A Conversation for Skateboards
In the old days....
Jimi X Started conversation Sep 20, 1999
I can remember when skateboards were narrow contraptions and not the wide boards kids are using today....
What happened to cause things to change (and don't cite that old advert "Wider is Better"!)
Just curious really! 
In the old days....
Researcher 26763 Posted Sep 26, 1999
well my frend its all to do with the tricks that sk8ers
are trying to do...
in the "old days" it was just kids hacking arround mostly
as sk8ers started to learn tricks they neaded more controle over
there sticks so they got wider decks and trucks.
l8ly sk8ers have tended to go for a slightly thinner deck and trucks
(somewhere between the 1st 2 sises) so they can flip there decks
faster and easyer during tricks...
In the old days....
Jimi X Posted Sep 26, 1999
LOL!
So I'm an old hack am I?!? 
We didn't do so bad on those narrow boards you young whipperr-snapper...Granted, we didn't grind the way you young folks do today-our boards would have snapped!
In the old days....
Raven_Blue Posted Sep 8, 2000
I rode the old skinny ones before I was deemed old enough to have my own board. Then, in the big skating boom, I owned several of the big wide board a la G&S, Powel Peralta, and Sims.
Now (27 years old) I've just bought one of the new-school boards. They've been around for a while, but I never payed much attention to them. To me, they just reminded me of what we used to call a "Freestyle" board. Ramps and street obstacles were always ridden with the wider boards. Flatland tricks (flips, shuvits) were what you used the "Freestyle" boards for.
So, I continued to ride the wide board in parks until recently. Frankly, I think the new-school boards are a little unstable in big ramps (10' to 12' vert-ramps), but they're great for virtually everything else. I guess, since big vert ramps have sort of fallen out of style again, the new-school board is the perfect evolution of the skateboard.
I realize that vert-ramp riding is also done on the new boards, but I still feel funny when I do it on mine. Besides, I get lots of great remarks when I show up to the skate park with my old-school G&S Bod Boyle with big Indy truks and seventy-something milimetre T-Bones wheels. (Oh, did I mention it has rails and fly-paper on it too?)
-Chris.
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