Hi. First ride of one of two new boards from @Overcastskateshop and thanks, Robert for a positive first time shopper experience. Great first ride. See you next video.
You are progressing along very well! Nice to see you putting in the time and reaping the rewards! Great job man and thanks for taking us on the journey with you!
Nice. I run a Powell Nickey G with the waterborne adapter and surfskate love wheels and love that setup in the bowl. I have not made a peace with my Carver CX trucks. I haven't found the right board or the right use. I really enjoy my Yow. For flat ground surf training. For some reason the Carver hasn't found its way into the mix.
Cool. I have barely begun the C-7 and CX journey, but enjoy both. I’ll be posting some races my buddy and I did-and he is a better carver at speed. I may check the Yow. We tried a skatepark, but opted to use a simple parking lot ramp and had a tremendous session of learning.
Cool cruiser board. Remember it's not a surf skate ,so skating it like a surfskate not ideal. Practice your tick tacks ,bend knees more and use hips. Getting there.
Thanks. Ah presumed trucks made it a Surfskate, but guess not-haha. Yes definitely will be doing more street stuff on my other board, and a little bit on this one, but will work on the items you mentioned.
Extrapolating from this ride stance. Do you think standing with your rear foot on a raised platform (such as a kick) will make you weight the front foot more? If so, you can emulate this on your DH decks too. There are many ways in which this can be done. Firstly, the easiest (but only works for split angle setups) is to raise the rear ride height up a bit while keeping the front ride height the same - to create what is called a ride height rake that will bias your weight more to the front truck. This trick does not work for setups with symmetrical trucks front-rear because it will add angle to the rear and substract angle from the front, and you wouldn't want the rear to be more turney than the front. But it works great on split angle setups. Secondly, a more popular method, nowadays, is to install an addon called a "torque block" with griptape installed on the torque block. A torque block not only allows your rear foot to be locked, raised, and angled, but it also allows you to use its softness to input more leverage from your foot. However, the placement of a torque block can be tricky and requires a lot of trial and error to get it right. So you gotta do quite a bit of research to reduce the amount of trial and error testing you'll need to do if you wanna try a torque block. Venom sells a ready-to-use torque block, but some people also make their own. Good luck! Keep having fun, and please keep updating. 👍
Wow-awesome comments/suggestion-thank you. I’d prefer to do option 1, but is that achieved by adding a thicker riser? (I do have spilt angle on Comet Orbiter 44/35 with 1/8 inch riser). I’m finding that I do like my back foot on the tail, however have bad habit of weighting it, too and that’s why I didn’t go heavy on the test run; my buddy did same thing (on a hill) and ate it hard. Noticing also that I’m still very tense (upper body wise) while on Carver and dh boards, but when I focus on relaxing-typically later in session-it flows.
@@cantskate5535 Option 1, just add flat risers to the rear and keep the front the same or reduce the front ride height by removing any flat riser in front. Also, when using risers, always use hard risers for DH. Soft risers can make wheels feel unpredictably grippy.
