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First deluxe in awhile. Do they normally sound damped? Like water log like but it don’t feel soggy?
unpopular opinion = yes (to me anyway, it's why they are not my first choice; but I like stiffer boards anway like Dwindle/crail)
Are the bearings new/wheels too tight?
What were you riding prior? If it was something really crispy anything will feel logged afterward.
I had a Real deck last summer and it was absolutely the worst skateboard I've had in a long time. Even my flimsy Chapman decks were better, they just broke too quick.
I had the anti hero graphic with the moose sex on it…graphic sucked, but the wood sucked worse. ‘Undercooked’ was the feel at the time. I just chalked it up to Covid shit, them pumping boards out as fast as they could.
That being said, to me, bbs isn’t what it once was. For context, I really like ps stix boards, so some of this is just personal preference. I think I really became aware of bbs/generator around the time of kayo, so early 2000s. The quality was very good. I think ps was lacking at the time, and even as a huge stix fan, I’ll note the obvious which is to say that consistency isn’t their strong suit. Across any era.
Anyways, bbs was the shit for quite awhile. To this day, if a pro is in between boards co’s, anti-hero or Krooked is the go to, partly due to their reps as companies, I think they are also generous with product, and also the quality (on a long enough timeline it all seems to distill to vans/indy/dlx boards/spitfires/Swiss).
To me, bbs boards started lacking some 3-4 years ago. I also don’t favor the concave as much.