Author: Nicolas Rottier

Dylan from Florida came to the shop today, and had the surprise to meet Morgan Just…

Muchu at work.

Teddy checking out some of the new features on the beach.

Victoria Skimboards is pleased to announce that the free Aliso Beach web camera sponsored by EarthCam is now available on Surfline.com.

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Over the last weekend the beginnings of some swell broke through in Laguna Beach. Locals ran to 10th Street in hopes of picking up the side wash and were greated with some nicely formed waves.

Kyle Wiley at 10th St.

Victoria Skimboards team rider Matthieu Thibaud injured his foot on Friday but still pulled his weight by taking some pictures and helping with Video footage.

Victoria Skimboards team rider Chris Splendore teamed up with Zack Hoag to give skimboarding instruction at the Children’s Home of Tampa.

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Thanks Chris for helping to give back to those around you. We appreciate it!

Jon Howell laid it all on the beach and put together an impressive performance to win 1st place at Dewey Beach over the last weekend. Congratulations to Jon!

Also to be noted, Siobhan McAuliffe took 1st place in the Women’s division.

More results as they become available to us. Congratulations Victoria Skimboards riders on a great performance!

Victoria Skimboards is having a SALE in our online store from August 15, 2009 through September 15, 2009. Use the code below and save 10% but hurry as supplies may be limited.

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Kile from Mississippi sent some pictures of the skim lesson he had when he visited here a couple of weeks ago.

He got a pretty good sunburn (even if I told him about the sunblock thing), but he had a lot of fun. He got some waves at Thalia and then came down to Aliso.

He was super stoked, me too and we look forward to seeing him around again,

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The contest must go on said the contestants. Hard onshore winds and large offshore waves were dealt with by the contestants and it was pretty tough. Mega managed to get some frontside AND backside wraps, into the wind, to beat Morgan and take the title. Hugo Santos was out with a hurt foot from Saturday so the door was open for Mega to realize his dream of many, many years. Morgan said before the victory was announced that he didn’t mind if Mega won, he was that good a skimmer and a great guy. With European football style chanting, the crowd was celebrating for every favourite and many of the cheers were for Herve LeDoux, the organizer of the event. He really knocks himself out for three days, hosts parties every night, has a huge sound system and a big crowd. Cree and little Noami, forgive my spelling, handed out the prizes. Very heartwarming to see the crowd appreciation for all the family’s efforts. Morgan is now the leader on the European tour by a good margin and is planning to go on to England to try and get the title. Last night he got rained on in his tent, yes I said tent, and got pretty wet and cold. That’s dedication. He said he was just now getting over the jet lag after 12 days in Europe. Sorry I don’t have the names of the other finishers but rest assured, the Europeans are damn good. Morgan said he was really feeling the pressure in Portugal where he took second. Sergio and Eric of gorgonitasskim, find the blog on google, urged me to invite any and all to the 2010 in Barcelona. By the way, the contest in Portugal was a major ocean festival with a 1000 contestants in all the ocean sports. Morgan reported that billboards featuring Jaime, the winner of last years event, were all over town. That’s not little old posters, but really big billboards. Reminds me of sailboarding, which started in the U.S., but really took off in Europe in a much bigger way. It is absolutely amazing to see how big skimboarding has become. Tex