I was thinking more of this guy, which is odd given he’s wearing a Venture shirt! I swear he’s riding Indys and don’t remember Venture doing anodized trucks?
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Of course! Such an iconic picture.
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Any recommendations for decks with a genuinely mellow concave (in the 8.3-8.5 range)
Almost everything out there is described as medium.
Can anyone come up with some examples of specific decks - not just a brand name.
Ideally looking for something with no more than 5mm space under tape measure (when place tape measure across sides of deck). I had some decks like this in the past - but perhaps this kind of mellow concave doesn’t exist any more (?).
Girl and Chocolate are known for their mellow boards…
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And flip boards,
Broke plenty of those in less than 2 skates cos of their flatness
I always thought the breakability of Crail was the crap wood but suppose mellow concave means you lose that strength from the curve. Like how the curvature of an egg means it’s super strong. I saw so many people in the 90’s snap Crail in the first or second session. Only the rich kids had them cos it was no biggie if they broke it.
Yeah easier to snap a lollipop stick than a cinnamon stick.
They were kind of snappy bitd*,but so was pretty much everything else back then. Regardless of that, I have ridden Girl and Chocolate boards probably 90% of the time since their inception .
Crail were one of the first companies to go overseas and start using Chinese wood, I could be mistaken, but I think they’re now back on US manufacturing with PS Stix doing their deck pressing.( Well, I should have said that at the very least the Manchild deck I bought last week is PS wood. So hopefully it’s a permanent switch).
*3rd edit: I’ve just been in one of my sheds and one whole wall is covered in snapped Girl and Chocolate boards. There are a bunch of Mike Carroll decks. A lot of those have the same Hello Kitty graphic so I must have been breaking those pretty regularly. Which leads me to realise that Girl boards weren’t just snappy way back when, but they’ve been consistently like that forever.
Can confirm Girl/Chocolate wood is definitely flat end of the scale. Currently have a Primitive Hamilton and Silvas, also of similar flatness.
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I’ve been riding Jart 8.38 decks for a while now. Love the shape and the concaves lovely and low. Unfortunately the graphics are a bit rubbish.
Currently riding this
Got one because they seemed cheap.and cheerful but quickly became my favourite boards and had 4 now.
This came up on insta and it’s the most ridiculous and pointless thing ever .
It actually defeats itself unless you carry a second deck everywhere with a second set. Yeah right.
I love how people think they can improve what is already at its peak .
Be good if you’re skating in a comp and your board isn’t giving you all you need and your pit team can swap over to your back up board in record speed.
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Yeah , if you want to go from freestyle, to slalom, to street luge in your throwback skate comp.
There was one time when I wasn’t really paying attention and put a truck on backwards then noticed and had to turn it round. Two and a half minutes I could have been shredding instead of tutting, if only I’d had qwiktruks.
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But then you just got to unscrew and refit the baseplates to your other board
AMIRITE
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All the boards would be preset with the patented Qwik Release Truck Mounting baseplate. Both front and back.
YOUARERONG
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So much good stuff on Andy Evans’ YouTube channel, so few views.
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How flat Luan’s concave is
That’s what the flip board I had in 2002 was like.
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Someone was mentioning that they put rubber pads on the bottom of their wooden ledge to stop it moving. I have a wooden parking block from the ramp supply and am wondering whether it would help. Where did you get the rubber pads? Thanks
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