August 17, 2023  |  News, Television

Skim it or surf it? Blair & crew explore Brazil’s latest

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One of the best surf vloggers out there isn't really a surfer. Blair Conklin's a world-champ skimboarder who happens to surf. And the cool thing with surf tanks is that the lines between both types of wave riding are blurred. Blair gets barreled and boosts big airs easily on both craft. And we love that. Surfing benefits from more craft

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April 6, 2023  |  Television

Blair Conklin sessions Hawaiian wave pool

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Blair Conklin sits comfortably on our top list of surfers. He was one of the first to explore Waco on a skimboard and all manner of craft including a bodyboard and a foamie. In this clip he's feelin it and getting creative - he even launches an RC surfer at one point. The frothy regular foot from Southern California takes

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November 15, 2021  |  Television

Television: Skim-centric wranglings with Blair and Koa

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It’s like a buddy movie without famous actors: giddy, spontaneous and punchdrunk (we’ll blame the jet lag.) One of the most innovative skim-to-surf crossover personalities Blair Conklin took Ultimate Surfer contestant and Skeleton Bay standout Koa Smith on a skim-centric trip to BSR in Waco Texas. The two trade surf craft and barrels and a few airs with poolside banter

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November 21, 2019  |  Latest, Television

Mason Ho & Blair Conklin push PerfectSwell to create new waves

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“A Wedge Affair,” is the new film project that takes Reef team riders Mason Ho and Blair Conklin to the BSR Surf Resort and let’s them play mad scientist with the wave settings. In the process they create four totally new waves. The clip departs from typical glorified-chandelier-now-dubbed-an-air-section in that this one gets uber-detailed. Bill McFarland, the brain behind American

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July 18, 2019  |  News, Television

TV: Will wave pools make flat craft the next big thing?

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The sport that started in the 1920s in Southern California on found, salvaged bits of plywood has today expanded across the globe. And is now finding traction in the growing wave pool world. Austin Keen and Blair Conklin have taken an activity favored by clumsy vacationers, day drunks and kids-in-cutoffs and made it, well, totally cool. Helping legitimize the skids

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March 8, 2019  |  News

Let’s invent a new kind of surfing with Blair Conklin

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Blair Conklin is at the center of the foamy-and-finless movement, shredding the gnar at the confluence of skim and surf. 10 years from now we will look back and see Blair's watercraft as either early prototypes of now-standard equipment, or as colorful relics in surfing's hardgoods recycle bin – discarded next to cans of spray-on traction and nose guards. But

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