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how's it going you guys so I think it's time to make an update video since the I quit YouTube video um as many of you know I have two channels so I didn't quit YouTube but I wanted to reserve my time and energy for the one that brings in my income which is the construction one so the thing that I couldn't predict is that I feel like the skateboard channel was actually only starting to come to fruition but I couldn't see it so to give you the example of like when you plant a fruit tree it can take many many years before you will ever see fruit on that tree and it wasn't until shortly after making that video that a bunch of things happened that made me realize that I probably did that prematurely and I didn't make that video impulsively or spontaneously I had been thinking about it for months like many months and finally decided to do it so funnily enough as the chain of events was it was after I made that video the nine Club you know did that post where in their live stream where they talked about me quitting YouTube and then in that section where they were talking Chris goes oh I'd love to have him on the channel and I was like what so I totally thought that I was like Shadow band from the nine Club I'd never met Chris or talked to him or anybody I had messaged maybe once or twice in the past and never gotten anything back and so yeah I thought I was banned so after he said that I messaged him and I was like hey if you really mean it I'll fly down there I'd love to be on the show and chat with you guys so that happened specifically because I made the video about quitting YouTube it wasn't like some orchestrated chain of events at least not by me you know the universe has plans but it wasn't by me so I don't think that I don't know if that ever would have happened if I hadn't made that video and then the other thing you know was the whole shape thing with Deluxe right the boards with them that was something that had been slowly going for a long time and I just didn't really realize that you know it was going to become as big as it has you know like I've had my name in copy on ads on their Instagram like repeatedly I keep getting tagged and all these things uh from skate shops all over the place from you guys buying the boards and tagging me it's been a really cool and interesting experience to be a part of that and I just don't think I saw all of this coming so does that mean that I'm going to go back to being a review-based skate YouTube channel not really um does that mean I'm going to start trying to get everyone's attention and making videos all the time again not really I would like to start making them a little more frequently again maybe one or two a month but um I don't know exactly how I'm going to go about it because one of the things that I really dislike about YouTube and just the environment of it in General is that in order to get traction you basically have to behave like an attention starved child you know like look at me look at me look what I can do I'm the best at this I know the most about this it's just become this really cringy way of like trying to capture people's attention all the time because the space has become so competitive and I strongly dislike it and don't want to engage in all of those behaviors that being said I do miss making skate content a little more often I'm still skating all the time I'm playing around with my setup a little bit here and there but not very much and I do miss once in a while being able to talk about that um also one of the other things that I'm trying to do is I'm trying to think about like how can I make the skate Channel more viable you know like because if I was actually getting more income from it I would have more incentive to actually put out videos you know one example would be the recent Vans review that I did and I know there's probably some mixed feelings about that um and I had mixed feelings about putting it out but I think it's worth talking about a little bit so um I was properly compensated for that video you know and and in my opinion this is a good thing right I have a family I have bills to pay I have a future I'm trying to secure for my family and one of the things that you guys probably don't know about that video is there was no script there was there was a contract but it wasn't like you know you have to say this this and this you can't say anything negative so basically that video about the van shoe was more or less as I would have put it had they just sent me a pair of shoes so for me that was you know a win right to be able to do a unscripted review on this channel and be well compensated for it so I'm very grateful for that opportunity and honestly I've kept skating the shoe like these are now 3 weeks in they're still in really good shape I've got tons of other shoes I could be wearing every time I try something else I'm like well I'm not skating quite as well as I am in the Vans but uh so I keep skating it you know I would say the only things that were detractors for me is like the look is a little bit too busy for me you know there's too much going on in this kind of area so when I look down I'm like not as stoked as I could be whereas I have um these shoes that I've been really wanting to skate while I haven't necessarily been stoked um about the logo on most as6 on this one model I actually really like it a lot I love the colorway looks great in denim uh I would say this shoe skates a little bit better than a dunk and it's similar like it's dunesque and its profile and everything but I like the way it skates much better there's a few things I would change about the shoe um like the the firmness of the sole and insole leads me to feeling