How can surfskate improve your surf level?

Surfskate is a fast-growing sport that is attracting more and more board sports enthusiasts. This discipline combines the excitement of skateboarding with the gliding sensation of surfing, enabling enthusiasts to perfect their surfing skills on the road. For surf enthusiasts, surfskate is more than just a land-based workout: it's an opportunity to push your limits and improve your performance on the water. In this article, we'll explore the benefits of surfskate and how it can improve your surfing.

What is surfskate?

Surfskate is a form of skateboarding with a special truck system that allows great mobility and a fluid surfing sensation. The wheels are wider and more flexible, making it possible to make tight turns and imitate surfing movements.

The main feature is the double-jointed front truck, which allows you to make the same movements as when surfing. Surfskate makes it easier to take turns while maintaining speed.

The surfskate board offers a sensation similar to that of gliding over water, while being on tarmac.

Flying Wheels Skateboards offers a range of surfskate technologies, from the most powerful to the most accessible.

The benefits of surfskate for surfing :

1. Improved balance and stability: Surfboarding requires a good command of balance in order to make fluid, precise movements. This skill is essential for effective wave riding.

2. Strengthening key muscles : The movements performed during surfboarding involve the same muscle groups as surfing. This strengthens the muscles needed to maintain good posture on the surfboard.

3. Perfecting your technique: Thanks to surfskate, you can work on your surfing technique by simulating carving, pumping and tight turns. This helps you improve your style and manoeuvres on the water.

4. Increased confidence: By mastering the moves on the surfskate, you'll gain confidence and feel more at ease trying out new techniques during your surf sessions.

5. Accessible training: Surfboarding offers a year-round training opportunity, regardless of weather conditions or wave availability. This means you can stay in shape and continue to improve your surfing, even away from the ocean.

Not sure which surfboard to choose? Read our article on how to choose the right surfskate.

Surfboarding is an effective way of improving your surfing. By working on your balance, technique and physical strength, you'll be ready to take on the waves with greater control and confidence. If you're looking to push your limits and improve your surfing, make surfboarding part of your training routine. Discover our selection of surfskates at Flying Wheels and get ready to take your surfing to new heights!

Like all sports, practicing skateboarding is not without risks. In fact, falls are not inevitable. However, there are some solutions that can help to reduce the risk of injury when you fall: protective accessories. It is therefore necessary to protect important areas of your body in order to prevent injuries. The most exposed areas are the head, wrists and knees. There is therefore a wide range of protective accessories such as skate helmets, knee pads, wrist guards and reinforced gloves. 

Skate protection cushions the impact but does not prevent injury. However, being well-equipped is essential for beginner or expert skaters.   

Skate helmet: 

The main accessory when you are skateboarding is the skate helmet. In fact, the head is the most exposed part of the body during a fall. Even if you don't fall very far, it can have dramatic consequences on our body. It is therefore essential to acquire a quality skate helmet specially made for this practice. 

Gloves: 

Gloves are another key element in skateboarding. They are even essential because the first unconscious gesture you have during a fall is to put your hands forward to absorb the shock. There is nothing more unpleasant than having scratches, cuts or burns on your hands.  

The Flying Wheels gloves are designed for slide riding, which is the practice of gaining speed on a downhill slope and using your hands as a support for skidding. This is why skateboarders use gloves with removable pads. These accessories wear out and need to be changed regularly depending on the frequency of your sessions. 

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 Knee pads: 

Another very important protection is knee pads. The knees are also a very sensitive part of the body that must be taken care of. Made up of tendons and ligaments, even if they take very big impacts, they are the ones that take the shock waves first. It is therefore necessary to use knee pads. Their aim is to be protected against impacts, to strengthen tendons and avoid elongations during movements. 

Elbow pads:

During your session, when you are falling backwards, elbows take the impact and this can be dramatic in terms of fractures and sprains. It is therefore very important to use elbow pads, especially for children and beginners. We have several models that are easy to put on and take off for ideal comfort and support.

With this list of protective accessories you are now ready to practice skateboard safely!

Emerged in the 90s in California, surfskate is literally made to surf in the street. The main features is its double jointed front truck which allows it to make the same movements as in surfing. Surfskate allows you to take turns more easily while keeping speed.      

We practice surfskate mainly on flat urban surfaces or light slopes. You can also use it in skateparks bowls. 

Flying Wheels Skateboards offers various surfboard technologies, from the most efficient to the least efficient.    

The Kinesis is a revolution in surfskating. A technology dedicated to experts riders looking for thrills and performance. With it’s new torsion spring technology the new Kinesis baseplate offers an unrivaled turning radius of 90°. 

Pendulum is the latest surfskating improvement ! A cubic flex torsion bushing that generates a smooth, cushioned, pendulum movement and predictive truck reaction. It allows a 60° turning radius.  

The ultra closed angle geometry of the front truck and superior quality urethane bushings allows extreme turning radius and increases kinetic pumping effect.

Cutback is an economic way to start surfskating! It has a single axis spring compression truck combined with needle bearings for 40° progressive turning radius.

Specially made for surf-cruising, the Capitol truck technology offers the most comfortable turning sensations with a single pivot bushing. It's self locking spurs makes wheel bites impossible with wheels up to 73mm. 

Our surfskate selection: 

https://flyingwheelskateboards.com/collections/surfskate 

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