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I was really into bowls and transition growing up so I’ve always used wobbly loose trucks. On videos I noticed it looked like I was getting wheelbite with simple foot placements. I started skating a little more street and shamelessly became the “wallie polar kid” for a while. After that phase I started skating ledges and flatground a lot more because that’s all I could skate due to my job. I ended up tightening my trucks a few turns, and I was shocked at how much easier it was to skate flatground. I had heard the platitude “loose trucks save lives” all my life so I was pretty flabbergasted when I realized I liked tighter feeling trucks.
Interesting that they still might not be that tight compared to some others. I feel like I cannot even roll on some people's setups because the trucks are too tight, but I am more a bowl and transition skater too, even though my trucks are probably medium loose to some others I know.
A lot of those guys who skate street have considerably tighter trucks than mine, but there will always be some with trucks any which way who skate everything too. It is not just bowl skaters = loose trucks, street skaters = tight trucks or anything like that.
In my experience I always thought it was the opposite. Loose for street and tight for bowl trolls.
Probably going to be a list of dudes who still ride loosey goosey on anything, and others who ride tight on anything.
Any of the vert dudes I know (and some the big bowl go super fast type of guys) have the tight trucks otherwise they would get speed wobbles and be out before they hit the first wall, but you need looser trucks to carve a bowl.
I guess though there are always going to be those who are different to others, but most of the top street skaters have the trucks at least medium if not more, eg looking at some guys who are more well known on the global stage with hard bones bushings cranked down like Tommy Fynn who had a pic of his setup the other day, but others like Chris Russell having almost no bushings and still skating fast and hard on big bowl / vert and whatever.