Sorry if I broke any rules, I tried to follow em 😂.I like to take in the world around me. Good for a small cruise, getting used to it? Kinda, sure! Perfect for distance riding? Heck no! You need to be able to pump. Honestly, with some new bearings, these decks aren't God awful. Somebody whose never touched a board before, and wants to try it, but doesn't wanna drop hundreds of dollars into it. If you rly wanna go cheap check out sector 9. If you are confident you will be able to sell a deck if you don't like it, or just have the cash to get a better deck. The deck won't have what I'm gonna call the "age in" period of having to wear some flex and comfort into the board. I promise you will have a better experience. If you wanna longboard, look at loaded or something. Now onto why somebody should, or shouldn't buy a board like this: With a bit of use, the board has gotten a bit more flexy and feels pretty good, at least to someone who primarily cruises.
It's now been about a month and a half, and he has progressed a lot! I'm trying to get him to learn to foot break, but he's really nervous for whatever reason lol. Bur that's a 13 dollar fix, so honestly for a 73 dollar investment, it isn't that bad. They were slow, hard to get going, and were literally misshapen. Bearings, as I'm sure everyone can imagine, were just bad. The wheels felt kinda like they wanted to feel stoneground, but just felt meh. The trucks remind me a lot of wanna-be randall's or maybe paris's, kinda loose, not v tight turns tho, and kinda mushy, but some of that may have been the bushings, honestly not sure. Maybe a bit narrow, but that's just preference honestly.
The deck was honestly not bad! It was a bit firm, but overall not bad. I came to the following conclusion, after on and off riding with him for about a mile:
I took him to a park by my house, and gave the board a test run to make sure it wouldn't kill him. So then I thought "let's try play it again sports!" They had a retrospec pintail, brand new, for 65 bucks. Well, of course it was all 200+ dollars for a "custom board" (probably just somebody's old loaded complete that they put new trucks on), or electric boards. Where we live, the only shop that carries specifically longboards is Zumiez (yes there are other skate shops, but none had boards over 34 or so inches, not in the popsicle shape), so I thought to check Facebook marketplace. We wanted to skate that weekend, and he had never boarded before. I'm gonna start off with a recent experience I had, getting a board for a friend. That being said, I am here to talk about a few reasons why somebody might buy a board like this, and open a discussion about getting newbies into the hobby without causing them what could end up being a large investment to some people. I do not endorse anybody whose done even the smallest bit of skating buying one of these, nor who has the means to get a board from a real manufacture. These are crappy, Chinese boards that are attempting to push legitimate, decent companies to the wayside, in order to get as many cheap boards out to consumers as possible. Before I start, let me just get something out of the way right now:
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