sand board

by **Africa Extrem** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:00 am

hello!!!
my name is younes and i'm from morocco, and i would like to know if in any place sand board is practiced so as to know the spots where it can be done and where it is done , here in morocco we have a place in the desert where u can find sand dunes of like 300m long ,where sand board can be really funny with all the speed u can take, for this we use some old snowboarding boards (big ones for the sand) thx very much for your answers

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by **kitesurfer** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 7:44 am

Have tried it here in the uk and even made my own board which i have since come to the conclusion isn't big enough. Always found that just couldn't get any spped up even on really steep dunes. However on dunes with less deep sand and plenty of vegatiation we could get speed up but we decided that this was too destructive to the dunes so don't do it.
What are the dunes like you guys use???

by **Africa Extrem** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 11:16 am

hello!!
well the kind of dune that we use is a thin sand very big desert dunes in the south of morocco ,it's the biggining of a large desert that is 250 km far from agadir ;it's a desert so no vagatation ,and the fact that the sand is so smouth and the dune enough radical u can speed upand feel ur self like on fresh snow with less speed of course ,how big is your board?

by **kitesurfer** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:23 pm

Nice, wish we had one like that here.

by **sal** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 4:19 pm

Africa Extrem wrote:it's a desert so no vagatation

ah, Cheezee won't be visiting then!!!! :lol:

by **essex sucks** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 4:26 pm

i see people trying to at woolacombe

by **Africa Extrem** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:59 pm

well !!
africa extrem is an agency that is specialized in extrem sports travel like surfing snowboarding and sand boarding in Africa we are new and our web site is under construction i will post the url to this forum when it will be operational so as to share some sandboarding pics and also surfing pics from one of th emost famous african spots Anchor point
to answer to Cheeze where the sandboard is practiced is really close to one of the biggest oasis where about the hole moroccan production of datile comes from

by **kitesurfer** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 7:10 pm

That will please him.

by **xswind** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 8:33 am

Africa Extrem wrote:hello!!!
my name is younes and i'm from morocco, and i would like to know if in any place sand board is practiced so as to know the spots where it can be done and where it is done , here in morocco we have a place in the desert where u can find sand dunes of like 300m long ,where sand board can be really funny with all the speed u can take, for this we use some old snowboarding boards (big ones for the sand) thx very much for your answers

I have seen on TV that this is done a lot in the UAE (dubai)

by **Africa Extrem** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 10:46 pm

hello!!!
i'm asking again if there are many people interested in sandboarding in europe i mean that can travel for sand boarding . or it is better to be combined with other sport like snowboarding or surfing (thing that can be done in morocco )

and thx for ur replies it will help me a lot in some decisions

by **Milo** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 1:59 pm

No deserts in the uk pal :roll:

by **Africa Extrem** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 8:43 pm

then may be try it on the grass and call it grassboard

by **tomcat360** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 1:11 pm

KS, what did you use for your bottom material on the board?

by **Africa Extrem** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:28 am

the surface we use for a the sandboard is formica , we have brand sandboards we don't make them

by **tomcat360** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:43 am

same here on the base material. Sand boarding isn't big here though, so we make them (but not half-assed, since that is usually the image people get when I say "home made)

by **Africa Extrem** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:52 am

hello!!!!!
well, morocco is a country where u can find all sort of climat and surfaces, just at 50 km north of agadir close to a famous surfing beach in the area there is a very nice and long sand dune where we can practice sandboard , it's not famous here either , we are i thin a couple of guys that practice it around here and there is an agency that offers sandboarding tours (:wink: mine) , for the boards we buy them mainly fromsouth africa, cheap and good boards comparing to other brands from other countries

by **libby** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:34 pm

I went sand boarding in New Zealand, somewhere in the far north, west coast methinks?

by **Africa Extrem** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:30 am

can u tell me how were the boards like over there?

by **Bub** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:51 pm

I was watching the Dakar Rally last week that travels through Morocco. You guys definitely have plenty of sand dunes just watching the footage from the race. Sand dune surfing sounds fun, but hiking back up the dune each time doesn't sound like much fun!

by **Africa Extrem** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:24 pm

a nice buggy 1200 cc is very good for going back up to the top of the dunes

so the fun can be a real moment of hapiness

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