Does Deck Size Matter?

well hello my friends my name is Dan webson I've been skateboarding for nearly 20 years and this is a skateboard with a hexagon shaped nose weird right this is a 10in wide absolute Mammoth Beast now your woman likely told you that Size Doesn't Matter today in this video we're going to find out if she was telling the truth or if expanding the width of your wood is the way you should go let's get straight into it in front of me you'll see an array of different size skateboards now each one of these is very unique in its own right I'm going to start with the standard board and go through a little bit of why I think each one might be good for certain things not so much for others it's going to be fairly quick one but by the end of this video you'll know whether or not you should be riding one of the thick bad boys or just a modest little popsicle starting off with the 8.25 the most standard skateboard shape you will ever see this is just a normal popsicle shape escapism skateboards my brand by the way check it out in the description this is one of the best and most reliable shapes you can get obviously it's the standard you'll see day today great for tricks this one's got a nice deep concave so it's really great for catching your trick really great for flipping them too personally this board is a great allrounder but it might not take all the boxes for every skateboarder for me I like this is my dayto day but it's not actually my favorite type of board on this list I know my own brand blasphemy so overall if you just want something standard you want to get to no skateboarding i' would recommend something like this especially if you've got a size shoe maybe like from 4 up until 9 this size is perf few but moving on from that one let's check out this slightly older model now this is one of the first ever skateboards ever made this one right here is actually over 50 years old itself which is nearly double my age in case you didn't know so if you'd like to come down here and take a little closer look with me this one has been slightly battered cuz we've skated it quite a lot over the past year and a half but I managed to get this one on eBay for like 40 quid and as you can see the wheels are absolutely tiny I think this is in the era where they're still actually plastic Wheels the trucks are obviously something completely foreign to the kind of board that we'll see today these things are a unique invention in themselves I'm sure when these first came out they were probably revolutionary and it's got like a little rubber Block in the middle there instead of the um instead of the bushings that we see today but anyway this kind of board nowadays is more just a novelty for a bit of fun you wouldn't see many people skating one of these fulltime unless they were doing freestyle tricks cuz freestyle boards are generally about this size maybe a tiny bit bigger but this one is very much to be left in the past in my opinion now we're going to move on to the hexagon shaped nose and a great example as to why picking the right truck is going to be something that you need to think about when picking a shape board like one of these as you can see right here this is a welcome deck I believe this is a 9 in its thickest part and the trucks I actually got from another skateboard from the80s the these ones are slightly younger than the other ones that we just saw these are like 40 years old but as you can see they're absolutely tiny made for a board of similar shape to that one this one's about twice the size of the recommended amount so if you don't pick the right truck size admittedly you may not be able to get it this wrong I just made this one for fun but you can definitely cause yourself some issues if you don't pick the right size if you go down into the description of this video I've actually linked the size guides you can tell exactly what size trucks you need for the skateboard you're going to buy in the future this one is a perfect example of why you can't let that detail go astray I mean just look at the wobble on that boy and a Primo stand I can't see it happening let's get on to the next board now I'm sorry to do this to you but I'm saving my favorite board till last cuz that's how it works here on YouTube but right here we have the Dragon Ball Z broom board now broom board admittedly not your standard model of skateboard out there on the market but this one was crafted by the team here at web skateboard Industries and as you can see it's a Marvel of engineering this actually sweeps up leaves fairly well while you ride it believe it or not but the board itself is what we're here to talk about this one is another example of why the truck size might not match the board cuz these ones are for an adult board and this is a kids board so if you've got a younger kid maybe like 2 3 4 years old investing in a board slightly smaller like this might actually be the play especially if they're struggling to make a larger board flip or it just looks extremely disproportionate and you can tell they're not comfortable not all kids benefit from a board this small one of the youth on our skateboard team is skating an adult board and he's only 9 years old and he makes it work perfectly so it's not for everyone but it might be worth giving it a try not much unique to say about this one apart from the fact that bo be small let's get on to the final one and finally we have the absolute Goliath CEO of wide Pride the 10in heroin beast and no we're not talking about my father's waistline this board here is my personal favorite on today's list now to find trucks that actually fit a board this big is quite difficult they're not that common these are 169 trucks and this is a 10-in board it even comes pre-installed with wheel well now a lot of people don't actually notice this when they see this board but these are grooves that have been molded into the deck so that when you lean too far on one side the wheel doesn't rub against it and that's causing you to Halt pretty dramatically so those are actually a big big help on a board this size this one I've not actually gripped yet don't worry I'm going to set this up for a future video of its own and skate it as hard as I can