My Current Setup
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- My current ride but for how long😂
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I religiously watch the god of skateboarding BEN DEGROS
Fuggin saaame
If he said jump I’d say how high
Same
@@Cowabungunga 😂
All Hail!!! 😆
This is why Ben is such as great youtuber, he is humble knowing when he's made a mistake. What a great rolemodel for skaters, I love it!
Ben your videos are literally improving my skating! I recently dumped my Thunder 147 lights for Venture 5.2 lows. It never dawned on me that lighter isn’t necessarily better in skateboarding. I have a new found confidence and feel with the Ventures, its been amazing. Also riding a WKND 8/14/31.5 board with 52mm spitfires. I’m going to bump up to a WKND 8.12/14/32 soon. Loving these PS Stix WKND boards. Your board manufacturer video with Gifted Hater inspired me to seek those boards out as well. All the best, keep the videos coming!
You are going to like my upcoming video🙂
@@bendegros lookin forward to it!
I love watching this kind of video. I am currently loving the blue classic eagle anti hero 8.5 31.7 length and 14.25 wheel base, riser pads in between with 149 standard thunders and spitfire formula 4 classic shape 56mm wheels. Got them back grooves from slappy’s on the back truck too. I also do the front truck loosen more then the back. It’s the best and most enjoyable set up I’ve ever ridden in a long time. Cheers Ben!
What Ben was saying about the shape of the arch of the foot. I remember that back in...probably the very late 80's...NHS brought out a convave that actually raised a bit across the truck bolts (so runing through the centre of the board from front truck bolts to rear).
They had an advert asking "which hamburger do you prefer? Hamburger A or Hamburger B"
Hamburger A showed the arch of the foot (so the 'concave' of your foot) being opposite to the concave of a typical deck.
Hamburger B showed their new concave sitting more aligned with the arch of the foot.
I had a Jeff Hedges around that time and I'm pretty sure it had this concave.
Ben constantly changing parts lol. I sorta get it, but knowing baord and truck geometry, you can alter the geo with some washers , bushings and wheel size. For instance, my indy kostons only measure 48mm tall now. Just by making a few adjuatments to bushings and washers. Then i added a little bit of height back by going from 51 to 54 mm wheels. This makes the already rsther small wheel base indys wheel base even smaller. I dont like my board to stand up too high when the tail is down. I dont like it too low either and my adjustments habe made ir just right . I may rsise my truck height back to 50 or 52mm to add just a little bit more pop and give me a hair more wheel clearance.
Love to see you ripping again ben. I found a nice goldilocks zone this summer. Shoe madness is a definite thing tho haha. Maybe worse than Board related madness. You should just ask around for some DC lynx OGs or something like that. We deserve to see that. I did vans the summer before last and loved them but I had some dcs lying around unopened for this summer, it took a session but once I got the feel back man it was fun. Like being a kid again. I’m going up a truck size this summer but the trucks I call home now are thunder hollow lights, not as swimmy as Indy’s and feel really snappy. Great grinds. Anyway happy new year man hope all is well. See you next time!
Over the years I have settled on probably the exact board set up you’re riding, 14.25 wheelbase is a must, however I lighten it up with Indy 149 titaniums.
Because of your videos I actually switched from bones V3 to Spitfire formula for 52mmclassics. They just look like a skateboard wheel should.
My madness has gotten way better over the past year. Always Ace AF1 55’s, Quasi 8.375 with a 14.25 wheelbase, or also enjoying the Woodchuck Laminate 8.375 blanks, 56mm spitfire conicals worn down to about a 54, feels great!
I’m a retired moto guy and at the ripe old age of 35 I bought myself my first complete. Bens videos were my first videos I started watching. Now turning 40 in a month, I can’t thank Ben enough for all the beginner videos!
Have you managed to progress well these past 5 years?
Always have had mellow level boards. I used to ride low trucks with an 8.38 but have switched to regular thunders and it just hasn’t felt the same but they don’t make a wide low truck.
