The 47th Annual East Coast Surfing Championships is hosts surfing and skimboarding amongst other contests such as volleyball, football, BMX and cornhole.
Yep, cornhole, otherwise known as “tailgate toss,” “bean bag toss,” “Bags,” or “Baggo” is a lawn game in which players take turns pitching cornhole bags—cotton duck bags filled with feed corn—at a raised platform with a hole in the far end. Kind of a random addition to the ECSC.
Exile rider, Perry Pruitt, was there and killing it. The 14-year-old Kitty Hawk resident is one of the best skimboarders in the country.
He won the ECSC boys event last year. He also finished third in the boys division of the world championships in Laguna Beach, Calif., and was second on the SkimUSA Tour. This year, he is spanking the competition with five victories and a runner-up finish in six contests.
Even competitors marvel at skills demonstrated by the pint-sized 85-pounder.
“It’s not right, dude,” a considerably larger skimboarder said. “This definitely is a little guy’s sport.
“He’s rocking it.”
Pruitt ran toward the shoreline shallows and tossed his board onto the water before jumping on. He rode into the wave, slashed back off the lip and leaped off as he made the board do a 360-degree turn.
Then he wowed the others by landing back on the board and gliding to shore.
“That’s sick,” another boarder said, shaking his head.
All in a day’s work for Pruitt.
“That’s a ‘360 shove it.’ It’s easy,” the little guy said, matter-of-factly. “But I’m not a pro or anything.”
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More about Perry Pruitt from Exile Skimboards:
One of our newest additions, North Carolinian Perry Pruitt is a super competitive rider who travels to about every contest there is in the east. Perry came out to the West Coast for the first time in 2008 when he travelled to California and entered the 2008 West Coast Championships. He left a number of Laguna locals in the dust, or should we say sand, to walk away with 3rd place. We understand from day one he has pretty much dominated all East Coast contests and we know his sights are set on taking over the west as well.
This super sarcastic grom hooked up with team rider Blair Conklin, whom many say must be “long lost brothers”. So Perry could get more experience in the waves of the Wild West, he flies back to So Lag for spring breaks with his XBox 360, 50-ft. wifi cable and board in hand.
These bicoastal kids skim West, 10th St., the Wedge, Aliso and Torts ten hours a day, play XBox the remaining two, and take sustenance at South Laguna hot spots-“Sevies” (7-Eleven) and Thai by the Sea on the daily.
While at home Perry perfects his skills on NC liners and some of the best East Coast waves there are. This dude’s going to be around for awhile, so make sure you remember his name and face, because if we see you cut him off you’re dead.
We are happy to have Perry on board with us and can only imagine what is ahead for this amazing bicoastal rider
