Symetrical Boards

wakeboarder_dude22 · Soul Rider Joined: 28 Mar 2003 Posts: 409 City: Australia

Can you get symetrical skateboards, because there's none in my local shop. I'd rather one that's symetrical because when you do shuv-its, you have to switch your feet back around.

Jester · Posted: Aug 23, 2003 7:17 pm Post subject:

That's weird that your local shop doesn't have 'em. Try online is my suggestion, you can get one for cheap if you hunt around a little bit.

wakeboarder_dude22 · Soul Rider Joined: 28 Mar 2003 Posts: 409 City: Australia

My local shop is actually a whole sport shop, so they only have two types of board. I don't want to shop online because you can't choose a good board just by looking at a picture, can you?

Fredrick Eisenhauer · Posted: Aug 24, 2003 6:26 am Post subject:

Well if you dont want to shop online... I guess you hafta go to a proper skate shop then. Or use asymetrical boards.

Jester · Posted: Aug 25, 2003 7:44 am Post subject:

It's true that you can't guage how good a board is by looking at a picture of it, but if you know a certain brand & you like it then that's usually all that needs to be said. Otherwise, make like VIP said & hit a skate specialty shop.

criminally_minded · Posted: Aug 25, 2003 4:26 pm Post subject:

Hardly any boards are truely symetrical, you will usually notice the nose is wider and on a slightly different angle.

Fredrick Eisenhauer · Posted: Aug 26, 2003 12:21 am Post subject:

My brothers board is symetrical. But mine isnt. Would a symetrical board be better? Because like wakeboarder_dude22 said u hafta change it over when ever u do shuv its and stuff. There must be soem advantage other wise skate boards would be symetrical instead.

wakeboarder_dude22 · Soul Rider Joined: 28 Mar 2003 Posts: 409 City: Australia

I guess you don't have to switch your feet back, but it feels strange if one kick is steeper and bigger than the other.

Jester · Posted: Aug 26, 2003 9:21 am Post subject:

When the 10" wide asymmetrical boards were being produced there was a clear delineation between freestyle & ramp riding (street hadn't made a big breakthrough yet). Freestylers rode the thin boards with more double kick type design for flip tricks & pogos & such. The vert riders had 10" boards so when they boosted big airs they had a lotta surface to land on. As flip tricks grew in popularity vert riders (& all other skateboarders for that matter) converted to the modified freestyle design that you see today.

Fredrick Eisenhauer · Posted: Aug 27, 2003 12:34 am Post subject:

Jester, What exactly is freestyle? Is that like street skating? Or a combination of 2 styles?

Jester · Posted: Aug 27, 2003 7:33 am Post subject:

Freestyle is the father street skating. Basically it's what you'd call flatland. Have you seen the BMX flatland event in the X-Games? Imagine skating a contest in a tennis court; that's freestyle. So basically all the crazy stuff you see Rodney Mullen doing like handstand fingerflips, casperslides, & primos all originated in freestyle. Plus that's where Rodney invented all the flip tricks that are currently being used today like kickflips, heelflips, & 360 flips to name a few.

criminally_minded · Posted: Aug 27, 2003 4:29 pm Post subject:

Fredrick Eisenhauer · Posted: Aug 28, 2003 12:27 am Post subject:

Oh i see what it is not Jester sounds pretty sweet, but u would hafta have a hell good ollie to do all that stuff right?

Jester · Posted: Aug 28, 2003 7:46 am Post subject:

Fredrick Eisenhauer · Posted: Aug 28, 2003 8:10 am Post subject:

Shuv its and pop shuvits are the same thing arnt they? If not ive been saying my tricks wrong... And you nee to ollie to impossible dont u? Or can u just drop off a ledge and do it?

Jester · Posted: Aug 28, 2003 8:59 am Post subject:

Shuvits & pop shuvits aren't the same thing. Pop shuvits are the ollie version of a shuvit. You can throw the board 180, 360, or even 540 without an ollie. You basically throw it off the nose & "shove" the board into rotation. The pop shuvits are the modern version of this trick.

Impossibles these days are done with an ollie, but the original impossibles were actually done with your hand. Then they got thrown with your foot, that's the one you see Rodney do a lot, you just don't know it. In the Tony Hawk 3 video it's the trick he does up the bank (near the end of his segment I think).

Fredrick Eisenhauer · Posted: Aug 28, 2003 9:21 am Post subject:

Oh right, ijust though a shuvit was a shortened down way of saying pop shuvit. I do a few to many shuvits where im supposed to pop shuv it.

Fredrick Eisenhauer · Posted: Aug 29, 2003 6:03 am Post subject:

This is the impossible up the bank ur talking abt isnt it?

Jester · Posted: Aug 29, 2003 7:34 am Post subject:

Yes, that's the one.