NEW IQON AG20 // FIRST SESSION - BIG mistake? 

Absolutely killed it. Your switch up game is on point. Very very smooth dude.

-Definitely heat-mold. No reason not to, makes a lot of difference when you're squeezing into a skate. My Prime liners in my Tim Frankens molded up nicely. If you'd gotten the 43/44 you'd be hating them after a week or two. -I was hoping they'd fix the medial tilt in the boot/cuff (boot/cuff is tilted inward, like the skate has warped from doing a zillion topsides) that always plagued the USD Carbon Free, but it's plain to see in your footage that they haven't. The cuff being mounted a bit higher will help a little, but I can see that these are gonna get flopped out quickly just like the USDs. Some people like this because it lets them do torque and topside tricks with even less effort. Personally I hate seeing people clomp around with massive supination happening. -You can fix that over-long instep strap by removing the outer metal ring/plate thingie, poking a hold in the strap itself, and mounting it directly to the boot, at the same point the ring/plate thing was mounted. -One of my favorite-looking skates in a long time, love the whole "tech" feel and look, just wish they'd included more, well, technical improvements. A soulplate with mounting points, but no mounting on the boot? That same stupid cuff tilt? Overlong one-size-fits-all instep strap with the pointless outer strap ringplate thing again? This is fine on the Gawds for $350 complete, I guess, but at $450 boot-only, I expect more.

I'm pretty sure taking a break has somehow made you skate better. You're looking explosive out there.

Your skating never ceases to amaze man, so clean. Love the skates they look sick, only thing I don't like are those hiking boot style lace loop things and yeah some fat wax laces would also look better.

absolutely MURDERED that flat rail!

It's nice to see your helmet on and the wrist guards 🤘

Bro - I think you just did every trick imaginable… so fun to watch - those skates look beautiful 😍

I could watch you skate all day, you’ve got all tricks on lock. Could you use your Lomax 2nd skins as I think that’s pretty much the thinnest liner you can get. 🤙🏻🤙🏻

I was in between sizes on the Aeons. Going for the bigger size was definitely the right choice for me.

Joey from Mushroom has mentioned taking his to a ski boot shop where they can stretch boots

What great blading Ben! So artistic and technical. You make it look so easy and natural! Also, as always, great comments about the skate itself. Thank you for all your work and inspiration. I replay your switch-ups at speed x0.25 to understand all that's going on, haha!

Dudeee...u sleep with that sweatstance 3 acid all the time..and that makio back torque soul quick backslide to ao topsoul (yeah had to re watch few times lol) is sick...I'm no mean expert here but just a suggestion 1.try putting your lomax liner in there and see what's up 2.get a longer waxed laces..lace up to the end and loop it down to the outer 3 holes... might work who knows 3.you gotta try and skate this flat..get a cheap kizer 5 and slap your Richie eisler wheels see how they feel Well that's me I think I've said too much ..cheers Ben

On 4:57 you sounded like Homer Simpson whahahaha... DOH!!! Keep up the good work, love your content! Cheers from the Netherlands, europe!

Heat molding, or intuition liner comes to my mind.... The intuitions are used to downsize, but yeah, more pasta 💰

Good to see you back at it!!! These skates look real good. Hope they work out for you. Dope helmet also🤙

that's some good blading! Jeez

good lord. you murdered that p rail at the park. also want these skates

You destroyed the little rail!!! 🔥🔥🔥

All the other comments have already said everything there is to say, so Im actually just here to point out that the little "ruins" wall looking thing is such a cool backdrop for this skatepark. And for videos. Also you were absolutely shredding in this vid.

Man i could not tell you havent skated in a few months, absolutely killing it man. Good to see back on the antirocker too! Skates look amazing, how you liking the red eye wheels?

Keep em coming man! Growing steadily~

Thanks for this review. Just info I was looking for. Your skate style is fire too. Lock on did look insanely good.

Higher cuff and sizing put me off these, went with factions. I believe the 2nd skin gives alot more room than primes, disroyal probably give you a discount on a pair

You absolutely destroyed that PRail ... Solid stuff!!

Dude you are so smooth and just shred! I know you said you are taking a break from aggressive skating, but damn dude you still kill it. I dig your style! What's the story with the pumpkin??

ABSOLUTELY KILLED IT!! Man you were on 🔥🔥! I don't even have a favorite trick or obstacle because you destroyed all of it! If I've never told you, that charging authority that Broskow has, you definitely have the same. Crazy to watch this and know that the fit wasn't good, and all in brand new never skated skates. The true samurai is lethal with a butter knife 🤣🤣🤣. So good to see you at it again, and really happy none of those injuries showed up. Can't say it enough, you killed it!! Those things look really good in motion too. Great job Ben!!

