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Straight up selling blanks isn't a good look.
The worst feeling board I've ever skated was a PS Stix Quasi. The dimensions were great but it felt like they'd managed to engineer a styrofoam-oatmeal hybrid material and press it into the shape of a skateboard.
I skated a Palace (Dwindle) right after with pretty much the same specs aside from being pointier and it was shocking how good it felt.
Also hate how they measure board length along the board instead of tip of nose to tail in a straight line like everyone else.
**edit: Their shapes are probably some of my favourite overall though and like someone said, their concave does feel "natural". BBS concave can feel really drastic
Agree with a lot of this. And I’m way into PS.
Your whole edit paragraph is on point. Ps shapes are the best. The bbs concave, the weird swoop, just bothers me. Looks off too. I want my board to be flat as fuck boy.
Absolutely. I ride mostly Quasi PS, but I’ll buy BBS too, though hadn’t in a while. Just finished with a Quasi 8.75 felt perfect and I rode it to death, just set up a 917 8.25, slightly smaller venture hi and same 52mm wheels...and it’s just feels terrible, so stiff, tres are gone, nollie game completely messed up, just feels wrong. I thought It’d be better for my flatground but it’s just not working. I’ve switched up to some Thunders to see if that’ll help (trying that out next session). I really miss the flex, the “give and give back”.
Steeper boards can flatten out with time. Flat boards start "broken in" and get to the dead feeling stage quicker. Especially when you use playdoh wood like PS Stix does.
Boards can "flatten" out, but it's minimal and you're still not going to change the mold no matter what you do to it. Same deal with variance in stack position. You're never going to turn a dlx IV into a flat deck without destroying it no matter what you do to it.
And the fact that still, after years of this exact discussion, that people don't understand that different doesn't mean worse is why I mostly stay out of this section now. PS decks flex and spring rather than just bouncing off the ground. Its a different design approach. Adjust your timing slightly and they'll reward you with being some of the most effortless to skate boards.
But nah, couldn't be ME that's doing something wrong. It has to be the gear...