Skating tech on a wider board?

[Rein]

Are there any 'tech' skaters that ride 8.5?

[brucewillis]

Are there any 'tech' skaters that ride 8.5?

Chris Cole

[burner]

[roba]

griffin gass

[skatebruh]

John Dilo

[GrayCellGreen]

Frankly Villani rides a 9” egg shape and does some wild shit on it

[notinternetfamous]

jamie foy

[JugeL]

Me

I do kickflips n' shit

[augustmoon]

Frankie Heck

Bobby D

[FrenchSkater]

Jamie Griffin ride 8.25 (yes , 8.25 is wide for me ahah)

[Dad Board]

I wouldn’t consider myself tech but I do a lot of manual stuff and flatground on a 9” egg with 8.75 trucks. It’s insanely light though and I just enjoy having more board to land on and room to grind.

[pops]

I skated 9.4" egg paired with 8.75 or 9" trucks and 56mm wheels last weekend. I dont skate much tech nowadays but I could do my usual tech tricks (flip in or out grinds/slides/manuals) with it. No problem playing SKATE also. I mean it doesn’t flip and spin like sub 9" boards but it still worked for me pretty well.

[rawbertson.]

Jamie Griffin ride 8.25 (yes , 8.25 is wide for me ahah)

8.25 is actually the most common size produced/available in skate shops, so im gonna assume that it is the biggest seller / most popular size at the moment. Most pros ride this size these days too from the billion setup vids i have watched.

I think Villani is going to be the best current answer you will get for most technical, and he is still fairly on the gnar side.  Kader also rides a huge board and he is fairly technical but again also fairly on the gnar side too.

[BALARGUE]

Frankly Villani rides a 9” egg shape and does some wild shit on it

And Kyonosuke with the sized down egg (8.75")

[drunk guy]

half the people i know

[Filip]

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Are there any 'tech' skaters that ride 8.5?

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Chris Cole

This is the correct answer. Chris can basically do any flip trick into anything on 8,5 with 149s.

[Bitchardo Scantron]

Chico

[somethingmustbreaknow]

i did nollie bs crooks on the local's normally sized ledge on a heroin eggzilla2 which is 14.25" wide.
so, pretty tech on a pretty wide board. haha

[AllisonChalmers]

Grown man on anything sub 8.5 looks absolutely silly, regardless of tech ability

[lurker_and_poster]

i would consider concerning your board size more the size of you body, then your preference in tricks.

If you are 6 foot high and having shoe size 13 a 7,625 is more easy to flip then a 9,0 - but in my opinion its
to small for you.

And yes with a "smaller" board you can flip faster / better - but with a bigger board you can control better.
So yes a flat 540 flip will be more "easy" with a small then with a "big" board.
But you will have less control if you try a simple backside kickflip down 8 stairs.

Try to find a board fitting to your body - and it will fits to you skating - no matter the tricks.

[Sila]

Grown man on anything sub 8.5 looks absolutely silly, regardless of tech ability

I'm not sure about this. Big boards look a bit clunky on a lot of people that do more than grind curbs or skate transition. I always think about sizing down to 7.75 again after watching older videos because the tricks look so crispy. There was a lot of ugly tight trucks and tic tacs back then though.

[mooraga]

Villani takes the cake for current times
Dude kills it on some weird cruiser egg shaped nasty chipped boards

[augustmoon]

Grown man on anything sub 8.5 looks absolutely silly, regardless of tech ability

the golden age of skateboarding would beg to differ

been thinking i might need to go back down to 7.75.  8.0 is starting to feel like a boat lately

[Idk]

Tanner Bruzinski.

[frtzgn95]

chris cole vs mark suicu was the best match of last batb. 8.5 vs 8.375 and 8.5 won.

[SATIVA HYBRID]

i think it could be possible to get pretty tech on a 9" popsicle but anything past that sounds tough

[Cliche10k]

Frankly Villani rides a 9” egg shape and does some wild shit on it

Franky is the man 💯

[Yakusoku2]

Can’t remember his name but a guy who ride Powell 10” decks do pretty tech tricks

[disclosed]

i think it could be possible to get pretty tech on a 9" popsicle but anything past that sounds tough

my friend skates pretty much only tech on a 10" egg and he swears by it. but hes a big guy too.
before that it was allways 9" pops.

Grown man on anything sub 8.5 looks absolutely silly, regardless of tech ability

i was surprised 8.5 was what was considered wide in this thread. thats been the standard size for the last 10 years atleast.

[RichardBarkley]

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Grown man on anything sub 8.5 looks absolutely silly, regardless of tech ability

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the golden age of skateboarding would beg to differ

been thinking i might need to go back down to 7.75.  8.0 is starting to feel like a boat lately

The best skating I have ever done in recent years was when I skated the palace 7.75, 13.8wb deck with venture low 5.0. sounds ridiculous but it felt effortless