With over eight years racing, I’ve had the opportunity to tune and perfect my racing style and find what equipment complements it. My setup is a DB Longboards Stalker II with the shortest wheelbase for the most grip, Atlas Trucks and 77a Cloudride Freerides, which are fun wheels for any type of riding and leave the most thane out of any wheel. Biltin Bearings and Abec 11 75mm Reflex BigZig in 83A on the front and 80A on the back. I also ride 175mm Liquid CNC trucks with a 50/30 split.
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I’ve chosen the Invasion Series Black Death 36.0 – this one of my favorites for IDF races. I know what works and I am not afraid to set up my kit outside the box. I have a quiver mentality and test out everything I ride. I am from Sao Paulo, Barzil and currently ranked 17th in the IDF Open Skateboard Rankings. In combination with the micro-drop on the front of my board, I know exactly where my foot is and have incredibly good leverage for turns. The icing on the cake for my DH setup is the Bombsquad Brass Knuckle footstop. My bushings are simple: Venom Barrels in the Standard formula. It keeps my feet in place and doesn’t melt away in the rain. For griptape, I prefer the coarse Gangster Grip. Now that is something I don’t gotta worry about. Anybody that has been at a race changing wheels every run knows the struggle of dropping a bearing spacer or loosing a speed ring. When it comes to bearings I really like the convenience of the Bear Spaceballs. After doing racing for many years I’ve grown to love split angle. I choose to ride the Bear Precisions because I feel they are some of the best trucks on the market. Add a small kicktail at the end and I’ve got a fully functional downhill skateboard. It also has a slight w-concave in the back and rocker throughout the board. The Osteon from Landyachtz has a micro-drop in the front that helps me know that my foot is exactly where I want it to be. This setup allows me to grip and rip and accelerate out of every turn. I ride Radikal cnc precision trucks with Venom bushings and Sk8Kings Turbo aluminum core wheels with Oust Moc 9 bearings. The deck has a new lightweight carbon fiber/wood composite construction for snappy drive. My slalom racing setup is a super grippy speed machine. I ride 44 degree Caliber trucks for their stability and predictability when going fast and sliding big. If it’s a bit hotter out, I like the purple 83a Keanus to keep from icing out too easily. I like to freeride on the yellow 86a Oranagatang Keanus because they slide for days and almost never wear down. The awesome wheel wells make it so there’s never any chance for wheelbite and I always know where I am on the board. I ride the Loaded Truncated Tesseract because it has the perfect W-concave to keep me locked in while I’m blasting toesides. I set mine up with Caliber Precisions or Caliber II’s, Blood Orange barrel or wedges, and my Rider Approved Design pro-model wheels. Two more things to mention about my board would be the fully functional kick tail, and the four leaf clover that makes you go 10% faster. The micro-drop is subtle, so no top mount agility is sacrificed. I’m stoked on how it shaped out! My board features a tub concave that binds your feet for downhill and free-riding, a mellow rocker, and a micro-drop to lock in your slides. At the end of the day I wanted it to be a skateboard, not a Nascar-esque hill bomber.
I designed my board to be fun and simple. I keep it set up with 10” 44 Calibers, Blood Orange wedge bushings, and rotate between any of the duros and sizes of my pro-model Blood Orange wheel line up. If you’re doing it right, that’s all you need.
It has micro-drops and a nice tub concave to lock you in.
It is not a crazy over-engineered mold like a lot of other boards out there today. I designed my board to be simple yet functional. To top it all off, I have some RDVX and a PSD footstop to keep me even more locked on to my board. My Rad Advantages keep me ripping and gripping through corners. I have mounted the Ronin Pro-Lite Billets with a 45 degree base plate in the front and a 30 degree in the back, complete with RipTide bushings. I’m going top-mounted this year and switching over to the Original Skateboards Baffle 37. We had a chance to ask some of your favorite riders what they rode and why it worked for them. There are an unlimited number of ways that you can set up your ride. The truth is that skaters are truly spoiled for choice. When it comes to riding, each of us has our own personal view on what works.
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