Dope thread. I love this kind of stuff. It’s interesting to watch how the gear trends change. I also like knowing what peak Cardiel was riding. Did PJ size up? WHL vs plan b? It’s funny seeing certain people riding just one setup, and sticking to it: JB Gillet, and Gino both looked like they had 7 7/8 size boards with 5.2 lo’s, which was kind of big, and now they look to ride the same, and it’s fairly small. Puleo skating all of those crusty spots on what looks like 5.0 venture lo’s and 50s....and then it’s interesting to see which era people stick with. Like Sheffey. He’s the best ever in the life video, and yet he still skates a board that looks straight out of 1996 (from what I can tell). The Cardiel thing was a trip. This hesh dude in my town would always skate bigger boards and clown us for skating small world boards. He skated burnside for awhile and came back on the 7.5 and 129s. My favorite is to hear the justifications that I and others make, when following the trends. Plenty of fools out here crop dusting flip tricks on boards way way bigger than what D.Way jumped the Great Wall of China on. Whatever gets you hyped. I can’t stick with anything so I sure as hell dunno.
Anyways, hopefully I get to read more pros setups. I had that 2010 buyers guide. Lots of funky setups as people were caught changing their setups: 145s, and 8.2” decks....etc. wish I had some other issues.
The dr t should be reissued.