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it doesnt matter at all. anything works. dont buy into the whole ‘curb setup’ bs
It's funny, I hit the local curbs and there's rarely a person NOT on some behemoth board (and skating slow), and yet a few are always like 'I can't/don't flip my board anymore, it's too big'...
I don't get it? I lose tricks on big ass boards, but I don't lose slappies on an 8.125. What's worse is watching them try and shove or flip (let alone out of a grind)...they almost never pop out..so gross...clunk, bail....these aren't old dudes either.
I skate curbs like ledges, I bring my pop out game when slapping for almost all tricks.
Curb killer on the other hand...man knows how trick in and out of slappies.
Where I am, there are a few of these people but they never seem to be connected to whatever nascent "scene" exists around curbs - they always seem like old guys who kinda got sold on the idea of building a "slappy complete" or otherwise believe that one
must skate an 9" deck with no nose if they are over ~35. I always kept my popsicle, but there was a moment of weakness, when I was returning to skating, where I bought a Welcome shaped deck with 159 trucks and shit, because I just kind of ambiently understood that this was the normal size skateboard for someone my age. Nowadays, I skate between an 8 and 8.25" almost exclusively.
Almost all of the best curb skaters at my local spots are skating what I would consider a fairly "standard popsicle" in the 8-8.75" range.
I personally find it much easier to slappy with 144-149 trucks, which when combined with a relatively narrow wheel like a Spitfire Classic, will lock in perfectly on most average double-sided curbs. Wide trucks lack this ability, and there's substantially more metal one must lift all the way on top.