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[ChildOfTheBurbs]

Do you ride 8" and up boards because it's cool to ride bigger setups or because you genuinely feel like you skate better with it?
Do you ride Indys because they really are the best trucks or because you're just trying to have a core image?

[ChildoftheGhetto]

HAHAHAHA this is so on point. When i started skating 8's in 2006 it was so hard to find them, and everyone used to tell me how huge my board was. Now 8 is the regular size. I ride an 8.5 now, and I definitely am better because of it. Some tricks I'm still getting used to, but all my kickflip tricks have improved and I rarely toe touch, if ever.
and indy's suck.

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

Skinnier boards are easier to learn tricks on, fat boards are easier to do them well on. I go back in forth in size, usually somewhere between 7.75-8.25.
Indies are just solid trucks.
I don't think I rock my set up because its cool though, been rocking 56's lately and that is really small for me in terms of wheels. When I started I had 42.5 mm wheels, I'm not buying into small wheels ever again.

[Buddy G]

the whole big boards revolution kind of missed me so i'm still on 7.75/7.8s with low trucks and 50-52mm wheels, i can see why wider boards suit the kind of skating going on now better but i still definitely see lots of little kids at parks unsuccesfully trying flip tricks all day on boards that are too big for them.

Skinnier boards are easier to learn tricks on, fat boards are easier to do them well on. I go back in forth in size, usually somewhere between 7.75-8.25.

i feel like going up a bit on my next new deck but it pisses me off because i think i'd need to keep swapping trucks, do you skate the same trucks on a 7 3/4 that you do on a 8 1/4?

[Andrefosho]

I have big feet so I have to skate wider boards. It's funny when someone with US8.5 size feet skates 8.5" board.

[Hobochilli]

I ride wider boards because i am used to it and indys because i think that they feels better than other trucks

[finknoos]

7.5 baby yeaaah

[dolphinstyle.]

big feet, bigger board. I don't really like Indy's except for the rowley pro models because they were more like thunders

[scary tan guy]

I'm not very tall (5'8") and wear size 10's but I've been riding 8's for the past couple years. I've been kind of paranoid to get anything smaller now because I feel like my flip tricks are on point and it just seems like i have way more control. Just ordered a 7.75 deck because it was too cheap to pass up, so I'll report back on how badly I suck or how much better my flip tricks get.

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

the whole big boards revolution kind of missed me so i'm still on 7.75/7.8s with low trucks and 50-52mm wheels, i can see why wider boards suit the kind of skating going on now better but i still definitely see lots of little kids at parks unsuccesfully trying flip tricks all day on boards that are too big for them.

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Skinnier boards are easier to learn tricks on, fat boards are easier to do them well on. I go back in forth in size, usually somewhere between 7.75-8.25.

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i feel like going up a bit on my next new deck but it pisses me off because i think i'd need to keep swapping trucks, do you skate the same trucks on a 7 3/4 that you do on a 8 1/4?

Yeah, I guess so. I'm weird and have never really paid much attention to truck width. As long as it isn't hanging off the side it works for me.

[MrDreamPop]

In my 10 years of skaterdom I've always rode 8" and up.  I specifically remember a time I went to buy a shop deck around 2002 and the employee told me he was sorry for only having an 8" left because it was a "boat of board" and him being surprised when I told him that's exactly what i wanted.  My, how times have changed.  I can afford real boards and I skate anything from 8.25 - 8.675".  I wear a size 12 shoe, if that matters at all.  The trucks are 149 Indy's because they break less than other trucks, the kingpin never gets shakey like with some other trucks, and they turn without being all wobbly.  The only other truck that I would consider buying based on my past experiences would be thunders, but I'd rather not get them because they turn to quick (that whole wobbly thing).  My 53mm wheels fit my needs just fine.

[Belligerent Irish Cop]

I was strictly 7.5 for years. Then I went up to 7.75 because I hated how short 7.5 boards felt. Eventually from trying friends boards I went to 8, and I doubt I'm gonna go any wider.

Also indies are heavy as fuck. Thunders 4 ever.

