Talk:Skimboarding

message: Moving it into here, as it is clearly first person commentary criticizing the article.  Not sure how there wasn't any bots that caught this one:
"The author of this article about skimboarding is ignorant. Anyone who does not credit the Hawaiians with creating skimboarding is just plain uninformed. It has been documented countless times that they invented surfing and skimboarding was right there with it, done on something called a paipo. It is a very short wood board, usually used for bodysurfing was and sliding along the shore. I have a picture of my mother, Marion Haines, doing this as a child in 1928 at Kailua Beach on Oahu. 
In addition, Victoria Skimboards is totally responsible for reviving the sport in the mid 70's at Victoria Beach in Laguna Beach, California. Tex Haines and Peter Prietto were the founders and the business still survives today. The UST is a tour organized by a rival skimboard company, that has virtually bought the sport during the last 12 years or so, by funding7 of the top 10 riders with salaries far an above the industry average.
I would love a chance to rewrite this story, it is factually incorrect on a large number of accounts. The information about injuries coming from a English hospital is hilarious. There is virtually no skimboarding in England except on beaches as flat a pool tables and waves have nothing to do with it there. Equally valid information might be had about skimboarding from Nome, Alaska.
Tex Haines
Co-founder and President of Victoria Skimboards and widely regarded as the Father of Skimboarding in the modern times."
96.41.85.137 (talk) 10:36, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Someone posted this comment into the actual article

message: This article is bad and does not all represent the sport. By taking away Skimonline and Foreverskim...people have no clue what is going on.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.27.187.139 (talk) 19:53, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Links need to be put back in

message: ive been skimming for a couple of years now and i have learned you eat complete shit when you step on the board one foot at a time.  i stepped one at a time and pulled my groin because one foot was going way faster than the other.  i dont know if im doing this wrong but i always jump on the board, but i jump from behind so i get speed.  Chunkus34 23:41, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  techniques 

message: The section on skimboarding in Australia seems odd. Why is Australia singled out? What about skimboarding in other countries such as Brazil, France, England? In any case, there needs to be a date for the introduction into Australia. I don't know the era of the two gentlemen mentioned, but I witnessed a skimboarding craze on the Gold Coast in the mid 1960s. Some citation for these two gentlemen's founding is also required.
Robert P. O'Shea 01:42, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Skimboarding in Australia 

message: Looks like retards just jumped in and added crap all over the place.
Who is Ethan Mora?  Probably vandalism and if not there are like 1000 better examples of a skimboarder people may have actually heard of.
Then the part where the kids like "I just want to jump in and say a wood board is better on thick water" LOL.  I am so gonna tear this article a new ass when I have more free time and clean out all the garbage.  Dontbiteit 10:20, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article sucks 

message: I have edited this article TWICE.
I put notable figures in skimboarding...changed the photos.
But really this is horrible and does not even reflect the sport of skimboarding.
If some of the mods could calm down then wow maybe it would be good.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Narwhalhistory (talk • contribs) 07:05, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article is horrible 

message: again!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.97.62.51 (talk) 23:51, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  sombs is down!!! 

message: This article needs a photo ASAP!!!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gymsport (talk • contribs) 02:57, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: this article needs a photo

message: There is some serious bias against flatland skimboarding. Personally, I live by the coast and could do either, but I find the variety in technique and tricks to be much more interesting in flatland, and that wave riders tend to just be surfers who are too lazy to paddle out, but I wouldn't state that as fact in a wikipedia article. I don't know if the entire article needs to be re-written, but anything that dismisses half of the sport or states opinions as facts (such as where the best skimboarding spot in the world is) should be removed. If you want to write a fanboy page for the Victoria skimboarding team, than do that elsewhere.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.78.154.82 (talk) 15:36, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article needs to be rewritten. 

message: What would a skim board in great condition be worth?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.191.88.239 (talk) 21:29, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  How much should i pay? 

message: This is a great article! Really informative and interesting. I agree with the comment that it needs a picture or two! 
--Camillewyman (talk) 01:32, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer Review 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Skimboarding is mentioned as an extreme sport, but nothing supporting this in the text. --— Erik Jr. 20:46, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extreme sport? 

message: As long as the conditions are right and safe then no injuries should occur anyways, therefor Injury can be avoided by the riders choices before skim boarding .
Etc. Zezen (talk) 12:32, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Style to fix