This video represents a trend I see a lot in Rollerblading these days.. People buying all sorts of different frames and wheels, switching set ups frequently and experimenting with everything in a rapid fire kind of way, and then seeming to be more confused about what set up they prefer afterwards. Honestly, I think you're a good enough skater that if you just choose a set up and go with it... Pick a frame, stick with anti or flat, but pick one, even pick a wheel size and shape and stick with that.. Put in a solid year on that set up, whatever it may be. I don't think any set up checks all the boxes, but there's so many set ups, many of which you tried in the last few months, that are thoroughly enjoyable. As far as reviewing products on youtube and whatnot, focusing on testing one product for a prolonged period of time is crucial to providing a meaningful review. Everybody goes through the adjustment periods when changing big things on their skates... It's cool to hear about that adjustment period of the individual in the review, but how someone feels about the product after adjusting to it and using it regularly is the real info most are looking for.

I was a pro skater back in 1995 and seeing these skaters today, it's mindblowing how great they are! It also seems like inlining is making a comeback!

I've just started riding a 65mm bullet anti rocker set up on flt3s and they are great!

Great video!! I'm 2020 also the whole year drove the USD Aeons Flat but it just felt so good afterwards to drive anti-rocker again. Once again a very successful video. I'm always waiting for your next uploads, from you one can learn so much. Keep it up!

Good to see that not everyone sees flat as the ultimate way to skate. Personally, I grind a lot and get along better with freestyle or anti setups. Atm I prefer to change skates as needed. Btw another endboss skill episode. ✌️

I noticed that virtually none of your frames have the grooves broken in, which will always skew how they ride out of the box vs being broken in. Much of the groove height issues you were feeling in the Oysi medium chassis goes away once you have a session on a curb just to break in the royale grooves a bit. Also if you have multiple setups for different obstacles that might work for you too. Keep an anti setup for ledges, and a flat setup for bowls and transitions. Great skating, editing, and content as usual!

You're a rail/ledge dancer, I'm surprised you stayed flat this long haha!

Good use of session clips to give product/point purposefulness 👍

Super informative vid and rad skating! FLT3 all the way for me.

Well you definitely proved you can ride flat if you want to. Great breakdown on your gear preferences (and great skating). Would love to see your reaction to 50/50 Prime frames at some point

woah dude, was not expecting such an awesome video. great content! subscribed :)

i was flabbergasted that people who wanted to grind started putting real wheels in the middle again. my thoughts were that it was a bunch of kids who didn’t grow up chunking out on a royale skating street. i adjusted to flat in the end because i basically can’t have small wheels, and i’m tired of buying $40 of wheels every few months. everyone who transitions to flat loses grinds. at my age these days i don’t care. i’d rather hit a huge soul on something big then 360 into a grind on something small.

haha I just came to the same conclusion. Been riding 55mm Redeye on Kizer Fluid V and honestly love it, but just don't want to overthink every time I approached a ledge, and the flat 55 was slower than my 60mm anti setup. Could be bearings I suppose though. I ride razors shifts so I'm keeping the flat setup around if I end up changing my mind :-)

Flat or anti...at the end of the day it comes down to what you feel most comfortably on. Don't get caught up (too much) in hypes & focus on what works best for you. :) P.S.: cool & insightful video!

I'm surprised no one mentioned using 95a for the middle wheels. Sick skating btw!

I love seeing oak city sticker in so many rollerblading videos. I'm so proud of Long lol

I love the A.P FL/\T frames, pricey but worth it. I have big wheel kaltiks too when I want to get sloppy.

Second the aluminum core wheels that Tim mentioned! I have a hockey background and enjoyed flat for a while too. Now that I'm older I'd prefer not to stick and die so I went back to anti rocker. I tried the 60mm 88a undercover Apex wheels at an indoor park and my blade life was instantly changed. I didn't miss flat at all. Great speed while having that anti rocker peace of mind. I have 64mm 90a Famus wheels for outdoor parks and those are amazing too.

I came here for your message and didn't want to see the action... until I saw the action. Your tech skills are off the bearings.

I admire your patience going through all this 🤣

I'd be really interested in you trying something like the Kaltik v1 flat with 55mm. But understandable that you're back on anti. Great skating!

You have some sick moves I've never seen. Getting back into. It. Just need to figure out a good setup for some serious riding

I been freestyle and anti rocker for 17 years. masterblade frames have the sweetspot of flat with anti rocker. A plus is they are wicked fast on all grinds.

Anti for 22 years, new to flat 55mm to 58mm and i love it. But i always have a anti-rocker setup with me. I love the stability of anti-rocker and i love the flat-rocker to be easier on my knee. If i roll im just happy!!!!

