I stopped skating around 2008. And all we rode were 7.5, 7.625, and 7.75, anything bigger than that and you were getting roasted for skating on a cruise ship.😂
Not liking you beeing chased off but like the attempt 😃 . I find it hard to find time/space to skate (43 y.o.) here . My only recent skating is from work to my car in hopes of beating factory traffic 😆
@@lebowskiunderachiever3591 thats a chill way of beating traffic. I actually have an indoor skatepark a 30min drive from me that ive never been to. I imagine theres only kids there and I dont want to be that weird guy showing up alone😂 Im trying to get my daugther and her bf to skate so I can tag along with them. We'll see.
@@jaxmarty Skater don't care about ages, styles, colours or skill. It's all about having fun, just remember back in the days. I'm 41, restarting skateboarding, going alone to the skatepark and no one's care about it...
The only thing NOT 90s in this was that the cop didn't just immediately arrest you, claiming the store owners already asked you to leave several times, just to he a dick. I got arrested constantly for quietly skateboarding in the mid 90s in the middle of the country U.S., large Iowa town. Everyone HATED skateboarders. The jocks, cops, and Karens, but we didn't have a name for Karens yet.
@@idmhead0160 I know, right? I was 14, 15, and 16. 3 of my other friends got arrested along with me on one occasion. My father actually was a writer at the time and published an article in the local news paper which resulted in many more town hall meetings and finally a skate park in the town, a year before I moved to Florida (to a town which currently has no skatepark lol).
@@shaun8062 Sounds like it's time for your dad to bludgeon the politicians into building a skate park in your new town! :-) Of course, if that was the 90s, I guess your old enough to do your own politician bludgeoning. I still think it's absolutely ridiculous that you got arrested. Did they actually lock you up? What did they charge you with? In retrospect, I can understand why business owners, etc. don't want skaters grinding the s... out of their ledges, rails, etc. I just had my retaining wall next to my driveway redone for 10 grand. I would be pissed if someone came by and ground the s... out of it.
I'm currently skating an 8" Palace and I'm debating between getting a 7.75 (I bought 5.0 trucks) or an 8" FA/Hockey deck as the Palace board I have is super heavy for no reason
I was gifted an 8.5 when I started skating. It felt pretty hefty so I eventually got myself a 7.75 deck and I really love it. I think it's my personal favorite size.
I used to skate 8’’ but came back to 7.75 for me it’s my overall favorit size. I a lot of people should try it. You can see that a lot of people skate whit board too big for them!
@@gabriellaforce2041 Agreed. I especially see a lot of kids just starting out riding enormous boards, which makes it that much more difficult for them to learn anything.
@@AlexNiedt 8.5 isn't enormous. It's small compared to what was skated in the 80s. It depends on what kind of skating you do. If all you care about is doing freestyle tricks, get a freestyle board and be done with it.
Im 6ft size 11 shoes, and i prefer my 7.75 X 14.25 WB over my 8.1 X 14 WB... Landed 360 flip, hard flip, fs and bs kickflip, switch kick and heelflip with the 7.75 after 20 years of not skating... Its great to feel those legs/ankles muscles get stronger, tricks are getting easier to do every new sessions... Your channel really motivated me!
5'10" size 9.5 and some 10's. I recently found my old 7.625 Venture Awake Highs and Indy Stage 8 129's. Im deciding on a board size. I bough 8 X 14 WB to go along with the wide board trend im noticing after just coming back to the scene but think ill downsize to a 7.75. I like the nostalgia of small board/wheels. 52mm wheels
Same here I switch to bigger board after 15 years. I have an 8.38 as my flip truck flat ground(14wb) and an 8.5 (14-14.25wb). I rode a 7.5 alien workshop in 1999 2000. In 97 I rode a 7.75 think board. It rook so much time to relearn kickfilps on a bigger setup. Heelflip were no problem but the timing flick and adjust the catch was a long process o. The 8.5 ,8.38 but I can pop them high like I want and they came together looking so good. Now if the bigger board help with my consistency then Gucci gang gang. One love. Thank for the videos really really helpful when I got a brand new deck and was so madbut you help me realize it had a 14.48 wheelbase that's why it felt so soggy like dead azz. I bought some different truck to help and i since enjoy it. Thanks bro.
