Sand skiing (occasionally sand-skiing) is a sport and form of skiing in which the skier rides down a sand dune or strides across a beach on skis. It is practised in many sandy areas, including Sossusvlei, Namibia and Peru,[1] along with other boardsports such as sandboarding. Sand skiing equipment includes a pair of skis with a laminate base and wax that needs to be applied to reduce friction from the sand.[2] An International Sandboarding and Sandski Association (InterSands) was founded in 2014 at St. Gallen, Switzerland.[3]
Henrik May, a German living in Namibia for some 10 years, set a Guinness World Record in speed sand-skiing on 6 June 2010. He reached a speed of 92.12 km/h.[4][5]
Competitions over the years have included:
In 2018, Fayoum University held a sand skiing event in Fayoum with students from around Egypt joining in on the fun.[10]
Skiing on sand has been reported before 1920 in Germany,[11] [12] in 1927 Sahara,[13] on an Asian expedition[14] and throughout the 1930s in
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