What’s your name?
Robert Smith Jacobs, but I go by Bobby

Where are you from?
Friendswood, Texas

How old are you?
16

How long have you been skimming?
I learned when I was little but I didn’t get into it about a year ago.

Where do you skim normally?
Galveston Beach

Who do you skim with?
Alex de la Fuente, or anyone who wants to learn

What is your favorite skim spot?
Chambers Creek

Where have you traveled to skimboard?
Washington and Florida

Where do you want to travel to skim?
I’d love to go to Canada and Australia

What board(s) do you ride?
DB medium Streamline

Do you compete?
Not many competitions in Texas

If so, what competitions have you competed in?
Skim2Live Skimjam

And what are some of your contest highlights?
None yet

Do you have any sponsors? What companies?
Yeah, I ride for Logo Clothing Co.

What other board sports do you partake in?
Snowboarding and trampboarding haha

What skimboarding goals do you have?
Get higher pop and bigger shuvs

Where do you see the skimboarding going in the future?
I see it going to the x-games eventually, just a matter of when

What riders influenced your skimboarding?
The DB guys influenced how I ride alot, along with my buddy Alex

What riders are pushing the sport right now?
Logan Davidson, Issac Thomas, Dane Clark, Tim Ladner, Kyle Lynch, all those guys that are out there pushing the sport everyday

If you were stranded on a desert island that already has a plentiful resource of skimboards what three things would you bring?
A Rail

What is the best advice you can to a skim grom trying to get recognized?
Make tons of videos, get connections as in talk to the people who are pushing the sport, but most of all just love the sport and you will be rewarded

Do you wave skim? Flatland? Both?
Just flatland, I would love to try waves though

What is your favorite skimboarding trick?
Either a boardslide or a backside 180

Last words? Shout outs?
check out logoclothingco.com and DB skimboards