Skim Research Paper

It was a warm sunny day in late December, I ran and leapt on. I immediately fell and landed straight on my back. The board went flying down the shore without me. I still couldn’t figure out how to ride on the board. Did I need to distribute my weight better?
Last December, when my family was in the Ron Jon surf shop, in Cocoa Beach, Florida, we noticed a strange blue board. It was like a surfboard, only it was much smaller and was a bit broader. When I asked my Mom what it was, she explained that was a skim board and that she saw some people using it down on the shore. She said the difference between surfing and skim boarding was that one was done out in the ocean and the other was done on the coast as the waves crashed in. I thought how cool it would be if I could feel like I was riding the wave on the …show more content…
Our hotel was right on the beach and we only had to walk a few hundred feet to the shore. When we got to the beach my brother tried first. We looked up on Youtube how to ride a skim board on the day before. It showed that you start striding in the water near the shore where it is only a few inches deep. Then you reach down and slide the board on the water, and then you jump on and revel in the ride. My brother did not do this. He threw the board down and jumped on, and he completely blundered and fell straight on his back. Next was my turn. I took a deep breath and smelled the salt in the air. I ran and slid the panel on the shore and did the same exact thing. Only the board traveled much further down the shore without me on it. After I got up with a mouth full of salt and sand, we continued doing this for awhile each time getting a little bit better. We were able to not fall off completely, we just slid off after we jumped on. It was very slippery, almost like jumping on a bar of soap. After about an hour, we decided to call it for the day and headed back to the hotel