After a month of surfskating, I invested in my second board: a SmoothStar 34″ Filipe Toledo #77.
SmoothStar is an Australian surfskate brand with strong roots in wave surfing.
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After a month of surfskating, I invested in my second board: a SmoothStar 34″ Filipe Toledo

New surfskate: SmoothStar 34″ Filipe Toledo #77

In July, me and Maiya visited <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagres_(Vila_do_Bispo)">Sagres</a>, a small surf resort on the Algarve coast of Portugal. Looking at longboards in the <a href="https://sagresnatura.com/surf-shop/">Sagres Natura surf shop</a>, the clerk explained what a “surfskate” was, a skateboard made to emulate wave surfing (basically a wider longboard with really soft trucks). I had never heard of this before and got really intrigued.
Back home, I wanted to get a surfskate board, and eventually found <a href="https://www.decathlon.se/p/304787-130017_longboard-surfskate-carve-540-bird.html">a cheap beginner’s board at Decathlon</a>:
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And it’s so much fun! I love carving in the turns of a long, not-too-steep, downhill road.
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I usually post about <a href="https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17876678123721841/">my surfskate progress as Instagram stories</a>.

In July, me and Maiya visited Sagres, a small surf resort on the Algarve coast of Portugal. Looking at longboards in the Sagres Natura surf shop, the clerk explained what a “surfskate” was, a skatebo

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