Category Archives: Skimboarding

Gulf Coast Skimboarding Video

Overhead Surf Shop has a skimboarding video on the Gulfster Youtube video feed. This is Gulfster’s most watched video with over 38 thousand views. The video captures firing skim getting blasted by the best and most badass skimboarders around. The video was uploaded on December of 2006, so it’s a bit out of date, but the skimboarding ability of the shredders in the video is as relevant as ever.

John Akerman

John Akerman is a local skimboarding and wake skimming/skurfing professional. He started skimboarding regularly all up and down the beaches of the gulf coast. As a grom he could frequently be seen shredding at skim contests. He quickly learned some of the most innovative Continue reading John Akerman

Southy in West Florida

A small summer low crossed the state last week.  You could almost call it a tropical system.

 

It never really reached tropical wave strength, but did send small ground swell to West Central Florida once it reached the balmy gulf waters.

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