It's been 3 weeks since I received my Loaded Chinchiller. I've used it mostly for moving around in the city and suburbs. I also tried a little bit of dancing and freestyle, and a bit of sliding too.
The board seems very versatile. The size of 34" is perfect for me, stable enough and easy to carry. The flex and the Paris V3 (with a 21" wheelbase) make it a very good carving machine.
The stock wheels (Orangatang 65 mm 80a Love Handles) are maybe a bit small for my liking, so I'm going to mount a set 72 mm Hawgs Plow Kings and see how it feels.
Sweet, I dig the specs of the chinchiller, how do you like it for freestyle in particular?
I just ordered my very first freestyle longboard (this was solely skateboard terrain for me up to now) today and I'm beyond exited - but also more than skeptical about my ability to transfer my already dubious skill set to a board of much bigger size, but well, I digress..
Well, I'm a complete beginner when it comes to freestyle and practice basic tricks like 180 pivot or shuvit. And I get what you mean by transferring your skills from board to board! Coming from a much longer, wider and heavier board (a Loaded Tesseract), I'm still a bit disoriented by how much lighter and easier to pop the Chinchiller is.
I may be wrong, but I think that the Chinchiller's length will make grab tricks like tiger claw or aeroflip harder to perform than with a longer board. But I haven't tried yet, to be honest.
By the way, which board have you ordered? And please let us know how it goes when you get it!
Yeah, I'm sure that's a change, but these fancy mellow dancer kicks on a compact board like this definitely have their charm for me. In general this board looks pretty fun and chill, hope it meets your expectations.
180 pivots were my first trick too, and, as a relatively slow learner, I was that proud, when I finally got to make them consistent at 180 degree.
After long back and forth, I decided to play safe and went with the Switch Muskrat (deck only).
I own one of their earlier cruiser boards (2018 maybe? A friend from Poland gave it to me back then) already, so no doubt here about quality, and above all, durability.
Usually riding shorter and more skinny boards myself, I'm still a bit intimated by its size though. Your "I think that the Chinchiller's length will make grab tricks like tiger claw or aeroflip harder to perform than with a longer board" is my "how should I be able to pop a tank like this more than 1cm high, let alone flip it?" But in the end, I'm quite positive both of us will adapt to our shiny new toys. Hopefully.
Yes, I'll make sure to leave a review here after I got some time with it (now, if only GLS could hurry up a bit..).
Wow! Great design, perfect shape, polyurethane sidewalls, totally waterproof, and 3 different truck positions!? You certainly picked a great board!
:)
Thanks for encouraging my enthusiasm, I too think it's gorgeous (and supposed to arrive today, yay)!