Thanks for all the info and advice Satan. (Thats a sentence I’ve always wanted to use!)
Yeah you’re right its the early 90’s shapes that i dig, i use to ride HStreet for a while back in the day and always liked the shapes and noses on those. Learnt most of my flip and spinning tricks on those decks. But i never got into nose grinds or slides, or switch for that matter, so i get the new shaped boards are accomodating for all those tricks, but i have no need for it and i find a big nose a little off putting. In fact I have mainly ridden popsicles backwards too and use the bigger nose as the tail.
Anyway enough of my bullshit skating backstory. Yeah I skated my first anti hero deck last night...and i have to admit i really liked it, the kick thing you mentioned makes sense, i did notice i didnt have to look at my backfoot for ollie placement, i could definitely feel it more than on any santa cruz deck ive had.
Also like you i dont want magic carpet on a 159, all those old decks tapered at the trucks so we rode 159’s...and there was a small amount of overhang, but that was helpful for flips.
I got my OJ Super Juice wheels yesterday so i set this up for the meantime...im gonna chill on buying a deck for a bit, but that Grosso or something from black label might end up being the go to...tbh the Grosso shape looks exactly like the 8.8 Lucero shape...he probably borrowed that on his way out!
Yeah, it's funny seeing that too.
I wish I could remember what size trucks I had back then. I wanna guess 8.5" Ultralites, I was a tiny grom.. Don't think I clued into the freestyle wheel thing so the jumbo wide wheels helped with the width. I think my friend was running them, I just didn't realize skinnier, lighter, better.. I vaguely remember a Lucero Red Cross, probably with 169's and huge Slimeballs or something. Think it was NHS at the time. All I remember is tank, I can barely ollie on this thing. Took a long time to get back to Indy's.
I had a Ron Allen No Scratch. Can't believe how pointy that nose looks now! Still have an old Kingsize survivor, with the lil World rails. It's the board I learned noseslides on after accidentally doing one on a wooden bench. For some reason I was using the longer wb, maybe I thought I was a big boy.
Looking thru old Thrashers online made me realize why I like that Grosso shape, it's almost the same nose as his 80's boards.
I don't remember for sure but Grosso might have had a similar shape when he was on BL.
I think PS Stix also does the spoon nose/tail thing but it's been a while since I saw one up close.
I like the Remillard shape. It's on my list too but by then I'd stopped geeking out on dimensions. Shortish wb? 149's might be flush in back?
Forgot about the shoulder width thing.. I've heard about that too but never really knew where to take the measurements. To get wb length on me I could measure from the round/ball thingies on the front of my shoulders. I think kinda where they pivot.
I get 14.5" if I hunch/slouch. 15.5" if I stand straight and square up.
14.5" I'm thinking pool/vert for me. Found an old 90's Black Label Hensley that was a 3flip killer for me. Measured it and it's 7-7/8"(?) and tapered, 14.5" wb.
15.5" I'm going omg! Mega? Big downhill racing? Beach cruiser? More room for the keg..
I'm 5'10-11", slim, normalish leg length? I'm also lazy and don't wanna take a big stance. Seen big wave surfers use that huge stance? I
feel like that on big wb.
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