like I would say lack of firmness it's a bit too soft I feel like I'm kind of sliding around in the shoe but overall I can skate pretty well in them and I would be skating these if it wasn't for the fact that I just keep skating better in these ones and until I have a shoe that I can skate as good or better that I like the look of better I might keep wearing these although maybe I'll give these a shot today anyways um that's you know really all I have to say about the Vans thing if another shoe company wanted to compensate me very well for another shoe and allowed me to say both some positive and negative things which I did right with this I mentioned the thing in the top of the foot where if you look in comments on anybody's review about these shoes you're going to see people talking about that I mentioned this part of the sold it's not going to work for people with a wide foot or a collapse foot um you know I mentioned that I didn't get into the aesthetic like I said I find it a little bit busy and the price I mean that's your guys' decision you can look up how much the shoe costs you can look at the shoe and see how it looks and decide if it's for you that's actually not my place to try and sway you you know I really wanted to just focus on the performance okay and I have been messing around with my setup just a little bit not too much so this is still the 8.25 Easy Rider with the 14-in wheelbase um right now I've got some Venture standards on here these are the salt and pepper ones I really like the white base plate black truck Gold Hardware White bushings like it's just kind of a nice look normally I don't like color trucks at all but like this one was doing it for me so I want to try these this is on the 14-in wheelbase 825 if I didn't mention that and then 52mm classic f4s I have tried the new Reynolds ones um and I'm sure some of you guys would love a video about those but you know what there's enough information on line and in slap comments that you can try those so like I kind of feel like I'm too closely associated with Deluxe now to go making a wheel review video for them all anybody wants to know is like how do they feel compared to dragons and like I don't feel like I could make a a bones versus Spitfire 93 Wheel video anymore so why don't you guys tell me in the comments what do you think about the bones versus the uh Reynolds wheel right like I've tried them I think they were great I'm still on the regular 99s but um let me know in the comments what you think you guys have as much or more info than I do collectively we can paint a way better picture about a product than I can just sitting here talking about my biases anyways um I'm probably going to skate this setup a little bit today don't know exactly what shoes I'll skated on and um there was before I get to the skating there is one other new development that I'm going to get into and that is is um I'm doing some partnering with tactics so some of you guys may have seen them in some of my more popular videos I've got a few cards in the video I'm not sure if this is the way I want to go about it or not but basically if you make a purchase through one of the links in the description of my video like through the tactics website I will make a commission so it's one of these ways that we can support the channel without it having to take anything away from you like in the past I tried patreon I don't like it I think I'm going to cancel it has never not felt like begging to me I just don't like it but with a tactics link like if you're already going to shop it tactics then when you buy something it supports the channel so neither of us is losing anything through that interaction I would say the only thing we have to think about is skate shops right like local skate shops if you have a great local skate shop support it you know but if you can't find what you're looking for or the Shop's not bringing it in feel free to use the tactics links right it's a win-win for both of us in that situation um but do consider the skate shops too now on that note that is a lot of talking I appreciate your guys' uh patience and understanding with all these things that I feel need to be said and I think yeah a little later today going to try this out I'll let you guys know how it feels [Applause] so I mentioned I've been messing around with my setup a little that was actually the best feeling kick flip I've done in a long time on any setup tried Indies tried a slightly longer wheelbase um but yeah 14-in wheelbase on the Venture RW standards whatever you want to call them felt good shoe might have helped I don't know good flick Maybe [Applause] W well that session was actually quite a pleasant surprise I didn't know how I would like the Venture standards versus the the uh forged ones that I've been riding lately I do like the forged plates in that they're lower but um I like that the regular Venture cast plates are a little bit in so I don't know if you guys know that but the Venture forg plates are drilled a bit different that actually puts your wheelbase out a tiny bit further like overall it's probably about 3 mm I'd say roughly an eighth of an inch your wheelbase is wider when you ride forged plate Ventures and I find that that makes the turn not as good um it just does some kind of weird things although I like those ones way better for grinds um and I also feel like the forge plate Ventures flip a bit faster but um I don't know I really like this oh I also love I don't know if you guys could see the pies it's got like the purple and the yellow really nice ply combo um yeah had a great set session on this I felt like backside Smith grinds were easier because my axles were further in I could just like sit on it a tiny bit