I have wallowed in the madness, by chasing setups that don’t naturally work for me. What I mean by that is if I get on an 8”ish board and trucks, tricks are easier, not necessarily better, but easier. I’ve gotten adjusted to much larger setups, and have had maybe even better results than just riding an 8”, but it’s such a fiasco: rounding up a bunch of parts and then swapping around, waiting to get adjusted to everything to be able to evaluate it, just a mess really.
For the last month I’ve ridden two different completes, which is way better than what I regularly do, and could settle with either. I am still not good, it didn’t solve anything. Both about the same size, a big 8.1, and a board advertise as 8 that’s more like a 7.9, low 8 trucks, 52s and 51s.
It’s been interesting for me to witness my madness/consumerism shift over to shoes. I’ve always tried different shoes, my feet hurt, I do physical work and am very old in skateboard years, but I’ve recently taken my energy that I spent on boards and started to get weird about the shoes I want to use. Pretty wack. The whole thing, the madness, for me, just anxiety and consumption, rinse and repeat.
If any of you has a feeling about what you ‘should ride’, I’m not saying you shouldn’t try all of the other things, but maybe keep track of the parameters on the ‘should setup’, could be useful when you get way out in the woods of drastically different sized truck/wheel combos and what not. I’m now basically riding a setup I would have ridden 10-15 years ago. For me, I was probably skating a bit better on an 8.5, than I am rn, on an 8, but I just wore myself out thinking about all of it. The whole deal is frustrating in that I hoped there would some light at the end of the tunnel, with more information I’d find something more comfortable, but I’ve essentially just decided to skate a setup based off of what has worked for me in the past, and what some of my favorite pros skate.
I’m just rambling on a day when the weather isn’t cooperating, but for those of you that know you like a certain truck brand, rejoice! It’s not all bad trying different setups, some tricks have gotten better for me, from trying stuff. I think I’ve had to be more deliberate, and that has led to some greater understanding of a few tricks, maybe. Who knows, I had a bad session last night and once the regret/high of buying Jordan’s to skate in, wears off, you know I’ll be right back here talking about how I need to get indy 159s because I just rewatched the t-funk part, or 5.0 lo’s because I want to relive my youth trying to channel Lavar.
Hopefully not tho.
Topic: Gear madness support thread (Read 86373 times)