That’s so many tricks for 3 hours especially in new skates

I'd say take them to a Ski shop to get the toe box punched, but they aren't plastic right, so I don't know if that's an option... And you're in Texas, I don't even know if ya'll have ski shops there. 😅

Heat mold entire skate and wear super thick socks and/or two pairs of socks when you put them on after heat molding.

I heat molded my carbons using 2 pairs of thick socks, and then I skate with a thin sock.

I don't have any tips with fixing the sizing, but that was some awesome skating. I have size 41 Seba CJ Carbon and I'm in the same situation as you, just between sizes for getting that perfect fit. I'm around 270mm and the carbon in size 41 is 267mm mondo, so my big toes will always be crushed a bit. It does get better when the heel cushioning packs in combined with using an insole with good heel lift to add a little bit of extra space in there, but it's always there and my nail has broken a few times on both feet from it. Ended up getting another pair of plastic Seba CJ in 42 to use as my aggressive setup which is 270 mondo and they fit perfect (273mm boot last). It's really hard to find boots that fit you well; especially the two piece skates because not only does the shell have to fit right, but the liner needs to work with the type of feet you have and fit the shell too. Good luck getting it sorted out! It will be bearable in a matter of time though, but until then you might have a nail or two fall off :P

Nice review bro! And killer skills...

Your trick list is amazing 🤩

Some one had a lot of fun on there new skates LOL I see no problem her people but just abusing the rail nutty nutty lol

actually crushing bro!

with the subtle big lebowski reference

I let someone try on my skate, the them 908, and i had a ton of room after he did just a few toe rolls. The shell didnt stretch but the liner in the shell did. Originally my foot was going to sleep in them and then after he tried them on i had just enough extra space to no longer have the issue.

Shredding in these bro

If you really only need that much more space im almost 100% certain it will work out. Firstly, dont take out the insole like you mentioned last video if its not to tight vertically. More heel lift will bring your toes back. Then when you heat mold, fashion yourself something like a toecap you put in your sock. Intuition use these in their heat molding tutorials. Anything that will put immense pressure on the front will propably work! Its not gonna be fun having your feet in there but its only a couple minutes, right? 😁

Damn ur switchups are so good. Im tryna get there

The struggle is real for those of us with 275mm feet (Joey from Mushroom Blading has talked about this as well). I totally get why you'd want to try to downsize instead of going with the bigger shell size. Hope you're able to make it work!

remove the cuff insert that will allow the liner to slip back just a hair and give you the extra room. also if the liner has a cuff stiffener Velcro thing. remove that and it will get you even more room. Hope this helps.

How is the wiggle room on your toes up & down? I believe the inner plastic shell is the same or very similar to the Carbon Free & Gawds. The SEBA CJ & CJ2 plastic shell are similar in many ways as well. With my SEBA skates I stretched out the toe box to give me a bit of extra room for my toes to move. I’ve done the same with Carbon Free as well because I’m also in a weird grey area of sizing & seem to have a bit of a wide foot for it’s small size. Typically for me it’s not the length that’s the issue it’s the width & height of the toe box. Definitely heat mold them for sure & then go from there as there’s some methods to stretch the toe box some & open up a little extra room. I noticed on my SEBA skates that utilizing the outer lace eyelets along with the liner lacing definitely adds more support. If you really want more solid long lasting rigidity then the Carbon boot is where it’s at. It’s weird because in the USD carbon boot theres significantly less shell material, but the strength of it is unmatched. I have gutted some Franky Carbons to run them with a liner which I skated for quite awhile with the USD VII soul plates, I also skated the VII skate beforehand, modified a pair of VII souls to use on my Salomon boots before eventually switching to Adapt or Symetrics plates. The reason for the VII soul having the hardware holes is because some models of the USD VII came with that hardware mounted. They didn’t initially have them but the VII was having some issues with frames become unaligned or the boots leaning inward because the shell seemed soft in bottom where the frame mounting hardware was, so later on they added the extra soul hardware which helped quite a bit. I think the Frankens have the hardware already in them, I’m not 100% sure. Since the Carbon souls & USD VII souls are so similar & both are flat boots with the same overall shape, both soul kits could be used on either skate. I really like the VII soul they were great, especially paired with a FLT 3 it’s like the backslide groove & the frame H block were made for one another. Hopefully after heat molding & breaking them in a bit they start to feel better, if you need more room then you may have to try stretching the toe box of the shell

Just living Jet Set Radio Future in real life.

I 100% agree. All IQON boots look sexy and quality. I just ordered the TR10.

