Skimboarding Wooden Skimboard in EPIC WAVES !!

Professional Skimboarder Austin Keen Skimboarding on a Beginner Wooden Skimboard in Laguna Beach
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[@AustinKeen]

If you want the skimboard, let me know below. Don't forget to subscribe and help us hit 100k!! love all you guys! Thanks for the support. kzbin.info

[@anthonysalinas460]

I’d be super pumped to get that 742 so I can hang it on my wall! (And ofc you already know I’m subscribed)

[@AliageCOD]

i want it so baaaad please :o !

[@zachtaylor6774]

I would love the signature signed turbo 742 to display, I’ve been skim boarding since I was little and got so much better watching your videos. I’ve been subbed and have been watching you for 3 years. I love ur style. Keep going off.

[@noahstanko6688]

Would be a gnarly table! have been subscribed since the beginning

[@Jacoblikestoskim]

That would be out of this world and ofc I am a sub

[@mantchova]

This video is gold. It shows us that it is possible to catch a wave with a wooden plank even though it's difficult.

[@andeegee]

In the Philippines, probably majority of the skimboarders use wooden boards.

[@johnwalhofink9632]

I dont skimboard all that much, but that would change for sure if I got a Turbo 742

[@lorilarmand1811]

No replies ?

[@krispewkrem3]

The ladies aren’t ready for my Turbo 742 Be skimming into waves. And I’m not talkin bout a beach.

[@musicplaylist8234]

😂😂😂 lmao you made my day

[@LordOfTheThings]

I once had a baseball glove that I bought at a thrift shop for $5, I played a solid year doing my absolute best. I was terrible and played left outfield. After the year my mom bought me a second hand $35 glove off some rich kid. They made me catcher a week after my game with that new glove. You all say you learnt on a wooden board yet shit all over them. They made you good at it. You learnt, and grew with your board.

[@dune4396]

its just impossible to catch waves on a wooden board they meant for flat ground.

[@OdaKa]

i mean, wood is fine if you don't want to hit waves... people who do hit waves on wood probably learned waves on fiberglass first and then translated that back to wood

[@thrivelocaloc]

Lord of Things - This is funny, So I used a rotary corded phone when I was growing up. Would I recommend someone to go buy one and get a landline today - It works and I can make calls! OR would i suggest a low cost cell phone based on the evolution on a phone?? The same applies to Austin analogy regarding the technological advance to skimboarding! Hope this make sense now!!

[@eduardolozano7827]

Awesome video! I just started skimboarding on a wooden board. You make it look so easy. I am lucky if I can glide across the sand. I end up falling or sinking.

[@smokey1798]

Same

[@skootymcbooty3724]

wood boards are definitely not recommended for catching waves, or even just going too far out in the water. Fiberglass is the best way to go, try the zap wedge, a great way to learn and start to become good!

[@eduardolozano7827]

@@skootymcbooty3724Thank you, I am going to try again this summer!

[@travisreese7229]

That was like reliving 16 year old me in '87 use a Laguna for the first time. Wild! Thanks for the throwback.

[@willg54]

Austin, thanks for the cool vid! Made my first wooden board in '64, when I was ten. It was completely round. Spent more time spinning in circles that anything else. It was a riot! Thanks again for the video! :)

[@phantomjosh2148]

You were 10 in 1964? I was 10 in 2016

[@nikolaolao]

Haha that’s awesome I made one in 2004 when I was 12 and it looked like a football! It skimmed horribly but it sure was fun!

[@Biggiiful]

My first skim board was round too haha. Still only have a wood one, but it's pretty big and no longer round.

[@InsanityOtter983]

You had me sold at Turbo 742. What an absolute unit - a god amongst boards.

[@matheusbassanibossardi2183]

OMG I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR A VIDEO LIKE THIS FOR SUCH A LONG TIMEEEEEE YEEEWWW🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻

[@Shredfam]

Skim boarding is come along way from the ditch diving we used to do hell yeah.

