9.8 x 30.2 'Screaming Hand Check' Carver SurfSkate Cruiser Product Challenge w/ Andrew Cannon! 

It’s so nice to see someone whose used to skateboarding shredding on a surf skate. I love mine to pieces, but don’t surf. I’m trying to visit the skatepark more often, and maybe learn a few tricks. Till then, I’d recommend a surf skate for anyone. i know they’re expensive… but honestly it’s worth it. Especially compared to a regular longboard.

The board comes alive when you start doing frontside snaps, slides, airs, etc. It has some street skating capability, but comes to it's own when doing Dogtown 1970s moves. Plus it goes really high up the banks. I have a Carver Greenroom with C7 trucks. Haven't hardly touched my regular board since I started surfskating.

I set up my first deck today! 😊

This is one of the coolest boards I've ever seen

Andrew, I've watched quite a few of the Santa Cruz board challenge videos on here. Love how still with every board you try, you get so excited to land a trick still after doing it thousands of times. Your love for skateboarding is contagious. P.S. I have two Carvers myself and they are a game changer.

Andrew, this is Pecos Park in Phoenix, AZ. I skate there. I'm one of the old geezers carving longboards or Carver C7 Kai Lenny. Dragon 34". Love it!

I already ordered the SC/Carver Wave Dot Cut. It looks so good ! It was a great idea to do a surf skate collab with Carver !

I was just thinking, outside of carving flat and laying back big turns on small sloped trannies, it seems to be that people are wanting to customize these SurfSkate decks to bridge the gap between regular skating and surf-style SurfSkate carving. Some problems I ran into that maybe Santa Cruz could address in a collaboration: a deck that is good under foot for carving but not too heavy and crazy to ollie. I think through experimenting, 9” wide is optimal. However, a traditional shape feels wrong. I ran an 86 Grosso deck and it’s sick but too steep of tail concave, and too wide and heavy in general. It also had too little nose in my view. You can get a nose slide with a proper nose, but won’t be doing any nollies off a c5 or c7. You won’t be landing much fakie either without serious skills. The decks feel like they need a moderate to small nose and a shape that is in between old school and new school. I’ve ran through wheels, and slimeballs are the best I’ve found yet, a bit harder than the stock Carver or YOW wheels that cone out. Since you pump, not push, to move forward, the wheels cone out fast. So a harder wheel is preferable. Glad Carver lowered that stack height of the trucks to facilitate ollies. And lightening it up a bit probably helps too, if you can actually get Carver to send you a truck without charging you the same price to freaking ship it out. But if SC could do a collaboration for an in between deck, with smaller wheels, something like 58mm, harder, at like 89 or 90A, but still a bit wider so there’s grab when pumping, and a deck that’s something in between and old school shape, semi square tail, with new school concaves, I’d be all in. I’m on a Krooked deck now, c7, 60m 87a slimeball, set up, and it’s still not exactly right. I’m also sure SC has some smaller surfy cruiser shaped decks already...and with softer wheels they could pair off with a c7 truck for a tight carving option. The deck you just made with them is already nearly identical to the Kai Lenny and Jamie O’Brien setups available. It would be better for SC to focus on the link between the two styles in my view. And I’m riding this stuff daily, constantly testing, and trying to improve upon what’s available. I was looking at all your decks, and some reissues would be sick, but they’re all unavailable for purchase. I almost grabbed that E. Dressen deck from you guys last month but went narrower with a Gonz 8.88”. It’s too small. 9” is the magic number for a Carver truck in my view.

Saw this at Zumiez the other day and didn’t even look at the front truck. I had no idea it was a carver collab that’s sick

Slap some 60mm Winkowksi 95A's on that thing! Surfskate powerslides is where the fun begins. Those cruiser wheels are way too soft.

Different griptape and the trucks is looking like a nice to tryout for a warmup!

This is cool, but surfskates really shine on longboards with a 24"-30" wheelbase. It would be cool to see Santa Cruz make Longboard Surfskates with a swinging truck system like the YOW Meraki and Smoothstar thruster, which IMO are the two top surfskates designs, with Carver being a close 3rd (just my opinion and personal preference) Longboarding is pretty huge in the U. S. and most lonboarders haven't tried Surfskating which is way better. Even though Carver is at the forefront of Surfskating, the sport needs a huge brand that you average longboarder has heard of like Santa Cruz to bring Surfskating into the mainstream, so your Santa Cruz/Carver colab is a smart call. I project that most longboarders would switch to Surfskating once they experience it and get the basics down.

