Landyachtz VS Sector 9

The battle of a longboarders life is constantly choosing boards. With different companies to choose from such as Sector Nine, Landyachtz, Arbor, Element, Jet, Comet, Black Tie, and many more you have a wide variety of shapes and styles.

However our main focus today is Sector Nine and Landyachtz. These two board companies have been ranked 1st and second, and the results changing from site to site but these companies are always top 2. So today I've decided to do an overall factual review with some of my opinion to talk about these boards.

Sector Nine, is a high priced company with great quality boards. They are also known well for their wheels too. Their boards are usually manufactured from a high quality maple or bamboo. Bamboo for cruising or carving and maple for free ride and downhill. I myself ride a Super Shaka from Sector Nine, with Butterballs their well known wheels. I find Sector 9 to be a great company for freeride and downhill boards, but not so much for cruising.

Landyachtz has great cruisers such as the Bamboo Totem, but I don't really like many other boards except for the "Switch" series. You'll find if you buy a Landyachtz board it won't have great pop, if you're looking for boards like that go for the Bustin YoFace, or the only good cruising Landyachtz which is the ripple ridge. Besides that in my opinion they have a few good downhill boards, but alot of them de- laminate after 10 minutes of rain or even a few ghostride kickflips.

Landyachtz recently released there dinghy line making users more happy with many cool designs to choose from. I'm not saying I don't like Landyachtz, I myself have owned an Evo, Ripple Ridge, and Switch 40, and ridden some friends Top Speeds, I find them to be amazing decks, but some of the designs I don't like such as the Wolfshark's. Design doesn't really matter though. I find Landyachtz's drop-deck playforms rather unique. Not that it drops but how it's done. Such as on boards like the R5 or the Evo.

Overall I personally find the better company to be Landyachtz. Disagree? vote in this weeks poll!

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Shark Wheels. The Wheels That Bite... Literally.

I Personally bought these wheels fresh off of Kickstarter a website where you help growing entrepreneurs achieve there so called goal of making the world a better place. Now the second i got these wheels they felt rather odd. The outer part of the wheel was tearing and they felt like a cheap plastic. I decided to give them a shot anyway, I rode these wheels down a local hill at around 45kmh. A relatively slow speed for some. But coming up to slide at the end these wheels wouldn't shred any thane and decided to stop dead in there tracks, launching me 5 feet off my board onto the ground. I went back to take a look at them only to find that after a mere day of riding them i had already "Puked,Cored,Melted" the inner core of my wheel.

 So I do what any of us would do I call the company not only do they tell me I can't return them because i rode them for an hour, but that the wheels weren't designed for slides. If you had watched the original video for this product you would have seen a mid teen pulling 180 slides straight down the hill no problem. I continued t ride these wheels and more problems sprung up including the plastic that melted getting into the threads on my trucks, and the wheels became more square the more I rode. I was beginning to sound my like a 1970 Harley Davidson motorcycle then a teen on a skateboard. 

My Overall conclusion is that these wheels bite and seem like something you'd get from Walmart for 20$

I would rate them;

Sliding- 1

Downhill Speed- 4

Freestyle- 1

Looks- 8

Durability- 1

These wheels were too much hype, and no use. There's no good purpose for these wheels and never will be. Stay tuned for next weeks edition on Top 10 Christmas Gifts