Technique
Skim style
A wakesurfing discipline using flatter, thinner, low-rocker boards with little or no fin, built for spins, shuv-its, slides, and skateboard-like freestyle.
Skim-style wakesurfing borrows from skimboarding. Skim boards are flatter, thinner, lighter, and run low rocker with minimal or no fins, giving a fast, loose, direct response. The flat bottom and lack of fin let the board pivot freely on the water's surface, making surface spins, shuv-its, and 360s far easier than on a surf board.
Skim style delivers a skateboarding-on-water sensation and excels at freestyle: board slides, lip slides, body varials, and creative spin combinations. The looseness that helps tricks also makes the board harder to keep planted in big carves, so the two styles favor opposite ends of the wakesurfing spectrum.