this is like saturday morning tv for skate nerds. thanks to Ben and the Professor for taking the time to make such a cool video.

This information Professor Schmitt is sharing is gold worth and so interesting to see. I grew up skating in the 90s and this information we could never dream of. Every time you went to the skate shop you tried a different board shape and got used to the board, the end. Now with all the knowledge and we are going back to old school shapes, skateboarding has revolutionized itself and went full circle.

My little brother passed last year and left an almost pristine skateboard. With my 11yr old kid just starting out I felt obligated to give it a go, put the board to use and be a part of my kid's journey. I'm 45 and was never really very good even when I did skate as a teenager. I don't envision any flip tricks in my future but as a beginner who's now semi-obsessed, I've been loving your content and appreciate the effort you put in providing it 👍

Watching somebody with such a strong passion for what he does after so many years in the industry is amazing.

Man, this is just the right amount of nerdiness for me. Prof. Schmitt strikes a fun middle ground between mad scientist and expert in his field. Side note-This little trip has been great for your sub count, good to see man!

I can back 3 in my dreams too. All pop. Great video to watch with my morning coffee.

I really hope you did a nine club episode while you were on your trip

Watching Tampa Pro on my TV (Brian Anderson, 46 years old just did his first run), watching Ben DeGros and Paul Schmitt on my phone, and setting up a christmas complete, while it's -12C and 2 feet of snow on the ground...but my garage skatepark awaits. This is a good day.

Keep it coming! Those videos with PPS are THE BEST!!!

unironically, thank you for the nerdiest skate content i've ever seen. more please!

I could listen to you guys for hours… Setting up my boards for around 35 years (yes 48 years old), I recently started to prepare the holes with a 90-degree sinker just as big as the diameter of the bolthead for two reasons: I don’t like it when the bolts stick out the grip too far ( feeling and esthetics ) AND there are no pressure-cracks around the holes anymore…works fine for me ✌️from Germany

thanks for all the good content over the years ben, really enjoy when you upload.

I honestly think that the mind also plays a huge role in how the board feels. I recently cleaned my bearings and re-lubed them and now the whole board sounds different (it doesn't have those high rustling sounds anymore). It completely changed how it feels for me. Kinda feels like it lost its snap and is more mushy like it got wet or something (which i know is not the case).

That was rad. Man, when I was a kid, we didn’t know shit about boards. We had deck width preferences, deck shape and concave, truck preference, wheel size preferences, but I’m not sure we knew why really. The grip under the truck and checking to see if trucks were straight is something I’ve never seen nor thought of in my life. I sorta wonder now had I figured out the minutia as a kid, I could’ve ironed out the variables that wasted my time forcing me to adjust to a new set-up every time, just to start over again in a month when my deck was toast. I loved my trucks worn in cause I did lots of kgrinds and 5-0s. I also got used to the bent uneven bushings. So I hated changing trucks out. Decks I just did my best to find 7.75 boards that were more rounded less pointed. Lots of good content here in this one. 👏👏🤙🤙

This is what we all need. Skateboarding edumacation.

Been watching ben for a about 2/3 years now and its cool to see how far his come. I love going back to his old videos from time to time to see how blossomed in front of the camera from then to now.

I hope these kinds of videos will push brands to highlight these measurements on their website, it makes a whole lot of difference once you wanna buy something specific

Love this video, thanks to both of you for making it!

Love hearing from the professor of skateboards ♥ thanks Ben, Salute!

These kinds of videos are some of the best skate content on this thing. Love it.

This was wholesome and wonderful to watch. A couple of the biggest board nerds out there, nerding out on a board. Thanks for sharing!

Wow, that griptape baseplate hack is cool. Also I can confirm that the Tensor nubs actually work really well too. I had never even thought about checking to see if my baseplates were straight but sure enough just took a framing square to both my boards that ive got setup with Tensors and they're both perfectly straight.

I love this so much. I’ve learned so much from both of you!! That grip tape trick is amazing. Thank you Paul and Ben for this video

The chemistry was much better in this video. Love it. Super valuable stuff that nobody else covers.

This was one of the greatest skateboard videos I've ever seen in my life and I'm almost 40 years old.

Great episode - Mr Schmitt has so much knowledge in everything when comes to skateboards. And as far as your trip goes - I would think meeting with him and picking his brain would be the highlight of your trip.

Thank you Professor Schmitt. You're a perfect fit for Ben's channel. 😊 Great deck analysis For example I'm immediately going to check if my trucks are parallel with each other.

Almost 100k😮🎉🎉❤

Yep, I have a feeling this won't be the last time we'll be visiting with the professor. Great Chemistry between you two nerds!

the collab we've been waiting for for 5 years!

This is very relevant information for Skateboards builder. Thank you for your great content. Interesting and entertaining.

Fascinating. The golden combo Degros and Schmitt!

Ben, you two need to work together or start a series! This is so great! When he called you a princess, that was amazing!

Thank you for this. Just what I needed.

Thanks Ben for another really awesome Vid !! Hope to see a Nine club of you soon Much Love ❤️🤘🏻🛹🇿🇦

I'd have had to grip both trucks too, that kind of thing would keep me up at night, lol

two of my favorite people in the industry. really enoyed this

Of course you weigh your trucks after 😂

Thank you Ben for this video! ❤ I can not imagine anybody who´s more of a dedicated skateboaring nerd than you two guys. 😁 Keeping in mind many of your other videos, (Truck Madness for example), i had to laugh out loud several times as you were talking about so much other skate related stuff like trucks, wheels etc. beside from only the board itself...

