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Lol going through gear crisis and last minute decided to take off that isle and set up this violet first instead.
8.5 Violet
Ace AF1 55 with ace hard bushings
Spitfire 52mm og classic 99a
Quantum Atoms
Everytime i see your setups im always in like “damn, so beautiful”. Do you have any updates and stronger opinions on the ace af1 trucks? I would like you to go on indys next instead of ventures lol and see how those go for you.
Haha the reason I went with ace instead of indy (besides the fact that I got them for free) was because I didn't want to deal with the choice paralysis between cast/forged plates, hollows, solids, titaniums etc.
I've really gotten used to the aces. They grind far better on chunky stuff, and climb easier onto curbs for slappies and that has spoiled me, made skating the ventures again a lot more difficult. Also really used to the pop feel now, enjoying putting my popping foot in the pocket instead of on the tip of the nose/tail. I think my nollie and fakie game is noticeably better with the way aces + longer board pop. After tightening them, they feel plenty stable too, although sometimes I will still roll away at a big angle if I don't land square.
Ventures, as expected, are much better for backside flips, switch backside 180 nosegrinds, flip in tricks, and holding pinches. I can do all those fine on the ace setups too but those specific tricks for whatever reason, that I do very often, are much more predictable and feel more solid on ventures even though skating the venture board felt foreign and weird because its been a while.
I want to hopefully get to the point where I'm used to both, and skate either setup depending on what I want to do. At the very least I gotta grind my new/last set of ventures to the bone and kill the rest of my shorter boards.
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