| Headstand |
This move is probably very easy if you already
know how to do a headstand. For the rest of us however, it
is a little difficult to do a headstand on our living room
floor, more or less a moving skimboard. I have only seen
headstands performed on sand. I suppose they could be
performed on water but besides being extremely hard I would see
it as being very dangerous because you could hit a bump in the
wave, or the wave itself, thereby inducing a large shock to your
neck and possibly breaking it. Performing it is fairly
straight forward. Just stand on the back of your board
while sliding on the sand. Then lean over and put your
head down in the middle of the board. When you are ready
kick up your feet and support yourself with your hands on the
skimboard if necessary. Be very careful not to hit the
water (or anything else!) because it could really hurt your
neck. This can be done in combination with 360's and Kanai
Sharsh has been known to win contests with this move (when there
aren't any waves) |
| Flips |
Do a flip, charge right at a wave and jump
right when you reach the top. When you jump either tuck
your head, or arch you back to do a front-flip or a back-flip.
This is a sort of variation on the "flyaway" listed in
the beginner moves section. |
Frontside or
Backside
Down the Line |
A backside or frontside "down the
line" (liner) is when you approach the wave moving in one
direction and after turning off of the wave continue in the same
direction. The main thing that makes "liners"
easy is running at an angle to the water line. The more
parallel to shore you run, the less drastic your turn off of the
wave has to be, and therefore, the more speed you have on the
wave. Example
Picture |
| Floater |
A floater is when the rider rides up onto the
top of a breaking wave and then "jumps" back down in
front of the whitewater. Floaters can be fairly easy or
very hard depending on the wave. They are included in the
intermediate section because this is a point when you should
start trying them. Click here
for a video clip (1693Kb) from Sandcrabs skimboard video.
The second wave is Bill Bryan demonstrating a very nice floater. |
| Wrap |
A wrap starts just like a "liner"
except after you turn off of the wave you come back towards the
point you started running from. Backside wraps are much
easier, and more common than frontside wraps. Wraps can be
much more than an "intermediate move" depending
mainly on whether they are frontside or backside and how
big/powerful the wave is. Example
Picture Example
Gif Animation
"Skimming 201" is a
Tutorial On How To Do a Wrap |
