This might not make sense, but I have thought of what you pointed out. On the 14" WB your feet will probably be closer together. With a high truck that raises the fulcrum and thus the deck is at a pretty high angle before you slide your front foot up.
Take that same exact truck and stretch the WB out 3/8" and your foot is now lower relative to the end of the nose and its less extreme. Using a lower truck probably gets you closer to the front foot/rear foot differential and likely feels closer to your natural timing.
For me the Venture on 14.38 feels better than on 14.25 also because the deck is slightly longer and just gives me a bit more room relative to where the trucks are and that just lets me be more comfortable. Its not a massive difference in measurements, but I step on the board and it feels better. Even if something is "better" on the shorter board, I need to just focus on why that is and duplicate on the longer than worry about wheelbases. Yesterday I was focusing on doing dork tricks on a curb and a nollie back tail worked better on a 14.25/smaller deck when I came out of the trick. Turns out since it was shorter my front foot was more on the tip of the nose. Easy fix. I am sure other more complicated shit is the same.
what you, and
@Thebird are saying brings up this nagging feeling i’ve had about….i guess it’s leverage? i’ve always been a kook, putting together weird setups. what year did osiris come out? i (unfortunately) vividly remember skating in some of the first run osiris, tsa shorts….fuck. anyways, i had a gino chocolate board (i’m pretty sure all of these timelines match up, 98-99 ish) with indys, probably 129s, and then on a dare, some 60mm spitfires. i was able to ollie very high, for me. other rotational tricks were just a flick, meaning easier. at that time of my life, i was (i mean look at the outfit choices) fairly fucked up, and would skate and then not skate for awhile, so when i came back to it i’d just try something completely different.
example 2, much more recently, would be that girl shape that tapers from 8.25 to just above 8, short wb. i had it on ace classics and 56 conical fulls. again, flip tricks were shockingly easy (for one day): a switch heel was higher, and just needed a small amount of flick, before coming around.
in both instances, i was using short effective wb trucks, short wb’s, and tall wheels. and many things felt easier.
in general i don’t like huge wheels, i don’t like the weight. i hate when that shit hits me on the shins. i think it looks try hard, for me, because i’m usually found skating super slow trying some booty ass nollie flops, in a smooth ish parking lot. so i tend to set them up, and then quit big wheels, at the first sign of problems.
what you guys are speaking on, with the leverage, the height of trucks, wb, etc, just illuminated, to me, that there is so much i don’t know, and that effective wb combos are a load of crap.
there is something in here where wheel size, truck height, and length of nose and tail would seemingly factor in, but i dunno.
i love venture 5.0 lo’s on 14 and below wb’s, but haven’t really jived with cast venture hi’s on the same deck. maybe ya’ll have shown me why.
i’m really off of any solid ground on this rant. apologies
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