my truefit experience has been less than stellar, even tho i am the target market: i’m maybe 5’8”, but i have short legs, all torso/neck (super cool looking, and not at all even more accentuated into ridiculousness by sagging baggies and long untucked t’s).
reading the exchange above between
@pizzafliptofakie and
@LebowskisRug, the thing that jumps out to me is that although the length is right where i want it to be, overall, the length of the nose and tail are greater than i normally like.
fuck man…i just don’t want to go down this road. i basically started this account to only annoy people on what’s now tates corner, because i was to embarrassed to constantly annoy people in real life, about setup stuff. and i think i wanted to buy some used indy ti’s or something off of the marketplace (everyone had sized up and i just couldn’t hang with trucks over 8”).
im still really stoked to hear about what the pro’s rode when and where, and i am interested reading strangers opinions about setups, but for some reason length of the kicks just feels like a bridge too far.
for some weird reason, i think i was mainly just frustrated, i bought a griffin gass shaped board, even tho it’s just not my size: 8.5x14.5x32. it skated great. i kinda knew it was because the tail was the same as the 7.75 from them (their size guide is really nice).
goddamnit.
anyways, yeah, the truefit feels funky, for me. it feels alot like an 8.125x14x31.75 april i have. there is some weird tape delay feeling when i go to pop. because the levers on that board are too long as well. i’m sure it would workout it adjust foot positioning further down the ‘kick’ (i really don’t like that term, and i’m not sure why, maybe it’s because some people used to say things like ‘yeah you are really just rocking those kicks’, and it’s such a bummer).
the truefit feels like a scenario that PS would have known how to massage out a little better.
the kelly (?) green eagle, the 7.81, i could skate that and be stoked, wish it was an 8, because i don’t feel like 5.0s on the daily. that’s a similar length, but it feels correct and not off.
should have just done some exercises other than for my thumbs