Mark shinn on a skim

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eppo
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11 Feb 2013 4:57pm
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Sorry don't know how to embed a vid, could anyone help out?

Old footage, but how good is he on those bloody skims?

I can only dream...would have saved my ass if i was half as good yesterday!!
cauncy
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11 Feb 2013 5:04pm
He's a smooth rider Epps, id put him in the Adam koche and franz olry category no major techno riding but you'll struggle to find a better rider in his class
eppo
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11 Feb 2013 5:38pm
Yeh gonna try and master some of those moves, I wish the wind would die a bit. Lol!!!

Love to be able to do that back roll with grab move...I see he really cranks his board upwind then kicks it out...can see this being done with a back roll back loop as well....ooh I can feel the pain now!!
EastCC
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11 Feb 2013 7:51pm


Is this the one Eppo?

eppo
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11 Feb 2013 6:11pm
How'd ya do it??
EastCC
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11 Feb 2013 9:21pm
Not sure what you did mate but I couldn't watch it through that link

Great rider, can make a good board too.
cauncy
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11 Feb 2013 7:27pm
The video of him on the waterbird skim is a much classier ride on shinnworld.com
Plummet
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12 Feb 2013 2:34pm
had a go on a skim today.... 8-10 knots on my 15m speed. mad mad peice of kit. fun tho. I spent alot of time on my arse tho!
JBFletch
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12 Feb 2013 5:04pm
where the hell did you dig that clip up from.

he made that before i was born...
Beanz
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12 Feb 2013 4:27pm
Its actually on the product page for the Nobile Skim Board on powerkiteshop.com
Paul1
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12 Feb 2013 6:29pm
Lame.....
eppo
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12 Feb 2013 6:56pm
Yeh maybe lame but a good reminder of someone with great kite and board control.

You can do better Paul? If not then what do you call your kiting then?
theDoctor
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13 Feb 2013 12:40am



that was super cool
eppo
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12 Feb 2013 10:21pm
Yeh maybe cool but a good reminder of someone with great kite and board control.

You can do worse doctor?If not then what do you call your kiting then?
SugarQube
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12 Feb 2013 10:54pm
Yeah remember Mark Shinn was kiting at Pinnaroo must have been 2001, Impressive
Plummet
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13 Feb 2013 3:07am
Paul1 said...
Lame.....


only lame if you haven't tried a skim. very difficult. or if your considerably better... then upload a vid and prove it. or your just another angry tool hiding behind a keyboard.
eppo
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13 Feb 2013 7:29am
SugarQube said...
Yeah remember Mark Shinn was kiting at Pinnaroo must have been 2001, Impressive




Had the same experience sugar cube but at scabs, same year. Just me and this other fella (remember those days!) i was like after a while WTF! Had to come in and I was again like WTF! His girlfriend said it was mark shinn. So I asked 'who the FArq is mark shinn!'. Yes I was dropped on my head as a baby.
eppo
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13 Feb 2013 7:32am
Plummet said...
Paul1 said...
Lame.....


only lame if you haven't tried a skim. very difficult. or if your considerably better... then upload a vid and prove it. or your just another angry tool hiding behind a keyboard.




I suppose relative to some of the modern stuff even done on strapless SB it is sort of lame plummett...but heck I'm still trying to do what mark shinn could do back in 2002! Now that's LAME and kind of sad
Paul1
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13 Feb 2013 10:01am
Plummet said...
Paul1 said...
Lame.....


only lame if you haven't tried a skim. very difficult. or if your considerably better... then upload a vid and prove it. or your just another angry tool hiding behind a keyboard.


Get a life plummet, maybe spend a little less time on seabreeze and a bit more time on the water, just because I don't like what you like, try not to have a little cry about it.....
Paul1
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13 Feb 2013 10:05am
eppo said...
Yeh maybe lame but a good reminder of someone with great kite and board control.

You can do better Paul? If not then what do you call your kiting then?


So, because I don't kite better than one of the most famous kiters in the world I am not allowed to laugh at his old footage? You ever watched a top sportsman or woman on TV and called them out? Yeah, thought so.....
eppo
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13 Feb 2013 9:11am
Paul1 said...
eppo said...
Yeh maybe lame but a good reminder of someone with great kite and board control.

You can do better Paul? If not then what do you call your kiting then?


So, because I don't kite better than one of the most famous kiters in the world I am not allowed to laugh at his old footage? You ever watched a top sportsman or woman on TV and called them out? Yeah, thought so.....




