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I’ve broken bbs boards on my first trick of their first day. Sometimes shit just happens. I always prefer a bbs board to a ps board, but sometimes a ps board can be good too. The wood itself comes from the same suppliers allegedly, but it’s the molds, glue, and construction that make each one representative of their woodshop
I think that I just like a smaller wheelbase. I have a short inseam, so it makes sense in my mind. I used to wonder why I’d whiff certain tricks on some boards and not others. Now that I’m consistently skating a shorter WB my flip tricks are feeling like I’m back in my early 20’s peak. I’m also convinced that it helps turn through bowl corners better. That’s my personal preference at least
If you get the Chems tool go 3/8” shorter/wider instead of 1/4”. If you only redrill by 1/4” the holes will barely be separated and it’s easy to accidentally make one big oblong hole
thanks for the advice
some could say peak Julien (all of it is peak) and Cardiel, were allegedly on sub 14” wbs, with aces. pretty turny. atchley used to run a real short setup, i think for the carving. it makes total sense.
Aces didn't exist during their peaks and Anti Hero boards were always bigger/longer.
tom is correct, with what i was trying to remember/say.
i’m incorrect to say that post 2007 is peak Julien Stranger, but i’m a fan so all of it is amazing. there is an old anti hero ad someone shared that is, i think, a corner pocket frontside air and julien’s board and trucks were tiny.
cardiel was skating small/narrow stuff, according to friends that skated with them at burnside a time or two. they all came back skating these narrow boards that they had previously clowned on me for skating. this is all very early 2000s.
there were some skinny anti-hero’s when they first came out. i’m sure i was into something not nearly as cool, but i rarely had an anti hero in those days. couldn’t even back d, didn’t feel correct.
Looking back over old shop catalogs from DLX, all boards were well under 8 for the most part, with only a few boards over 8" back then, with only more recent years everything going substantially wider, even 2007 to 2010 started with mostly under 8 but they 8.1 and 8.2 + were starting to creep in a bit more by then, as well as some occasional bigger shaped boards for the barney type of guys. Then by 2015 there were a lot more options and it went up from there.
The most common board size was around the 7.75 width in the catalogs, with variants of 7.5, 7.6, 7.8, 7.9 and maybe one 8 or 8.1 or 8.2 here and there. I kept thinking I was missing half the catalog when I would look through them, but that was it.
All those guys were on boards that are very small by todays standards, as said John Cardiel on 7.5 and Julien Stranger on 7.8 or so when they came out here in 2003 on the Tent City tour, but they are also small dudes, so the board size fit them well enough.
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