worked at a shop early - mid 2000s so I’ve seen the trends and changes, chilled out a bit, had no Idea this transition happend til I was looking at boards recently, 8 still feels big, I used to just set up the wide trucks on 7.75 w small wheels easier flip tricks w the stability. I’m 41 so ya OG plan B era for life lol
Hi Ben! Thanks for sharing your input on 7.75 boards. My friends who ride big 8.25 size and up boards always size shame me. I learned kickflips and heelflips on 7.75’s and they remain my current board size.
I was always told for street and flip tricks you want a narrow board and for vert/transition you want a wider board. At the end of the day you can do any of em with any board, some just make it easier. I started up again on an 8 inch deck, after wearing it out a bit I grabbed a 7.75 and I'm still getting used to it. I just came up on an 8.75 though and have a new backup 8 deck so I guess I'm the "setups" guy now lol.
A coworker motivated me to skate with him after a decade off a board. He informed the standard size of decks has increased. However 7.88 was as far as I could push it, a 8.0 in my day was getting into boat territory 😆 it's interesting how certain things evolve and become new norms
I had to stay true to myself recently and go back to skating a 7.75 because its what i grew up on and what felt most familliar and I couldnt be happier. Mind you my foot is size 8 so it isnt that far off my shoe size but I made one change that i am absolutely loving so far I havent heard of anyone else do it but man it feels so good. Im using my 8 inch thunder trucks on the 7.75 and the stability is so good. I get the board size i love back with the better grind stability of 8 inch trucks and im loving it.
I have a Reese Forbes 7.75 from early 00's. It's so crazy small compared to the 8.25 FA Dill board I'm riding. I sure like the bigger boards so much more! 🛹
I honestly still can't believe people consider a 7.75" small. I rode that size for over 20 years before upgrading to an 8", and I can't imagine going bigger than that, haha The black shoes with the white laces still look amazing to me. I'm stuck in the mid to late 90s heyday. 🤷♂️
I skate an 8" which is on the "small" end of normal these days but I rode something like a 7.5" back in 2000. I prefer my 8" now but people act like 7.75" is soooo small when it's really not.
So, I got my first board in 2002, a 7.63 I believe. And that's what I skated for like 8 years until I took a decade off to finish college, get married, and have 3 kids. I had heard rumblings that decks had gotten bigger over that time so I was like, "Okay, I'll go up to 7.75." Apparently, that is a comically small deck these days? Feels fine to me.
I'm 36 year old. 7.75 deck is the best size i ever skate, i have 4 different size skateboard, 7.75, 8.0, 8.25 and 8.5. And 7.75 is the most comfortable for me, and yeah my foot size is 9.5. Big foot for small board. I LOVE IT
@@ariadna3291 hey, I'm a size 39-39.5 (7-7.5 in US) and I currently ride 8", but I'm getting a 7.5 as well cause both feel good to me. it's all personal preference :)
33 y/o, 5'10" size 9.5/10. I recently found my old 7.6 Venture Awake Highs and Indy Stage 8 129's. Im deciding on a board size. I bought a board 8" X 14 WB to go along with the wide board trend im noticing after just coming back to the scene but think ill downsize to a 7.75. I like the nostalgia of small board/wheels. 52mm wheels
I started skating again a few months ago with my board I had when I was 12-13, I'm 21 now. I recently measured it and it was 7.5 inch. Currently planning on buying a new one after I finish exams.
I'm a new skater with a size 8 foot who started on 7.75. I don't recommend it for beginners even if you got small feet. Fractured a metatarsal because of having such small forgiveness with landing space, and almost fractured it a second time. Though fun to flip around!