[@zaneforeman7965]

Absolute LEGEND!👑 keep up the grind my friend🤙🤙

[@AustinKeen]

Best wave of the video at 7:11

[@joshmccredie1881]

I love skim-boarding and just like you I started off on a wooden skim board and the are really fun to do tricks on and it would be pretty sick to get one more to mess around with keep up the great work and stay shreddie🤙

[@zehlersan]

Ok so next thing u should do is get a cheap Victoria foamie skimboard and see if you can do all the same things that u do on your exile pro model. I've been wanting to see a pro on one of those for a while

[@boonecragun7717]

Bro I love that board. I can’t believe you are almost at 100K. Keep up the great vids man! 🤙🏼🏄🏼

[@bluephantom2891]

Heck of nice wraps with a wood skimboard🔥 Well I definetly need now one of those Turbo 742s!

[@tintinz1353]

Brooooooooo that skimboard looks absolutely sick ,I've been using the same one for 5 years now and its really too small for me 😪🌊🌊

[@blizzardeagle4464]

Buy a new one, some Boards Aren't so expensive

[@bjornwesterin2595]

Im watching your videos with my kids (5&3yrs) and they LOVE your videos and your vibe, they would be stoked to have your signed skimboard with the AK sticker on it! 🤙

[@Lionheartsx]

Great Fun Video as Alway !! Aloha from Oahu !! Keep the videos coming !!

[@francescagiorgi6310]

Yeh aaaa! You are so skilled! Amazing!...90s nostaglia:)

[@marchebert9813]

When I was a kid back in the '80s we made a bunch of plywood skimboards. You could see them fold like a taco as we rode them. Then I discovered your channel. WHAT!? FOAM AND FIBERGLASS!? Just bought one and gonna give it another try.

[@jaymofficial9149]

So rad !!

[@ryannelson0000]

Slidin skimin slippin skimin slidin. Ahh burn it.

[@BIGSMOKEBILLY]

i bought A WOODEN SKIMBOARD FOR MY FIRST AND MY LEGS, SHINS, FEET, AND ANKLES HAVE NEVER FELT BETTER, still love it XD

[@rafa_blackening]

*When the turbo gets on it goes fine!!*

[@christianianmonleon6956]

Been playing woody skimboard here in the philippines austin! Just right for the waves and flat. Pretty sure to have fun with it and display it in our house! 👌 congrats to the chosen one! Turbo woody skim is sick!

[@grashiela.v]

hoy same hahaha

[@SurfSkateDX]

Iraado , parabéns rasta !!

[@user-jm7uv9ld8p]

Great stuff 👍

[@pimpsk8er3702]

you know that thing shreds!!! bring back the woodie

[@dallaswilliams3340]

You are the reason I started skimbording. I am a huge fan that would be so cool if a could get the bord

[@benjaminciccarelli4269]

I want that board!!!🙌🏻🤙🏻

[@meloe2313]

Lol I felt so good about my two wooden skim boards goin into this video , need to buy a floaty one asap

[@bluesableable]

I once lost a big toe nail to one of these things, they're pretty fun

[@sethmurray2896]

I’m on my way to Panama right now and I can’t wait to skimboard

[@tunogindayogofficial]

Here in our country, we are using wooden skimboards for wave riding and it's not shitty as u think. And that board ur using is designed for flat land skimboarding, not for wave rides and it's too small for you.

[@ItsbodieFPV]

So sick

[@alwaystrue1237]

I would mount that board on the wall!

[@davidoneill4514]

Yes dude, would be stoked to embrace the board - North Coast of Ireland!!

[@loc9588]

no way man, same! what part of ireland u from? im up in donegal

[@davidoneill4514]

@@loc9588 Small world! Pumped it’s watersports/board sports our interest. Portrush+Portballintrae are my locals. We hit up Port Salon Summer past - your direction, epic epic spot!

