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deoju posted:This dude seems cool and has some interesting insights. Can't totally remember but I think they are almost double, but not quite. They are somehow balanced so the center of gravity is exactly in the middle or something. There's 4 or maybe 5 different ones. He has another Powell video where he explain it all far better than I can recall.
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deoju posted:This dude seems cool and has some interesting insights. I still don't know which side of the deck I should be skating forward. It feels like using the shorter end as the tail lets the board get more vertical and gives me easier/higher ollies, I guess it would make sense for the nose to be longer for locking in noseslides?
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on instagram on a post about the andy's line on hawk's ramp he mentioned that his board he used is symmetrical (twin tale). I don't know if that means there are versions of his board that aren't symmetrical. tales are usually shorter than noses.
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Squeezy Farm posted:i'm pretty sure the reason he sells the most powell boards is cause every 40+ year old transition guy thinks he's epic Oi!
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VelociBacon posted:I still don't know which side of the deck I should be skating forward. It feels like using the shorter end as the tail lets the board get more vertical and gives me easier/higher ollies, I guess it would make sense for the nose to be longer for locking in noseslides? I'd be surprised if most casual skaters could tell you the difference when skating a common deck. It's super subtle imo.
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It's always bothered me, so I stick a colored bolt on the tail side. It's covered up when I'm riding normally and easy to see when the board is flipped.
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I cut a little heart out of the grip tape towards one end with a knife.
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nitsuga posted:It's always bothered me, so I stick a colored bolt on the tail side. It's covered up when I'm riding normally and easy to see when the board is flipped. Same, except the nose
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The colored bolt always goes on the nose. I always felt most tails were too mellow and most noses too steep, for like 15 years I was constantly looking for the Goldilocks board shape
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YerDa Zabam posted:Boneless has a grab involved, these are more like no comply variations. I haven't watched the full fancy lad video so I'm not sure how much hes in there already, but Matt Tomasello is one of the best 'weird skaters' ever imo and his individual parts are always loving crazy good. The first is a more 'normal' bit of skating, the second on is just loving weird and inventive in the best ways. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD_Bhy-npMM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2zIto55QlQ Also on the tip marker, I've either left a bolt out of the nose or done a inside out wheel on the front, maybe I should look at colored hardware.
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deoju posted:
Actually, I just watched some of his new Nine Club podcast and he says it is symmetrical. He also mentioned his whole recent video was done on an iPhone. Must be easier than lunging around one of those VX1000s
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I just rip my grip tape across the width so there's a thin line of wood showing about 1" in front of the back bolts. It's free!
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I cut a couple arrows across the grip like the Mario kart speed booster to know which way is forward
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UFOTacoMan posted:I cut a couple arrows across the grip like the Mario kart speed booster to know which way is forward But do you go faster when you swipe your feet over them? This is important.
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Lumpy posted:But do you go faster when you swipe your feet over them? This is important. Yes, it’s very easy to eat poo poo with these speed stripes, it’s why I’m usually keeping things dialed back a bit.
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deoju posted:This dude seems cool and has some interesting insights. The Andy Anderson “Vajra” deck is a twin tip. Both the nose & tail are 7”. On conventional street popsicle decks the nose is slightly longer than the tail.
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I know braille isn't real popular in this thread and I am 100% in agreement, but I also feel they were generally a positive influence as long as one didn't dig too deep. But it looks like scientology has completely destroyed it, the company appears basically out of business because of how many millions got channeled into it. They lost their skate park and all the skaters got ghosted in the process (and Aaron keeps claiming everything is okay and this is actually a return to his roots). I really enjoyed the skating of the guys there and obviously they're still out there making their own videos but I also enjoyed the chemistry they had as a group.
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Yeah, I saw a handful of "I'm no longer skating with Braille" YT videos pop up in the last few days, so I kinda assumed it was hosed
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Yeah. I don't know what's the real reason for the Braille shutdown, but Aaron was an rear end in a top hat boss for not giving any heads up for the workers. Skate industry has generally been hit hard by post-covid inflation. Earlier this year Revive had to downsize their skate park and shutdown their 3 Block side brand. There was no youtube outcry about it, because Andrew Schrock wasn't a horrible human being/boss and took care of his people.
