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Blah, thought I’d go back to a twin tail with one of my setups. Didn’t last two sessions. Just feels weird having both my trucks at the same tightness, feels like I’m going to swerve out because my back trucks are too loose.
Back to normal decks. Plus I kinda like having a longer nose.
That is one thing I agree with when Prof Schmitt said it is like a multi tool, having two kicks the same felt like I was missing part of the board.
I can see how it works for some people, but I definitely like a nose and a tail, as well as a dedicated front truck and a dedicated back truck. Front is one to two turns less than the back usually.
I don't get what PS said at all. I've never done the same tricks either off the tail or nose depending on how I want to do them. Is anybody doing that? I'm gonna kickflip off the tail, no matter the spot. No multitooling here. I think having a fat nose only feels better because it's what we're used to.
I just switched from the 8.0 Ishod twin to the 8.25 neen twin and the kicks feel perfect. The kicks on the 8 are small, 6.5 I think. And they were flat as well, felt dangerous. So that's actually my limit for a "nose" size. 6.6-6.7 is fine.
Another thing is truck tightness, once you stop obsessing over the trucks being 100% exactly the same, it doesn't matter at all. Imagine if one truck was 5% tighter and no one on the sesh had a tool. You'd stop caring after 5 minutes, just skate and probably forget about it/don't even notice it.
Stay sane. Less thinking more skating
Ha yeah, it is the "madness thread" and I do tend to stay away from / not really get into the PS stuff too deep, but that made sense to me - just the bit to have a nose as a nose and a tail as a tail.
Trying some things on the nose worked better than the tail, but I definitely skate my board the normal way, nose in front, back foot on the tail for all my usual skating.
I think I had learned to and prefer pop shovs off the nose cause that was the starting trick to a run back in the day and the rest of the run was all normal stuff forwards so still prefer that, maybe because I do a lot of pop shovs and keep the tail lasting longer or whatever, but when skating the twin, I always would have my front foot falling off the nose on lots of things, eg nose slides just didn't work as well, nose blunts on transition were a struggle, so a normal board with a normal nose worked for all those things for me. Sometimes if a normal blunt was not working, it was easier using the nose to do it, but that was few and far between, even though others would often do that.
As too all the other things he goes into about some people skating the board backwards for some things or whatever it was, I have a few people I know who are like that and I try to stay clear of their "madness" in that regard as well.
I really don't want to be drawn into the talks about certain things like that, but from skating a twin nose, it was almost more the other problems like kicking the board when pushing cause the end was too steep, but that was more my own issue with being used to a flatter tail on all my boards.
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Stay sane. Less thinking more skating
Best thing ever posted in this thread.
For sure!!!