LiQuid Skimboarding

Back for another update about the Holland Skim Jam 2012 Weekend! We started on Saturday with skimboarding and surfing clinics for helping at the NixGames!

On Saturday in the evening we decided to go Arjan Boom to avoid the long drive in the morning to Zandvoort aan Zee. As Sunday started with nice and no windy weather. The wind picked up when we arrived at the beach. This made the waves a little choppy, but the competition was exciting! Also the flatland was not under the best conditions but everybody was in for some grinding those rails!

For an impression Tom Haakman already made the movie (see below). The results were as following:

Waveskim:
1. Adrien Raza
2. Jermo de Lange
3. Morgan Boekhout
4. Quintian Buteijn
Flatskim:
1. Adrien Raza
2. Jermo de Lange
3. Luke J Dirks
4. Morgan Boekhout

Stoked? We are! Upcoming Sunday the Holland Skimjam will take place on the first weekend of the waiting period! Dali and Jermo will travel to Zandvoort to meet the other stoked boarders and have a good day! 400 kilometers of traveling and a day in the water!

Of course we have been skimboarding on some Dutch standard good conditions in Oostkapelle for the change, because the slope in Vrouwenpolder isnt on his optimum yet! For a small impression we’ve made some footage with the camera’s that you probably see back in a later stadium!

So the team is back together and making plans for all kind of cool upcoming cool stuff. Think about the summer holiday. Also this year we will attempt to drive along the coast of Europe for good skimboarding sessions on the best waves, including Cap Ferrêt. To meet new people, see cool skimboarders and chicks!
Also about clinics that we will help at. Think about the KBO and MADNES festival!
Stay tuned!

It’s time for a little update,
The summer is just a few months away and we are all enjoying the sweet life out here. Too bad that there a little to no waves spotted in the last few weeks.
Dali went skimboarding once at the best spot he could find in Vrouwenpolder but the waves where disappointing.
None the less we are verry stoked for the upcoming season and hoping to catch some of those epic summer skim sessions and shooting great footage.

Also the Dutch Skimboarding Tour started and the Noordwijk Shootout kicked off with the first skim comp. None of the LiQuid members attended the contest because were all too caught up….
- Jermo, lost somewhere in China
- Thijs, being Thijs
- Maxim, somewhere in a farmer’s field
- Dali, searching for Maxim

From what we heard the Noordwijk Shootout was a fun and well organized contest !

Here are the results:
Flatland:
#1 Adrien Raza
#2 Arjan Boom
#3 Luke J dirks
#4 Max van Leeuwen

Waveskim:
#1 Adrien Raza
#2 Stef Koomen
#3 Arjan Boom
#4 Michiel Kramers

The next contest will be The Holland Skim Jam and LiQuid wil be there this time.

We got a small update for this time with some big news! We have started working on a DVD project. This doesn’t necessary means we’re making a physical DVD but you have the see it in a way of project that could end up burned down on a DVD. But moreover there has to be some skimboarding Holland in it. Lots of lifestyle fun and stuff.
Are you interested? No, well, see the trailer for yourself and subscribe the YouTube channel for more updates of the videos that are coming up!

Also Dali is working on his Paradise project, starring episode two of the lifestyle saga:

Last weekend the liquidskim team went up to skimboard on the new spot called zandmotor (“zandmoffa”) near Ter Heijde. The government of The Netherlands decided to be innovative in protecting Holland from the sea. They did this by creating a massive sand peninsula in front of the cost. On this way the sea will help getting all this sand spread across the Dutch coast.
Translation: Good spot for skimboarding! So we headed up on one of the brightest days of March to check out this spot. the waves were cool and we made some photo’s and film shots.

Next big announcement is that we will probably release a new liquidskim DVD with footage of the whole 2012 adding special bonus material, unseen footage, the trips we make to Ameland, France, maybe Spain, Sightseeing and off course the actions to put Holland on the map.

These are just plan, which you will hear more off in the nearby future. For now just enjoy these pictures took by Pauline Klieber.

It’s been a while since the last update, but not for no reason! First of all of course we went on snowboarding trip to Italy. Jermo got his new board from www.folhaskimboard.com and we have a new filming camera besides the amazing Gopro’s!

To start with the holidays! After we’ve had a 20′hours bus, train and taxi road we reached the amazing Dolimiti mountains in Italy. The liquidskim team, except for Erwin, teamed up with Remi Louwerse and Yannick de Lange to have snow real action going on at the mountains.

The first two days were a bit snowy but that was hardly a problem as on the second day the sun showed his appearance and the clouds disappeared. Next days were full of sun, happiness and of course the sound of snowboards crashing on or off piste! Lot’s of gopro footage was shotted by maxim and dali. Their head- and chestmounts made some incredible viewing angles possible. We spent some time fooling around in the 1 meter deep snow, ate a lot of the terrific Italian food back at the hotel, see some nice views, drunk some beers and ate some quality hamburgers at the BIERGARTEN. Yeah life is good!

