Hockey boards imo set the trend of having "Full" square noses. Everyone started doing them after that but no ones is as blunt as Hockey's still.
Why are Control boards so flat on the nose and tail? I'm not talking about the steepness of the kicks, but there is literally ZERO concave (Cambre?) at all on them. Ben De Gros and others have talked about it on their videos and I have a couple sitting here as well and I remember what it felt like riding them. Do some people actually prefer this?
A lot of amazing skaters ride them and make them work - I was riding them for a long time and obviously they are "fine". I guess most skaters don't care about that who ride the boards, I know I did not at the time. they just hear "Made in Canada" and assume it is superior. They do feel like very solid boards at least as far as from breakage is concerned, they just seem stiff to me and felt like I didnt get as bouncy of a snap off the tail. Someone else mentioned that doing combos from nose/tail > crook feel a lot harder on those boards as well, but I doublt that trickset is swaying that many people's purchase decision.
Yeah it does seem like FA / Hockey had the most squared off shapes, doing them first on PS Stix, now on BBS, so that alone is not limited to any one woodshop, quite a few others now having a square / full shape option, some only for specific brands, others for anyone to use, eg Clutch with the O shape, as per their shape guide here:
https://rayzlv.wixsite.com/clutchdistribution/copy-of-shapes-1As to the kicks and concave through the boards, in both the middle and kicks, some woodshops use a simple mold with no added "spoon" like concave through the kicks, whereas others have that as the main thing they do, so it is all down to the individual woodshop with how they set up their molds with flat faced kicks or spoon shaped kicks.
I feel like most woodshops don't have any "spoon" to their kicks though, mainly BBS (all their boards) and a select press / mold from other woodshops, as I recall Clutch / ASF produced boards were very similar to BBS at one point, but don't know about many now.
Certainly Dwindle does not have any, then as you mentioned Control pressed boards (not the ones they may or may not be getting from BBS or elsewhere) as well as PS Stix with flat faces on their kicks too, along with most if not all of the boards out of unknown factories in China, as per half a dozen or more brands I have stood on from different woodshops in the last few years.
Given I am very used to BBS wood, almost anything else feels weird, but I used to skate a lot of PS Stix boards and still have boards from almost every other woodshop either set up for people to try, or used and waiting for a new home at the indoor park.
I just tested a local shop board someone brought in, wood from Clutch not long ago and although I was not used to the concave, I did ok on it. The board itself is 9" wide so big and long (maybe a V 10 shape), which I drilled back to make a shorter wheelbase and flattened some as well, but it was stiff and strong and held up well to whatever I did, as well as others having a good session on it at the indoor park too, after I had modified it, so that is not to say that people can't adapt to other boards either.
As for other people, I know others who find BBS hard to skate and don't like the concave and spoon like kicks, preferring the flat faces of Dwindle or other woodshop produced boards, so it is definitely down to what you know, what you are used to and how things work for the individual skater too.
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