Whose having a cry now? LOL...you still want to play this game, trust me you'll lose...lol

but yeh true to what you said, maybe a little more justificationas to why you think it is lame. Highly recommend you get on a skim even just once and you would really appreciate what he is doing there...then the clip may not seem so lame. Lame in production, but not lame in performance.
Plummet
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13 Feb 2013 9:15am
Paul1 said...
Plummet said...
Paul1 said...
Lame.....


only lame if you haven't tried a skim. very difficult. or if your considerably better... then upload a vid and prove it. or your just another angry tool hiding behind a keyboard.


Get a life plummet, maybe spend a little less time on seabreeze and a bit more time on the water, just because I don't like what you like, try not to have a little cry about it.....


sounds your crying about me crying about you crying.... sounding pretty lame bro.

stamp
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13 Feb 2013 11:23am
eppo said...

Highly recommend you get on a skim even just once and you would really appreciate what he is doing there...then the clip may not seem so lame. Lame in production, but not lame in performance.


highly recommend you ride a wakeskate even just once & you would really appreciate just how easy a skimboard is to throw around & how lame that vid is.
Paul1
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13 Feb 2013 11:37am
stamp said...
eppo said...

Highly recommend you get on a skim even just once and you would really appreciate what he is doing there...then the clip may not seem so lame. Lame in production, but not lame in performance.


highly recommend you ride a wakeskate even just once & you would really appreciate just how easy a skimboard is to throw around & how lame that vid is.



Finally someone with some sense, all I can think is Eppo and Plummet spend so much time on here they don't get time to master something so simple as riding a skimboard. No I don't have any self indulgent videos of myself riding a skimboard before you two fag5 ask.....
Paul1
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13 Feb 2013 11:40am
eppo said...
Paul1 said...
eppo said...
Yeh maybe lame but a good reminder of someone with great kite and board control.

You can do better Paul? If not then what do you call your kiting then?


So, because I don't kite better than one of the most famous kiters in the world I am not allowed to laugh at his old footage? You ever watched a top sportsman or woman on TV and called them out? Yeah, thought so.....




Whose having a cry now? LOL...you still want to play this game, trust me you'll lose...lol

but yeh true to what you said, maybe a little more justificationas to why you think it is lame. Highly recommend you get on a skim even just once and you would really appreciate what he is doing there...then the clip may not seem so lame. Lame in production, but not lame in performance.



Riding a skim is piss easy, I am not surprised you struggled though.....
Beanz
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13 Feb 2013 12:04pm
Eppo, respond not for they know not what they do!!
VB MAN
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13 Feb 2013 12:30pm
Skim boards are bulk fun (but really just a novelty while your waiting for the wind to pick up), but on saying that, trucking upwind in 12 knots on a 10 mtr C kite makes me wonder if board designers have missed something along the way
eppo
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13 Feb 2013 12:36pm
A wake skate hey...okay will look into that as well.

Paul if you need someone to talk to I'm here for you man.

It seems you have some underlying issues that manifest in personal attacks about an inane video; just highlighting some skim board action.

It may be easy for such advanced riders as yourself and stamp but for us mere mortals it is indeed something to consider for improving weight transfer and kite control. I'm sure you have already mastered these, and applied them to your highly specialised and incredibly complex wakeskate style.

Do you have any wake skate videos we could see? To be perfectly honest I haven't even heard of wake skate before. Please, enlighten me ...
eppo
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13 Feb 2013 12:37pm
VB MAN said...
Skim boards are bulk fun (but really just a novelty while your waiting for the wind to pick up), but on saying that, trucking upwind in 12 knots on a 10 mtr C kite makes me wonder if board designers have missed something along the way



true that...how goes it VB man?

Plummet
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13 Feb 2013 6:04pm

Paul1 said...
eppo said...
Paul1 said...
eppo said...
Yeh maybe lame but a good reminder of someone with great kite and board control.

You can do better Paul? If not then what do you call your kiting then?


So, because I don't kite better than one of the most famous kiters in the world I am not allowed to laugh at his old footage? You ever watched a top sportsman or woman on TV and called them out? Yeah, thought so.....




Whose having a cry now? LOL...you still want to play this game, trust me you'll lose...lol

but yeh true to what you said, maybe a little more justificationas to why you think it is lame. Highly recommend you get on a skim even just once and you would really appreciate what he is doing there...then the clip may not seem so lame. Lame in production, but not lame in performance.



Riding a skim is piss easy, I am not surprised you struggled though.....



theDoctor
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13 Feb 2013 9:40pm
eppo said...
Yeh maybe cool but a good reminder of someone with great kite and board control.

You can do worse doctor?If not then what do you call your kiting then?



I wasn't being facetious or sarcastic, I really thought it was cool, ripping it up in the tiny waves, it looked awesomely fun, and he made it look cool...

I try that stuff on my cab nugget and am endlessly copping a board to the shins, or spend 80% of the time body dragging and looking for my board...

last weekend I made a front side punt off a slop of chop wave and i was buzzing all week
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