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Big skateboard is intentionally avoiding true symmetrical deck shapes so they don't last twice as long.
Based and woke.
Came in here to say this but searched it just in case. You're absolutely right. Not just decks but trucks and wheels all wear unevenly too and need to be replaced more often. Why would a popsicle shape have a "nose" and a "tail" anyway? Doesn't make sense. And notice even now with the higher demand for symmetrical shapes there are pitiful few to choose from. Skaters demand more twin tail options. I just started skating my first one and I don't think I'm ever going back to asymmetrical popsicles.
you guys have a good point here. I think for every skater starting after like mid 90s or something, it would have been better to skate symetrical shapes, because why should it be better to have a longer nose when switch skating is already a thing? That doesn't make sense. I think it came from the noselides/ grinds on rails, because at that time rarely anybody was thinking of doing that shit switch. And for the industry keeping those shapes, is probably understandable because, like you said, the board doesn't last that long when you just ollie with only one side of your board.
Tony Hawk was the only one, I think, having a double tail board in the early 90s. But even he went back to "normal" shapes after that.
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