those waves in no time.
We wish everyone a good time. Go grab your board and go have some fun.
http://www.SkimBoardPros.com
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