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Old board
New board I set up today and skated for about 2 hours. I intentionally tried to avoid the F14 on the last one, won’t do that on this one sucks the fun out of skating. The ledges I skated today just weren’t board/lip slide-able.
Ok I'm gonna put my hand up and admit I just don't know.
Why is the forbidden 14 a thing?
Early 90s when nose slides were the big thing and crooked grinds were just coming in, some of the super rad dudes made it a thing, the EMB crew or others, I cannot remember, but it was all about the nose or tail, not doing boardslides at all.
Still more of a weird funny thing than anything else, and I guess a bit more of a laugh today than anything, but if you look at what people were skating in during that era "big pants small wheels" I think that would answer most of the questions, even if the forbidden 14 outlasted the BPSW era for a few years.
On another note I saw Native has new boards and they look pretty good, via instagram.