I’m 46 that can skate. I’ve been riding Baker mellow concave 8.5’s for a long time. I do have to re-drill rear truck bolt holes to bring the WB to 14 inches (I’m 5’7 1/2). I did try the BAKER 8.475 with 14.25 WB but felt too tapered for me towards the tail. Felt like I didn’t have enough width for back tail stuff (size 10 feet) Other deck shapes/conclaves that I like are Chocolate/Girl GO39 & G096. Haven’t tried Anti Hero’s 8.5 with 14 WB yet but that will be next. Good skating as always thanks for your clips 👍🏼
I actually have one of those chunky boards 😅 it is nice 👍
Mine is from the deluxe brand "There" which I got mine awhile ago so I have no clue if they're still like that.
Thanks for sharing this video.
I recently went through a shoe crisis myself after skating sb dunks for years - for the price and availability, I decided to go back to accels!
It’s funny how skaters of a certain age - we all come to similar conclusions about things- board and trucks around 8.25 and wheels around 52mm…
I hear you with the "Goldilocks". Ben, I would love to see you review the new Andy Andreson 8.7 deck. I th8nk you might love it.....
11:19 no lie I remember being on the train and the homie was swapping trucks out like a pit crew
Just started skating the Nike BRSB- surprisingly comfortable and decent board feel out of the box for a cup!
Was riding an antihero 8.75, ace 55’s with stock bushings, and spit formula fours, but I left it at the park and got it swiped. Now I’m riding a quasi deck, ace 55s, and formula 4’s lmfao
Has this guy ever been referred to as the Bob Ross of skateboarding? What a calm, humble, knowledgeable demeanor.
What do you think about the new DLX True Fit mold decks?
I genuinely get excited when I see you've posted a new video.
I thought Ben was all into Thunders?
hey ben, have you thought about reviewing tensor alloy trucks? they're incredibly cheap, but actually very good (ive tried 2 sets of them). if you do a review, i would recommend switching the bushings though. i think a lot of people would benefit from knowing about them
How about es shoes? The breaking time is 1 or 2 days. They are not the longest lasting shoes, but I think they are the best looking skate shoes. Plus the team is so sick.
With the shoe thing, you should try new balance 1010’s and vans wayvee’s
The madness I live with is the fact that Vancouver doesn't have a single indoor/sheltered skate spot or park. Other than that not experiencing setup madness...at least not at my current stage. Envious of that mini ramp at some unknown distribution centre!
Nice setup Ben, looks like my kind of deck
I’ve found my perfect setup for now and it is April 8.125 (Its mellow and really nice) Venture Prod 5.2 Low V-Hollow's, Spitfire F4 Tablets 101d 52mm (worn down), Shake Junt lowkey grip (Perfect grippiness), Quantum Atoms (Best bearings ever 😵💫) and 7/8 Silverados. Sooo I’ve messing with my venture lows little bit… I want them to turn smoother and get the kingpin nut lower without the trucks being very tight so I got some Venture loose trucks conv top bushings with bones top washer and bones med bottoms with stock top washer on the bottom and mannn does that combo feel good 😫 I can skate them little bit looser than stock and still have a lot of kingpin nut clearance because of the bushing combo and with bones top washer 😁 edit: Maybe I should grind the remaining thread to get even more clearance 🤔
Im really into aces with short wheelbase boards (exspecially gx1000 boards lately). Can you make a review of the ace lows and/or aces hollow?
Would be cool to see you in some Es Accel OG’s honestly
🙌 a new Ben video!!
that hoodie is so bro
are the orange replacement indy bushings really different to the stock indy bushings?
You made the nerd in me skate again :D Thanks Ben.
I think we all would love to see a video of Ben skating Accel OG's and a 7.5 in 2023
I also skate anything from 8.5 to 8.75 which happens to be the ishod symmetrical board but recently it’s been primitive and hockey boards because of my local skate shop , any thunder 149s to 151s, spitfire wheel conical full, raidial full, or lock-ins anywhere from 54 to 58 mm because a wide riding surface is better and think classics are gross because they have less traction control, any 7/8 Allen bolts because 1 in. Philips bolts are a waste because it takes longer to set up and I always strip them, skf bearings because ishod and kader ride those bearings and they’ve been hooking it up with the oski bearings, whatever grip but I always but a sheet of clear so I can display the stickers I put on the top ply of the board and leave the nose and tail black because I hate boring, only black grip setups, and if it does then I paint on the grip. And I am a sticker guy so if your not a sticker guy give it to a kid at the skatepark because they would appreciate it a lot.
