Fuck it just ordered the set of 159 hollows. Curious to see how they hold up.
Also , does anyone have any tips on learning slappy variations? I've got fs 50s on lock and can hold the grind for as long as I want but I'm struggling to get into any other slappy grind. I can do slappy 50 to feeble, smith and front tail and I can ollie into feeble and smith just fine but I can't slappy into them. I went to a park this weekend where I skated my first slanted red parking blocks instead of the gritty euro curbs I'm used to and immediately landed a slappy crook and kinda got the hang of feebles but I'm struggling to get them on the straight local curb.
Edit: just landed slappy front smiths, got the tip of seeing it as a 50 where you over rotate your front truck and that seemed to work. Haven't got feebles to work but that's something for the next session.
keep in mind this is for bs feebles (im also goofy), but if it makes any difference you could just reverse it:
-put the ball of your back foot right on the tip of the tail, and the ball of your front foot right in the middle of the deck and slightly behind the front bolts. keep it at about diagonal.
-come up at a pretty tight angle, about 20 degrees off perpendicular. at the last second, carve left to be closer to parallel with the ledge.
-wind your shoulders up like for a bs180, and as you hit the curb swing them back around the opposite direction.
-lift up your front truck slightly and do the 'slam' motion with the back truck, all the while keeping your weight on the back truck. this is to let the front truck make the movement over to the other side of the curb.
-as soon as you get into the grind reverse all the body movements you just made in order to come out. you can get them longer once you get them better, so there's no need to rush.
also, it helps a lot to have a curb without the pavement right on the other side. sort of like a parking block in that manner, but not a parking block. i suppose you
could do it on a parking block, but i can't. you're probably better than me.