Skateboarding at 44 years old... I've been wanting to try one of those symmetrical egg boards from Heroin Skateboards and now I have. #beginners #over40 #skateboarding
I like it! The extra width in the middle makes me more confident landing tricks. I’ve got Indy titanium 159s and 56mm 93a Nano Cubics. I do get wheel bite if I land poorly so I might go to 54mm but I also like being able to go over crusty ground easily; it’s a dilemma.
I just set up my curb killer6 from them 10" of eggyness not quite at your level but definitely enjoying being back on the board let's start an eggidemic 😂
yooo man good video! 38 year old here (coincidentally, turned 38 exactly a day after this video came out, june 26th) always been a street skater with popsicle boards skating back in early 00s we were skating 7.75" mostly then started going up in sizes a bit but i stopped skating around 2012. got back into it, picked up a 8.125 board now as my "normal" board and wanted to give the egg shape a try as well so i bought a complete new setup (big mistake i think) and i've been riding it for a week as well and it's a mixed bag for me too. the egg i have is a fried egg 3.0 (non symmetrical) at 8.9" (8.5" over the trucks) and for cruising it's really fun but the way the setup is right now i'm completely missing my pop timing most likely due to thunder trucks over indys and the egg shape being a bit steeper than what i normally ride. and even though the board is lighter than my normal setup with solid indys, it feels slightly more sluggish. plus whenever i look down to setup my feet for a ollie or kickflip or whatever, the shape of the nose reaaaaaaly throws me off and i feel like i have no nose at all (even though it's technically the same surface area as i have with the 8.125) all in all it's a fun board and shape but i dont think it's the right shape for me, the couple of things that it did teach me though is: 1- i prefer independent trucks over thunders 2- i like having a wider board to ride on. so im thinking im gonna bump up to 8.5 popsicle shape with a 14.25" wheel base with independent trucks and taht should really be the sweet spot for me.
It’s been a couple of weeks since I was on this egg. Went back to an 8.38 popsicle. But just today I skated with a guy that had the 8.5 egg, and he was loving it. I might bring it back and just loosen the crap out of the trucks.
@@Ungracefulmovement i spent a week agonizing over the egg and why it felt off and i came to the scientific conclusion that my fried egg 3.0 has a tiny ass tail that completely throws off my pop timing. for real it's a really small tail (like 5.5") tail and i get so little leverage. my 8.5 board with a bigger wheel base felt better to pop than the egg. it's a fun board for cruising though so i might just pop some cruiser wheels on it and just use it for chill street riding.
So good to see my old local (meanwhile) randomly pop up in such a fun edit. Definitely staying subscribed... Where's that perfect little slappy curb in the car park though?
@@Ungracefulmovementthats good, I pretty much grew up riding classic wheel shapes if I try anything else it changes the way the board flips, I also feel slappys work better with classics but each to their own I say
Ollies and nose slides are really coming on! Also great work on the bonelesses 😎 This vid was great timing considering what mine ended up being about 😆
@@Ungracefulmovement I'm a bit of a full gear w*nker, so more than I need and as I haven't bothered to learn any Ollie's or fliptricks I've been cruising/carving/kickturning/bertsliding on 9.5 and 10.4 eggs. I'm going to dedicate some sessions to ollie's on my 8.25 popsicle soon though (that'll be a boring video 🤣)
@@Ungracefulmovement thanks dude. I hope I've improved them a bit since then. I'll record a new one. I have your shuv it vid in my "Watch Later" for after work.
Pretty sure that's the same kid that always tries to talk to me when I go to crystal palace, I give him my old bearings and hardware, he's pretty cool though. We should go palace at some point!
