Here is a thread on an extreme carving forum posted by riders with actual experience on the Flexboardz, Carveboard wave, and stik. It’s has fantastic information on the differences in the Flexboardz design and the channel truck designs of the Carveboards.
Extremecarving.com FORUM :: View topic - Carveboard & Flexboardz
Extremecarving.com FORUM :: View topic - Summer season
How much skate experience do you have?
Regardless of price and choice of carving hybrid it’s best to realize some of the restrictions these board carry with them. To enjoy these hybrid carvers to their fullest they require a hill. Although the Flexboardz doesn’t catch wobble, once your at speed stopping or at least slowing down is nice and something that has to happen at some point. I’m not sure if foot braking is an option, if not then you’re left with
1. being lucky with a hill than has a steep and long enough incline at the end.
2. finding another lucky hill that lets you carve out your speed
3. possibly performing some type of slide -check the sketchy Coleman at 4:30
4. slowing down enough to bail and run out your speed
5. enjoying how slow and peaceful everything seems right before you crash
I don’t want to discourage you in any way, I personally own a carvestik, and was obsessed with it for a while. Stopping these hybrid carvers take a bit more planning but that’s the exchange for the high carving abilities these boards offer.
Chewie in addition to the Eclipse Neversummer board you may also want to search for something called a Bigfish…