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What do you think are the lightest boards out right now? And also still have good snap.
If you really wanna get light, buy tensor mag light trucks. They are so light its fucking regular. I love it and haven't skated anything else in years
I splurged on a pair of maglites last year because they were out of those fancy Krux I wanted to try so bad, and I can say they're crazy light, but I think to really get the full effect, they have to be on an equally light deck, else if feels a bit off-balance, IMO. I can't grind yet, so I can't say how they are besides riding, and flatground, but mine are on a Plan B board with Big Balls bearings (slow as hell), and it just makes the board feel... maybe a bit unstable, unbalanced? Maybe just unusual...
Not just because of the slow Big Balls bearings, but even with the maglites, I usually grab my Zero with Super Reds, and hollow titanium Thunders...
If the maglites were on a super light board, which from this thread I gather are the Flight Lite, and Santa Cruz VX, then maybe you'd see a massive improvement in terms of weight, but I don't think weight is the holy grail, I mean, there's also your deck's elasticity, and how it rebounds off the pavement, and that really has to do with the wood, and concave, I would think...
Also light deck, light trucks might be easier to get off the ground, and a lighter deck might have more elasticity, but what about inertia? can you get as much air-time with a light deck as with a heavy board? won't the heavy board have more inertia once in the air? Like won't a lighter set-up fall faster than a heavy one?
Like I'm trying with two erasers right now, and it seems the smaller one doesn't hang in the air as long as the big one...
So maybe that's another factor to take into consideration?