Exile Skimboards is pleased to announce STIMULUS

The highly anticipated sequel to Bearded, hailed by critics and the masses alike as “The Best Skimboarding Video Of All Time”. Arriving at Sandskater this June!

Sat here in French Eric’s house on the island of Oleron, I can confirm that skim is already going off on day 1 of the Oleron Skim Fest.

An uneventful ferry crossing and drive through France, followed by 12 hours sleep, meant we were ready to hit up the liners that Oleron is renown for.

Swell is forecast for the entire weekend, so here’s some pic’s of today to get you in the mood!

Need we say anymore - awesome slow-mo’s.

It’s now less than a month until we pack up and ship out to the Île d’Oléron in France for our annual trip to see our French cousins!

We have 4 people confirmed for the trip this year; Matt, Mark, Adam & Dan, who are all hoping for some fun on the legendary liners. That’s not to mention the superb French beer/wine, baguettes, croissants and happy times with our host Eric, and the rest of the French skim crew.

This year’s dates are the Tuesday 7th April to Tuesday 14th April. If you want to join us at this late stage, there is still time, so call the shop on 08452 037546 and will be happy to give you the ferry times and details you will need.

If you want to see what happened in previous years, then you need look no further than some of the Oleron photo galleries:

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Following on from last week’s video; bodyboarding on snow, we have just uploaded another snow video to the Sandskater You Tube Channel.

The video was filmed on Dartmoor at the height of the snowy period in February 2009. Most of the moor was only accessible to 4×4’s, so we took advantage of the conditions and got a load of the Sandskater crew together and towed them behind a Land Rover on skimboards and bodyboards.

This 8 minute video is the result:

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If you haven’t seen this new Paulo Prietto mini-movie from Exile Skimboards going around the internet during the past few weeks, then you are missing out.

Its 4 minutes of awesome skimboarding from one of the worlds best skimboarders. Don’t believe me, go check it for yourself:

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Where the f*** is the skim? If you know, please tell me, coz i haven’t found it yet this season.

The 2008/2009 autumn & winter season has been one of the worst ever for skim conditions in the south west.

Since September i can can count the number of times i have been skimboarding on one hand - and that sux.

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We have taken delivery this week of the fantastic new Banshee Bungee!

Basically, its a 20ft long bungee rope that can be stretched to over 200ft, and launch you at over 30mph! Some of the bungee packages come with 2 or 3 bungee ropes, so you can link a few bungees together to get an even faster & longer pull.

When used with the correct anchor, it can allow skimboarders to reach waves further out that wouldn’t be reachable with just running and side slipping.

But it doesn’t stop there. Banshee Bungee packages can be used to give a boost to any kind of board sport. You can use it with skateboards, snowboards, wakeboards & wake skates, to name a few. The possibilities are endless!

Lets take a closer look into the world of Banshee Bungee…

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The UST Oktoberfest video has just been released.

While you are over at the UST website, make sure you check out the other videos from the UST tour.

Here are, not 1, but 3 videos recently posted on the French skimboarding website Batardubreak. They are from the French International contest that we attended in August.

As always the videos are as sick as ever, so lets check them out now…

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