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I recently got a tester/sample deck from a newer US woodshop and it was FLAT.
The nose was incredibly flexy when I would set up nollie. Is that normal, or poor craftsmanship?
Some would say that is not so good, to be polite.
You want a deck that is stiff enough to hold your weight so would be curious how long it lasts overall, but if it is flatter, it will have more flex than something that has more concave.
I would say that's fine and even preferable in some situations and definitely not an indicator of it being bad, especially on a flat board. A lot of my friends who try PS wood after skating something stiff use the term "flexy" when I ask what their first impressions are, but once you get used to it you might actually find that you prefer it.
If flex meant a board was bad no one would ever skate flight/vx decks and everyone would be clamoring for those 8 ply resin soaked bricks that dwindle used to make. And we'd all be wearing moon boots because landing bolts would fucking suck.
Ha yeah, I was going to add if a board is too stiff, then it is more likely to break than bend, but I think that is more a "too dry" issue with some boards I have seen, snapped like twigs and they just seem like there is nothing to them.
I skated an old DLX board that I knew had been in a shop window for a long time and cracked the nose on a poorly landed no warm up kickflip, but then left it in a place I knew had high moisture content and although it went a bit soggy, it was actually a decent deck and lasted a lot longer than I thought it would, where other boards would have just snapped without that treatment and been done.
From flying in and out every other week for almost a decade, my "away board" decks still skated fine but always felt heavier and almost waterlogged when compared to my stay at home boards, but that is another story entirely.
Back on topic, when I drive over boards, they do flatten out but some also tend to have a lot more flex than when new, some more than others, but only a couple have felt over the top and not so good from this process.
Topic: Mellow Concave (Read 4356 times)