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I see the new Real catalog is up, which also brings back a few board shapes that people had been asking about.
https://www.realskateboards.com/
The 8.28 x 31.7 with 14.12 wb is the main one I was thinking about, but there are others there too.
oh man i'm not hyped on this graphic but the shape is so good. surprised Harry Lintell doesn't have a board in this shape dropping considering it's the shape he skates.
DLX often does heat transfers for their riders onto their preferred shapes. That's how Ishod is always skating tons of standard shape graphics but on a twin tail.
I feel like the team is so big that they don't do boards for every rider every drop, or every shape every drop - this catalog it is nine of twelve dudes on the pro team, one special board for Jaime Reyes and a TG board.
Harry might exclusively ride the 8.28 shape (as does Mason doesn't he?), but they like to mix it up with the catalogs as it means that someone like me who rides 8.38 or 8.5 can also have a Harry board occasionally, not just release the same size and shape that the pro actually rides with his own graphic every single time.
This catalog Harry has a Full SE 8.25 and Mason has the 8.28 and the 8.75 flyer, but next catalog he might have an 8.38 or something else.
I guess compared to some companies that just have a generic 8, 8.25, 8.38, 8.5 or so, with each graphic on every size, this is a bit better way to distribute the pro boards, different shapes and different graphics.
* I can definitely get that some boards and shapes and graphics can be more appealing to some people than others as well, so although this round might not be the one, the previous round might have been good and the next round might be more interesting too.