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I think it's pretty funny people speaking of 'shaped' boards once there's something odd and the don't look like the standard plank we're used to ride.
I mean, Skateboarding's gone through a lot of shapes, from zip zingers with rollerskate trucks underneath to fishtails, to an evolving nose, to our standard shape... in the end of the day every board has a shape, wether it's some odd cuiser type of thing, standard doublekick shape or some 80ies vert reference.
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Exactly. The idea that the now-standard "popsicle" is the definitive shape of a skateboard forever and anything else from this point will be a "gimmick" is absurd. Like most things people hate on, they're just afraid of something different that they don't understand. People need to get over it. Ride what you like and let people ride what they like.