I've always been an antirocker guy since the genesis...box cars with midgets. I've tinkered with flat on occasion but never really worked out for me. Now I'm coming back to blading after an 8 year hiatus & with the advent of skates such as the Aeon I figured I'd give it another go. Supposedly wheel bite & flat is all but a thing of the past or so the story goes. My very first attempt at a grind after my hiatus...boom, bit the dust on a ledge. Then I tried to remedy that with a harder durometer for middle wheels but still maintaining 60mm on all 4. Better but still eatin' ish 1 out of 3-4x. I'm not a spring chicken anymore so that's not feasible. Then tried bullet profile wheels. Success rate with those I could live with but rolling around feels wonky to me. So I finally said screw this flat ish & got me some Moonshine antirockers. Now I got folks telling me, "that defeats the purpose of Aeons". yeah, yeah...I know but whatever. Antirocker has always worked for me. I never felt the need where it was imperitive to go flat. Long story short, if it ain't broke don't fix it.

Great vid

Great video dude. 👍

I used to slide with flt2 but tried fluid v and i love it.

Great episode! Very insightful on different frames and wheel setups. I recently ventured from my Aeons to try UFS and I’ve found the Kizer Fluid Vs are solid for flat. I’m riding them 55mm flat and I don’t think it’s possible to get wheel bite. I’m beginner level though and haven’t tried complex grinds. Seems that they wouldn’t be too good for Flowey switch ups though. Once you’re locked in the groove, it’s like you’re on a train track 😁🙌

those winter bails hit different!

I’ve heard the entente frames for flat are pretty much the best way to go. They are expensive though. Shipping to the US and the cost of the frame is pretty much the same cost as a cheap boot only. $200 I think.

Stoked to see that 68mm fit on THEM Street Frame. I've been rolling around lately casually on GC HD80s which has been super fun. But then switched back to Dead 58mm/Anti recently for a park session which felt really strange. I tried 50/50 65mm/Anti as well, which felt a bit faster but still nothing like the 80's. Curious if a more bullet profile like the UC/Iqon 68mm might feel good in an anti set up! Thanks for all your experimentation and willingness to share!

If you get a chance to try an aluminum core 60mm anti-rocker set up, you can recover a very noticeable amount of speed. I've tried the Famus, Core UK, UC Apex, and Moonshine White Lightning and all of them function about the same. Really fast!

sweet skating

That deep fish had me losing my mind.

I’m going through this now, frame and wheel setup crisis! But I also like experimenting and experiencing different options and gear. Great video!

I've never ridden a flat, been skating on and off since the 90's and I'm finally gonna try a flat set up, even though the cost of an extra set on wheels and bearings sucks. Want to see what its like.

Hey, could you elaborate on what you meant by the 68mm on the Oysi being "too tall?" I'm considering that setup for my first set of skates and I'm not sure if I want to go through with it. Thank you!

Oh boy Rollerblading has turned in to an Adult Man Hobby. We started collecting garbage and comparing it's size with others online.

What if the the inner wheels could be made out of a different material that didn't bite so much. I'm not sure what that material would be but you could still have a flat set up with less bite. Or maybe thinner inner wheels so there'd be less chance of bite but still have a flat ride?

For me, the small creates are too short, the large is too long. The small Them street frames and small Roces Street frames are prefect for me.

Seems like where you live it snows every month of the year..

We're you using oysi mediums on the pat ridders? I've got the ridders with oysi mediums 65mm outer and 58mm and don't get much wheel bite.

Sonic wax is so good. Hard to find now tho cuz I think its out of production. Smells like blueberries.

First time i skated flat was in 2005 and i got a wheel bite and got a bruise on my back amd ever since then I prefer anti rockers all the way

I thought Create originals were 59mm max on the outside wheel… you fit a 60mm wheel no adjustments?

try aeon 60s best light skate responsive like a carbon

It prob shouldn't matter but I've always found big wheel anti setups to just look too goofy

oysi shine on razors with deeper channels making them lower

Is it bad to skate flat frames with an anti rocker setup?

Those are anti rocker frames. And when your flat frames get a big groove like that transition them to anti rocker.

Lol, are all skaters 30+ now?

I'm done with flat because of wheel bite. Here's a bunch of clips of me not getting wheel bite riding flat. Every trick you bailed was because you missed, not the setup.

Thing is other than the oysi frames none of these are really good for flat get a fluid v or flt4 would be way ahead to start with

sonic wax sucks :0

if ýou can do ýour grinds flat, ýou can do them anti too.. if ýou can do them "onlý" anti, ýou cant do them flat.. that mý friends saýs it all.. 😄

ok, bye.