Make a video skating that ledge you remade at your local skatepark
Hey Ben, glad to see you skating a ton lately. Do you like to rotate your wheels? I ride soft duros and I'm having an irritating coning issue. Thanks!
ben can you do a video on reviewing converse pls like all stars vs the skating version
I'm riding a pretty similar setup. 149 indy standard, 8.38 creature, biggest difference is 56mm full conical spitfires or 56mm dragons cause ground here is pretty atrocious.
Magnolia shaped shop board 9”
Tensor Maglight 8.5
Spitfire Kader F4 Radial Full 57mm
1/8 snot risers
Modus 1 1/4 Allen
Oust bearings with the spacers
My madness is always wanting to try new wheels and boards
Ahhhh, the only pro “my current setup” I care about 😁
(Yes, you’re pro. You’re good and you make money off skateboarding, haha)
Yes please do a 7.5 and accel review. Lol.
After 22 years riding Indy’s I tried Thunder hollow lights and I have the best pop I’ve had in the three years of riding r1/dream shape Real 8.38/14.5 WB. I always had ghost pop with Indy’s on this board and thought it was just my old self (40).
Turns out all the videos of your truck break down really did do the trick: the wider wheelbase and lower truck makes popping WAY more responsive and my grinds are controllable again (when I’m not weak of course).
Thanks
Nice
Have you ridden the Louie's IKP indies yet? I just got a set but was riding my hollows and noticed I was using the kingpin to sort of steer a feeble grind. Wondering if I made a mistake.
I know what you mean. The kingpin kind of helps the truck stay locked. However, you will be way less likely to get on the wrong side of the kingpin and get pitched so it's not all bad. I bet you will adjust.
Mr. Rick Howard, should've Named a GIRL deck after You, Ben!
Very nice Dime hoodie!
It cost a small fortune but the material is so nice!
You make the awesome clips, I deliver the thumbs, up deal?!
Deal
I disagree because I do a lot of lines and a symmetrical board is easier to skate cause you don’t have to think about which way my board is and I my trucks are tightened the same because I can’t stand my truck turn one way and I like the feeling of surfing on my board. And the groves will even itself out overtime and it won’t be an issue and take your own advice and don’t be a baby.
Lord ben
8.625 Polar
149 Thunders
60mm 97a Rat Bones with Andale abec 7 and 58mm 99a F4 Spitfire Classics with Swiss Bones. The Rat Bones are really wide compared to the classics and I like to alternate wheels without removing bearings.
I used to always skate Powell blanks and Copeland Blanks. The Polar was $44 but it would be cool to find decent quality blanks for $20 again. Anyone know where to get em?
Skate some emericas
That’s so sick that Paul Schmitt sent you those decks! And congrats on reaching the Goldilocks zone. I feel like I’m getting there. I never thought critically about my setup until getting into your channel last year, but I’m learning what works. My last board I sized up from an 8.25 to an 8.5 Alltimers Dustin Henry deck with 8.75 indy hollows, 53 mm spitfire classics. I love the width of the deck and the trucks are light but stable for transition and grinds, but it was a bit too long (14.5 wheelbase and 32.25 long) so it felt awkward for certain tricks. Anyway it just got ran over by a van 😂 so I ordered an 8.5 magenta with a 14.375 wheelbase and 32.125 length and the same indy hollows since the van bent the hell out of my axles. I’m tempted to try thunders someday because I do ride relatively tighter trucks than some, but I’m terrified of throwing off everything I do lol. I won’t even start on shoes because that’s another essay 😅 Always hyped on your uploads Ben!
