Thomas D’Anieri is from Wellesley, Massachusetts and loves skimboarding. Read more about him…

How long have you been skimming?
3 years

Where do you skim normally?
Morses Pond, Cole Road Beach

Who do you skim with?
Whoever’s at the beach, problem is most of the time they sit down and cheer because Massahcusetts isn’t a high quality skim scene, and I have to let them use my board to get them skimming again

What is your favorite skim spot?
Cole Road Beach on one of those mid tides where the water doesn’t empty out from the river and you got a great place for a rail

Where have you traveled to skimboard?
Cape Cod, Connecticut

Where do you want to travel to skim?
Washington, BC, Sacramento and Texas

What board(s) do you ride?
DB Skimboards small flex proto with custom Thomas pro foam

Do you compete?
If there were any east coast comps, I would, but no

Do you have any sponsors? What companies?
Not currently

What other board sports do you partake in?
Wakeboarding, Snowboarding and Longboarding

What skimboarding goals do you have?
To land a 720 shuv it, win a big comp like skimfest or dash point, hold the world record for worlds longest skim grind

Where do you see the skimboarding going in the future?
X-games!

What riders influenced your skimboarding?
Blake Zimmerman, Kyle Lynch, Emile Panerio, Lon Porteous, Adrien Raza, Matt Taylor, Mike Louie

What riders are pushing the sport right now?
Adrien Raza, Blake Zimmerman, Lynch is always pushing it, whoever makes the rails for skimfest, anyone doing flip tricks

If you were stranded on a desert island that already has a plentiful resource of skimboards what three things would you bring?
Up flat up flat hinge rail, buddy, nutrients (bai and nana’s fudge meltaways J )

Do you wave skim? Flatland? Both?
Both, primarily flatland though

What is your favorite skimboarding trick?
Bigspin out

Last words? Shout outs?
Thanks to Matt for giving me this profile, thanks to Jack Loomis who let me ride his skimboard for the first time when I was 6 and teaching me to ollie, thanks to whoever is in ‘a day of skimmin’ on youtube for making the first video I ever saw with rails, and thanks to whoever in my family is willing to film me.