Here’s a video from from the Euro Skim League contest at Tolcarne Beach in Newquay earlier this month.

Gives you a nice overview of the conditions and the atmosphere.

Enjoy

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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!

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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A few of the crew headed up to Dartmoor this week to get in some snow bodyboarding.

We used a few Circle One bodyboards, which work really well on snow and headed to a nice steep hill with a natural drop off.

We then built a compacted snow launch ramp, and then threw ourselves down the hill on bodyboards.

The result is these photos & video:

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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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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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You may have noticed over the past few weeks that we have added a section on the homepage (shop webcam & Paignton daily photo pages too!) that gives you updates to what we are doing throughout the day. (Click on thumbnail on the left to see what we are talking about!)

This has been enabled by us having a free Twitter account.

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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.