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

I was strictly 7.5 for years. Then I went up to 7.75 because I hated how short 7.5 boards felt. Eventually from trying friends boards I went to 8, and I doubt I'm gonna go any wider.

Also indies are heavy as fuck. Thunders 4 ever.

P=MV. Heavy is better.

[Belligerent Irish Cop]

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I was strictly 7.5 for years. Then I went up to 7.75 because I hated how short 7.5 boards felt. Eventually from trying friends boards I went to 8, and I doubt I'm gonna go any wider.

Also indies are heavy as fuck. Thunders 4 ever.

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P=MV. Heavy is better.

You obviously suck at physics which is why you're a sociology major or whatever.

A heavier truck means that gravity pulls on it harder. It takes more force to lift a heavier truck to the same height as lighter truck.

A heavier truck will have more momentum than a lighter truck, at the same velocity, but it requires more force to accelerate the heavier truck to said velocity.

And you didn't even use the right equation. If you're talking strictly about a flat ground ollie you have to use angular momentum.

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

blah blah blah. What about going faster in a bowl or down a hill? Fuck you, and fuck sociology.

[snickers]

I rode a 7.8 and Venture High and Wides for 6 years. Then one day my board got stolen and one of the pros that rode for the shop I worked at hooked me up with an 8.5 and Indy 149s and I haven't looked back since then. Wheel size has always been the widest 53mm's I could get my hands on. I feel more stable on wider board and Indy's turn better and grinder better than anything available.

[Filip]

I always skated 7,75 since I started skating, then probably 5 years ago, some 8 inch boards came to our shop, I remember it being an ATM minilogo, I wanted to tried. Best change of my life. Im kind of a big guy, almost Chris Cole big I would say, but I still like 8inches, max 8,25, 147 high Thunders and 50-51mm wheels, and Im good to go. I tried 8,4 Real, but it was too big for me, Im just super used to 8-8,25. And also, Im not really into boards longer than 32 inches, even 32 is kinda long... Best shape I ever rode was 8/31,5 Antihero board, the silver one with red Eagle, It was so good.

[Magic Pizza]

I ride 8 inch boards because 8 is a lucky number in china, where wood comes from.

[floop]

Skinnier boards are easier to learn tricks on, fat boards are easier to do them well on. I go back in forth in size, usually somewhere between 7.75-8.25.
Indies are just solid trucks.
I don't think I rock my set up because its cool though, been rocking 56's lately and that is really small for me in terms of wheels. When I started I had 42.5 mm wheels, I'm not buying into small wheels ever again.

what's the biggest size wheels you ride?  i feel like with 56 i'm getting closer into wheel bite territory. 

[friendly dave]

Skinnier boards are easier to learn tricks on, fat boards are easier to do them well on.

I'm gonna disagree on this one. Personally I've learned way more tricks on 8+ boards. But when I find my self fucking around with a friend's smaller board, I feel I have a better pop and quicker flick. Hell give me a 7.75 or below, and I actually have consistent 3flips. But for what I normally ride, cruising parks, or rougher street spots, and hills, I find the bigger board/wheel combo works better. In turn I can't 3 flip my bigger setup. Sucks, but really I'm probably just being lazy with it. Either way I've always preferred bigger boards. The indoor park I grew up skating in milwaukee always had a good bowl, and mini ramps, so I gravitated towards the 8 inchers. And since I'm referencing milwaukee and skating, for the old pals, back on the old boards I was brewcitybowldog.

[Cthulhu!]

I like bigger boards, but I'll go smaller from time to time. Right now I'm good with 8.25. Indys are nice, but I tend to pick Thunders. I have some 58mm wheels sitting around, I'm going to set those up soon. I'll pretend I'm in the mid 90s or something.

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

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Skinnier boards are easier to learn tricks on, fat boards are easier to do them well on.

