What's your favorite grip? Also what other brands should we test? 🧪🤓🛹 Check out the selection of grip on our site! www.tactics.com/grip-tape?cp=ytc

@dklskateboarding

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for including DKL Griptape and really cool to see this! We’re skate nerds too, so we just had a few notes to consider if you ever decide to repeat. Regarding the eraser test, we think what might be happening is the weight needs to keep the already bouncy eraser from bouncing up and down which translates a lot of the force upwards and reduces the amount of time in contact. For a simple comparison, if you take an apple and rub it on different griptapes you would see pretty definitively which is abrasive or not. Lastly, the pull tests can be tricky because there are a lot of variables to consider like shoe soles, weight distribution, or static VS kinetic friction etc. Regarding your static friction test, rubber griptape provides friction in a different way, so it might need a heavier weight to mimic the real world application of engaging the deformation of the pips and ensuring solid surface contact. It would also be interesting to see this with different shoe soles since some are much grippier than others. In our ideal world, we’d love to see shoe companies invest in new technology like they do with basketball shoes and their soles. By having non-abrasive griptape, it opens up the door to new materials and shoe technologies that otherwise would be destroyed instantaneously with sandpaper. Since friction is a 2-way street, you could choose the friction of your board just by changing your shoes like most sports do. For a simple rule of thumb, the grippier a shoe is on an indoor basketball court, the grippier it will be on DKL Griptape. Anyway, keep up the good work!

Ай бұрын

Black diamond grip. Don’t know how you missed it out. It grips great.

The video we didn't know we needed. Thanks Tactics!

@meenism

3 ай бұрын

Still dont need it. EVERYONE who skates knows MOB is the best

I sort of landed with Jessup and Grizzly depending on what came free or was cheap because they stayed more consistent in an area where your grip gets dusty constantly. Seems to match up with the durability results.

@fernandoreyes680

11 ай бұрын

They should do that test. Drop a bunch of dust into the grip and pull test. More accurate in terms of use

@WyteNikesNLazerLitez

10 ай бұрын

Mob f's your shoes up quick and doesn't give consisten flicks. Jessup takes the W for me!

Pepper is my favorite, specially the galaxy glitter one. Love it. It almost as grippy as MOB, but doesn't chew up my shoes and fingers as much. Mad props on your testing methods. Fairly practical.

@ambientrealms_

11 ай бұрын

Same. I've had standard pepper in the past and this stuff is cool. Just adds a little hype looking down at it, without being over the top like having some graphic on there. Pepper slices like butter, too.

@Lightspeedloser_

7 ай бұрын

I’ve tried mob, Jessup and pepper and pepper definitely gave me the worst grip thumb

I love when science and skateboarding meets 🔥

Genius, keep all these test coming!! We need it as a skate community!

This is probably more testing than the grip tape makers do, awesome work

Amazing vid. Really love the motion graphics, great ideas all around.

Very well put together. Very scientific also, without the need for any math!! Great job!

Out here doin the lord's work. Need more vids like this

this is like a shopping guide, thank you so much❣️

This was an amazing test! Please do more of these with Board durability showcasing wood MFG's, Trucks, and wheels. Although, that might not be a great idea. hahah!

This was surprisingly scientific! Really cool!

Wow! Truly scientific and I love every minute of this!

Hey Tactics team! Thanks so much for this video. As somehone who works in the metal industry I love the tendency of trying to look at skateboard gear more scientifically. For a long while it was just all subjective opinion with no real evidence for anything being superior to the same product from a different manufacturer. The result is that basically anyone can put anything on the market without any baseline quality standards. I would love this to change. Also the information that is out there. Heck skateboards have long stopped being little kids toys. I feel like there should be industry standards that make it easier to compare products.

science bearing out conclusions that align with my experience! insane!

This is a great video. Very thorough. 6:26 Tactics, Jessup and Grizzly are what im interested in because I like grip to be consistent for as long ss possible.

Thanks for this. this is cool af

i like that jessup doesn't peel up, doesn't destroy shoes as quickly, not too grippy. it just works as advertised, tried and true. mob m-80 i guess if jessup not available

I ordered pepper based solely on the look of the galaxy tape. Should be getting the new Anderson flight and galaxy tape tomorrow. Can’t wait!

