Here's to hoping you get your setup completed soon and get out skating to any degree that you can. I'm 34 and picked skating back up again after a 16-year break. I'm finally doing something I love again instead of only ever leaving home to work or mandatory shop. I have something again where I'm in full control. Where I can put effort in and see results unlike at work where I can put in all I have and watch people with half the experience and 10% the drive get thrown in front of me because they have the right friends. I feel alive again.

@@SkinnySkates Sounds awesome man, thank you!

similar situation , keep on skating brother!

@@isaiahstorm4502 Trucks are finally coming tomorrow, I can finally put it together, lol.

27 just picked up the 7ply daddy heron. We will get into it together my dude! having a reason to get out and move around in a fun way will work wonders for your outlook.

So true respect and love ❤

does it sometimes break after a few weeks? what makes you retire it? I heard the flight decks basically don't snap, that's why I ask.

@@edelhardtearnhardt8171 I break a regular maple deck in a few weeks, very rarely will they make a month without chipping or outright snapping to the point where they're unusable. Flight decks pretty much don't snap, but eventually the tail gets so short that you can't pop for shit 🤣 So far, I've only seen one Flight Deck actually snap but I used it for 6 months or so, and it went through two more people before the third kid finally broke it lol and he skated it while it was cracked for a week or two.

His future is in design just like George Powell. Them coming togther really was a aweome thing. I'm a big fan of the both of them.

I hope you did it man it's never too late to skate 🤙 and the Andy boards are on another level over the standard popsicle board

he did it

@@benmc12 I’m well aware. If you look at the date of my comment that was 5 months ago.

A lot of tech skaters are jealous. He is miles ahead of them.

@mackash In my opinion he is 1/3rd Daewong, 1/3rd Rodney, and 1/3rd from another galaxy!

With a hint of Gonz.@@LinkMassing

@@mackash WORD!

Alot of people would call him "dorky" Doesn't change my opinion either way, he is still my fav

How is it? I have been fighting between the 9.13 inch and 8.45, I am looking for something that can cruise around and do tricks. I know it could cruise but I don't know if it can do kickflips or pop shove its.

So I've skate this thing for like 2 months now, initially it was hard to do tricks on it, I couldn't Ollie, it felt weird for like 2 weeks, but then! As it wore out I got better and better, the tail and nose lost their original shape but my tricks improved instead, it does chip away easily but I counter it with super glue, and cruise wise , it is a stable board I imagine the 9.13 is even more stable , but this one is fine for me at least, oh yeah also I had to switch back to 53 mm dragons because of wheel bite, I'm using forged hollow indys 144 with no risers

@K_spawn I already bought it and have no regrets. Like you said, it's kinda hard to do tricks, but it's really fun to ride.

I got the newest deck and nano wheels. Had 8" trucks but just upgraded to 8.25 thunders. He uses mini logo trucks that are like 8.3 something

They feel Very Different ! But Primo feels almost the same just improved. The biggest difference in how they feel has to do with the size. The Vajra feels so tiny in comparison 😂

I swear if I learn too much more ima get so mad 😂

The black is a 7 Ply and the blue is a FLIGHT Deck ;)

@@powellperalta I’m glad you told me. I ordered the black 7 ply and had to change my order to the flight deck! Thanks 🙏

I currently ride a reissue 10” and have been considering downsizing to this board. I would love if Powell made 10”+ popsicle or shaped decks with a nose.

@@theburt112 right! i rode the 10.5 hosoi hammerhead & loved it, among other reissue boards. the smallest i feel comfortable riding is about 9.0 i say try it out! i think heroin or scram has a 10.0+ popsicle (:

Previous to making the Heron 1 I was riding 9.5/ 10” boards from various pros, when I got the chance to make my own board, I decided that 9.1 was the smallest I could go. It stayed that way for me for about 7 years, and many of those years, people including Stacy P and my Olympic coach Sean Hayes were begging to get me into skating smaller boards, I wouldn’t budge ! I didn’t want to skate anything different until I was so sick of my competition deck. Then it took me two years to settle on the Vajra size and plan to stay there for the next span of years ❤ tmi ? Maybe . Thanks for reading if you got this far

@@authenticandyanderson thx 4 the insight! read it all (;

For flips, it will feel awesome to have the smaller board. The egg and the Vajra have the same foot space and almost the same length. The egg definitely has more meat on it, but if you’re looking to up your flat game, I’d definitely go for the Vajra ! Specially cause it’s a flight you don’t gotta worry about the smallness making it weaker aswell

@@authenticandyanderson I appreciate the response and insight brother, already picked up your nanocubics and love them so the deck is next on my list! Keep shredding dude!

😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅 have u seen hom explain his etni3s shoe like he invented everything on it? He stole the airwalk flap over the laces from 1992😅 and they're grandpa shoes aside from that lol and he called them 'vegan leather'😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

BECAUSE THEY FLIP EASIER DIPSHIT😅

I'm 6'1 180 lbs and skate 7.75 or 7.875 x 32 or 32.5 in the 90s I skated 7.65!!!!!!!

Corny as hell he is

And pogo 🙄 natural

Good God dude you people are what's wrong with skateboarding. And ur also the reason pros don't get paid anything without huge corporate sponsors. How old are you

That's what Val said ooooohhhh 😋😇 🫒