Madness as usual but something is clicking.
So first session...it's kinda weird but in a good way. Ages ago I rode an 8.6 AWS, it had the best nose ever visually / skated great; this has that for both kicks which
@6.79 length don't feel it because of their width (the asta's kicks by comparison feel long
@ just 6.8", but narrow) - these kicks feel 'stumpy' in way? Not BIG SHOVEL like FA. That AWS 8.6 is the only thing that matches up.
Perhaps it's the fingers of flat voodoo (? I still don't fully know how to maximize it use the correct truck) but the 14" WB isn't noticeable to me and I'm very susceptible to short boards/WBs; so coming off the Asta (8.2x32x14.2WB) I would think this board being shorter 31.75" w/14" WB was going to screw with me (recently skate some 8.3s with 14.18WB that were 31.88ish and they were horrible...Hockey/Primitive; also the crail 8.25 with a 14" wb didn't sit right either).
Maybe it's the cast thunders plus the fingers of flat? I do have ghost pop coming off venture forged with the asta (previously thunder forged) but that will go away, it was the first session.
Finally, I would also like to call out that this board's wheel wells FUCKING WORK, I'm actually creating divots in the well...rode a jacuzzzi with wells and same thunders/wheels and that shit did not line up.