Skaters who do transition on small deck sizes?

[boi-cuzudo]

Well, back in the 70's people were skating pools with tiny boards and big wheels, which is most impressive in my opinion.

[rawbertson.]

hotrodding helps alot too. Alot of the girl contest skaters skate like 8.25 with 149s, Hewitt skates 159 with his 8.38, Oski was on 8.1 and ace 44 for a long time.

disgusting

[Gab]

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what size is louie barletta's board that thing gotta be tiny

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I think he was rocking a 7.5 when I heard about it, but that was 2011-ish.

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He's still rocking the 7.5. He said in his latest Nine Club that his board is so small, it became the kid production complete for Enjoi.

I heard it was even smaller somewhere, not much but I think 7.3
And yes cardiel rode small boards, I saw a Lucero interview where he was talking about it. Probably 7.5-7.75

[jorge]

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dave bachinsky

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Daewon and Cody McEntire too

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fellas do miniramps count as transition? i feel like my transition savvy friends would say absolutely not

Mini ramps or quarter pipes absolutely do not count, and Slaps skinny board fetish is weird. You people are not victims or outsiders.

[logjammin]

I'm a transition/slappy type, currently on an 8.125" board with AF1 44's (8.25" wide) and love it. Light, nimble, stable. 8.125"-8.3" is totally fine for tranny, imo.

[dr.prestige]

I have found that 8.25 is the ideal size when it comes to feeling comfortable on big transition while still being able to tap into the tech side of things. Ollies feel crisp and confident. Once you go into 8.5+ area, you start sacrificing maneuverability for comfortability/ margin of error that bigger boards afford. Once I get on a bigger board like that I am compelled to try to do a back smith just to use all that extra rail. Once you go down to an 8 you start to lose the drive and power that you get from the bigger boards and would have to work harder for speed on tricks. Most of the Madness guys would probably be riding around 8.5s because, if you're skating exclusively very big transition, the drive that comes with the bigger board is necessary as well as it feeling more confident with the extra landing space. All that being said, I'd imagine Danny Way/ Colin McKay had rocked some smaller setups to accomplish some of their lip/flip trickery during those Plan B videos.

I don't agree with this, speed comes from the wheels and bearings. Put some 60mms with some freshly broken in bearings on a 7.5" and you will be hauling just as much ass as the same wheels on a 9"

[kneebone]

I was gonna say Haslam's board always looks tiny, but I guess we're ruling out miniramps here.

[yourbreakfsat]

I have zero idea why mini ramps wouldn't be considered transition.

Just post guy on small board doing cool thing on ramp.

[sacking rails]

board size has nothing to do with speed

[Timtom]

Bobs megaramp board is around 8.5, according to 2022 slap that is a mini.   

I’ve seen his mega boards, they aren’t that wide but the WB is super long. Like 17+ inches. I believe PS took the WB and shape from one of his old yard sticks and that was what him and Danny would ride with some tweaks.

[Mean salto]

Board looks kinda narrow. Hard to tell but his feet are overhanging a decent amount

[FuzzGNU]

I always remember in this clip Bam talking about needing a "pretty wide" board for skating FDRs transition.... It's only an 8.0 deck.



It's funny how much people have turned the corner on deck width.

[Dark Knight]

Mini ramps are definitely considered transition.  If you have to drop in it’s a tranny.

[The real veganshawn]

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Brent atchley, mike chin. I slap curbs on a zip zinger. Big boards are going out of style. They look stupid how big they are. Skateboards should be convenient, not tanks.

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I agree. The amount of people riding boards over 8.25 with like 60mm full conicals on street right now is as ridiculous as the 30mm wheels with 7.25 boards were…that must hurt when it hits your shins

Big boards are here to stay, though I'm sure some folks will skate kid sized boards again and that's cool whatever works for you, I'll stick to 8.75 and up

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Seen John Shanhan do some pretty crazy shit on a vert ramp with whatever size board he rides (gotta be 7.75 or something) and those thick ass DC’s

[dr.prestige]

Some scans of a '98 Thrasher of Cards ruling Quito on a toothpick