Finally got around to setting up and skating my first twin tail. This Ishod slick. Here's my opinion after skating it for 3 days.
I've had this deck sitting in my stockpile for maybe 6 months. I usually have 1-3 backup decks at a time. I was thinking I might fall in love with the twin so much that I wouldn't want to skate anything else. So I went through all my other boards first before setting this up. And for the first time in a while, I have no backups. For reference, before this I've been on a steady diet of the DLX 8.38, 14.5 WB board. So the Ishod's measurements are fairly similar as far as width & WB.
The first thing I noticed when setting it up was how much smaller all around it felt. 8.3 as opposed to 8.38. You can feel that slightly skinnier board. My wheels (149 standard Indys, 52 F4 classic full) stick out a little more. And having a smaller "nose" gets less length. By the third day though, I've adjusted to the size.
I really like the slick. It slides great and I think it helped on some of the things I skated this weekend.
I like the twin aspect for a couple things. Shuv tricks and tre flips feel good with the equal balanced weight. But besides that, I'm not really a fan. My limited switch and nollie game is even worse with the smaller nose. I was also trying a noseslide to fakie nosegrind combo and it was really tough. I grabbed another board out of my quiver with a normal big nose and it was so much easier. So, I don't hate it enough where I'll be taking it off. But, this will be my one and only twin.