The Future of Surfing?

Repost, but since we're talking finless...

many seemed to enjoy on the last go round so figured I'd post it up here. Not too many stand up boogers out there but this dude's keeping it alive.

[video=youtube;nUSEppgtrUs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUSEppgtrUs[/video]

 

Yeah, that original video here is amazing. What I think this REALLY is, is the Exile company really showing what CAN be done with their products. This is a way for them to tap into a much larger market, millions of surfers. If we see them, doing what we do, it may make some of us interested, rather than the typical "What is a grown as$ man doing on a skim board?" comments.

So, I marvel at what they are doing on the skimboards and the standup boogy is sweet too. I don't think that finless, no volume, no rail board riding is the future by any means, as it is really a novelty. Surfboards can do what that guy is doing way more efficiently.... Its just a testament about what CAN be done.

Its more about pushing the limits of skimming, than anything about surfing. Those guys just want recognition, cause what they do is insane. Any of us surfers can respect what they do, as it is more difficult to pretty much do ANYTHING on a skimboard, including successfully taking off on a wave. So seeing these pros out there on the skimbaords makes you wonder, how SICK can these guys be on surfboards.

Met a crew of really good skimmers from the Panhandle in Florida. They were INSANE and they all surfed too. Watched their video. They were as good at surfing as they were at skimming....

 

America, F*CK YEAH!

[video=youtube;tX5ZRE26YWM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX5ZRE26YWM[/video]

 

I've stand up boogied since I was 7... I like surfing better, but as long as I do it, it'll never get old.

low center of gravity is everything.

 

As long as the future of surfing doesn't involve the inbred nazi-gnome, it's usually all good.

 

how bout putting him on roys' board?

 

dudes a beast no doubt about it.

 

All the hopping, shove-it type stuff seems gimmicky and maybe a dead end to me, but the way he bottom turns off the back of the board, turning the whole back half into a giant fin, there might be something in that. And the way stand-up boogies do that cutback to reverse spin back into the pocket (or even how prone boogies do it, think Mike Stewart at Second Reef Pipe), that looks like one of the most functional maneuvers around. The trick might be getting the flotation of a boogie with the "edge" of a skimboard or an alaia somehow.
When surfing's current popularity implodes, will there be some kind of radical shift? Like how the collapse of early '60s beach-party movie surfing preceded the advent of shortboards? Maybe the finless, skimboard, stand-up boogie, Ryan Burch/Derek Hynd/Hydrodynamica world might have the modern day equivalent of George Greenough's spoon in it somewhere?

 

Both vids on this thread are sick..

Skim dude does better fs bigspins on a head high wave with a skimboard than I can do on flatground with skateboard. Sigh.

Anyone else notice that the stand-up booger is wearing an Unsound t-shirt at 2:26? (NY surf shop). Wonder if the dude made it up to NY or if it just came his way...

 

Great stuff here, I did see the Unsound shirt.

 

Yea, Domke is a talented surfer. No way is that future of anything- did you see how much work is surfing that in overhead conditions? Getting in and then actually dealing with the board while positioning. Challenging, yes.

Stand up sponge is cool. I like that idea way better. I watch that type of a video and go look at the waves I'm dealing with every time I think of spending any serious money on some sort of special performance SB.
Whatever, paddle out, have fun.

 

Yeah, on the skim first then on the surfboard later. Damn. How the hell did James Cameron sneak in and raise the bar again?