kind of interested on the shoes essay, haha
@@lildooma haha well basically I’ve always skated different shoes but last year I found my goldilocks shoe in the nikesb blazer mid. It’s vulcanized so it has great boardfeel, amazing flick for kickflips and heelflips, but it’s got enough protection to keep my feet from hurting if I land primo. The only downsides are the price, the narrow toebox which hurts my feet if I wear them for long periods, and the fact that they make my feet sweat in the summer. After my pair got destroyed from use I got a pair of vans slip ons, which I initially liked due to how grippy they are. However then they started to really hurt my feet because the toebox is so narrow and I could never break them in properly for kickflips, so I got a pair of nike grant taylor’s on sale and those have been great. I think I prefer the blazer mid though because they offer ankle support and I prefer how they look aesthetically.
been skating for a year after taking about 15 years off. been having the time of my life. getting thru the injuries is the only downer. love the vids
Keep Skatin'
1 reason I myself don't make vids is because I have a knee surgery scheduled.
Once Im "cut loose" from my pain *A new Skateboarder will _arrive..._
He’s lying don’t listen to him. He’s telling you the boards you should buy so there will be the board sizes he really skates left for him
the time between his uploads feels like an eternity
You should get invited to the 9 club ..4 hours minimum
What you think about 8.125 with 148 thunders and spitfire 54mm???
7:17 that flatground sesh was so good man you rip!
The gospel is 1cor15:1-4 how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again the third day according to the scriptures. If you believe this the Holy Spirit entwines with your soul creating a new creature in Christ who is saved from hell and whose sin debt is paid in full by the blood of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Hope you are saved Ben. You and your family. Have a good night sleep and a good day tomorrow.
Amennn, brother.
This is the nicest comment I have ever read, thanks.
@@kanklelove1826 wow! Glad this is here and you saw it. I'm praying for everyone to soften their hearts towards God and come to an understanding of the transaction that's available for free. I'm trusting in nothing but the blood of Jesus to pay for my sins to keep me out of hell. After I am saved, my works determine how well I will spend eternity. If I do good I will receive a reward. If I do bad I will suffer loss. This is the judgment seat for saved people. Unsaved people go to the great white throne judgment. If you're interested you can look up how to know I'm saved by Robert Breaker. It's super important that you're not trusting not even 1% in what you have ever done to save you. It's trusting in the finished work of Jesus for salvation. Thank you for the reply I'll pray for you and Ben and everybody right now. This helps keep me motivated thank you. I'm actually skating right now and doing a lot better! I'm 36 years old and I just got my 180 back! Thinking about going for a heel flip but I'm scared! Maybe next week LoL
Ben built the very first half pipe.
This is the cleanest Degros session in a minute, you really may have nailed the board + shoes combo. I just got my first pair of dunks in 15 years of skating, the gorge green Decon Dunk Highs, hoping they wear in like you said.
He's skating really good lately
I just moved to a small town in Southern Colorado and the local shop is very kind but has no shapes so my madness has subsided by necessity
I feel like you and Paul Schmitt should work together. To me it just makes sense
Hey dad. Have you not bought the milk yet ? It's been 15 years.
😂
Etnies Singleton XLT Michelin are good vulc shoes!
Literally was swapping my trucks as you said that...
Nice Fun video ik definitly gonna use it thnx ❤❤
Professor Schmitt... PLEASE drop a Ben Degros deck!!! You gotta do it! You'll sell at least 94.3K of them lol
Man I’ve tried board after board and my wife hates me cause I always switch back to the old 7.75s I have. I short only 5’7 and a size 8 foot so the short length and wheelbase really feels better for me in every way. Just gotta get consistent with trick to land bolts everytime instead of toe dragging or tippy toeing! Much love Ben! #RADDAD
You may think I'm crazy but try an 7.875. I went from that to a 8.12 bad I. The day man. I thought it was a nice spot between 7.75 and 8.
Hi im 5'8, 10.5 shoe size and i ride 8.0 decks feels really good!
