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Nobody want to face the truth about this but the lightest board with most pop are those weird Powell ones
Best deck I ever skated
I know they aren’t cool, but I’m currently using a Powell Flight board and it’s amazing. They’re crazy light, hella pop, and last forever.
Mmmm....ok well I can trust CL, but at the same time, with my own eyes, I’ve never seen a flight deck in the wild, underneath an Ollie practitioner.
I’m going to second that motion.
I was riding the flight decks for a year or so and can attest to all their praise. Long lasting, pop, etc. That said, in the last year I switched to Santa Cruz's similar tech, VX. All the same attributes as the flight decks but much better with respect to shapes and the graphics are typically either good or neutral, while the flight deck's graphics are almost always painful. Immature I know but still...
Thanks for the info! So the Santa Cruz boards are essentially the same you would say? Are all their boards VX? Def would rather that. It seems hard to even track down a flight board anyways.
Santa Cruz and Powell quality are the same. Almosts carbon fiber board wasn’t as good though. I actually managed to snap that one
Which almost board are you talking about? There’s like 6-7 variations over the years. The Uber Light was redesigned at least once or twice. They have the regular impact, double impact, and impact light they have promoted through the years. The impact stuff is much more akin to what the flight/VX decks are, where as the UBER light boards were a completely different technology. Rodney also had/Has even more crazy versions of the UBER board he used in round 3. Not sure if many people know this, but Rodney’s board in round 3, every single aspect is not sold for mass consumerism. If you ever bought the round 3 DVD, at period of time they had a little 4 page pamphlet going into the board he uses in the video.
Now the original Uber light I had, like back when that got first mass produced in 06-07. It was light as hell, but the oscillation was so fucking weird. The damping factor was quite high compared to wood on the OG batchs, and the boards would literally not oscillate. You also saw really bad problems with Delam. I recently skated one a few years ago, and it looked like all those things were cleaned up. Now as far as snapping is concerned I would imagine they snap still much worse due to their construction. If you ever skated a bamboo board, u would know what I’m talking about, where when you snap it the board cracks vertically as opposed to the traditional horizontal break. I would assume that they still snap as bad, but I would bet their performance is higher than either the flight or VX board when it comes to weight, but I bet the other two boards still oscillate as good. On a random note, for a while there when the UBER stuff first came out, Dwindle also had those Blind aluminum core boards, and those were the fucking shit. Prolly would have rode those my entire life if the option was available.