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Monday, April 29, 2024

Surfing without waves

Photos © Sathapat Teeranitayapap

You can’t deny the impact of the latest skateboarding craze that has taken the country by storm in recent months. Once a favourite of extreme sports-type in the 80s and 90s, today skateboarding has a new hype, and is certainly more mainstream. You can see them everywhere, from a local park to the streets, and on all social media news feeds.

At first glance, they may seem to look like typical skateboards that we’ve seen before with a flat wooden deck and four wheels, but if you look closer you’ll realise that this new craze is actually a new breed of skateboarding called surfskate. Part of the reason surfskating became so popular was due to the pandemic, as it skyrocketed the moment we went into a soft lockdown last year.

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