Everything becomes useless if you think about it long enough.

jamie platt in the polar video (sounds like) did a good nollie 360 shoveit

nah it was ass

I'm from the suburbs of Berlin, low income area. I started skating 2003. From the people I started with, only one skates occassionally every few weeks. I try to go skate at least once a week no matter the weather.

Way too many people in the last 20 years to list them here. A few fell to drugs and booze. One older guy I often skated with works at a Vans store and still follows skateboarding but his back is kinda fucked.

From the crew around my age, most of them turned out fine. There is one who completely stopped skating because his ex girlfriend skated too. But he was/is an idiot anyway and was always blaming others for his problems.

It's not easy nowadays to get the whole crew together because of jobs, families and general adult responsibilities. Since the last year, I try to film a video but that will take a lot of time and we are all 30+ now.

Slide a fs board slide more than 4” on a double sider
Fs krookeds
Fs tails

Shits hard man.

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I always describe the thunder turn as the first 1/4 of the turn is Ace….the next half is venture….the last quarter is wheelbite…..the risers change the last quarter as does tightening your trucks….

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This. I’ve been on some Thunders for a while now but I just can’t get them to where I like them.

Indys are tippy. Aces are carvey and pretty stable at center for me. Thunders though feel like the “center” point is so small. They’re not tippy like Indy’s per say. Thunder turn takes less effort to initiate but can also max out very easily and wheelbite. So it feels unstable. I ride mine medium tight as well on stock bushings. Anytime I don’t land perfectly square bolts I will wheelbite.

Any advice ?

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Without instantly jumping down the "try harder bushings" type of reply, I do think that slightly harder bushings can sometimes be a win here, even combinations of them, even though I really don't like to mix and match colours, eg a stock top with a harder bottom or something like that, but I will often trim down slightly harder bushings to get the desired result more so than running softer bushings that might turn nicely, but then wheelbite if I land incorrectly.

Any bushing change can be weird, or make you want to swap back the old ones and be done with it, then just deal with the other issues, but that is one option I have gone with that has worked in the past for me.


Thunder trucks being lower also works nicely for me with very thin risers, usually 2 mm tops, of which I have made my own, but there are a lot of people out there that flatly refuse to put anything in between truck and board and that is quite ok too.  For me though, having that extra couple of mm in height makes things just feel more normal and I can turn more and land a little off without things instantly ending in being thrown off the board, which in most cases is easier than putting wheel wells in every board or riding significantly smaller wheels, which I know some others do as well.


So firmer bushings (often cut down / sanded or otherwise modified), risers, smaller wheels are all options for that situation.

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I’d also like to add that a barrel shaped bottom bushing can provide a more stable center even in the same duro. If you were to go a little firmer than stock on the barrel you’d probably prevent some wheelbite situations as well. If you do try this though don’t forget to put a slightly wider bottom washer so it fits properly.

That's what I did with my 148s but I generally don't like the feeling of conical bushings. Those are Indy stock bottom bushings from an old set I had lying around. Top bushing is a Indy 92 duro where I cut off like 1.5mm of the underside of the top bushing to get the same height as Thunder stock top bushings. I am running that for a few months now and everything feels stable and responsive when I want to take tight turns. It also helps that those bushings are the colors of the Knicks. 😁 Oh and top washer is from Ace and bottom washer is a Indy stock one. No specific reason, that's just what a homie gave me or I had lying around.