A Brief Overview Of Skimboarding History In The USA

In the beginning The thrilling and very skilled sport of skimboarding commenced on Laguna Beach in Southern California in the 1920s. Lifeguards used homemade wooden boards and skimmed the waves along the shore as an easy way to cross the beach. 1960s-1970s The idea never gained recognition as a variety of sport until the late 1960s and 1970s. The idea of using boards to skim the waves as they broke on the shore re-surfaced at Victoria Beach, also in California, in the 1960s. By the 1970s the game had started to spread to other areas

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