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Rocker, Rails, or Foil?
- Thread starter nep
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<strong>sorry nep, i just don't get it. alone they mean nothing. only perfectly balanced together do they bring joy. am i choosing my fav. characteristic or the most important or que?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">i think the point is ... it's friday afternoon ... don't try to hard on this one ... just relax ... let your mind go ... which one speaks to you ... rails ... oh yeah baby ... i'm channeling jackie now ... rocker ... oh yeah ... yeah, yeah ... or ... foil ... the rebel ... the one that doesn't begin with an R baby ... oh yeah ... feel the love ... now vote baby ... vote ... vote ... vote ... this ain't no Floridian ballot ... just do it ...
I'm a foil man. All are important; harmony and balance must be achieved. But if I have to pick one as the most fundamental it's foil. It's gotta have the right balance, thick and thin where I want it to be. Rails are second, for catch-free control. Rocker's probably more important than I realize, but nowadays it's just too complex and subtle for me to do much more than trust my shaper.
Foil can be described as the rate of change of volume throughout the board. Good foil is the correct balance of all the other curves. If you look at an old longboard or even a shortboard from 7 or 8 years ago and you compare them with their modern couterparts you'll notice how thick, and crude the older models are.
nep - that was very inspiring. I'm voting for some foil. Floridan ballot indeed! TWPFF
[ January 24, 2003, 07:22 PM: Message edited by: Umbra ]
