Trips - Frequently Asked Questions

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Please Read This First!!! (The rest won’t make any sense without it!)

Most of the info below is about creating your own trips, and it’s a little bit ahead of its time at the moment we’re afraid. Only members can create their own trips on ridingboards.com and we haven’t launched the member’s section yet! It is coming in the next few weeks though, so keep your eyes peeled.

You may have noticed the handful of trips that we created as examples of how the Trips thing works, feel free to have a look at those in the meantime.

Sorry about the delay – we’re not lazy, just busy, we swear!

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What are these trips you keep going on about?

Trips on ridingboards.com are a way for you to collect YouTube videos of surfing, snowboarding, or skateboarding, in specific places around the globe, and showcase them as a virtual trip, which you can share with friends and anyone else using the ridingboards.com website.

You can use your own videos if you have a YouTube account but you can also create trips using videos from the huge YouTube archive. If you've been somewhere and you'd like to share it but don't have a video of it - no problem, just use a video by someone else! This is also great for when you're planning a real trip somewhere, because you can use any of the videos on YouTube to inspire yourself and your friends to get excited about your plans and help decide where to go.

The best way to find out what ridingboards.com trips are is to have a look at some. You don’t have to be signed up or logged in to view trips. Start here.

Although ridingboards.com trips are all about video at the moment, we are planning to make them much more flexible in the future - see the Coming Soon page for details.

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What can I do with these trips?

Use ridingboards.com trips to:

Inspire yourself to book a real life trip.
Inspire friends to join you on a real life trip.
Help plan a real life trip.
Share the videos that make you want to get out and surf, board or skate.
Share the places you’ve surfed, boarded or skated with friends and show them what these places are really like.
Collect your favourite surf, snow and skate videos.

We’re really looking forward to seeing the different trips and uses for trips that you all come up with. Please let us know how you use them.

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How do I share a trip with friends?

Before you can share a trip that you’ve created, it has to be published (see the question below for details). Once it’s published, click the “Share this trip” link (you’ll find this next to each trip on your “My Trips” page) and you’ll have two options for sharing:

1 - Facebook. You can send your trips to a friend on Facebook or post it to your Facebook Profile.

2 - Stumble Upon. When you click the Stumble It button you'll be taken to the Stumble Upon website, where you can submit your trip. This means that it will be shown randomly to people using Stumble Upon, and they'll be able to view, rate and share it from there.

We’re planning to make some big improvements to the way you share your ridingboards.com trips - see the Coming Soon page for details.

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What’s this “Publishing” thing?

When you first create a new trip, only you can see it. This is so that when you’re adding your first places, finding videos and writing words to go with your trip, it isn’t viewable to other people. When you’re done creating your trip, hit the “Publish this trip” link and your trip becomes visible to anyone browsing the ridingboards.com website.

When you publish your trip the ridingboards.com website looks at it to see if it relates to any of the “Hub” pages on the site. (see the question below for more details).

You can unpublish a trip too, and it’s a good idea to unpublish whilst you make changes to a trip, then re-publish when you’re finished.

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How do I get my trips to show up in the different “Hub” sections of the ridingboards.com website (under “Trips featuring Surfing Bali,” on the “Surfing Bali Hub” page, for example)?

If a place on your trip corresponds to one of the info, video and photo sections that we have on the main ridingboards.com website, it has a good chance of being displayed in one of these sections.

The ridingboards.com website automatically figures out which trips are most relevant to certain sections of the site and it does this when you publish a trip. If you add new places to your trip later, republishing it will get it included in the relevant pages for those places.

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Can I add places without videos to my trip?

Because ridingboards.com trips are about using the media that the internet has to offer to share your favourite boardsports, places aren’t shown on the public part of the website unless they have a video attached for people to watch. This will change when we add a photo feature to trips (see the Coming Soon page for details), as you’ll be able use photos instead of, or as well as, videos.

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Why is there a limit on the number of places allowed on each trip?

There are three reasons that we limit the number of places you can have on your trips:

1 - Imagine that you’re browsing the ridingboards.com website: you notice a trip that you like the sound of so you click onto it, only to find a page with 50 different links, thumbnails and place titles on it! It would probably be a bit overwhelming. Keeping trips short, makes them much easier on the eye (and brain!).

2 - It makes it easier for you to organise your own trips, and remember what each one is all about.

3 - Technology-wise, It makes it easier for us to handle (thanks for understanding!)

We’re not always right about these things, so if you think we should increase the limit, let us know and we’ll look into it. Email us at

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Which trips are displayed on the ridingboards.com homepage?

The trips on the ridingboards.com homepage are those most recently published. This only happens the first time a trip is published, so re-publishing won’t send it to the top of the list!

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Why isn’t my question here?

Because you have a brilliant and unpredictable mind. Email your question to

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