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I'm gonna disagree on this one. Personally I've learned way more tricks on 8+ boards. But when I find my self fucking around with a friend's smaller board, I feel I have a better pop and quicker flick. Hell give me a 7.75 or below, and I actually have consistent 3flips. But for what I normally ride, cruising parks, or rougher street spots, and hills, I find the bigger board/wheel combo works better. In turn I can't 3 flip my bigger setup. Sucks, but really I'm probably just being lazy with it. Either way I've always preferred bigger boards. The indoor park I grew up skating in milwaukee always had a good bowl, and mini ramps, so I gravitated towards the 8 inchers. And since I'm referencing milwaukee and skating, for the old pals, back on the old boards I was brewcitybowldog.

interestingly 360 flips were exactly what I was thinking of when I posted that. I should say skinnier boards are easier to learn FLIP tricks on. On tranny and with grinds fatter is better. The thing is with 360 flips is I was like you, but just really started working on them on wider boards, and now they actually come out better on a fat board. I can actually catch them and do them over things a lot easier on a fat board, whereas just flipping it enough is easier on the skinny board.

and floop- right now its 56's because that's whats around. I've gone over 60 and been happy with it. You just gotta have high trucks, maybe lows with risers could do it too. I do struggle with wheel bite sometimes though because I also like loose as fuck trucks.

Since we are on the set up thread, we should talk about truck tightness too right? This one has been killing me lately actually. In SF, skating hills and a lot of tranny just loosened my trucks over time. Slowly but surely I got to the point of liking them SUPER loose, like one spin of the nut loose. I came down to LA and found myself skating more and more ledges and gaps and stuff, which tight trucks are better for, I'm trying to find that sweet spot that feels good for both and its weird. I can really skate it fine wherever it is, and wouldn't blame a trick failure on it, but sometimes shit feels a bit off and I know I can make it just right.

[Gnarwhal]

ive always been spontaneous with the board sizes i'd ride, but after fucking up my ACL in a bowl because by heel was hanging off the end of my 7.8 board, ive been too paranoid to skate smaller boards. now im skating an 8.5 and that feels the best, also im stuffing my foot into a shoe a half a size smaller, just so my feet don't hang off the board as much

[landCow]

i'm small, skinny and have small feet so always 7.5. I have tried 8 but it felt like a boat. In my local shops they have 8's and 8.25's for days, I find I have to look in the darkest corners to find 7.5's.

i remember mucking around with an 80's fish tail board at a park once it felt big to the point of being ridiculous. it took all my might to flip that thing.

[NoComply180]

im on my first 8 right now, definitely wasn't all that hard to get used to, and before I only ever fucked with 7.5-7.63 or the occasional 7.75. I don't get how people do huge wheels though. I can't go above 54, I don't like my board being so far above the ground. I rode 49's for a few years.

[IskateBaker]

Well i grew up and started wearing size 11 and 7.75 wasnt going to cut it anymore, so i moved to 8.12, so i guess around an 8.2, it feels wayy better but im still getting used to it.

[pizzafliptofakie]

Truthfully, I got my first 8 on accident. The board at the shop was mislabeled as a 7.75, and it didn't take long for me to realize that I liked it a lot more. With experimenting with friend's boards and such now I'm up to 8.5, and it feels great.

[Spike Hawke]

fat boards are easier to skate cos you got more to land on soooo, technically you are shitter at skateing the wider board you have, i skate a creature old skool 9 incher. skinny boards flip faster due to the lack of air drag, physics baby yeah!

[Mein Fuhrer! I can walk!]

I skate 8 - 8.25, you could probably call that "bigger", but not all too big. I hate skinny boards, feels like you're standing on a techdeck, heel and toe drag all around with flip tricks and I like to have more room on my board when cruising and stuff.
My ollies also aren't that great, my feet don't really stay on the same place when I land, so bigger boards help with that too.

[kevbo999]

I'm on 8'' with 139's right now, but I'm a size 12 and it's starting to feel skinny.  Def stepping up to 8.25 and 149's when I can afford to.


Oh, and I've always bought Indy's because a) here they're cheaper than thunder/venture and seemed more durable, and b) they just feel good.. grind good, turn good.. classic silver finish.