Following on from the Stoke - what is it? article, a few weeks ago where i discussed what stoke is, it is now time to turn our attention to “getting stoked”.

Over the winter one of our team guys, Adam Wootton, was going through a bad patch and questioning his own commitment to skimboarding. He managed to turn things around, and “get stoked”, and this his story of how that happened.

So, i am going to hand over to Adam, and let him describe in his own words, what changed his whole perspective.

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“To catch a wave was (and is) to stoke the fires of the heart and soul. Hence the terms: to be stoked, a stoked life, degrees of stoke and pure stoke.” - John Grissam, Pure Stoke (1982)

Every true surfer/skimboarder has had the feeling of stoke at some point in their lives.

That feeling you get from nailing your first wrap or barrel, or sticking that bigspin you have been working on for months. The feeling you get whilst gliding effortlessly down the wave, when your mind forgets all your everyday worries, and its just you and the wave, and you are living just for that moment.

For me, I can think of one person who demonstrates “stoke” more than anybody else i know: Chris Danby.

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New Manta Bodyboards have arrived in the shop today, and we have uploaded them to the online store for your viewing pleasure!

If you have any questions about our range of bodyboards, then be sure to give us a shout!

All the new season’s bodyboarding gear is starting to arrive at the shop, and we have been busy taking photos and getting everything online for you guys to take a look at.

So lets take a closer look at what’s new:

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We have got some more NMD Base bodyboards in stock.

Quantity is very limited, so grab one of these popular bodyboards while you can.

Sandskater bodyboard team rider Henry Irvine recently spent a few days in Cornwall to ease him back into bodyboarding after his broken arm earlier this year.

As part of the ritual, his bodyboarding chums (Chris & Mike) got him drunk, and then asked him some questions related to UK bodyboarding, and filmed the results.

The hilarous results of this little episode can be found below…

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Its welcome aboard to our latest bodyboard team rider: James Evans.

Hailing from St Austell in Cornwall, James is a 22 year old sponger who likes to go big. He has a great sense of humour, and is great guy to be around. Visit the team pages now to check out his profile video.

A rare chance to score big skim during the summer months saw some of the Sandskater & Paignton crew join the Bournemouth posse down at Mother Iveys Bay on Sunday.

We met up to get some filming done for the forthcoming Sandskater skim dvd - Scratch.

There was some head high peaks coming through and offloading onto the beach, which gave the tourists to the area a rare glimpse of power of one of Britains heaviest waves.

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New in this week from Circle One:

New design Circle One 50″ EPS Skimboards

New design Circle One 52″ EPS Skimboard

New Circle One Stinger Bodyboard

VICTORIA SKIMBOARDS UPDATE!
Our Vic skimboard order has just been cleared by customs and will be here early next week. We’ll post them up online as soon as they are arrive.

Sandskater bodyboard team member Henry Irvine (Henbot as he is affectionatly known!), has had a bit of a malfunction over the weekend whilst out on his mountain bike in Wales.

He’s gone and broken his arm, quite comprehensively as it seems, and its going to put him out the water for the rest of the summer. He called us from his hospital bed on Friday to inform us of the news.

Both bones in his forearm have broken, and he has had a skin graft from his thigh to help the wound heal. He has just emailed us some of the photos of the wound and x-rays, so if you are in anyway squimish, don’t look at the following photos - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!

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