This was great. I’m hoping this can be done again with the suede pieces and grip tape from the smaller lesser known brands like Switch Supply, Paradox, Tomo, Black Widow.

Great video. It'd be interesting to run a few of these grips on boards as a "real world" test

This was great. Reminds me of the show Sports Science. Thank you.

I love you so much for this . Thank you thank yoouuu

This was awesome please do more videos like this also confirmed some of suspicions about Jessup heard people say it stays gripper for longer guess it's somewhat true would still feel weird not getting mob though lol

Love my cloud 9 griptape. Seems to be the perfect mix

I choose pure black MOB because you can sand it down to get as grippy as Jessup easily, even change the amount of grippiness in specific areas. It peels of easily without leaving the residue, which is good if you are re-gripping your deck regularly. Anyway I apply my the griptape in 3 sections so that I can re-grip my nose and tail more frequently and the section in between when it gets really dirty or very damaged.

This was nice! I would love to see a scientific test if bearings. Which ones stay fast longest? Which resist clogging up with dirt, or binding up from rust? What about raw vs lubed, and covered vs open, and with spacers or not? Do they have different impact resistance? For this video, I am a little skeptical of the DKL abrasion result, but I can’t say if you did anything wrong. What would the result be if you did like 250 kickflip attempts with it, vs other brands? Maybe the constant friction and heat from it melted the eraser, and made it wear faster. The DKL rubber perhaps retained heat in a way that traditional grip didn’t, and in a way that wouldn’t accurately reflect normal skating wear.

I have been using rubber griptape for years now. For me, it is the fact that my shoes look decent for their ENTIRE lifespan (which btw is - thanks to the rubber - several months). That alone makes be tolerate the fact that grip is just a little less than regular griptape (yet I would never be able to blame that when not being able to land a trick, is always my technique not being what it takes) and the fact that the rubber griptape itself wears out quicker (because the rubber takes a lot of the abrasion your shoes get with regular griptape). Having said that, I loved to see how rubber griptape performed under those tests, thanks for the inclusion of it! It was a really nice video, definitely looking forward to a follow up video.

@BirthSurvivor22

11 ай бұрын

rubber "griptape" isnt even griptape its completely different

That's actually really tight you guys did that. I don't Skate MOB cus it literally tears my thumbs up. Jessup n Shake Junt🔥

Do more vids like this it very entertaining

Make this a series!

Video was successful. Just ordered a couple boards from y'all, and I'm going to give Pepper grip a try based on your tests and some of the comments below. I've been skating Mob mostly the past year, so interested to see what the difference might be.

@saberdoesgaming

8 ай бұрын

Can you give an update 2 months later on how pepper grip is?

@laterjsn

8 ай бұрын

I'm trying out Pepper soon on my new setup but could you please let me know or give an update how you feel about the grip? If it does less damage than DKL then it's super worth it

So if I bought the Lithe Slate 3 (which lasts 8 times longer than a normal deck), which grip tape would both preform well enough but would also last the longest?

I'm 90's old-school, mid to low grit, but big bits of grit, Black Diamond - black or preferably clear.

Best content !!

Please do more videos like this.

This was a high idea no doubt

@tacticsboarsshop Should have included Iron Horse. Also, you could do a blind study where you give skaters boards with different grip to try and rate. Although, for more experienced skaters it might be easy to guess which brand they are trying, thereby invalidating some of the results. You could also poll them to see if they have ridden all the other brands, or are exhibiting some kind of bias in the form of brand loyalty.

@deadbeat-vc9kg

11 ай бұрын

Tell them they are testing some new grip formulas. Don't use grip with signature graphics or cutouts. Boom. Bias gone.

Do you have any feed back on Pocha World Bubble Bath Glitter Grip tape? Does it suck or is it as good as Mob?

grizzly. i just love the bear cutout.

Adding Miles grip to the mix would have been cool!