[@gatovagomotosmx9363]

Hey bro greetings from Puerto escondido, México. I learn skimboarding because my friend borrow me one of your boards, It has an AK 47 and your name on it. Is a siiiick board and I just get My first board Made it with Wood, I learned a lot in My new board but it gonna break in any second, In México an Skimboard is very expensive and your Wooden board looks perfect 🤙🏽

[@tg781]

A missed editing opportunity by only a few seconds to have you say “Turbo 742” at 7:42 in the video :p Couple surprising sick wraps on that thing. Your one footers are quite on point as well. Does it give you any ideas for a “training” board since you said it felt way different going back to your regular board?

[@roccoprofenno3530]

hey man i love skim boarding and i also love your videos i am still learning to try to skim board but im getting prety good i have a skim board but i would love to have that skim board

[@af3453]

You’re a great man

[@MarCoReacts]

Just bought a vintage Victoria wooden skimboard off Facebook marketplace today. 45 in with the fish tail cut out. Long for a wooden one It’s gonna shredddd North Carolina.

[@besupremefitness8107]

I would love that board!🙏🏻

[@rubenjasoncarangue581]

plot twist, here in the philippines most skinboarders use wooden boards. some of the pros stick to it. it's because of the conditions and many spots are not safe for a foam type board (just like where I skim) and only few can afford a foam type board there's no excile shop here. btw, would really to win that boars Mr. Keen keep skimming you inspired many of us here 🤙🤙🤙🤙

[@kaiowens1616]

Hey! Super curious, what about the foam boards are dangerous in your conditions. Keep shredding 🤙

[@skateboardingafter506]

Perfectly did not think that on an ordinary piece of wood you can ride on the waves

[@christimko9296]

Need that for my backyard tiki bar.... used too ride a wooden paipo board for skim and bodyboarding 🤙

[@GaguShorts]

Brasil domina o surf 🇧🇷

[@loc9588]

thuus wa seriously impressive!

[@frotherk2255]

Must have been the first time that board had seen some shade!!! Send it the UK, I have a wooden skim from about 20 years ago, but this signed one would be cool.

[@somphothbsiratsamy3748]

The snow courses bro. The waves are just one turn

[@YourHighestSelf]

Austin man.. This was wild. I have my very first wooden skim board from when I was a kid on the wall in our downstairs bathroom. Got it in 2001 when I was 8 years old. Never got rid of it. I would love to add an awesome autographed one from you down there. I'll have to DM you my current wall so you can see the set up 😂

[@aloiseaux767]

Heh i was 8 in 2001 too, how are you my man, still boarding?

[@zacharyowens3547]

Been skimboarding for 6 years. The turbo 742 is the board I need

[@communicationresearch661]

I see that Wavestorm in the truck. hahaha

[@RmfDiz]

This video made me go watch corey ryan side slip and shred on a woodie. Austin got some wraps on that thing though lol

[@jespervanhelden805]

I would love to use the Turbo for sand-skimming! The sea is too cold here in the Netherlands!

[@thunderkinginkwark271]

Ik ben in november nog in het water geweest, niet echt gezond nee😂

[@jespervanhelden805]

Ik ook, ga morgen op ijs😂

[@lbrook4]

We used to make them with 3/8 in. marine plywood. We'd shape them paint them and seal them. Probably NO comparing the with todays whomp boards, but back in the 60's if ya wanted to whomp, ya needed a board.

[@SKYRIDERS2006]

That is great, I would love to have this skimboard here in Brazil. take care. - Roger.

[@harcuschui]

Hi Austin your skimboard is super cool 🚀 I wanna to try this ‘bad boy’ out.BTW,super nice video,you did a great job🤙🏿🤙🏿🤙🏿

[@randomschittz9461]

Everybody knows the 742 was never shit until they added the turbo. GAME CHANGER!

[@TeddyParker]

Wrap barrels on that board kinda lit ngl

[@JohnS858]

I'd be super stoked to get that turbo 742!!!

[@AustinKeen]

Prove it! email me your shipping address [e-mail]

[@specterlikesfortnite8630]

I have watching since 15k subs

[@lenschotten2800]

I would really like to get the skimboard to learn tricks, I already have a wooden board but that one is very old.

