What gear did the winners of the World Dance Championships 2023 use?
This is a blog I started and not every skater got back to me so I never posted the article.
I like the idea of asking competition winners what is their set up, just to give new people coming into the sport realistic expectations of what gear is required and also for skateshop owners to know what they should stock. Not many skaters used gear you can not readily buy at a skateshop.
What surprised me is the size of the wheels, I did not expect everyone to be using small wheels. But is makes sense, smaller wheels are lighter and faster take off.
Winner of Hippy Jump (1.3m)
Aboubakry Seck (2018 and 2019 World Champion)
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Board: Majutsu
Trucks: Paris
Wheels: ?
Winner of Best G-Turn
Sven Schiefer (Longboard Dance & Freestyle World Champion 2022)
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Board: Armadillo by Simple Longboards (This is Sven's new pro model to be released soon)
Trucks: Pinto CNC Trucks
Wheels: Powell Peralta G-slides 59mm 85a
Winner of Best Trick with FS Flip
Chae won Lee
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Board: Rebirth Grid 44.5 inch longboards
Trucks: Rebirth Meow trucks
Wheels: Rebirth Candy wheels
Winner of Intermediate Womens Dance
Sanne Schut
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Board: Travelol Place 1.17
Trucks: Normally uses Air trucks, for the competition she used Air/Caliber (CalibAir) because she broke her Air kingpin and used a Caliber baseplate.
Wheels: 66mm Blood Orange Smoke with Orangatang Nipple bushings
Second in Intermediate Womens Dance
Romane Jacquot
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Board: Axolotl deck by Timber Longboards (41 inch)
Trucks: Caliber 2 trucks
Wheels: 60mm Lucky Wheels in green (her favourite colour).
Note:
In eindhoven this year I skated an axolotl from timber ( i wasn’t sponsored yet ), with caliber 2 and skate lucky weels in 60mm (caliber and weels in green, because this is my favorite color aha 😊)
At eindhoven I won paris trucks, and I broke my caliber a few days after, so I started to use paris trucks… and I liked them a lot !
Caliber helped me a lot to learn new tricks, but Paris helped me to improve my dancing, especially for the carves. Now I’m sponsored by Timber, I still ride the axolotl deck. And I still have my skate lucky weels, they are really long lasting compare to blood orange I had before.
Third in Intermediate Womens Dance
Pauline Michaud, founder of Switzerland's Longboard Girls Crew
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Board: Pake longboard
Trucks: Paris V3 trucks in 50 degree
Wheels: 65mm Liam Morgan Pro
Winner of Intermediate Open Dance
Oscar Stls
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Board: Loaded ?
Trucks: Paris ?
Wheels: ?
Second in Intermediate Open Dance
Merijn jvn
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Board: Crown board (mini tribe?)
Trucks: Caliber trucks
Wheels:
Third in Intermediate Open Dance
Siep Escher
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Board: Bastl Boards Bolero
Trucks: CalibAIR trucks (cal base and air hangers)
Wheels: Powell Peralta 60 mm Rat Bones
Winner of Dance Open Pro and World Champion
Antoine Ferrer (AJ)
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Board: Travelol Marble 43
Trucks: Paris 180 V3
Wheels: Lucky Archetype sixty wheels
Second in Dance Open Pro
Tristan de la Treille
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Board: Zenit
Trucks: Air Trucks
Wheels: ?
Third in Dance Open Pro
Allard Hebbink
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Board: Timber Axolotl longboard
Trucks: Caliber trucks 50 degrees
Wheels: OJ Wheels
Winner of Dance Womens Pro (Women's World Champion)
Chae won Lee
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Board: Rebirth Grid 44.5 inch longboards
Trucks: Rebirth Meow trucks
Wheels: Rebirth Candy wheels
Second in Dance Womens Pro
Noémi Miljevic
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Board: Zenit Judo deck in normal flex
Trucks: Paris v3 trucks
Wheels: 60mm 83a Zenit Horizon wheels
Third in Dance Womens Pro
Jet Rutten
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Board: Crown Mini Tribe
Trucks: Caliber 3 raked
Wheels: 60mm Lucky wheels