interesting. so in aus ya’ll we’re going bigger in the setups, earlier?
there was the big size up in the early 2000s, were folks moved from venture 5.0s, to indy 139s.
looking back at really old setup videos, bob was skating the mega with like an 8.25.
the big board thing for certain became a fashionable thing. i remember getting really sparked on the Cory setup, with the huffer shape, in 2014 ish, and buying
multiple different large sized trucks to try and a shop
employee at a very ‘hesh’ shop was just kinda over it, mentioning something about how going past 159s was pretty limiting. he wasn’t wrong. lots of tiny kids on 8.75s for a minute there. not a lot of pop.
where i was, in the 90s, you were borderline a kook for having a board that was 8” and above. there was one local that could do all of the flip tricks, switch tres and that, and he skated a larger than 8” board. obviously no one was saying shit because he was super nice, and uh, way better than all of us.
not sure when more of the street pros started skating larger trucks. maybe haslam? he was maybe on 149s before some of the others.
it’s funny looking at some dill and ave footage and they have smaller boards, venture lo’s, and like 54s.
right now i’m kooking it and all stoked on tiny boards, but trying to ride bigger stuff has been a pretty funny way for me to spend more money to skate worse.
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