I love how nerdy and in-depth this video is, fantastic work! Also, Ben, what pants are those?

I love this series with the professor.

There’s an uncomfortable tension in this video I can’t explain it

the video we´ve all been waiting for :D

Professor Schmitt's a wise man that knows any secret about skateboarding industry, nice to hear a few things and take a look and learn a lot. 💎💎👍👍✔✔

Love this stuff! The Professor should have his own channel

Pre-loaded Rocker= brilliance. Paul & crew make the finest cues. 🔥. Shout out to PS STIX Up cycle project!

great fun, thanks for the cool vid.

Dream duo come tru, the insight is incredible

Hello from the UK thanks for your videos. Love you 😘

I KNEW you wouldnt be able let that 1 truck griptape "riser" slide 🤣💕👍

Paul Schmitt is the absolute goat! I really respect someone who has put there whole life into something they love. I can’t imagine how many skaters he’s helped and educated. He deserves a place in a hall of fame somewhere

This was such a cool video hearing this mad scientist of skateboards

you kinda look like a blood elf from world of warcraft

Amazing vid! Thanks from Brasil

He's not a scientist, he's a wizard. Brilliant video

Thank you for coming to Fort St John and supporting my community! Wish i could have met you! 🎉

Really cool video Ben, you're the cream of the crop mate. Love it. Shoutout to Prof Schmitt it was super interesting.

Ben, you're a bad ass and I like your content. Thank you good sir

Professor Schmitt and Ben Degros talking skateboards = bliss. Such a good video and I’m now going to have to go through and look at all my different setups for those little differences and straighten my trucks 😂 thanks you guys 👊

I put a piece of bicycle inner tube rubber under each truck baseplate that I cut with a scissors in the exact size and shape of the bottom of the baseplate to stop the annoying moving around of the trucks after assembly and during the break in period all the way till the deck is dead and I remove the trucks and install it to a new deck if the trucks still have life in them. Where the holes for the hardware goes I cut a tiny square piece of rubber away as drilling is a no go. Drilling a thin rubber will only turn into a tangled mess. But I like the grip tape idea. I think that I will try it in the near future.

I agree with the hardware issue. The Indy heads are too large so even if you tighten from the underside, it still creates craters on the griptape. The holes should be beveled.

What a cool vid Ben, thanks for sharing this. You're so fortunate to have had this experience with Professor Schmitt, a dream, maybe? What was the most valuable thing you learned?

Love your content! One thing I have been experimenting with on my last few decks. Countersink sow in reverse and then sand to 220 grit on the top ply. Just a small amount to give some space for hardware. I do this pre-grip and then once gripped I do the same to clean the grip from under the hardware. It has worked extremely well and allows larger hardware (greater surface area to spread load) to sit more flush and no mushroom to worry about. Clearly this requires setup at home but if you do this pre-park and have a freshie as a backup well.. yeah, give it a whirl!

Dude this is gold

Uncle Ben + Professor Paul have me wanting to measure everything now for the sake of skateology!

great episode!

Thanks Ben and P Stix for helping skaters find there goldylox board . God bless brother and peace be with you Ben

Holy shit! Vancouver Carpenter and Paul Schmidt? What a find! Great to see this!!!!

Very interesting thank you so much!

that Silver Play Button is getting closer and closer.. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

This is as close as I'm ever going to get to watching a psychic give a reading

i laughed out loud a lot, but the one that really got me was grip taping the back truck as well since the front is now "higher." i've only started skating but nerding out is the fun part.

Love the info! Keep up the good vids! Can't wait to throw griptape under my indy's!! Going faster is what i need LOL!!

"I get it princess it's okay" lol I'd be the same way. 😂

Oh the other cool way with his griptape on truck method is because the tape is being poked through the truck holes, it sort of acts like a collar around the hardware to remove some of the tolerance between the hole size and hardware width. I'm definitely going start doing this.

geeking out galore 💪💪💪💪💪

always great

Probably the most skate nerd video!👌🏻 I'm not sure about the grip tape under the trucks to!😂

Awesome!

Have you considered reviewing ace hollows af1’s? Out of the standard indy and thunders ive tried, the ace hollows are my favorite by far

Been skating a few years now, and I only just started paying attention to measurements of different decks

It gets better and better the longer the video goes! 🤙🏽

Brilliant

good saturday morning content

"Can we do the back truck too because now my front truck is taller." I felt that

LMAO when you made him grip the back truck also xD had to scratch that itch

Love that you call yourself Princess when you get precious. I am a self confessed Princess too and I embrace it 🫅🏻

The goat and goat together agin 💯👊🏽🔥🛹

24:11 ohh thats one way to test it. i've felt that before too and i alsoo did the same grip under the baseplate method because i realized it was caused by the truck holes being widened and loose

100k soon 🎉

👍🍒 cherry on top!

29:03 lol I love Professor Schmitt and ‘Schmitt Stix’ was my first real board - Chris Miller * Faces/Dog full 10” I’ve also bought the reissue and compared it to my OG from 1989 and it lined up perfectly, amazing!

Schmitt Stix Forever!

Such a grandpa and dad nostalgia in one video 😂❤

Interesting to hear the rocker vs camber aspect. In snowboarding camber boards have more pop then a rocker board.

That's how the pro's do it 💥🤙

Wonder who made the AWS mind field boards? Had the Arto Saari 8.5 and everything about that board was it.

that was great. I got a bunch of stuff from that.

Love it

i knew that some freestyle boards have rocker to center their foot for footwork but i did not realize that a lot of street deck molds actually had rocker too