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May 22, 2025
SESSION | Revel Surf Parks Hosts John Akerman & Motowinch Crew
Winching at a wave pool? Could this be the best combination of all time? We think so and John Akerman took full advantage. John has been crushing it lately winching and surfing wave pools on his skimboard. How does a trip like this come together? Well, sometimes it's all about who you know. Shane Beschen caught wind of our last winch session at Flagler with Tupat and Rasta Rob
May 15, 2025
PHOTOS | Thursday Night Skim Session - 5/1/25
Thursday Night Skim Sessions at Nokomis are back and we are STOKED! Last year, we started doing these sessions weekly and they quickly took off. To have local skimmers come out and rub shoulders with our riders, share tips, stories, and fun is what it’s all about! Check out some of the rad images from the session on 5/1/25 and make sure to join us for the next one!
May 13, 2025
INFO | Skim Schools & Coaches Around the World
If you’re looking to sharpen your skimboard skills but aren’t sure where to begin, check out your local area for skim pros who give lessons! We’ve compiled a list of Zap professionals from all over the world who offer lessons to help take your skimming to the next level! If they’re in your area, make sure to book a lesson!
Apr 24, 2025
PHOTOS | Team Zap Warming Up In Cabo
Part of the Zap team has touched down in Cabo to get ready for the El Rey de Lovers contest, as a part of the United Skim Tour. Once they touched down in Mexico, they wasted no time and headed straight to the beach. Team riders Gerardo Valencia, Yahir Valencia, Mason Broussard, Dylan Duncan, Leo Freitas, Romario de Sousa, and Pablo “Machete” Real traded off hits and brought the stoke after each ride.
Apr 22, 2025
THROWBACK | Zap in Cabo 2024
Cabo is a pretty special place for skimmers. Blue water, warm sun and some of the gnarliest skim waves out there! In honor of the 2025 El Rey de Lovers Contest, stop one of the United Skim Tour, we’re throwing it back to last year when the Zap team descended on Cabo for plenty of good times and good shreds! Check out both videos from our time there now!
Apr 15, 2025
INFO | Jersey Shore Skim Camp (JSSC) x Zap Skimboards
Zap Skimboards is stoked to announce our exciting partnership with the legendary Jersey Shore Skim Camp (JSSC)! Founded on a simple desire to share the stoke, JSSC has grown into a cornerstone of the local skimboarding scene. We sat down with the founder, Felicia Stratton, and some of the awesome instructors who make the magic happen, to learn more about this beloved camp's success and the incredible community it has fostered.
Apr 8, 2025
RECAP | 2025 Panama City Beach Skim Jam
Hello skim world, Zap Skimboards Team here checking back in after an amazing weekend in Panama City Beach, Florida. While conditions were not picturesque, the blustering winds provided workable conditions for the team to show down with and represent! We had a consistent 20-mile per hour wind coming out of the northeast that would build as the day went on, providing difficult conditions, where local knowledge was key, yet allowing for a bump in the water to show pushing for a fun regular-footed backside liner and a random barrel here and there.
Feb 11, 2025
VIDEO | Skimboarding Perfect Waves in Mexico with Gerardo, Yahir, & Machete!
Join team riders Gerardo Valencia, Yahir Valencia, and Pablo "Machete" Real as they head into the middle of nowhere, Mexico to chase some northern swell. Fortune obviously favors the bold as they scored BIG with some of the best waves they had ever seen! Get stoked and check out the full video now.
Feb 7, 2025
PHOTOS | Flashback to Cabo
With the United Skim Tour releasing their schedule recently, we got a little nostalgic and were day dreaming about Cabo. What better way to get stoked for the kick off of the UST season at the El Rey de Lover’s contest than by reposting some of the dope photos we got there last year! Check out photos from the contest and plenty of free-riding sessions below and get stoked for the event this year!
Jan 31, 2025
RECAP | Melaque Magia 2025
…And we’re off, the 2025 skim season has officially started! The team traveled down to the infamous break of Melaque, Mexico with SkimUSA to link up with our Mexican crew for some good waves, tacos and an even better time for the 3rd annual Melaque Magia Skim Contest hosted by our very own Gerardo Valencia! Conditions were not Melaque’s best, but were fun and entertaining the whole weekend, especially with some of the sport’s best charging all day!
Jan 10, 2025
PHOTOS | Surf Expo
Surf Expo, just like every year, has been a whirlwind of a good time! We got to see plenty of familiar faces, as well as some new ones. Being able to get together with like-minded people and talk shop is always a good time but the real fun is unveiling all of the new goods that we have in store for the year.
Nov 15, 2024
SESSION | Yahir Valencia, Gerardo Valencia & Pablo "Machete" Real in Mexico
Photographer and videographer Ed Amador has been consistently capturing some sick moments of the Zap team in Mexico over the last few months and we love to see it! Check out another set of rad photos of the Valencia brothers and Pablo “Machete” Real shredding those perfect skim waves in Melaque.