@robolinoschmidt8676

11 ай бұрын

But is it that much different or does it have a big marketing

Please more videos like this

grippiness on "cloth" e.g. for flips and ollies would be interesting. Riding DKL, it always occurred to me that it stays as grippy as in the beginning. It basically is always as grippy as old regular grip tape 😬

Actually yes can you do the test for rip n dip ? Specifically the one with the big white cat

I like mob but it shreds my fingers so bad. I might try a different grip next time i setup a board but I figure I’ll always get grip thumb regardless

I'd like to see a bearing test. Stoked to find out that Mini Logo bearings are scientifically proven to be as good as G3s or Super Reds (or even Swiss).

I hear a cracking noise when I steer my deck any ideas what that could mean

Fuck yeah Tim ! Love the video ❤️

More experiments please!

Just picked up a board for the first time in about 10 years. Grizzly went through a pair of janoskis in an hour it was rough 😢

Based on data nice! can you this kind of approach for wheels?

That’s why my local Skateshop recommended mob grip tape for me as a beginner

new in skating here and is also on the hunt for an alternative to mob (my first grip tape on my board.) curious if anyone rides 2 (or multiple) grip tapes in one board set-up. like the board is gripped with specific sections for specific abrasion. i'm thinking grippy on the bolts area but less grippy on the nose tail and the middle section. i do need the grip but i also care for my shoes lasting longer.

@BirthSurvivor22

11 ай бұрын

that's just doing too much

Looks like were trying out Pepper after i used the grip i still have laying around

Id love to see Flik grip tested

Pepper grip is so underrated

I really just wonder how it's made and what its made of. Completely keeps me up at night like, what is it?!

Hands down Flypaper grip!

I love nerdy skate videos

Pepper grip! Who would have thought?

Mob on top🗣️🗣️

For the durability test, I think more cycles are required, 5 times it's just too little. Make it at least 100 times, many videos show that after 100 Kickflips shoes show damage. Nevertheless, the approach is interesting. Thank you for sharing.

What about black diamond grip?

dude thought of putting the erasers in water before weighing them. he built different

Is Ashes still around?

Oh I slammed that Like button the second you used water displacement for the eraser test. Science! Edit: Damn, it didn't work, but still a damn great way to think!

I like Jessup and black diamond there both the same they’re both grippy enough for me but also don’t chew up my fingers completely

Black magic was my go to

@mrhogei

2 күн бұрын

They still sell them i go back and forth with grizzly and black magic all the time

Could you do SYS grip for next test? ❤

Do Cloud 9!! I Swear its the best grip!!!!

damn maybe pepper is the one for me....feels like jessup but grippier i guess...

I just tried Miles for the first time on my last setup, out of curiosity, and I paid the $10 for it. It looks great, it really looks high quality, and the grip is amazing....at first. Fast forward two sessions later and it's lost nearly all of its aggressive grit. It was very disappointing to be honest. This sheet of grip died out way before the actual deck. Lesson learned, never again. Mob grip for life.

I like Mob Graphic, Grizzly and Jessup

The Bill Nye intro 🤓

I thought I read on the Tactics website that Jessup made Tactics grip?!?

Would I, a consumer like more scientific type product tests? Hell yes i would.

Do some more like this

I heard you can only use tomo grip if you have a yt channel

PEPPER GRIPTAPE 🔥🏁

What about the old school black magic

This dude is mathematically proving which griptape is best

I want to see them under a microscope

Shake junt black onyx #1

I skate pepper or jessup, or whatever is free

yall shouldve added sys griptape

Black Magic is underrated

Sean is G

Jess up by far skated black magic and grizzly abs mob hate mob will skate grizzly if I have ton

Mob is the best griptape

i like pepper. less grippy than mob and more grippy than jessup.

Pepper 🌶️

Pepper all day every day

Im going rubber.... destroying shoes used to pain me so much

Wow.. i found tactics grip tape is good overall.

Black magic grip is still the SHIT

Iron horse would've won all of the tests

Jessup.

Now put it on a tri-fold poster and present it at a middle school science fair

Mob grips the best but sticks to the board less. I went back to Jessup after the third time it came off one of my boards. I used to have a roll of Madrid Flypaper and it gripped like Mob but stayed on like Jessup. I used to put it on the tail and front foot area of my boards and Jessup on the middle and nose to make the roll last the longest. Which worked well because the nose and middle were the places I was more likely to touch my board with my hands. Grip for my feet, less wear on my skin.