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Just got my first PS Stix board in over 10 years after riding nothing but Generator and Chapman. I got a GX1000 board.
Within the first 10 minutes of riding it I have determined that this might be the worst board I've ever skated in 20 years.
First, the tail is way the fuck too square'd. You can feel the board heavily scraping the ground every time you try a flip trick, and flip tricks feel really sloppy and slow. The squared nose doesn't bother me, but that tail is useless. It didn't look that bad at the shop, but once I got home and gripped it I had an "oh shit" moment.
Second and worst of all, this is the shittiest wood I've ever skated. The board feels like it was pressed with old rotting wood.. no stiffness whatsoever. You feel the tail flexing when ollieing. It feels dead; no pop at all and you can feel that thing flexing just pushing around, it is just so soft. Zero torsional stiffness at all. My 1-year old Hotel Blue (Chapman) that was beaten to hell and somehow never snapped feels much stiffer.
I've got about an hour on this board and I'm getting a Real this afternoon. How PS has that big of a following is beyond me.
I think I had similar thoughts when I got my first one about 6 months ago. The square shape certainly took me a session or two to figure out, but once I got my stuff dialed back in I love it! Maybe what you received was a one off issue, every Quasi board I have ridden is very snappy pop, I will also say they sog out after about 2-3 weeks. Maybe GX is using different glues or veneers.
That's the real issue; you can go to any woodshop and pick your veneer and glue quality. So just because it's PSStix, doesn't mean it's the same.
I just came from Primitive (BBS I think)->Clutch->Dlx. The Primitive somehow went dead after two weeks, just a clunky mess (fucking great 8.25" shape tho, one of the best 'squaroundfull' noses and tails out...)
Clutch (skatewarehouse shop deck) was nice, felt PSstix-like but didn't sog out, it razor tailed fast because I suck at manuals but was better at them on this board.
Moved to DLX and FFS it was like riding a watered down pillow after a few days...I've had this happen a number of times...and seemingly tied to Krookeds (REAL Full SEs aways felt great for the life of the board).
So I said fuck it and went to Dwindle, specifically an impact light FULL shape. Light, stiff and crispy as fuck. Ollies just crack. I've always been a fan of their wood.
Honestly, it's amazing the quality difference out of the shrink with dwindle, it just looks and feels like a better product, right down to the slightly countersunk truck holes through the carbon fiber.
Going to stick with the Dwindle for the foreseeable future, especially if I can keep nabbing the 8.3s in Full, impact lights (medium kicks/concave this time but prefer steep kicks full concave). R7s are also great if you don't go impact ($$).
Hell, I bet the R7 darkstars feel better than most.
Topic: Woodshop Directory 2019 Thread (Read 144784 times)