This Is Where Skateboard Design Is Going... And It Works 

Dan! Thank you for all of your content. I'm 40, used to skate all the time, but got away from trick skating when I had a massive soft tissue injury in both of my ankles. Your videos have reignited the fire in me, and I'm purchasing my first new board in over a decade this week. I'm pretty sold on the new Andy Anderson, and I'm hella nervous about even trying to Ollie, but I can't sit still after watching you all shred. Hearts and farts from NC, brother.

I’m just glad there is variety. There was over a decade of only popsicle boards that got slightly larger over that period. One great thing about skateboarding today is the variety of sizes and shapes. It also seems like everyone is more accepting of a broader trick selection.

Skate with swampy more please. He’s one of my favorite skaters today and ya’ll are fun to watch together.

Are you talking about Chris Hiett’s board? That thing looks so sick!! Can’t wait for that one to come out, definitely snagging a deck!

Been skating Anti-Hero's beach bum for a while now, I've had about 6 of them and they're probably the best skateboard I've ever set foot on out of the 18 years I've been skating. But that 10.75 looks like a boat that I'd drift away in a dream while doing all the smith grinds.

I love that you’re willing to go out of your comfort zone and try new boards , set ups and letting us know how it goes ! Love the content Dan

❤ the 10.00+ inch Heroin boards. Ive been skating the 10.00 symmetrical popsicle shape. Has 14 wheelbase love it to death. The new Heroin 10.75 big wide egg shape is fire. New set up will be that with new 10.00 Af1 ACES

The Manual at the end was so sick! thanks for the vids much love

Sickass boards. Comin' from a Millennial, old is gold, imo.

Glad someone finally is talking about this. Went to a Skateshop the other day and the owner literally said “wheelbase doesn’t matter.” And it totally does. Great vid DC!

Much love and respect to you and your channel Dan Corrigan. ♾️💜

Im old enough to have ridden 10" fish shaped boards in the 80s and when the first board with a 7" nose came out it felt totally natural. Then the early 90s came and football shaped boards going into sub-8" widths became the norm, and once again we adapted, even on vert. The worst part (about skating vert) was that wheels went from 66mm to 38mm in about 4 years. Then in 2000 i found out about Flip having a special mold to make 8" plus decks for their team. Now everyone is on 8"+ decks. Trends have always been taken to the goofiest looking extremes and are a necessary part of evolving and learning. Embrace them.

Dan are you going to come out with ur own shape ?

Just ordered a 10.4 heroin egg with indy 215s cant wait to setup and skate it

Hi Dan and your goup of shredders, I knew I saw you all right before I had left my local park that day . I am usually there around 5am for 8 hrs - sometimes later. AWESOME VLOG like always. I Finally landed my craziest trick on my 10.75 ZipZogger over ball on my channel. MCL still healing on NB 808s. All you Gr8 skater around you have GR8 Channels. You all keep me going at 45 and still shredding hard. Keep those gr8 VLOGs coming shredder. 🙂 Zip making legs stronger and popsicle deck feel like a feather.

when it comes to skateboards, you cant beat a good old shaped deck, its what skateboarding was built on, and they still rock all these decades on

Dan thank you for keeping me motivated bro all day

I grew up on the fatty decks, Mike McGills, Jeff Kendall, Double Vision etc... Gullwing trucks, Bridge Bolts, Ratbones etc etc.. When the 90s came around and all the decks went 2x4, the biggest decks we could find were made by Blind at 8.5 and we'd slap on some Indy Trucks that were way shorter, made for a super skinny deck and that worked out great for flip tricks etc etc... These days, when they started reproducing the old school decks but made with new school wood, we started skating them again.. and all of us pushing 50 and some of us being 50 are digging it... especially me.. I lost my leg so I'm skating with a prosthetic bit all I can do are Bonelesses, hand plants etc, the tricks I started out doing.. Mike Vallely type stuff..... The smaller wheel base helps out a lot, it helped back in the day and it helps now... We also didn't have skate parks... you all are welcome for that hahaha..... Big deck, smaller wheel base.. hard flips get easier.. you can get more spins on a kick flip... Also try bigger wheels or a riser.. that might help a little, everyone is different but that's what worked for me...

As an old school (since 1985) skater, I find it amusing that 10 inch decks are considered huge, these days. Back then, 10x30 was the standard deck size, generally fish shaped.

