Nags Head – Steven Stallings from Chestertown Maryland is totally okay after his calculated dismount of his son’s skimboard. Steven used to make his own skimboards when he was young, and thought he would show the kids that he still has it. He did indeed.
We asked a nearby spectator, Jan Janowski, what she thought of his display. “I didn’t know sand could be so loud when something hit it,” she said shaking her head apparently in awe.
Mr. Stallings refused any help and waved off the attention as he “just chilled for a moment” on the beach after his one and a half second ride. After about five minutes of “chilling” the lifeguard checked on him only to find out he was “100 percent okay.”
“I was concerned for the man,” said the lifeguard on the scene, “I have never seen anyone hit the sand with both their back and face at the same time. I offered to get him a back brace, but he managed to roll to his stomach and lurch over to his beach chair.”
When asked for an encore performance by his son, Steven replied, “No one time is all you get. If I kept showing you, you would steal my moves. You are going to have to wait to next year.”
“If you can walk next year,” his wife added.