[@beningaurellita8534]

My favorite

[@pimpsk8er3702]

you know whats a trip is i found an old "morey" brand wooden skimboard,.. isnt morey a boogie board brand? the board was covered in this crazy paint maybe picasso did it but i peeled it off... found it in down town laguna one night..after a long quest :D

[@trevowerto2868]

Turbo for life it’s going to make a Great Wall board

[@zacharyowens3547]

I want to go fast, but it's always windy so when I drop it the wind just blows my board over while dropping

[@nicklauspalmi8768]

Would definitely buts this out on some ponds not sure it’s fit for the ocean!

[@brick8253]

Alright been watching videos on skimborading and I'm going on a road trip and I'm actually going around California and I am really wanting to get me a board... Being from Colorado there isn't much around and it's kinda expensive around here. Would it be cheaper to wait and get one out in California?

[@Isuckatskimboarding]

I have a wooden board rn and I’m saving up for a dbskimboards one

[@skateboardingafter506]

What are the optimal dimensions for such a board, iength, thickness, width?

[@jaseposton6317]

Dude! So Sick! I'd love to take that off your hands if you haven't given it away already! Wouldn't be a better place to show the possibilities of the Turbo 742 than here in IDAHO!!!

[@larryzeno7133]

It’s all I have!

[@putrakelana7075]

Nice bro

[@coopertout631]

Get him to 100k

[@roniedavisss1935]

What is a good starter skim board

[@mariontorreon8433]

No.1 Philippines used skimboard Woody 🤙🤙🏄🏄

[@aybaanzzz7079]

Tamaa🤙🏼 bughaw🌊

[@malandkyleshegrud6393]

I could make a sick table with that! Or turbo my way to a concussion

[@CosmoCanCook]

I'd love that board. I'll make an awesome mini bar

[@iraklissalatas4481]

whats the skimboard u use normally

[@spencerhale120]

Hey have you ever done flatland

[@cubingbutdifferent]

Yeah. Got an Exile....why not some vintage surfing? 🤣🤙. Want 🤣😍

[@sombraff9645]

i'm brazilian and i'm a surfer and i love your channel

[@baron1553]

And u know english

[@JerrysJets]

🤙🏻

[@denymkos2316]

I useully skim on a wooden one so to see a pro do it is really cool the one I skin on is to small for me tho so would love the board

[@n0partyw0arty]

AK hitting barrels on the 742 makes me look so bad but I'd do anything for that board... maybe I'd learn a thing or two hopping on that bad boy after it's been blessed by the man himself

[@survivaldude29]

I’m learning on a wooden skim board because that’s what I got

[@neiohcarbonilla8511]

Its gonna be fire in the Philippines we use this wooden skimboards

[@sebharris1944]

I’ve got a wooden skimboard same size and shape as they one I’m learning on it 🤔 maybe not the best Choice

[@eriveraerviandycalegria166]

❤️

[@joemcavelia6398]

I used my old wooden board the other day and it went a couple feet and just stopped it was so bad 😂

[@TimoFivem]

What skimboard do you have

[@wilsonfeatherstone3453]

I’d use that board as decoration

[@arielquinones7296]

Austin im from Philippines but i want that wooden guy. It will be my brother and it will be more fun if u share it with me the stoke u give that guy will be also share with the locals who supports and idolized you, but i think its hard even im the luckiest winner to ship here, but if im not the luckiest man, its enough to to see the vid u upload, im blessed. More power lods. 😆😆😆🇵🇭🇵🇭

[@jacobtheodoredemafeliz6163]

I would use that board here in the philippines! we usually use wooden boards here.

[@Clearglass-ks5gt]

I would love a challenge on a turbo 742

[@mako4745]

You should ride the turbo in a skim competition

[@reupred8448]

Would love💚 to win this!

[@kjrobinette2247]

Kid from Ohio who has loved skimboarding on vacations since I was introduced to it at 8 at HHI. Would love to have the board for some wall art in my room.

[@1percentmilk675]

Then buy it