Trackwidth = distance from outside of tire to outside of tire on the same axle Wheelbase = distance from center of front wheel to enter of rear wheel Dan Corrigan = Dale's neighbor

It makes sense to have a large deck for a larger surface area. It also make sense to have larger trucks to increase potential surface area of possible lock in/grind positions.

This Channel always has stayed strong,PeACe and Blessings...Comrades.

Dude the heroin boards have a been a god send for me. I’m 6’4” with size 13 and have skating their 10 inch popsicle and 9.4 space egg. So rad to have that much space the razor edge cut. Was really contemplating picking up one of those wide boys too, but 10.5 over the trucks sounded kinda wild even with 215s. Shoutout heroin and swampy so rad. Bring back the questions 10” popsicle at some point Fos!!!

This is the golden era of Dan videos

Vic is awesome.

I think I understand it, with a wider board and wider trucks you have a greater chance of landing in a spot that is still functionally adequate to ride out of it.

a friend of mine has bought himself an eggzilla board from heroin. its 14.5" and its illegal how good it feels to skate it. and it still flips thats the crazy part

I ride a 10 in Heroin popsicle shaped deck and I love it. My feet are size 13 so I need a fat ass board. My slappy setup is 10.5. Definitely makes locking in on rails a bit tougher, but I mostly grind ledges and curbs so it works beautifully for my style.

Dan out here doing gods work with that toe shot!

I love how swampy isn’t that big of a dude yet he skates 10 inch wide boards

What matters is the ratio of height to wheelbase. The ideal wheelbase will change based on a person's height. I just bought a JM Duran deck and I love it because I am tall

Dan flow is energy. Just go with it

that ramp turn around to bank incline is dreamy

Im riding the Powell Peralta Frankie Hill deck. I chose the shorter wheel base and its a 10" deck. Love it. ❤🛹🔥👌

Man I haven't really skated in 20 years after a compound fracture and 14 pins when I got laid out off of our broken kicker... But I still love to watch everyone of these. Keep up the great work and dope skating Dan!

I skate at the moment the chocolate/girl G048 and it is a 9.25 eggish shape with a more square tail and it has a 13.875 wheelbase and this thing flips and everything like a 8.5 😍👌

Looks like everyone had a lot of fun killing it today

Hey Dan, I come for the skating, I stay for the games of SK8, lol

Grats Swampy for turning pro on Heroin

I rock 10.75, it tapers kinda like a normal board. They flip pretty comfy. There are as many advantages as disadvantages I suppose.

Dude Victor skating THAT board but dressed like he is like doesn't compute in my brain but it's so cool

The year is 2175. Skateboards are now perfectly square. Fr though, skate what works. I would probably think a 10.75 was a bit heavy myself, but I'd have to try it first.

I'm exclusively a transition skater and the 15" WB of Bucky's Tortoise and 15.25" of Cab's 216 flight decks are perfect for me, any shorter doesnt feel like such a solid stance in pools and on vert and there's obviously the reason why Steve Caballero and Bucky Lasek have chosen them that way as they are predominantly vert skaters, but for flip / street tricks shorter WB makes way more sense. it does amaze me how many people have no idea about WB even people who work in sakte shops and they look at you kinda crazy when you ask what the WB of a deck is, it is indeed such an important factor.

I’ve always been preaching wheelbase!!! So TRUE!!!

Woah. That looks like he is riding the skateboard equivalent of a 36mm fingerboard. That eyeball graphic actually looks like one done on fingerboards by Goo Ltd.

Manual in the end was awesome

Yeah so I’ve been skating Heroin Skateboards for a bit now and I’m in love with the 8.75 with the 14.25” wheel base. Anyone looking to test out this type of shape I highly recommend Heroin Skateboards for them

Damn! Mans got a new set of pearly whites.

havent watched you in a wile, really happy to see you still going strong. Love the new chompers too :)

I started skating like most people of the era using 7.75 boards and i pretty much stuck with that until i took a break from skating at like 25-26.... Recently i came back to skating at 32 and started with an 8.25 and lemme tell u, its so much harder to flip that board around lmao ...its like i have a boat under my feet Ive gotten more used to it over the past couple months but i think im going back 7.75 or 8 at most .... Ill use this for transition as it definitely seems better there .. Its just funny to me how dudes are riding these huge boards and here i am thinking an 8.25 is too big lol.... It all comes down to what u grew up skating on .....im used to a board thats light and u flicks super fast...back in 90s and early 2000s we were throwing out double flip variations and theres no way i could do that with todays shapes ....... Its a fine balance between having the control of a bigger board and flick of a smaller board....i think 8.25 is the max for me .... I would never even attempt to try and 8.5 or higher...my old man ankles cant take it

Been a krooked Beamer for almost a year now (10.75 wide with 16.1 wheelbase) it’s been the perfect board for me but totally see how the width on a smaller wheelbase would be SO beneficial.