Holy Flip trick Batman! 🤣💕👍 I'll skate anything, used to be 7.75 and skinnier back in the day. Now its 8, 8.25 or 8.5 depending how much tranny skating
#1 Influencer of the year right here
My madness gets worse every time i watch one of your vids, I can’t stop switching preferences 😂
First.
Much love to all my PALS world wide. I would not be able to live without you fellow shoes and gear nerds in my life.
Peace Love and switch Tre fakie Mannys to you and your loved ones
-💙🧡😚❤️
Bones X Formula review please!
You should actually make your own shape with Paul Smith...
The future is yet unwritten.
Ben ,you have caused so much madness in skateboarding. I have so many trucks, wheels and boards now. But I have been riding every symmetrical board I can find. Right now I’m riding the Andy Anderson twin and loving it.
Welcome to the club my boy, after every sesh you will be thinking about tweaks to your setup that will provide performance boost but really it’s just our own game we gotta improve. Vaya con dios
This channel man, I keep watching and rewatching even the old videos. The DIY ledges and in-depth board reviews. Ben, you bring so much to the table when it comes to knowledge about skateboarding, both on technical and cultural levels.
I’m skating the Vans Kyle Walker pro 1 atm (never worn vans before) they’re really good! Love to know what you make of em! They’re the half volc half cup sole
Thanks for the upload ben. Recently I switched from thunder to indys after being on thunders for a long time. I needed new trucks anyway and I thought bigger wheels sound fun, but they just don’t work that well on thunders. I also had this idea that I didn’t want to get too comfortable with ONE brand because the reality is you can skate almost anything and eventually you will get used to it. At first it was weird and i was getting so much ghost pop, but after the first couple sessions it felt normal and I’m stoked on indys.
current set up : 8.5 element, mob grip, tensor maglights, spitfire formula 4 53mm, china red bearings
Silverado hardware
MOB clear/GIRL Griffin Gass (pictograph) 8.25
144 Indy _HALLOW_
🐷 Pig bearings
Ghetto Child (magic Penny) 52'ish.
..it's nice 'n tight 'n light, but i like it wider. Like an 8.6! 👍
Right now I’m skating a Franky Spears Bully 8.375 Alien Workshop deck with 8.25 Ace Trucks, Spitfire 55mm Tablet wheels and Redz bearings
Well, this video didn't age well. Not after he tried that Nyjah board and decided to switch to Venture lows and and 8" board. 🤣
It’s all about the drama. Would you expect any less from me?
@@bendegros Well, you seem to be doing great on your new setup. You were shredding hard in the video on Dan Corrigan's channel. Glad to see that your knee problems are gone. You have all those tricks on lock. Really stoked to see you skating with Dan
Alien workshop “og build”
8.5x32.25 WB:14.25 on thunder 151, with 54mm f4 classics: love it soo much, I bought multiple back up boards that are identical.
Skateboarding
is plain 'n simply lots of FUN!*
If you're reading this, than you _need to throw-down your Skateboard, now._
😎👍- yeaa
Right now I'm riding an 8.38 glue board (ps Stix factory) venture highs, probably like 50mm spitfire formula 4s. I'm over the madness myself.
I ride currently a 9’ board crafted by a local shaper. It has a 14’25 wheelbase wich I like a lot. 6’7 symetrical nose and tail. With 55 classics Ace, they turn the best. 56 conical full spitfires. An 8’5 sovrn is waiting for me. I look forward to skate an 8’5 again but with 9 inches trucks…
I just got some 149 forged standard Indy’s for my 9.75 Heroin symmetrical razor edge egg, and it feels pretty good. Is it ridiculous and completely counterintuitive to ever learning flip tricks? Yes, but it does stay GLUED to my feet on transition.
Your style seems quite natural on a full 8.5 with some heavy indys. Suppose if you skated a smaller board on some ventures that would make sense considering ventures are less jerky and facilitiate your technique. Lately ive been skating full boards but drilling shorter wheelbases to gain leverage over my trucks. Works super well with thunders because the canter on thunders is do extreme that they still displace weight towards the kicks of the board. Currently on an 8.75 by 31.8 football with 12.5 wheelbase and thunder 151s. Cheers
Been going back to the AH 8.25 eagle shape for a while. And the Emerica Wino Slip cups are my latest obsession. Enjoying a Heroin egg for curb stuff!
