You’ve probably never heard of Combesgate Beach in North Devon. After all, the golden sand and shingle shoreline nestled in the crook of the Morthoe Headland, disappears every high tide.
However, in 2022, as the 24-feet bulge of high tide drained off the shingles, Blair Conklin stood on the sand, surrounded by a gaggle of first-time skimboarding kids, starstruck UK surfers, and a clutch of new mates. It was a trick, if you could call it that, that he would repeat in stops in Portugal, Madrid, San Sebastian, and Hossegor as he screened ‘Easy Slider’, the first skim movie to come out in nearly a decade.
At each stop, the blonde-haired 28-year-old spread the gospel of the new age, multi-rider – from skim, boog, to standup boog, soft top, thruster,…