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Manuel Herrera/Mogley has been skating with the Powell guys in LA, I hope he gets hooked up. He always seemed like a good, earnest dude. With the YouTube numbers and merch sales Braille was pulling 3-5 years ago all those guys should have ended up financially just fine but whoops Aaron needed to hit Operating Thetan Level 8 so the young guys he worked to the bone just get dropped. The fact that when they had to tear down the warehouse they just dumpstered all the you make it we skate it boards shows Kyro is done and has no interest in preserving its legacy. I’ve never really understood the sponsorship side of skateboarding, it’s always seemed unnecessarily complicated with the whole flow/am/sponsored but not pro/pro hierarchy. Like why did Kyro stay on Revive for so long after successfully launching his own brand? qirex fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Jul 25, 2024 |
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I didn't really see much Braille stuff after I banished them from my youtube algo, not because of any of the "scandal" just that their shtick wasn't to my tastes. Anyway, I found this video pretty interesting. (think it's 6 months old btw) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-GIyKIlL9g
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Nigel announced the guys are forming a new channel, including Mogely. Hope that pans out. Yeah their silly stuff was a little too silly but when the group hung out and skated they had excellent chemistry together.
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I wouldn't be surprised if part of the issue with the content being lackluster over time was due to what Uzi said, which is that the skaters were the ones making all the content and forced to just absolutely crank videos out at a high volume.
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https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1817914413849968882
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I went to a gallery/exhibition tonight      
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We should be getting a little skate spot near me in the next two years. It's supposed to be a "skate dot" so it will only have like four features. excited to have a spot a few blocks away with small transitions and lil hips to hit.
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:We should be getting a little skate spot near me in the next two years. It's supposed to be a "skate dot" so it will only have like four features. Sounds perfect
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Looks like Chris Cole is a horrible person https://www.simplemagic.ca/here-we-are-where-we-have-always-been/
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That was a great essay about a horrible subject (and uncovered topic as well) thanks for sharing
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Sucks that Cole is a dirt bag, but learning the state skate journalism is lovely is a bummer to.
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On former braille-skater news: a 15-year old JD Sanchez has made his X Games debut and got 2nd place at Vert contest, just behind Gui Khury.
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Any of you skate goons like comic books? There's a title called Grommets that I'm digging. It's set in the mid 80s, and my era was the late 90s early 00s, but there's a lot of poo poo that seems universal to being a skate punk. Brian Posehn has a hand in it and his stand up is pretty funny imo. It's 3 or 4 issues into a 7 issue series. It's not worth paying out the rear end for back issues, but you could probably get it from your library.
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Padded up and hopped on my board for the first time since a big injury last August. Just cruising around was so fun, should have done it sooner
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There's a documentary that came out a couple of months ago called Sk8face about the history of art/graphics in skateboarding. I watched it last night and it was pretty good.
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Bought a skateboard on a whim a couple of days ago despite having not so much as touched one in about two decades. Have only really spent some time so far getting comfortable standing on it and getting a feel for distributing my weight and doing a little bit of tic tac-ing in my living room. Haven't got a helmet or anything yet but was planning to go out tomorrow to get some gear to protect my early model millennial bones because I want to go out and try rolling around a bit, but I have no idea how to actually pick a spot to do that. There are skate parks in my city but they'll require a bit of travel to get to them (not an issue on weekends, but during the week I'm pretty busy), so I was scouting around my neighbourhood for spots to just roll around a bit and practice fundamentals but felt like I was overthinking it trying to find somewhere perfect. Redezga fucked around with this message at 09:09 on Aug 30, 2024 |
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Anywhere smooth you can push around and turn should do. Skateparks are great, but if a decent spot is closer, go for it. Basketball courts, sidewalks, bike trails should all work. I’ll throw in a recommendation for some wrist guards too. Your hands will thank you.
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Im old and like the 187 Killer Derby wrist guards as they are a bit more rounded and slide a bit rather than standard guards
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A roller hockey rink is nice too. They tend to have pretty good surfaces.
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Yeah good wrist guards feel like a must considering I spend a lot of time doing computer toucher stuff. Thanks for the suggestions!
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