a short comment on freestyle - dancing difference: Freestyle: you use your skills to move the board as you want in order to make the trick. in that sense, is closer to traditional skating tricks (either old-school tricks or actual street tricks). Dancing: works the other way round. its actually YOU moving around the board. the balance required to do crossteps or similar dancing tricks is very different to the balance and technique required to do a treflip. There are in-between stuff like Manuals; and both styles are usually combined in order to make sick combos. but while freestyles tries to do hard stuff with flips and street stuff; dancing involves carving and reaching "ease" in the lines. Pure freestyle guys would like maneuverable, light, flexy and poppy decks (i.e. original apex 37), while pure dancers would love big carvy stiff decks (i.e. loaded Bhangra). Most popular decks are in-between (loaded Mata Hari, timber tortini, Luca Ballard, etc.)
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2 principal groups: 1. surf simulator, like a RKP truck or double pivot truck oriented to carve hard and do surfy snappy maneuvers. most representative are Carver CX or Slide surf skates 2. Surf trainer, designed to act like the surf table would move/feel on water; in order to practice your skills without going surfing. Most representative are Smoothstar, Swelltech, Yow
@@michaeltarantino916 I own a cx in a custom setup (yow snapper deck, cx trucks, 4president wheels, orangatang knucles bushings) as main and only surfskate; and its cool, but in mainly dancing/freestyle guy
