In my experience with thunders and slides, it’s almost as if you have to hold your weight straight down on the tail and keep it centered or it’ll spin off the ledge early, whereas with ventures, Theeve, & Indy, that baseplate scrape keeps you from over rotating and gives you a little more room for error upon the initial lock-in.
I just saw an ishod clip on insta recently where he did a long ass tailslide kickflip out so obviously they’re doable, but there is definitely a little less room for error for us mere mortals, especially if you’re approaching a really long slide where you have to go pretty fast. I’m always a lot more nervous doing that with thunders than other trucks cuz it’s real easy to over rotate on that lock in and spin out and eat shit, or under rotate and have the board just wedge into the ledge and stick. It could very well be all mental but there’s just something about having that baseplate as point of reference to kind of gauge your positioning that gives me more confidence