your dh setup

[allstardavy]

Finally got this thing set up after getting the bushings and fly's today:

Kebbek smoothcut
bear 1040's
blue/red barrels front
red/black barrels back
sin 10mm bearings
76mm fly's
lowered 1/4"

Dave, we gotta skate when we get back to school. No garages either.

[EFG]

Very nice setup Caster, I love the Smoothcut, such an under-rated board. I'm considering ordering a second one.

[Doors]

I have always wanted to give a Smoothcut a try, the shape is great.

[CasterTown]

Yeah the smoothcut is such a simple and effective design. I love it!

Dave, we gotta skate when we get back to school. No garages either.

Absolutely.

[andrew_cruise]

pat, no one has to "justify" having nice stuff, you dont hassle a guy because he has a beamer do you? bottom line is that if you have the cash and you are willing to pay for expensive gear then get it.

there are lots of people out there who buy precision trucks and icaros and not use them fast enough to reap the benifits, are you going to track them all down and say they dont deserve the gear they payed/thier parents payed for?

if you want it, and you have the cash, get it.

[Pat S]

Yeah, I know, I just get sick of people thinking that expensive gear will make them a better skater.

[CasterTown]

its all about havin hella thangs 8)

[kookyfish]

well now its a ltd edition Dseed
custom 190 split axel hangers
on r11 50 plates soon to be custom 42* plates
black jimz bushings
lemon bigzigs
reds

Im still getting use to it,
and it might not make me better, but its going to be fun learning.

[SpeedFiend]

Yeah, I know, I just get sick of people thinking that expensive gear will make them a better skater.

i got big boy toys that enable me to do more as a skater, turns i normally grabbed a rail for can now be done no hands down. the foam wraps around my foot at a certain speed and forms its own concave, that feeling is priceless.

[damiche]

i was watching adri at semnoz last year and like how he bent the leg still on the deck while braking
this helps really put more weight on the braking shoe and slam to a stop

I agree with that: bend your leg, lean back, and put more weight on the braking foot, that's way more effective!
It emulates what crouched footbrakers do : grab the board, and lean back to brake harder and quicker.

I still need to have more powerfull legs...

[SoCalLove]

Chopped S9 Bomb Hills
RII 180s
- Flipped hangar in back.
JimZ Bushings
S9 Top Shelf

[Rustyfriend]

funny......because i have used that breaking method a lot....i didn't know anyone else did it. it helps when you are haulin into a turn and want to slow down in a hurry. sure it gets your foot really hot but it works great (brought me to two podiums)

and about the expensive gear....IMO it does help. for downhill i didn't need it and it doesn't make me faster, but good trucks improved my ability to grip a corner a ton. in slalom, trucks actually helped me LEARN better methods

[Slim]

I also instantly got better at slalom when I got a proper pocket pistols deck and a splitfire rear. Gear definitely can make you better. But it does no good sitting on the shelf - we still have to get out there and use it.

[mikenike605]

my setup is a evo with 90 or 83mm 78a fly's pretty much the basic setup. i need to upgrade to something that slides better around corners. other than that fast and no wobbles.

[Rustyfriend]

slides better around corners? interesting...because IMO flys are pretty good at sliding around corners and hook up very nicely.

just my .02

[mikenike605]

well the roads around my house are pretty sticky and coarse from the new pavement that we got this summer that is probably contributing, but i need to find a solution, i tried to slide to a stop and my board didnt follow with me, just looked like a retard failing at a slide.

[green]

I also instantly got better at slalom when I got a proper pocket pistols deck and a splitfire rear. Gear definitely can make you better. But it does no good sitting on the shelf - we still have to get out there and use it.

I agree with gear just sitting on the shelf.

I rode my old FUX TRUX till they broke, I tried to replace them with smokies, but then I started to ride my normal grizzlies more and more. So i just got rid of the things i wasnt using.

And I dont care how much money I dropped on that race deck. That thing has intense concave and it has helped me a ton.

[circle]

well the roads around my house are pretty sticky and coarse from the new pavement that we got this summer that is probably contributing, but i need to find a solution, i tried to slide to a stop and my board didnt follow with me, just looked like a retard failing at a slide.

solution=harder duro flywheels

flys are by far the best drifting wheels i have ever ridden

[karrot]

I rode my old FUX TRUX till they broke (took off a nut on the pivot which lead to the pivot snapping), blahabhlahblahblhalhlhgalhbhalbhlahblah.

And I dont care how much money I dropped on that race deck ($90 lol). That thing has intense concave and it has helped me a ton.

some corrections

[T.V.A.R.]

well the roads around my house are pretty sticky and coarse from the new pavement that we got this summer that is probably contributing, but i need to find a solution, i tried to slide to a stop and my board didnt follow with me, just looked like a retard failing at a slide.

You don't need anything different. If I can throw pendys no problem on zig zags on a topmount slalom board, you can slid an evo with flywheels.

It sounds like you need to get more weight on your hand and off the wheels. Give that a try sometime.