Sandskater

A load of new 2009 NMD bodyboards have just arrived at Sandskater. The NMD Njoy (£54.99) and the NMD Element (£59.99) get a stringer for this year, so it makes them one of best “budget” boards available! Also back in stock is the ever popular NMD Base at £99.99 - comes with a free leash too...

Exile Skimboards is pleased to announce STIMULUS The highly anticipated sequel to Bearded, hailed by critics and the masses alike as “The Best Skimboarding Video Of All Time”. Arriving at Sandskater this June...

Got a load of cool deck grip in stock from Ocean and Earth...

Been a bit of a wait this year, but the first new batch of Zap Skimboards have arrived...

Finally got all the new Circle One skimboards onto the site. New for this year is their revised soft top skimboard, that now comes with a regular hard bottom, but with heavy duty soft deck and rails...

Sat here in French Eric’s house on the island of Oleron, I can confirm that skim is already going off on day 1 of the Oleron Skim Fest. An uneventful ferry crossing and drive through France, followed by 12 hours sleep, meant we were ready to hit up the liners that Oleron is renown for...

So it’s upon us, we are packing up and shipping out to France over the Easter weekend, for week of non stop skim and surf. Rest assured, we will have plenty of footage and photos for your amusement when we return. So because of our trip to France the shop will be closed while we are are away...

Need we say anymore - awesome slow-mo’s.

It’s now less than a month until we pack up and ship out to the Île d’Oléron in France for our annual trip to see our French cousins! We have 4 people confirmed for the trip this year; Matt, Mark, Adam & Dan, who are all hoping for some fun on the legendary liners...

Following on from last week’s video; bodyboarding on snow, we have just uploaded another snow video to the Sandskater You Tube Channel. The video was filmed on Dartmoor at the height of the snowy period in February 2009...

A few of the crew headed up to Dartmoor this week to get in some snow bodyboarding. We used a few Circle One bodyboards, which work really well on snow and headed to a nice steep hill with a natural drop off...

Shed loads of 2009 Globe Shoes have arrived at the Sandskater shop, and we have now put them online for your viewing pleasure. Get yourself over to the Globe Shoes page, and check them out for yourself...

From Monday 2nd February new winter opening times will be in full effect...

If you haven’t seen this new Paulo Prietto mini-movie from Exile Skimboards going around the internet during the past few weeks, then you are missing out. Its 4 minutes of awesome skimboarding from one of the worlds best skimboarders...

Where the f*** is the skim? If you know, please tell me, coz i haven’t found it yet this season. The 2008/2009 autumn & winter season has been one of the worst ever for skim conditions in the south west...

Sandskater team rider Mark “Moose” Mason is organising a Skim Jam at Preston Beach in Paignton on Sunday 1st February. It’s going to be the first one of 2009, so why not come along and skim with some buddies and learn from Moose and the rest of the Sandskater team...

All our winter wetsuit gear is now on sale! We have added winter wetsuits to our winter sale. We now have massive savings on all winter Xcel, West and Circle One wetsuits! You can now grab yourself a 5/4 winter wetsuit for as little as £99.99...

If you haven’t already noticed, we have started our massive winter sale! Most skimboards & bodyboards have up to 30% off. There is also up to 30% off all Globe Shoes & Heelys too. When looking for a bargain keep your eyes peeled for the “On Sale” tag you see above...

Have you noticed the new link in the top menu bar of the website entitled “Press“? Well if you have been interested enough to click through, then you would have found our new press centre...

We have some shop soiled Circle One kids bodyboards that we are clearing out at a rock bottom price. All the boards are brand new, but have some scuff marks on the deck & bottom. All the marks are purely cosmetic and won’t affect the performance of the board in any way...

Following the UK governments decision on to cut the VAT rate from 17.5% to 15% for the following 13 months from 1st December 2008, we have reduced all our prices inline with the VAT rate cut...

We want to extend a warm welcome to Eric Silvestre who is the latest addition to the Sandskater Team. Eric becomes Sandskater’s first French rider, hailing from Oleron Island on the Atlantic coast of France...

We have been busy adding new gear to the website over the past few weeks - just in time for Christmas...

Street Surfing has arrived at Sandskater! The Wave board is what you use to Street Surf. It looks similar to skateboard, but has 2 castor wheels which can rotate 360 degrees, and the 2 deck plates are joined together by a spring loaded torsion bar...

We have taken delivery this week of the fantastic new Banshee Bungee! Basically, its a 20ft long bungee rope that can be stretched to over 200ft, and launch you at over 30mph...

We just took delivery of a load of new skimboarding DVD’s, and some nice gift ideas for the run up to Christmas. ...