Important happenings during the holiday:
• Maxim had a down feather mustache, making him look real Italian.
• Thijs got injured but managed to snowboard some days at the end.
• Dali fell of the piste 3 times and had some war going on with a French douchebag.
• Remi likes the Italian food; “Vollebak, bier.”
• Yannick is skiing..
• Dali made the movie with music so fresh that youtube still blocks it in Holland.
• Jermo wore his helmet the whole holiday.
• We went up to 3268 meters height to chill some.

The movie made bij Dali:

Snowboarding Italy from Dalimoerings on Vimeo.

And no doubt lots of more fun going on. For some impressions of maxim his camera:

When we got back we had a real cool trip behind us and were stoked right away for skim. But the waves were messy and real small the whole week. So Dali and Jermo decided on Saturday just to have a small session and test the new cam. Here is the movie:

As the whole country was hoping we won’t have a winter and fly straight to the summer days again, we had some bad luck. But for the most of us the snow and cold are always fun for a few days! So we decided to have some fun with the boards, a rope and a car. All you need to have some fun.

Today the temperatures are above freezing point for the first time in past two weeks. So plans for skimboarding again are being made of course, but first of all we have a much brighter future plan! Snowboarding in Italy. We’ll keep you updated!

Thinking about skimboarding in the winter is to cold? The Germans came up with a indoor skimboarding concept at the giant boat exhibition, Boot Düsseldorf. Teamrider Jermo decited to go and have a go at the flatland skimboarding contest. Along the way Paradise Skimkrew (Adrien, Luke and Lisa), Arjan Boom and Nienke joined the travel to represent the Dutchies in Germany.

The Boot Düsseldorf is probebly one of the biggest boat shows in Europe and houses a lot of sightseeing next to the boats themselves. You could go kayaking, wakeboarding, diving and for us the most interesting; skimboarding. The skimboarding event was pretty good organized thanks to the inland skim movement in Germany!

Also some new skimboarding brands as Skimbowl and Kaiya were there to have people test their new boards out!
The level of the skimboarding competition was pretty high and all the riders were super stoked to get the show on and skimboard in swimming pants! As the final was full of mind blowing shuv-it’s and all the sickness together the crowd was blowing when the riders did some cool tricks!

For the results; Adrien Raza really killed the finals and won first place again! The other Dutchies turned in at the 7th (Jermo),8th(Arjan) and 9th(Luke) place. The excitement about the competition is really high for next year and we hope to see the sport grow even more!

Yes, yes! Got back from another good weekend. As the winter starts to kick in with for the first time temperatures below freezing point the past weekend was all into skimboarding! On Saturday Dali, Jermo and Maxim set out to find waves.

First we started at the North of our island, but the beloved Vrouwenpolder skimspot had way to small waves to even get out of the car for it. Also in Oostkapelle we had no luck. After we went to Domburg and hit some big waves. Unfortunately to big…
So after a few tries in Domburg we went to the nearby spot in Westkapelle but we arrived just to late to enjoy the clean waves breaking over there.
Too bad for Saturday.

On Sunday the wind was better than on Sunday. So after a few doubts Maxim and Jermo got in the car and went straight to Domburg and saw the following:

Just another day in paradise!

Yes dudes! The year has passed so qucikly! We have been to some serious skim together and have some good results at the end of the year!

Let’s have a look at the year 2011 for liquidskim. We started the year by trying to survive the cold winter days Holland got, we’ve skimboarderded a serveral times on the Domburg Noordduine beach or near the dike of Westkappele. As the weather changed the spring reached amazing temperatures with perfect skimboarding days. As those days flew by the summer was on his way.

All together, the liquidskim team, we had some super sessions in our own homespot Dishoek where our skimboarding crew finds his origen. Because the Dutchies are allways fighting against the water the sanded is leveld up every 2 or 3 years to prevent our land from sinking. As the goverment did this at the beaches of Vlissingen and Dishoek we had some amzing slopes and points with the familiar Dishoek waves. This allowed us to have one of the best sessions we ever had.

Also 2011 is the year for liquidskim that we were more into discovering the island were living on. Actualy we found out having for some specific winds perfect conditions at some spots. Yeah, this is going towards Vrouwenpolder.
If you havent seen the footage we shot at Vrouwenpolder you should check it out here! Cause if your skimboarding in Holland you’d know the waves arent that big and messy, but for the sessions we had in Vrouwenpolder it was nothing Dutch likely some times.

We dind’t have much planned out when the holidays started, as usual, so we hit the road to skim some real Ocean waves. First up Saint Nazaire, followed by Cap ferret. This roadtrip was definitly one of big moments of 2011! Also during the Holiday we try to promote skimboarding at the youngur public by giving skimboard clinics. The best weekend we had was in Noordwijk at the KBO kitsurf open. Now we still had to finish the Dutch Skimboarding Tour! Jermo defended his title as Dutch skimboading champ and urned his title for the second year! Maxim got the 3rd Dutch Skimboarder title in the Tour. Some good results that have to be mentiond.

And at this moment we’re focusing at the Winterskim Season! As this year’s winterskim season is a bit softer cause of the extreme weird temperatures around here we are just trying to skim as much as we can!

Just keep in mind that thanks to skimboarding we are able to meet so much new people and have a lots of opportunities in the future!
Thanks everyone who supported us!