Girl/Chocolate G052 with a shovel nose, 8.25, 14" wheelbase
Last girl board I had was flat as a pancake. That’s all I’m trying to avoid, you think these have a good concave?
hmm, it’d be medium to mellow concave.
I’d say Hockey 8.25 will be your best bet then, concave on the steeper side and will have a shovel nose.
Real Full SE so you know you’re on BBS wood?
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I went back down to 8" because that what I always rode. Really like it, felt like home even if it felt small at first. So don’t write it off just yet, give it a little time, you can get used to it. Unless you’re a few stone heavier than you were when you rode them then I don’t see why you can’t get used to it again if you skate a little more.
Great advice from someone who has skated 3 times this year.
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I’m lighter but this board is too thin and flat.
I’ll give it a few more hours and see if it’s just me but it’s definitely harder than it should be.
maybe get an 8" medium everything. Safe bet would be a deluxe brand.
Hockey and some standard Polar shapes are usually fairly well endowed on the shovel end of things.
Deluxe as Franc said is a sure fire winner.
Element or whoever is getting the premium stuff by PS Stix are usually quite shovelly from what I remember.
I’m talking years ago now but one of my mates had an Element Muska board (that dates it pretty well) and the nose was absolutely massive. Had the stance of an old Gasser
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I sometimes forget element still make boards.
Surprised Westgate is still on. They kicked everyone else off pretty much.
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Westgate fucking rips and should be on a better board brand imho. I guess Element maybe pays the bills.
Really into his 508’s but that’s shoe thread talk!
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I’ve got a Magenta team board 8.5” for my cruiser and it’s pretty shovel nosed with medium concave. Always had nice shape and wood feel from a Magenta.
Currently using a Element Appleyard 8.38 as it was like £20. Nose is pretty standard, wouldn’t call it a shovel. Concaves pretty medium I’d say.
I love the magenta decks. BBS woodshop so you know they’re quality. Good shape and usually decent price
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What’s the feeling about nose shape making it easier or harder to skate?
I just ride a regular 8.38” board now but I did go through a stage of riding Welcome boards with weird squared-off noses. My skating ability (or lack of it) has been pretty much the same across all the different board shapes. Maybe I’m not good enough to notice the difference?
I do notice a big difference in riding between different brands of trucks, though. Especially learning to ride loose trucks.
Yeah I’ve been skating these recently (same shape, less shit printed, only difference), 8.4s, loving them.
A square nose will make noseslides and crooked grinds slightly easier to sit on I suppose. Might help for nosewheelies too. I don’t really get this shovel nose trend but then again I don’t get most trends. #boomer
I’ve skated loads of different shapes and to me what makes the biggest difference is the length of the board and the wheelbase.
I don’t know how much trucks affect your skating, been running Indy and nothing else for over two decades. #andimnotevenhesh
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I tend to find deluxe 8.5s work for me. I went from some old indy lows to standard ventures and that helped, although I skate with such inconsistent regularity that it could all be in my head.
Some trucks make a difference. Over the years I’ve been through multiple Indy stages before switching to Fury and back to Indy, and then to Theeve and back to Indy, and mostly they felt similar.
Then I tried Ace and I was like WTF? They were so twitchy and unstable-feeling that I gave up on them for a couple of months. Then I tried them again and got to like the loose truck feel.
Now I’m riding Slappys, which are sort of like Indy meets Ace both in how they look and how they ride.
Yeah of course they do but if it ain’t broke…
I don’t get that super loose trucks thing, it just seems very impractical to me. I’m too old to be cool anyway.
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