How much fun would that be on a pump track?!? Hell yeah Andrew, keep killing it!

This man Andrew cannon is one talented dude.

It was very cool and I did enjoy the video!

Nice review as always. I have these trucks and you can flip the kingpin of the front truck to get more clearance

Yeah, you can definitely make your lines look beautiful out of a board like this. Really awesome looking 👊

Looks like Andrew had tons of fun with that Carver SC set up.

Looks fun. I'd try it. Still healing from my injury 3 weeks ago. Maybe if I can buy one somewhere I'd give it a shot. I haven't surfed in 20 years since I left Puerto Rico.

Have a carver green room w/xc, a set of waterbornes on an unbranded blank cruiser, and just ordered the SC wave blue dot carver Cx. I grew up in an area that only pushed street skating. Wasn’t for me. Got into some long boarding when I moved to socal. It’s been fun. But the surf skates… it’s a different world. It’s everything I’ve ever wanted in a skateboard. I love the carver sets. I love the waterborne sets. I’m stoked Santa Cruz and carver have a collab.

Awesome cruiser man that thing looks fun! And I’m ready looking forward to the event at south side on the 24th can’t wait to go and get lit!!!🥳

Makes me want to run out and buy one.

I have way too many boards but this is very intriguing... Hope to try one out someday after I break a few of my current surfskates.

I went to the skatepark today with my surfskate, and it was a gas. Tight turns and cutbacks,and I could ride the bowl just like surfing a wave.

I love my surf skate. Glad to see SC getting into surf skate.... Hit up Waterborne for their surf skate kit that fits any deck you got.

Have you tried putting some hard wheels on it? That would be a interesting video see how it slides around.

I saw this deck and I really want it. I have a few surfskates already but, no Carvers. Hamboards and Kahuna Creations. I hope I can get one soon.

Grosso told a story of how one time this pro put his front truck on backwards and didn’t realize it until he dropped in and nearly killed himself.. I was hoping you wouldn’t wreck yourself.. props for riding that board the way you did.. 👊🏽

Have I missed some or has Andrew not done any product challenges for a while? Was hoping to see him on the Dressen Roses Crew deck

We need more product challenges

Couldn't you turn the king pin upside down to avoid it grinding?

I need that C5. I’ve been riding the C7. It’s no joke doing tricks on a C7. I 3 flip my c7. It’s gnar. Do a shove it, dare you. Or a backside 180. That c5 must be a lot more stable than the c7 cause you’d eat shit doing a nose manny.

That Cruiser board are they same one I see a big 5..

should i get a santa cruz wave dot cut or the screaming hand? i just want to practise on the ground and carve a lot. (so no tricks). Or would you recomment a different brand of board

Does it feel anything like ripstick? I love castors but I wanna try this cause it's more stable for Ollie's

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You’re almost the best SurfSkater around in one session. And I’ve watched basically all the SurfSkate vids on RU-vid. I’m trying my best to progress SurfSkating. Chris Senn lives on my island. The boards are better for flat carving (check out SurfSkate Higher Love, or SurfSkate Pohaku). It’s pretty gnar in other conditions because the front truck is just too unstable. I’ve been trying to get that c5 cause it’s way crazier to do any ollies or anything on a c7. I ollied 3 decks stacked on flat on c7, FS 180 2, which is crazy going fakie in a landing. But freaking Carver wants $59 just to ship a c5 truck to me!! It’s insanity! Is Santa Cruz gonna sell the trucks? Can they ship for less than $60? I run slimeballs on all my Carver SurfSkate boards and you guys should do something wheel wise with them. Their stock wheels suck.

I'm still not sure on the surfskates vs an 8.5 with a set of ricta clouds.... 😅😅

Would it be good for bombing hills or canyons

Wonder how slappies are on it

That should be your pro board

This felt more like a loose truck review than the board its self

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Hey where are the product reviews Andrew !!!????!!!!!????

front truck is backwards

Why tf are they $240

Something that turns more than ACE? 😂

215 Indy's are required on that deck nothing else. There's no substitute.

Needs harder wheels

big load

Oouuugh!

Better use a Skateboard for Skateboard tricks. Use a Surfskate for surfskating with style.

Either get a set of Paris longboard trucks or a pair of independent stage 11s or Ace AF1 trucks! Don't use 2 different trucks! Especially not 2 diff style trucks! U ARE NOT FAUSTO VITELLO

They can probably do so much... "yeah yeah" -_- Surfskates are just the new scooters at parks ...