International skimboarding competition comes to Outer Banks this weekend

The 2024 annual OBX SkimJam skimboarding competition continues at Jennette’s Pier in Nags Head, North Carolina, through Sunday.

The event draws an international field of competitors with a $15,000 pro prize purse. Both men’s and women’s professional and all amateur divisions will count as part of the Skim USA tour, and the professional men’s division will count as part of the United Skim Tour.

Professional men riders include three-time UST champion Lucas Fink, of Rio de Janeiro, and Gerardo Valencia of Barra de Navidad, Mexico. Professional women riders include the 2023 women’s Skim USA champion Sydney Pizza of Dewey Beach, Delaware, and the 2023 UST champion Chabe White, of Mazunte, Mexico.

The event will start at 8 a.m. both Saturday and Sunday and run until about 6 p.m. each day. The professionals will run during the best window for quality waves, which may change depending on the conditions throughout each day, organizers said.