I still ride a 7.5-7.75. This size really didn't become "not the norm" till 2005-07'. It wasn't till Andrew Reynolds really started riding an 8.0+ during this time till everyone jumped on the band wagon. It was his 'A' Baker deck (Atlanta Braves Logo) that really influenced everyone to transition an 8+ to the street rather just for transition. Before you know it everyone was riding an 8+ inch and no stores rarely sold them (7.7). I remember I bought an 8.1 one time cause it was on sale in like 2004 and got made fun of saying what you trying to do skate vert.
Yeaa same I still ride smaller sizes used to stick with 7.5 moved up to 7.75 since I've been back into sk8ing after not doing it for 6 years cuz it's just a more comfortable size for me and I have size 13 feet lol never got made fun of or anything ppl just thought it was interesting back in 08 I suppose cuz everyone jumped on the 8.0 band wagon never really though about it honestly but I've rode different boards over the years the old 80s fish tails were always interesting the 70s small ones were my favorite had a replica growing up soo I assume that's prob where my love for a smaller board comes from lol
I thought this is Ben's channel and blindly I've hit the Like button before even watching the whole video as I usually do. A great, relaxing session! Subscribed! By the way, I remember my first board, which was a 7'75" Blind. It was tough to start with :D. Nowadays, every time I see someone having one (mostly newbies), I am happy to borrow it for just a few minutes ;).
You can only land a certain amount of distance on the edge of your board to ride away anyways. I skated for 9 years on a 7.625 board and loved it. A 8 inch board wasn't anymore stable for me. I skated rails, and gaps, high Ollie's, I can see how a wider board would make stair tricks easier like kick flips becuase it flips slower. But choose whatever board your comfortable with
@@psydoof It's personal preference, but, at the same time, if people are pushing new skaters into skating narrow decks across the board, I think that's wrong. I've heard of people with a size 13 shoe skating narrow decks like that. Ridiculous if you ask me. There's nothing wrong with a wider deck.
@@idmhead0160 heard of a guy who skated with a penny board since he was young and now, when his feet size is twice the width of the board, he could still do tricks on it. In the end, personal preferences
@@a-disaster5285 IMHO, people are overly obsessed with flip tricks these days. There is more to skating than flip tricks and rails. After getting back into skating I tried smaller board sizes. I'm on an 8.5 now and wish I would have started with that size to begin with. Even that might be a little small for what I'm doing. Look at Andy Anderson on a 9"+ board.
I'm a tall guy with a big foot. Skated 7.25 only in late 90's to late 2000's. Finally got an 8.5, and can't imagine going back. My flip tricks slowed, but traded speed for finesse I feel.
I've been riding 7.75s for about 10 years cos I want to get more into riding bowls and stuff I'm slowly making my way up the board sizes I hope these skinny boards come back in fashion some day because they are so fun
i just found your videos and i subscribed immediately i’m a beginner skater and this is super entertaining to watch and it definitely helps that you guys seem pretty nice and helpful
Maybe I need to try a really small board. Just so I understand the difference. I missed the whole 7.75 time of Skateboarding. When I stopped in the 80a board were 9 or 10 inches and when I came back they were 8. Then I moved to 8.25 for a long time. Now I am trying shaped 8.75 Welcome boards.
I grew up in the 2000s on 7.5-7.75 and you have tempted me to go back to them. My old setup was always krux down low 7.5s on ricta 52mm and bones bearings. Boards changed around but 2 of my favorites were a flip and a foundation. May try to get a 7.75 next month to try. Been on 8.25 since I got back into skating.
Dude I skated from like 05-13(6th grade-11th) and I legit used to ride 7.25-7.5 decks for fun. The amount of insane flip tricks I could pull off with those tiny decks was crazy. My “safe” spot was 7.75 tho, had enough space on the deck for flips, grinds and for doing gaps lol.