Just recently switched back to indy 149 standards from skating 8.5 board width venture hollow lights. Unused to ride thunder before that but Indy’s always feel like home to me.
Currently going through a board crisis I can’t find a bird steep enough for me to pop seems like with my antihero I always ghost pop and with an FA or a. Krooked I get the pop I need and want
Also went from 58mm wheels to 53mm which messed with my pop as well when I went to indys
Ehh 7.5 lolol I remember when I started skating I was skating a 7.75 to an 8 lolol. Now skating 8.25 to an 8.3 lolol. So much room but the 8.00 you don't really have to pop.
Well I ride a 7.9 street-freestyle hybrid deck from never enough streetstore (from Germany) with freestyle wheels from waltz skateboarding and a weird pair of trucks from welcome...
I am currently skating a 14.75 inch wide board made from highly polished bronze, because I saw it in a Braille video.
My current set up is a powell 10 inch ripper with concave paired with aces to help with 36p flips and 56mm dragons . Its my main squeeze gone through 4 and a flight version haha being a bigger skater kinda sucks sometimes but i got a flight version to set up next.
Definitely prefer mellower concave now because ive also been wearing bearfoot shoes that helped me with training my arch and strengthening stability. I wear Xero Kelsos which are awesome to skate
Need to hop back on the board. Kinda stopped skating for a year now. Things were just getting back to normal (if that's what u call it) life after pandemic and went back to school and kinda just have a barely ridden board in my closet. Sun is just starting to come back for an hour or so here in the PNW. Just daily rain so will have to find a good time to go
I really like the PS Stix 8.75 standard shape. I've been riding Standard 159s with 53mm Bones V4 wides which I really like but only had a few sessions on before rolling the crap out of my ankle last Sunday. I bought a pair of Slappy standards though in a 9 wide. I was riding Ace 55s Classics before the Indys so I'm in a bit of truck madness right now but I'm thinking the Slappys will be perfect for my Goldilocks setup but if not I'll stick with Indys because I've bent 55 Classic hangers before so they're only good for transition riding for me. But the wheels and board are solid 8.75 PS Stix standard and Bones 53mm V4 Wide
do u ride the blank ps stix? i’ve been been having trouble on where to get them
@@t3nuts no I've been riding GX1000 and Street Plant.
you taught me switch pop shove revert at centennial square in Victoria BC , with skateboarding Jordan ( skid row bro ) lol .
I’ve been riding the mellow OG shape baker boards pretty much back to back for over a year now apart one deviation to a Real full SE and then switched straight back to Baker. I don’t always love the way the look on the nose and tail (kinda pointy) but I’m used to it and they just work so well for me. I keep flirting with the idea of trying a different board but it’s hard when somethings working and you could end up just sucking for a while when adapting to that change. I do think no matter what brand I go for moving forward however it has to be mellow for me. I think Deathwish have slightly rounder nose/tails perhaps? So might be a good option to try something different with them being the same distribution as Baker 🤷🏻♂️ would you consider getting on a mellow Baker board? What are your top recommendations for brands with mellow boards?
Thoughts on Foundation boards??
Current setup: Baker 8.25 (Casper Brooker Pro board), Indy 144 forged titanium, spitfire F4 classics 53mm, Bones reds, MOB.
One thing I learned from Ben is knowing where the boards were made and how. Are they single pressed or 5 pressed at once? Are they made in China with imported wood that is overly dry and fragile? I’ve road one Baker and one DeathWish and never ever will again. Super dull and tails went razor faster than other boards.
I skated two of those Bakers and really enjoyed those decks. Unfortunately, I broke both of them. I’m 235 athletic build so if I come down hard and I’m not over the bolts I have issues breaking decks just behind the rear truck bolts if I land tail heavy. I started skating Real and find their decks especially R1’s are very durable and I’ve stuck with them and other Deluxe decks ever since.