What is Sandboarding?

Sandboarding is to sand what snowboarding is to snow. For those of use who love boarding and live near the beach, instead of spending hard earned dosh on 2 weeks in the Alps, we just pop down to the coast and hit the dunes at the weekend. Depending on the conditions you can usually get some good runs in, and take air, learn to jump, (learn to fall!) all without leaving the country. It has to be said that Britain is not the topmost sandboarding location, but there are a few sizable dunes to be found. The sand can be a bit cold sometimes though, so you may have to adapt other skills in order to get a good run.

A word of warning though, please respect the dunes, we always sandboard in the middle of a wide expanse of sand, please do not board over the grasses, this damages the roots and leads to erosion.

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How to get a Sandboard

We made one from an old snowboard, (advertise on the net, asking for other peoples old boards.) Once we got the snowboard we removed the bindings and used the straps from the bindings and drilled into the board to bolt them into place, then used resin to fill the holes and sanded off the base. <more details> The finished board is 1.5 metres high, so the board is great for racing but not so manoeverable for turns, tricks and jumps.

History of Sandboarding <courtesy of sandboard mag>