I'm 42 and have skated 7.75 with low ventures ever since 7.5 decks disappeared. I have a few different setups for big transition and cruising but for everyday street skating and mini ramp I use the 7.75. I find it funny how offended some skaters get at my 'small deck and low trucks'. I'm not trying to convince anyone that they should change their setup so why do younger less experienced skaters try convincing me that I'm skating the wrong skateboard.
Right on man you do you! Im 33 y/o, 5'10" size 9.5/10. I recently found my old 7.6 Venture Awake Highs and Indy Stage 8 129's. Im deciding on a board size. I bought a board 8" X 14 WB to go along with the wide board trend im noticing after just coming back to the scene but think ill downsize to a 7.75. I like the nostalgia of small board/wheels. 52mm wheels
Im 35 and just got back into skating, still have my 7.625 board. Holy hell, i had no idea how the sizing shifted for eveyone. I was at a local skate shoo trying to upgrade my board, and they were looking at me like a caveman when i started asking for my size, let alone 7.75. Anyone old heads out there feel the difference hoping to an 8 from 7.75 or under?
lol im riding a 7.25 and i can still hit a 7 set of stairs and ride in the bowl. im 28 years old, 5'7 size 8 shoe. and everyone thinks im a freak lol. i hop on a 8" board and it feels like a boat and i can't ride at all
I'm 47 and the smallest deck I skated in the 80s was an Alva Fred Smith punk size which was 9.5 wide. Everything else was 10 in. I'm skating a 8.8 creature deck now. I cannot imagine riding something as small as 7.5 - 8 in. deck. I need all the room I can get
I had set up a 7.75 on venture lo 5.2’s, just as a fun side board, but it ended up just feeling like an 8 pretty much. Do i need to pair it with 5.0’s to really unlock the true 90s goodness?
I always use to ride 7.75. Which when I was a kid was medium size. Most kids rode 7.5. Now I ride an 8.0 and that’s super small compared to most riders
Boards depend on the type of skating to me. I'm a tech skater so I do alot flip in flip out , manuals, rodney mullen type skating. Which I find 7.5 worksbetter. Most skaters that I know that skate 8.0 or bigger , skate like stairs, rails , banks, wallrides , vert , incline , etc. To each his own .
LOL, i went to school with Adriano(sorry if i spelled it wrong) always was awesome at skateboarding, if you see him again tell him Andrew from hudson says whatsup
bro i love skating 7.75 boards. all my friends make jokes about my board being too small but i love how easy it is to flip it and move it around. i wear a 10 in shoes but it feels great under my feet i dont wanna skate anything else
7.75 is for the best of the best skaters, 8.00 is great but no matter how many tricks you know, if you are comfortable skating a 7.75 inch wide board, you know you’re a good skater
I just realised in end of the video that I watched just keep skating channel and not ben degros channel, Ben thank you for informing me about that In end of video, I have a interesting video suggestion if ifnit works and possible if trying if you could make a video where you try baseplate and hanger from two different truck companies and see if they can be put together for example indy baseplate with thunder trucks or and vice verse maybe also trying with a venture or what ever of truck brands where you think such things could be good and funny to try to mix trucks.
@@ariadna3291 I'm a size 9-9.5 in Van's, if you feel uncomfortable with the lack of space for your feet ride an 8, but toy get used to everything honestly, stick with a 7.75 and move up eventually when you need new boards to see what you like
I’m riding an 8.18 right now and can hardly flip my board ... I skated 7.75 for over 10 years and am thinking of going back ... it’s actually hard though to find a 7.75 ...
watching you made me regret not taking advantage of UBC's skatepark when i studied there. just got back into skating with the pandemic but definitely wish i skated more a few years ago
I just moved from 8.25 to 8 to 7.75 and my heelflips, impossibles, pressure hardflips and varial heels got a lot better but I got a bit worse with pressureflips and kickflips
Hey, great video man. I’m thinking of starting to skate again. I’m 14 soon 15 and I have men shoe size 11.5. What board do you think would fit me for park and flat riding but also to jump stairs?
