What about 8" Indy on 8.25" Board?

okay you guys since I ranted and raved so much about the 825 board with the 8-inch Venture lows I thought it only fair that I tried on Indies so I originally set up this 825 anti-hero board with 825 144 Independence and it was a bit jarring at first to go to a truck that was so much taller wider and heavier but I got used to it and it felt pretty good but I just couldn't help shake the feeling that what if it feels better with eight inch Independence so here's what I found out my very first impressions were actually pretty good my flat ground definitely feels better on this like 360 flips especially they're just spinning around feeling really good some of that could be due to the board like this is just a good tray flip setup for me it's the 825 with the 14 and 3 8 wheelbase these Indies have a forged plate so they're a tiny bit lower and lighter and yeah my tray flips were just like actually coming up to my feed a little bit and they were full 360 pretty much every time so I don't always get that lucky and it did feel good but everything changed when I started trying to crooked grind I just felt like I could not get on top of the ledge so last winter I was riding 8.5 Indies and I could crooked grind this whole ledge pretty easily it's tall it's long and it's hard to get up on top of it but on the 8.5s I was just locked right in later in the year I tried it on Venture lows I could get across the ledge it wasn't a big deal tried it on Thunder 148 tried it on Venture 5.6 that's all the stuff I've ridden over the course of spring summer winter and all of those trucks I felt like I could get up there and stay locked in reasonably well but as soon as I was on these I just kept wanting to fall off the ledge feeble grinds on flat bars again I just kind of felt like I was too high up and it felt tippy and weird like didn't really like it that much but I thought well maybe I'll at least like it in transition and once again it just felt tall and unstable so whenever I would do pivots a lot of the time it felt like I was actually going into the center of the truck or sliding over to the wrong spot so it wasn't giving me a lot of confidence to be trying things like pivot fakies because I felt like I could actually get pretty hurt by sliding to the wrong spot whereas I find when I have a wider truck it's easier for me to actually hit that exact spot of the truck when I have a lower truck it doesn't matter that it's narrow but the height yeah again it felt tippy and there was a lot of other instances where I was skating the bowl and like just doing stuff that I do all the time but I could feel myself slipping off the coping more often like I just felt like I wasn't guaranteed to hit the right spot on my trucks every time so yeah my overall conclusion is that there is a point where the truck gets too tall to do this comfortably and my experience is that this feels tippy and not that good and if you want my opinion on where that sweet spot is I would say at 52 millimeter ax height and under the narrower truck feels really good over 52 so this one with the forge plates is 53.5 I didn't even try it with Indie standards which would be a 55 millimeter axle height that would have been even more Tippy but yeah my first impressions of this I didn't like it that much I don't want to take the time to get used to it sorry to say but um yeah if you ride Indy 139 with an 825 board and you love it let me know in the comments but I think over this last six months I've just been gravitating to lower and lower trucks I like having the coping feeling closer to my feet on my board and that's about it you get the idea low truck stable tall trucks Tippy I do find though that 8.5 Indies the 149s are kind of like the sweet spot like I love that truck it all of a sudden feels super stable it locks and pinches really well for everything so I think each truck has its like Goldilocks height and width thunders in my opinion the 148 is like the total sweet spot for Thunders Ventures because they have the low that truck is its whole own sweet spot and then I think the 5.6 forged Venture AT 52 millimeters height is a really good one that's why I've been riding it so much I don't actually like the regular height Venture but I've never ridden them in 8.5 and up anyways you guys that's a whole lot of detail a whole lot of numbers I know some of you are totally lost in that and that's fine um here's the rest of that session that I had with Adriana it was nothing special but I think that's what we'll end the video with and I hope you guys are doing awesome and look forward to making the next one for you okay see ya [Applause] [Applause] oh [Applause] okay everybody all right foreign [Applause]

Channel: Ben Degros

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

Id: jubvDyZh7tc

Length: 7min 24sec (444 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 12 2023