Reducing the board of fixing the hardware and adjusting the size of skate wheels and truck to making a huge difference!

Your videos are almost therapeutic to watch, your voice and cadence are quite calming.

@SarahParkMatott

10 ай бұрын

ah, thank you Daniel 😃

Gotta love that smile after the fall lol

great video! probably gonna keep my popsicle skateboard for a while, but I hope to soon get a freestyle board once I am done setting up my surfskate boards :)

😍😍😍 I'm dying to try free style! Hopefully it's gonna be sooner rather than later 💕

It's the vibration that looses the hardware. Use a drop Loctite, it works phenomenally well to stop them from coming loose but still able to unscrew them with a screw driver, ect. Thanks for all your videos.

@SarahParkMatott

10 ай бұрын

Yeah haha I meant vibration caused by the friction/scraping but kept leaving off that part when recording 😂 I haven't heard of loctite, but I'll have to look into it! Thanks for the rec! 😃

You should try a little Loctite on the threads of your skid plate screws it will hold them tight till the end of the skid plates life.

@JohnAvillaHerpetocultural

10 ай бұрын

100%

@viracocha03

10 ай бұрын

Lol! I just made this comment too then seen yours. I'm actually shocked that more skaters don't use Loctite.

hey Sarah, always nice to see you talk about skate hardware. also your tricks are getting crazy :o you've gotten so good! its great to see when you found a style that works for you, when you can focus on certain things. as for freestyle bushings: Have you tried mini logo hard bushings? they are basically rocks disguised as polyurethane. I think they are 100A. kinda crazy in my eyes to have bushings as hard as the wheels, but I am not a freestyler :P

@SarahParkMatott

10 ай бұрын

ah! Thank you! :D I haven't tried them yet because I haven't needed to change my doh dohs, but I've heard they're really solid. I never considered that my bushings were the same duro as my wheels...that is kinda wild 😳

@IG-Adoptafosterdog

10 ай бұрын

@@SarahParkMatott I also use Doh Dohs w/Ace 11's on the Yuta deck (w/Stinker wheels).. but for my street setup, the new Andy Anderson deck w/Mini Logo trucks (w/Nano Cubics), I am using the ML 100a bushings. I like them a lot, and probably practice more FS on both decks anyway, so it works out well.

get one of those rubber mallets and smash those screws in. theyll listen lol. thats a small board. if i tried to use that little thing it would land upright and i would fall onto it. nuff said.

Thank you for the video.👍 Whats your deck size?

@SarahParkMatott

10 ай бұрын

I ride a few difference sizes. 7.6 is what I ride most often probably. Or close to it.

Thanks for the inspiration Sarah, now i want to get skidplayes and freestyle wheels , i wonder how the wheels will effect slappy grinds etc ,it would be nice to have just one board that is good for street and freestyle tricks .

@viracocha03

10 ай бұрын

Powell and Andy Andersons new wheel the "Nano Cubic" is a fantastic wheel for a street/freestyle combo deck. Im currently riding them on a street deck and love em. Waltz has a pretty nice lookin twin tail that could probably work well for a street/freestyle combo if that's what you are interested in. I was kinda thinking the same, planning to buy the twin tail when they get the other graphic back in stock (currently they only have the Waltz Hand logo graphic in stock) and try to ride it as both.

@SarahParkMatott

10 ай бұрын

actually, I did hear from a friend that they liked their freestyle wheels for slappy grinds. I've not done any slappys with mine though, so I cannot really speak to it. The larger 54mm wheels and wide hanger clearance I heard was good for them though. I wish I had a better answer though.

Oh and respect for running doh dohs

Interesting stuff! I've been considering doing a conversion myself aver since I picked up a cheap set of DogTown 'street' wheels which turned out to be offset and hide the nuts. They're 57mm! Is that too big?😊

@manuelsamperio8559

10 ай бұрын

As long as the wheels are flush to the side of the board they should be fine. If the wheels are a bit short add some washers to make them stick out. If they're too big then sadly, they're too big for rail stand tricks and you might have to look for a truck with a smaller axle length. Mike Osterman's video in the description box goes into the the nitty gritty math for you.

@SarahParkMatott

10 ай бұрын

That's really cool! Actually a "tall" wheel like 57mm might be heavy..but, you definitely get a bigger platform for your foot to stand on haha If you end up trying them, let us know how they work out!

What skidplates do you use and where do you get them? Ive been using Peralta ones and I have to cut them to size with a jigsaw and the tiny screws are terrible and don't hold up well. These ones look like they have some proper hardware on them, i skate street as well and im getting sick of my skids coming off when i take a corner.

@SarahParkMatott

10 ай бұрын

I skate Waltz skids because they fit my waltz deck. But, they don't always have the right size for larger, rounder popsicles. An 8inch, slightly fuller or squarer popsicle might fit the waltz tail skids. However, you might want to look at the wide selection on Decomposed. They're all meant for freestylers, so I imagine seismic and such brands should hold up pretty well. You might be able to grab the hardware from decomposed or waltz too. I'm not sure on that though

Hi Sarah, just realised that you didn't talk about risers for freestyle setups. I'm guessing that a harder riser made out of rigid plastic or laminated wood is the best way to go, otherwise you get a bit of sluggishness in the deck? What are your thoughts?

@SarahParkMatott

5 ай бұрын

I've only recently used a hard plastic pair, so I'm not well versed in them. I think it depends what you want them for. A hard pair is great for a little extra height/stability in rail perhaps. But some skaters use softer ones for a little extra shock absorption. I imagine it might have a "softer" more "reboundy" feel like a softer wheel, but I'm not sure!

Not gonna lie growing up. Freestyle was probably the least popular. Now I’m practicing switch blades on my street set up to try and add more flavor to things. Imagine being Rodney Mullen. Creating all this like 40 years ago. Only for it to become popular now……..

@phouleSk8s

10 ай бұрын

6:34 your personal style defo dictates everything.

@SarahParkMatott

10 ай бұрын

haha Rodney really created and grew street skating. That was his love and passion, and he became a legend doing it 🙌 I imagine he doesn't mind 😂

@phouleSk8s

10 ай бұрын

@@SarahParkMatott I can’t imagine he minds at all. Just crazy to see how far it’s come since. Also nice to see the KZread has actually had a positive impact on something. Like erasing the divide between flat landers and everyone else. Again took about 40 years but hurray. *end Ramblings*

サラ先生お疲れ様です❤ 私のwheelsはsatoriです

@SarahParkMatott

10 ай бұрын

ありがとうございます😃 さとりのwheelはどうですか?

@user-im4ih3mi6s

10 ай бұрын

@@SarahParkMatott サラ先生おはようございます♪ hardですが良い感じです♪

I can see the utility of skid plates but I hate the idea of adding all that plastic to the environment. Can I get them in aluminum or something else?

@viracocha03

10 ай бұрын

😂😂

@beastamer1990s

10 ай бұрын

​@@viracocha03 should we tell him what wheels are made of?

@viracocha03

10 ай бұрын

@@beastamer1990s rofl. Maybe he rides oldschool metal or clay wheels 😂

@markdearlove8634

10 ай бұрын

People are so cruel🤣😂. I was just going suggest fashioning some out of old deck plywood👍

@viracocha03

10 ай бұрын

@@markdearlove8634 LOL. I was just being a dink for the sake of being a dink. I totally understand what the OP was getting at but some recycled plastic skid plates are the least of our concerns. That being said, I wonder if HPV is too soft? Maybe making some plates out of recycled, melted and molded bottle caps could be effective? Using old decks or plywood would probably be good but a tad heavy.

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