Sand skiing (occasionally sand-skiing) is a sport and form of skiing in which the skier rides down a sand dune or strides across a beach on skis. It is practised in many sandy areas, including Sossusvlei, Namibia and Peru, along with other boardsports such as sandboarding. Sand skiing equipment includes a pair of skis with a laminate base and wax that needs to be applied to reduce friction from the sand. An International Sandboarding and Sandski Association (InterSands) was founded in 2014 at St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Henrik May, a German living in Namibia for some 10 years, set a Guinness World Record in speed sand-skiing on 6 June 2010. He reached a speed of 92.12 km/h.
Competitions over the years have included:
- International Sand Ski Tournament in Florida held from 1949 to 1951
- Sandblast held in Prince George, British Columbia annually from 1971 to 2003
- World Sand Skiing Championships held at Redondo Beach, CA
- Nevada Sand Mountain GS Championship
- international European championships in sand skiing held regularly on Monte Kaolino since 2007
- Freestyle SandSnow was first held in 2018
In 2018, Fayoum University held a sand skiing event in Fayoum with students from around Egypt joining in on the fun.
History
Skiing on sand has been reported before 1920 in Germany, in 1927 Sahara, on an Asian expedition and throughout the 1930s in
- Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado
- French Algeria
- Cronulla sand dunes, Australia
- Venice Beach, California
- Shirahama Beach, Japan
- Peru
- Cape Cod, Massachusetts
- Long Island, New York
- Tadoussac, Canada
- Death Valley, California
- Camber Sands, England
See also
References
- Dunes (2016) short video
- "Sand Skiing: The Latest Sand Sport Fad". Sand-boarding.com. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
- InterSands
- "Fastest sand skiing". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
- "The Namibian". www.namibian.com.na. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
- Brown, Canter Jr. (2005) None Can Have Richer Memories: Polk County, Florida, 1940-2000 University of Tampa Press ISBN 9781879852365 pg 78
- Petersen, Hanna (2022) "Whatever happened to Prince George’s Sandblast?" Prince George Citizen
- "California never calls it quits" Ski 1980 v44 #7:19
- Dorworth, Dick (1983) "The Dune Goons" Ski v47 #7:22,24
- Abdullah, Michelle (8 December 2018). "بمشاركة 720 طالبا.. مهرجان للتزحلق على الرمال للجامعات في الفيوم". El Watan News (in Arabic). Retrieved 11 December 2018.
- Hearst News No 51 (1919) newsreel
- Ski Lesson photo
- Blumenfeld, Jeff (2021) "Skiers Will Ski on Anything -- Especially Sand" Skiing History v33 #2:20-22
- Med Sven Hedin i Österled (1928) at Swedish Film Institute
- "Sand Dunes Skiing is Colorado Sport" Washington Times 7 Jan 1931 pg 4
- Bradley, Edwin M. (2009) Ski Pilots (1931) The First Hollywood Sound Shorts, 1926-1931 McFarland ISBN 9780786443192 pg 295
- "French May Use Skis in Sahara Sand Hills" White Bluffs Spokesman pg 2
- Sand Skiing! Over and Under ‘Down Under’ (1934) newsreel
- "Just Can't Wait for Winter" D.C. Evening Star pg A-3
- Sundberg, Steve website, photo of Sand skiing, Shirahama Beach
- Azallion, Nancy (1968) "Who Said It Couldn't Be Done ..." Skiing v20 #6:36
- Conniff, Cal & Allen, E. John B. (2006) Skiing in Massachusetts Arcadia ISBN 9780738545790 pg 34
- Quirky: Ski Jumping On Sand At Long Island (1938) newsreel segment
- Woman Skiing Sand photo
- Grantland Rice Sportlight: Death Valley Thrills (1939) short film
- Cinetopicalities in Brief No. 65 (1939) newsreel segment
External links
Media related to Sand skiing at Wikimedia Commons
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