Try cutting the laces and try heel lock lacing. Works miracles!

jet set radioooooooooo

You can still try and heat mold the Prime liner but I'm curious as to how the Prime liner compares to the 2nd skin liner in your Aeons and wonder if that may make any difference for you. Another option is maybe get some 3/4 insoles. It will give you a little more room in the front. I did the same with some old Carbons which came with the same stock insole as you've got in the AG Great content as always dude!

Heat mold the liner and shell it’s the same used in the carbon free model and you can heat mold the entire thing

Any (ski) boot fitting shops around. I work in one (unfortunately in 🇫🇷) and there is plenty of things you can do to adapt them to your morphology. In skiing we always seek for precision to gain on comfort ☺️

IMPRESSIVE!

I think holes are for speed, thats what other frames say they are for.

It looks like it is a plastic shell. Powerslide says you can heat mold their plastic shell skates like the Kaze or Swell. There is a video about it. So you can not only heat mold your liner but you should be able to heat mold the shell!

reason i asked about your aeon size was i wanted to do the same thing that you did with these. 8-9 shell with 10-10.5 liner.

Nice skates

Hihi, I recently bought Mery Munoz aeon pros, and my feet were too wide for them, so I've been going through an entire process to adjust the pressure points. I've found that googling suggestions from reddit or skaters has been limited to "heat gun and heat mold," which I've done. However, after briefly venting to my mother about my sizing problem, she suggested taking them to a shoe repair store, and it surprised me how it didn't occur to me that you could just buy shoe stretchers! Most of them are made of plastic but there are metal ones! If you remove the cuff there may be a hole to be able to put in a stretcher to get the job done with a $50 stretcher without having to get one of the $150 ones meant for boots. I don't know how the boots look like on yours without the cuff, but it's true for the USD Aeons. I'm planning on using a heat gun with the stretcher and I think it'll work for me! Good luck!

You could try using thinner socks, since they are just a few mm too small. I wear Smartwool Ultralight ski socks for skating and they have helped me done size multiple times.

Try usd carbons next.

Very nice video! I was wondering if you could make a review on the iqon decode 80 frames too, specifically how do they work for aggressive, is the grind block combo limits the grinds in some way? what do you think?

Dude amazing skill Impressive !! Would be looking ace in lomax brown ones 🤔

Really enjoying these thoughtful reviews. I think this skate looks beautiful. Side note, but where is this park ? San Antonio? I live in New York, and seeing the grass field stretching to the horizon (2.30) behind the park makes me question my location. Rock solid skating too. Look forward to an update on fit. Also!; does the flex benefits of the Ag20 make it worth not worth going carbon / ag10?

Or put a thicker shock absorber in

Try to have someone who is heavy and has a half size up to skate your boots for a day.

Just try next session without shock absorber, I think they will be great..

Does anyone else see pretty much the exact boot soul and backslide as USD Carbons Gwads and now these

IMPRESSIVE @1:30

Bumpkins the pumkin

hey ben..have u consider skating using those thin business dress socks? might help you get that extra mm

hello, loved the video. I'm looking for a boot to use for long skates not so much aggressive. any recommendations? I currently have the PS Next 100 and the boot is just too tight.

how about a video where you put some big wheels on them?

I wanted to suggest before pulling out the boot stretcher put your skate in the freezer to harden the boot so you have no shrinkage. Just food for thought.

is there an internal shock absorber? you might get a few mm if you take them out or swap for a slimmer shock pad.

Good schitts

Have you tried putting your second skin aeon liner in there?

4:08, is that a rough p-star? In my head I thought I would hate that trick, but it actually looks pretty good.

You should be looking at 25 to life for murdering that skatepark! 🔥

Finally ur back ! I was about to unsubscribe, glad u back to aggressive skates!

I have the exact setup. Did you have trouble with the length of frame bolts? I can’t mount mine because my bolts are too short.

01:31 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Bont Rip Jaws hot spot removal tool could fix your problem

IMPRESSIVE! 🤣🤣🤣

How long did they take to get to you from disroyal?

Are they not just a USD carbon? (With removable liner)

“Impressive”

Back to aggressive lol

If I had a dollar for every time a bmx or skateboard edgelord shouted out a dumb remark at me 😆 🤣 IMPRESSIVE

If you wanna sell them I will buy them, It seems they’re too small for you

royale/backslide tricks don't look as good on these skates. it seems like less effort and less interesting. not trying to be rude or anything. how about slightly taller frames?

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Bro here is a good tip I think we are being lie to wax laces I went to a hockey 🏒 store an buy some wax laces an they are real wax laces then the ones from skate stores