Yes!!! Can't get enough of swampy

wider board is good for the feet....longboarding will teach you this. protect the arches, stretch the calf, get that big toe properly alligned..eat well...etc...

5:46 lol 😂

Victor is the best

that last one was actually pretty sick

Dude that pro board your talking about sounds sick!

Dan, you're a badass skater and skate vidiogropher. Nobody expects you to do math 😆

Looking like Street Sk8er 2 on that thing 👾

6:54 fucking solid 🦅

That board looks hilariously out of proportion

The manuals at 15:54 might be my favorite thing you’ve ever done in a video. Those look so hard 😅

It’s going to evolve back into an old school fish tail in the future 😂

Watching Victor ripping on that Saiz never gets old.

Man the eye baller art on the wide boy is fucking siiick!!!

Been riding a 9.15 n it's pretty big. But comfy. Little hard to flip. Not so sure bout 10.75. But wish I could try a shorter wide deck with closer wheel base.

Dan is a swarthy man 😂

Your choppers are so bright i need shades

damn that board is huge

This room is giving some hectic vibes

Wait a second… the boards we rode in the late 80’s are coming back?

So we've wide-bodied a board, some truck company needs to stance a board 😂

Wheelbase is where it's all at. My go to shape is 9.25 but with a 13.875 wheelbase. Feels way better and even smaller than most 9s because they usually have a 15 inch wheelbase

That is Beautiful sk8 park 😍

Big vic is on one in this , holy shit !

Another evening another Dan vid❤

I’ve been riding 10x32X15 inch + WB for over thirty years. I’ve never understood how anyone rides 7.75-8.75 hard wheeled popsicles. They have always felt like toys or child sized decks to me. I’m 51, have a pinned ankle and push mongo because of it. Have been looked at sideways and dismissed by far too many kooky kids for so long that it doesn’t even matter anymore.

5:32 what a Jason noise you just made 10:44 and there too

Hey Dan is Caroline your new Girl? She is fantastic. Great upgrade! Does she have her own channel?

i wanna know where he gets those boards, i 15 and skating a 9.5 wanna go up ur an ispiration, i recently started a channel because of you.

Ripping! Fun session 👍👍

Got a 8.47 x 31.98 14.25 wb on tge way cant wait i loved 8.5 width but tge length felt goofy so looking forward to trying this out

Love me some Swampy

Swampy's the 🐐

it depends on when you started skating. if you started skating 7.5s in the 90s, you could at least move up to 8.

At 5:25 the old school deck looks like the hover board from back to the future

maaaan them new teeth completly changed ya, look amazing!

DC: Subtraction was never my strong suit.

I like big boards and i cannot lie

i dont know why but that board looks soo right

10.75 lookin real comfy to ride

bruh that may as well be a damn skimboard jeez lol

Bro I need your dentist number man you look great bro!! Love the videos !! You taught me how to do kickflips!!!

Sick soul blind shirt

I've never focused on this aspect enough to figure out wheel base. I tried adjusting all the other factors but if i adjusted my wheel base it only could have happened completely on accident when i got a new pair of trucks.

When I was a teen it was uncool to skate anything over 8" and I have size 12UK feet so didnt work out for me, seeing the bigger sizes makes me interested again. But I tend to stick to rollerblading and become even more uncooler instead ;)

Just landed 5 new tricks today (all shuvs and 180s )

I thought my 9.5" double shovel heroin board was wide. Actually I can't remember the exact width, but I know it's at least 9. I got indy 169s in it. I think heroin is making some of the best boards out there.

The old Hientzman, Miller, SC Street Creep are the best shapes for skateboarding imo especially if you are 6' with big feet. Any true double tail board is not where it's at. I figured this out more than 20 years ago. The rest of the world may be catching up.

Always talked about pros ride 8.25 or bigger 7.5 is to save wood and mass-produce for children 🎉