How to Monkey Crawl Drop Skimboarding 

Look at skidkids video on it

Yeah

@@sld2954 Austin and Blair are literally the 2 best skimboarders I watch on RU-vid

Happy to help!

Glad you liked it!

Let me know how it goes! Stoked you got some good tips from this!

I’m in west palm I agree it makes it so much better

You misunderstood Austin. If you are skimming out to the waves you are not "flat land skimming." Flat land skimming means skimming along the shore and not trying to go out to deep water. However Austin does not make a valid point about this because he says if you are putting the board down in knee deep water you can monkey crawl easier. But that's silly because #1: No one will try to run in knee deep water. Anyone will drop by the time you get over your ankles deep. #2: In almost all of Austin's demo monkey crawl drops he is dropping in water less than an inch deep, so there is no "height advantage" as he describes. He even mentions "one step deeper into the water," which is about right, but one step does not take you from sand to knee deep water. He also mentions that the point of monkey crawl is to maintain momentum, but that can work just as easily on the sand as it does on the water. Conclusion: monkey crawl can be used for flat land skimming just as well as going out to the waves. I think the advantage might be better expressed as "monkey crawl will allow you to take a step or two into the water whereas a one step drop must start out on the sand. Starting your skim already on the water allows you to conserve a little momentum that would otherwise be lost on the higher friction sand."

@@TheLarryBrown I will begin practice monkey crawl only because the wind. Too dangerous to run at full speed and do one steep with wind.

More like skimboard acid drop dead.

Zum speed wax on the bottom of the board. Surprising that almost no skim videos cover or even mention the subject of wax.

Got any grindage?

Im in the same situation... Try using eelsnot or speed wax

Twenty or thirty minutes.

If the conditions are right, the waves nearby, you could, but epoxy boards have more float and gets you fearther out, the best boards are from carbon.

Yes, but once you get good enough to skim out to the waves go ahead and invest in a foam core board.

You probably need better wax

Alan King YES IT IS THE SAME

Correct. Austin does not make a valid point there. In almost all drops shown he's in an inch or two of water.

So pitted. Soooo pitted like that bruh

How?