better I wasn't getting pulled down as much so there's some benefits to these they manual a little bit better because of that wheelbase being in a tiny bit but I kind of feel like I had better pop on these because the pop feel is actually uh slight slightly lighter than the forged plates and yeah it just seemed to work really well a little bit taller so my truck gets up a bit more a little bit easier felt good 360 flips felt a little bit better um but overall it was actually a very small change and that's one of the things that I've been doing a lot lately is trying to make as few changes as possible because one thing I've learned over you know six years of changing my setup all the time and one year of not changing it very much is the best setup you can have is the one you're already used to if you have a truck you already know you have a deck that you already know you know stick with like at least one or two constants and only make very small changes that's the best for the progression so again the best setup you can have is the one you already know um yeah anyways board felt great had a good time on it uh pleasantly surprised with how it was operating change wasn't as big as as I expected the shoes the shoes I actually got used to these yesterday really started to like them I think I'm going to keep them on they look really good at that spot too uh they match the ledges which was a pleasant surprise this reminds me of creamsicles um you know I was a little bit hesitant with A6 like when the rep reached out and was like hey can I send you some shoes uh I ranted like Instagram messages but I was like H dude I know I just like do we need another logo heavy sports brand in skateboarding I'm so bummed I just want plain boring shoes blah blah blah I ranted and he was like you know what the fact is the kids only want noisy shoes he was like we try to make more subdued basic ones and they don't sell you know everybody wants to be showing what brand they have on their feet and so unfortunately the market dictates this and that's what we've got but I actually love this colorway of this shoe and the shoe itself skates quite well once once I got used to it I also have these ones which I know the Gen Z crowd and the people that like things that are a little bit different they probably love this color way I don't like this color way and also it's a really common color way so there's like a Tom Knox uh what is it the New Balance shoe that's the same color way there's the beatric uh van Sho that's the same color way the Zaba or Jabba however you say it um but this when I see three different colorways or three of the same colorway from three different brands I I don't know if you guys know this but every year there's like a convention to pick the colors for products for the next year I don't know exactly how it works but basically all these large corporations meet up and they decide all of the colors so that things are more coordinated her season and this you know the black soul and then the army green upper was obviously one of the agreed upon color schemes at their annual color convention uh I'm not making it up this is an actual thing uh so when I see that many companies doing the same thing I don't know just kind of bugs me rubs me the wrong way I think this shoe is actually probably the better skating one the orange one is the Japan Pro this is the vika um I think out of the box this one's going to skate a little bit better but I just I'm looking for what this shoe has to offer which is a more bulky cupsole um again skated better than the dunk in my opinion like by a long shot I tried wearing the dunks again recently and I don't know like why it works for some people because every time I try on a dunk I'm like if this shoe could make me skate worse I'd be surprised like every trick I do gets like 3 in lower um I feel like the dunks just take away like half of the nerves in my feet the instant I put them on whereas um these ones aren't so bad and then these ones are that kind of like thin slim down cupsole that's really good um in terms of like lots of board Feel The Flicks are good and on point instantly but my guess is that the durability on these shoes and the impact protection in general is not going to be what you get out of the Japan Pro so there you go surprise as6 review out of nowhere um yeah I think what you can expect coming up in the videos is maybe more stuff like this where I just film and talk about what I've been trying what's going on but it's not so specific and the titles and thumbnails are not going to be so specifically attention grabby basically this channel is going to be for the people who know what it's about and anybody who needs some obnoxious thumbnail and title to click on a video go watch that crap anyways I'm done I have no idea if I'm going to post this video unedited or if I'll get it into the video editor and be like I hate this nobody's going to see this no idea anyways I hope you guys are doing really well now you at least have a better idea of where I'm at and what's going on I hope you guys are doing really well I hope you've been fortunate enough to be able to be on your board not all of us are um for some people just watching stuff is their only connection these days to skating it's the best they can do and um you know in due time that'll come for any of us right we can't all skate forever so enjoy it while you can anyways thanks for watching till the next one

Channel: Ben Degros

Views: 26,038

Keywords: skateboard, review, tutorial, Ben, Degros, best, easy, ollie, kickflip, grind, slide, trucks, deck, wheels, bearings, bushings

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Length: 20min 0sec (1200 seconds)

Published: Sat May 04 2024