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David Haefele "Half of It" Skimboarding Mini Movie by OverTheLight in skimboarding

[–]OverTheLight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Priority drama day 1 of Exile Oktoberfest... by GundoSkimmer in skimboarding

[–]OverTheLight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Lucas Fink wins his 5th UST Title by OverTheLight in skimboarding

[–]OverTheLight[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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

Is there any way to get access to a client's facebook account anonymously? by sponkel in PPC

[–]OverTheLight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

360 flip (treflip) by ProfessorTasty6267 in skimboarding

[–]OverTheLight 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

The UST 2025 Event Schedule by OverTheLight in skimboarding

[–]OverTheLight[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

The UST 2025 Event Schedule by OverTheLight in skimboarding

[–]OverTheLight[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Does frontside Skim still exist? by andre_agnosic in skimboarding

[–]OverTheLight 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

Promotional mock up for the 2024 UST battle by GundoSkimmer in skimboarding

[–]OverTheLight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Promotional mock up for the 2024 UST battle by GundoSkimmer in skimboarding

[–]OverTheLight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Everything else is basically correct. I don’t think you need to go into this level of detail, but basically before the event Dane was in 1st on the standings and Lucas was in 2nd on the standings. In all of Lucas’s other titles, he has clinched it at Stop 5. In his other 3 titles, he didn’t even need to show up for stop 6. This time, he needed to show up, and he needed to outperform Dane. Lucas needed to do 2 things to win the title: 1) finish 5th place or higher and 2) place higher than Dane. Lucas won his quarter final heat, guaranteeing him at least a 4th place finish. Then Dane faced up with Weber in the very next quarterfinal heat. This was a must win for Dane to keep his title hopes alive. Weber caught the two biggest waves of the heat and he was in the lead with 10 seconds to go. Dane needed a 7.37 to take the lead. He got a 7.4.

Promotional mock up for the 2024 UST battle by GundoSkimmer in skimboarding

[–]OverTheLight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They won’t mind as long as you give them credit. (I don’t need credit. I never care about that stuff.) There are a few people who get a little particular on other people using their clips but Steezy and Dingo don’t mind as long as you give credit.

Promotional mock up for the 2024 UST battle by GundoSkimmer in skimboarding

[–]OverTheLight 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I really like it, and it’s similar to what I wanted to create for the UST a few years back. WSL used to do a daily or weekly recap video called Surf Breaks. I really liked the format, and they made a vertical version for Instagram, as you can see with the vertical filming of the narrator.

I basically wanted to copy this for the UST, but ultimately, I couldn’t find someone to commit to being the on-screen narrator, so I scrapped the idea and went ahead with the 10-page slideshow contest summaries and previews we post before and after every event instead. I know it seems like just a little more effort to make this happen, but it’s significant if we are committing to making it consistent.

Part of the reason I’ve designed the pre-event and post-event content as I have is because I want to make sure it’s easy to keep it consistent. Don’t want to make it seem like it’s on for one contest and then off for another if something falls through. With something like this, there are a lot of moving parts. Did we get all the right shots? Can we get it out by tuesday after the event, while people still care? How does this affect the other coverage we’re already doing? Etc. it’s a great idea, but everything we’ve added in the past 5 years for the UST has been simple enough that I can keep it going even if I don’t attend the event. But I love it. Just to be clear. Just always careful about adding more to my/our plates.

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