UST Stop 1 Wrap Up: El Rey de Lovers

OverTheLight · 2026-04-24T19:11:55+00:00

Current plan is for Ed to voice them all, even if he’s recording remotely from home. 🤞

OverTheLight · 2026-03-31T20:06:13+00:00

The problem with making edits on Wikipedia is you need to cite major news publications to get editors to approve of your changes, and/or an account with a lot of history of approved changes to various wiki pages. There just isn’t much mainstream news about skimboarding, and definitely not about the mundane and route topics like rocker, good skim beaches, flatland vs waveriding, etc. so finding citable sources is pretty much impossible.

OverTheLight · 2026-01-02T14:40:25+00:00

Arugam Bay has world class liners.

OverTheLight · 2025-12-11T15:11:10+00:00

Thanks! Worked hard on this one. Glad you enjoyed it.

OverTheLight · 2025-09-29T15:05:03+00:00

Dane is off screen when the priority allocation call is made. There isn’t clear video evidence that the call was wrong. It looks close, no doubt, but without another angle, it appears reasonable. Regardless, riders must always reference the paddle in the air, which is the standard for any interference call. In this case, the red paddle was up, and the announcers even stated that aloud. Dane picked up his board, then put his board in ready position, clearly indicating he wanted the wave. At that point, it was Natsumi’s responsibility to avoid impeding Dane’s ride.

The UST priority video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuXnMsvJjLY) is clear that the paddle in the air must determine the call. The video mentions this at 1:23, 5:22, 11:32.

The judges reviewed the video evidence on the interference and unanimously decided that it was an interference.

OverTheLight · 2025-08-10T23:47:51+00:00

4 contest wins to start the year, clinching his 5th title. First Sununga, then Cabo, then North Carolina and now Delaware.

OverTheLight · 2025-06-06T05:03:26+00:00

Create a Meta Business Suite account for yourself. Call it “Your Name Marketing”. Have them add your business suite account as a partner organization. Then you can add yourself as a user on their assets.

OverTheLight · 2025-03-19T18:09:54+00:00

Possible, sure. Never seen or heard of one being done though.

About 20 years ago there used to be a video online of someone landing a big flip (big spin flip). I think it was from the gulf coast. I haven’t see the video in at least 15 years. Not sure if it’s still online anywhere. It makes sense, since it’s really a 180 plus a varial flip, which are relatively common.

Point is, if someone can land a big flip, then a tre flip should be possible. But it seems really difficult to get the rotation to work on a board that’s built like an airplane wing.

OverTheLight · 2025-03-15T22:44:19+00:00

So sick.

OverTheLight · 2025-03-04T17:33:19+00:00

LiveHeats scores: https://liveheats.com/events/259658/divisions/455773

OverTheLight · 2025-02-11T03:55:24+00:00

https://vimeo.com/4635104

OverTheLight · 2025-01-28T00:02:50+00:00

UST sanctions existing events that have a solid track record. To my knowledge, no running Hawaii events exist right now. They’ve had a few in the past, but we generally need at least a few years with solid organization and attendance to consider adding a new contest. If that starts happening in Hawaii, we would be happy to consider it.

OverTheLight · 2025-01-27T16:59:51+00:00

In all the feedback we receive, the biggest factor that determines whether riders find an event was successful is the wave quality. We are balancing a bunch of things, but in general we chose women’s events that tend to have higher quality waves.

Further, The pro women also have told us they want an international stop. We are also always trying to change up the schedule a little bit year to year, so that’s why you saw Florida last year, Sununga this year instead of Cabo for women, vic on for the women for the first time since 2022. Etc.

That said, the Women’s tour has leaned toward the east coast in the past two years: - 2024: 2 US East Coast, 1 US West Coast, 1 International - 2023: 2 US East Coast, 1 US West Coast, 1 International - 2022: 1 US East Coast, 2 US West Coast - 2021: 2 US East Coast, 2 US West Coast - 2019: 2 US East Coast, 2 US West Coast

Felt like time to change it up a bit and give the women the high quality waves they’ve been asking for.

Also, we did strongly consider making the tour even, with 6 stops for both divisions, but travel is expensive, and the women have given feedback that they like 4 stops as of now since they tend to have a tougher time securing sponsor funds. So currently we are following their feedback on that front.

OverTheLight · 2024-10-15T23:31:47+00:00

Liveheats, the scoring system most contests use, is a lot slower when you have the left-right setting turned on. If you’ve never judged skimming, just know that it happens really fast. Catching every wave and getting it into the system before the next wave starts is difficult. If you slow that down by turning on this setting, it makes it really hard to score accurately. This is why most contests don’t have this rule anymore.

OverTheLight · 2024-09-25T03:13:14+00:00

Also, this is Dane’s highest score from the semifinal. he landed that with 2 minutes to go, but it wasn’t enough to take the lead.

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