LiQuid Skimboarding

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!

Guess what! Temperature above the water +6 degrees Celsius, in the water 6 degrees. Wind coming in from the north west, a bad day? Not for Maxim and Jermo. These were the conditions yesterday on a winter Sunday.

As we had some problems finding the right spot to skimboard after the storm from last weeks, we found on Saturday that there could be a good possibility that skimboarding in our backyard at the Vlissingen boulevard had some great potential.

Unfortunately on Saturday we were just to late and missed the best conditions. On Sunday we were perfect on time! For some impression we made a few shots with the GoPro! Check it out!

The second winterskim meeting was a ¬week later then we scheduled because of the bad Dutch weather. Because the storm of last week the whole slope was gone and we decided to go for an other flatland skim. But as we walked up the beach we saw some cool waves coming in so we began with some waving. After a short wave session the tide was coming up and the waves were breaking way to far for good skim, so we started to do some flatland.

Off course the fun was on and we made it a nice winter skim meeting. Big up for the diehards that we’re there again.

Next month it will be 2012 and the Boot Düsseldorf is coming up! That’s where next meeting will be. We hope to see you there! For now some pictures of yesterday:

Wassup wassup! Next weekend the winterstop is coming up again! We are not sure if we can go because of the real bad weather forecast but we try to have it this weekend or else we go on to the next weekend!

So the same concept as before: Sunday from 12 till later!

Yeah guys! The winter season has started and the first Winterskim stop blew by in no time. We had some fun skimboarding in the new spot Adrien Raza discovered together with Luke J Dirks! We started the day as real duchies by sitting with our pick nick chairs in front of the car waiting for the others to come and the tie to lower a little. When that happened, the skim session started.

The weather was quite okay but no sun. The spot on the other side rocked. As we were in the water with 8 guys or some we were kicking some rails and there was plenty enough space for everyone to do something. That’s because the spot near Bruinisse got so much flatland that it is at the moment the best flatlanding spot of The Netherlands!

So the days are already shortened so we had to pack the stuff up again and left back home again. The first Winterskim meeting was a big success!

Next meeting will be the 3rd or 4th December. 2nd Stop winterskim, colder weather, more fun!
See ya all next time!

The autumn started here in holland so normaly we have some bad weather conditions and when the weather is good, the sea is flat. Last Friday it was cold, but the sea had some clean waves to offer us. So we drove the car to Domburg and rushed to the water. We were to stoked to skimboard but Thijs wanted to test his camera with some high frames per second modes and we made a little Jermo de Lange team movie.

Special for you to enjoy it:

As the big plan was to go out with a big group, two cars and lots of beer for camping in Monster. We were to scared because of the name of this city and decided just to go to the Dutch finals with the top of the Skimteam! The lineup was simple: Jermo and Maxim on the Wave and Dali in the Flatland! Also Quintian Buteijn joined us for the trip to monster.

As we drove passed the Dutch country and traffic jams we arrived around the hour of 12 o’clock. Waves were coming in good but the tide was coming in, making it hard to run on good waves. So the flatland competition started by then. The results of the flatland:
- 1st Adrien Raza, Paradise skimkrew – DB skim
- 2nd Arjan Boom
- 3rd Luke J Dirks, Paradise skimkrew
- 4th Dali Moerings, Liquidskim.eu
And luckily this was also the ranking for the Dutch Skimtour of the Flatland department.

So on next when the tide was going down the Waveskim started right away! Because only the people, that were able to do something on their rankings, showed up, it was a hard competition with tensioned heats!

As Quintian and Maxim were really killing it in the first rounds the final was a strange final because the waves sunk in and the wind picked up a little, on shore. So the final was the hardest heat to skim giving the final results:
- 1st Maxim van der Mast, liquidskim.eu
- 2nd Jermo de Lange, Folhaskimboards.com, liquidskim.eu
- 3rd Quintian Buteijn
- 4th Morgan Boekhout, eastcoastskimboards.com

Because of these results the ranking of the Waveskim tour changed drastically in the top! Having the 2011 Waveskim tour results:
- 1st Jermo de Lange, Folhaskimboards.com, liquidskim.eu
- 2nd Adrien Raza, Paradise skimkrew – DB skim
- 3rd Maxim van der Mast, liquidskim.eu

So concluding out of this results, Liquidskim did another great job in 2011! We got Jermo de Lange again being The Ducht Campion. Followed by our biggest upcoming talent in the wave department Maxim van der Mast. And in the Flatland we got Dali Moerings on the 4th Position!

Some pictures made by Richard Hoogstrate (Click for more):

We as liquidskim.eu want to thank a few people and companies for supporting our skimboarding throughout the Skim season of 2011:

Folhaskimboards.com; For being Jermo de Lange his boardsponsor 2011

Dutchskim.nl; Orgenizing the Dutch skimtour and judging

Hapro.com; Because they were kind enough to lend us a super longboard roofbox!

Peace to you all, and from now on: It’s on to the next one!

In the car with: Jermo, Quintian, Dali and Maxim.
On the way to the Monster Skim bash. It looks like were gonna have a good day full of sun, skim and fun !!

Tonight a follow up, hopefully with some pics

See you all at Monster !!

An other great session in vrouwenpolder with: Thijs, Dali, Jermo, Maxim and Quintian.
the waves were great and the liners rolled in smooth, to give an impression we made some photo’s.
This was the last skimsession before The Monster skim jam that takes place upcoming weekend, we are stoked and hoping for some Monster skim bash!.

Hope to see you all there !!

For more pictures go to the facebook!