- Hello, surfskating friends from all over the world.
I'm Steve Palmer, the founder of SurfSkate Love.
I live in St.George Utah,
which is just about an hour and a half north of Las Vegas.
So if you ever come to Las Vegas,
make sure you look me up and we'll skate together.
But in this video,
I want to tell you about 33 YouTube channels
from other surfskaters all over the world
who I very highly encouraged you to subscribe to.
And I'm doing this for two reasons.
Number one, these are just really great channels
for all surfskaters to learn from.
These are all channels that I subscribe to
and I've been watching most of them for over a year.
That's how I got into surfskating
was discovering it on YouTube.
And the second reason is because personally,
I don't think we can get enough content in this space.
Surfskating is exploding right now
and I would love to see as many voices
in this space as possible.
So I just wanna encourage all of these YouTubers
to continue producing content
and the more surfskaters out there who we can get
to keep subscribing to these channels,
the more that will encourage them to keep producing
surfskating content as well.
And I'm also going to include a list
of all of these YouTube channels
in the video description below.
So if you just trust me now
you can just save yourself some time,
you don't even have to watch this video,
just go to the video description below,
just click on those links
and subscribe to all these channels.
And I also encourage anybody out there
who is not on YouTube
but you're out there watching YouTube videos
like mine or any of these other ones
and you think that you have something to offer
in this space,
I highly, highly encourage you to get on YouTube,
start a channel, because the community needs your voice.
Okay, so now let's start at the top of this list
of 33 YouTube channels that I believe every surfskater
in the world should subscribe to.
First and foremost, it's gotta be Shane Lai.
I'll be shocked if you haven't heard of Shane
or watched some of his videos,
if you haven't subscribed to him yet, subscribe to him.
He's known as Master Lai all around the world.
He's out of Melbourne, Australia
and he's the OG,
the Original Guru of surfskating tutorials.
He has the most, and in my opinion the best surfskating
tutorials on YouTube.
And in my opinion, he's the very first YouTuber
that any surfskater should subscribe to.
Next up, we have Shred Shack.
Shred Shack is a group of three really great guys
out of New Jersey.
And they have amazing content on all board sports
not just surfskating
but they have a bunch of really great videos
for surfskaters.
Their videos have really high production value.
And I really dig Billy's reviews
because he does a really great job of staying neutral
while at the same time giving you really quality information
so that you can make the best decision for you.
So, 100% you gotta subscribe to Shred Shack.
Next up is Jack of Dogtown out of South Korea.
I love Jack of Dogtown.
I watch all his videos.
They are so much fun.
He's one of the best surfskaters I've seen on YouTube.
And especially for that Smoothstar style
of tight sharp technical maneuvers in small spaces,
his videos are amazing quality.
They have tons of personality.
They're so much fun
and more than anything,
they just highlight amazing surfskating.
Next up we have Mark the Landlocked Surfer.
Mark's a great guy and a fantastic rider out of Canada.
And he's recently come out with some really great videos
on bowl riding specifically.
I really dig his style.
His content is very well thought out
and presented very well
and I learn a lot from him
and like every Canadian I've ever met,
he has that really kind of low-key, mellow personality.
So you're not gonna get any controversy out of Mark
but you're gonna get really, really high quality content.
Another guy I love to learn from on YouTube is Chris Genau.
He's based in Germany
and like Mark in Canada,
he's been coming out with a lot of very helpful videos
on bowl riding and park riding.
And since I'm personally learning
how to ride a bowl right now,
I have a vested interest in both Chris and Mark
continuing to produce more tips and tutorials
on bowl riding.
And if you're looking for the same thing
you absolutely have to subscribe to
Mark the Landlocked Surfer
and Chris Genau out of Germany.
Next up we have Weave.
Weave is a bunch of guys in Poland
who have a surfskating crew.
And in my opinion, they make some of the best
surfskating videos I've ever seen on YouTube.
Their videos are very high production quality.
I know they agonize over their videos.
They take weeks and even months to produce their videos.
And they've just got this really cool surfskating vibe
to them that I love.
And if you watch these guys,
it'll make you wanna have your own surfskate crew
to skate with every day.
So shout out to my brothers from another mother in Poland,
we're gonna skate together someday.
The next YouTube channel I wanna mention is
Carving Social Club.
These guys are one of the original surfskating channels.
They're based in Spain
and they have excellent tutorial videos.
Now I'm not quite sure how to pronounce this next one.
It's either the Kobby and Err Vlog
or the Kobby and Err Vlog, I'm not sure
but they're out of Thailand
and I can't understand anything they say
but I know that they're very popular in Thailand.
So for all of my friends in Thailand,
that's gonna be a great channel for you.
The next YouTube channel I highly recommend you subscribe to
is Ilaria Tonello out of Italy.
This girl can shred like nobody's business.
In her videos, you'll see that she specializes
in a lot of like ramp and wave bank riding.
And so if you have any interest at all
in vert riding or advanced techniques,
you have to subscribe to Ilaria's channel.
Next up, I wanna mention three channels
that are specifically for surfers
that also have surfskating content
that is designed specifically
to help you improve your surfing.
And that's the Yewlayton channel.
Now, that's not his name
that's just the name of his YouTube channel.
His name is Layton Lepetit,
I believe it's how to pronounce that.
He's actually a team writer for Smoothstar
and he's got some great tutorial videos
and great riding to watch as well.
The next channel for surfers is Surf Strength Coach.
This is the channel put out by a surf trainer, Cris Mills
who also happens to have an online video course,
Surfskating for Surfers,
which I went through and got a lot of value out of.
So I recommend both his channel and his video course.
And the same thing with our last one
for surfers is Kale Brock,
like Cris Mills, he also has his own online video course
which I went through and also recommend.
And to finish off our list,
I just wanna list through a bunch of these
that aren't quite as well known yet
but I would love to get as many people to subscribe to them
and encourage as possible.
So I'm gonna just burn through this list
and I want you to go to the video description below,
click on all these links
and subscribe to all these channels.
And these are Sherif El Kadi,
he's out of Egypt and he's an expert on a lot of stuff.
I subscribed to his channel.
Then we've got Double Overhead
who I'm not sure but I believe is out of Germany.
There's Happyon4wheels.
I just love this guy.
This guy is just good vibes for me.
I hope to skate with him someday.
He's just what his name says.
Happyon4wheels.
He's just skating away with a big smile on his face.
Then we have Riding Boards,
SkatePro Skateboarding,
Surf-Skateboards,
SurfJourney,
Jon Bishop,
50 and Fabulous,
Leo & Timeo,
Rudolf Coast,
WorkForAvocados,
The Surf Skate World,
Skate Therapy,
Ben Conley,
WhiteZu Surfskate Waves.
This is a company that produces modular wave banks.
And not only do they have great tutorial videos
but that may also be something you'll wanna look into
is buy one of their wave ramps.
Also not quite sure if I'm gonna pronounce this one right,
Kestutis Svitra,
he has a really quite interesting scientific take
on surfskating.
And to finish off our list,
we have SURFCOMPANIONS,
Rideables,
surfskatingcom and SurfSkate Style.
So there you have it, 33 YouTube channels for surfskaters,
highly encourage you to subscribe to them,
learn from them, support them, encourage them.
Let's get them producing more great surfskating content.
If you have any aspirations at all
to put out surfskating content on YouTube,
I highly encourage you to do that.
We need your voice in this space.