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Chipped the shit out of the tail on my last deck so had to setup a fresh one
Workshop 7.875
Ace classic 33s
Spitfire 51 101a radial slim
Vans Crockett highs
this right here is the kinda shit thats makes me want to downsize my setup significantly, very cool
Thanks man. I spent the last year slowly downsizing and couldn’t recommend it more. I’m having so much fun on the sub 8.0s
What's your shoe size? I feel like so many people just skate 8+" because everyone else is. It makes more sense if you have large feet or are tall. Generally speaking, shouldn't deck width and length loosely correlate with a rider's shoe size and height?
Eh, I don't really agree with this sentiment. Most of the people I know that I skate with consistently are average height (say 5'9 to 6ft), average shoe size (UK8/9 which I think is US9/10) and in that spectrum it's anywhere from 8.1 up to 8.75.
I'm 5'10, UK7.5/8 or US 8.5/9 and in the last 5 years I've skated from 8.25 to 8.75, settled on 8.5 for a few years, then went back to 8.38 and now 8.25. Since I started skating again (2013) I've found 8.25 to be the most common size which makes sense; more stability than a skinnier board, will still flip with relative ease.
The only guy I've known to skate a smaller board in the last 7/8 years was a guy who was about 5'8 with I think about a US 6/6.5 shoe size, and he was skating 7.75's, but then on the flip side I know a guy who's much shorter at maybe 5'5/5'6 with a slightly bigger shoe size of US 8 and he skates 8.5s.
For me personally, coming back after a good few months not skating due to lockdowns etc, I found it very hard to flip around an 8.6 with 56 wheels, so I tapered down and ended up at 8.25 with 54's. I kinda want to size down even more, but going from 149's to Venture 5.6 which isn't that much of a difference in axle width, still fucked me up on grinds for a good month, and I feel like I'd notice it abhorrently more with a smaller truck.
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