Skimboard virtuoso Brad Domke's board transfers at epic Cylinders.
I do love this permissive age of surfing, where anything goes, where the pompous certainty that surfing is only possible on six feet of fibreglass with three screws, has disappeared.
Recently, and completely through the medium of Instagram, I’ve become stimulated by the behaviour of the skimboarder, as practised, specifically, by Austin Keen and Brad Domke.
Domke, of course, needs very little introduction. He rides Nazaré, Puerto Escondido, Jaws and so forth on his little disc. And this three-and-a-half minute short of Domke castrating his surfboard by using it only to paddle into the wave before jumping onto his fifty-three-inch, flat-rockered, finless disc, will be difficult to remove from your consciousness.
The wave, if y’didn’t know, is Cylinders, an outrageous shorebreak in Newport, California. This day, says Domke, was the best he’s seen it in fifteen years.
“It’s days like these that (filmer) Dylan and I live for.”
Oh it’ll give you vertigo!
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All jokes aside, there is an interesting correlation between skim and homosexuality I’ve picked up on over the years.
I wish I could like skim boarding, but it just seems like winding down windows half the time.
Amazing. The guy should ride a “real” surfboard and beat JJF & Gabriel in the Pipe Masters.
skimboarding is probably one of the lamest things ever. up there with razor scooters
Watching a fat adult busting his ass repeatedly on a plywood skimboard trying to impress his fat chick. Later that night they hit the seafood buffet, get a tattoo, drink then make sweet love.Timeless Myrtle Beach scenes.
Skimboards damn near built this town. And fireworks.
#notanintermediatesurfer
What do people that carry an electric guitar to the beach ride?
The white pony.
China white.
Starting to think Domke is the only one capable of riding these, think about it, our locals are just kids smashing tail bones, the internet is just Brad Domke.
Skimming is a high art form.
I prefer creatine as it bonds well to product and will survive a microwaving or two.
What is the next wave in skim? Backhand?
Skimming-boarding will just use smaller and smaller boards until cast-off toenails are the vessels of choice for these daredevils.
My personal (highly valued and breathlessly sought-after) opinion is that handstands are going to be the new air-game surf-wide.
Except, without the ‘air’ part, obviously.
Mason and JJJJJF will be secretly training to drop in macking pipe using nothing but the power of their wrists and arms (and shoulders and lots of other stuff) to glide through the tooobz while going red in the face upside down.
MARK MY BIRDS.
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WORDS.
Blair Conklin Dez. Get round it
This pretty thing? https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Epic Cylinders is not a thing.
I tried to down vote this, not because I dislike the comment, but merely to see what happens if you down vote something. Nothing happened and now I feel robbed
That’s where words such as shit, fuck, cunt, arse, prick etc are most useful!
I think what happened here is Jesus loves you and doesn’t want you to be wrong.
North Stradbroke Island would like a word.