Loaded Dancer Longboard - After 2 years in development the Dancer is now available and is, in our opinion, the finest 55 inches of slight camber dual core bamboo you will ever have the pleasure to rest the soles of your feet on.

The Loaded Board’s mission is to enhance the conscious experience of flow and the love of the ride. We strive to build the best and most innovative boards so as to promote soulful lines and fluid carves. Through enhancing the experience of ones body in nature we hope to stimulate awareness of the impact we make on our environment and instigate creative responses.

Design & Construction - Our skate decks are built around the trucks and wheels in order to createsynergistic carving systems. Parsimony drives our design. Achieving function in the most reduced fashion leads to better and more beautiful product and also allows us to minimise toxicity and promote sustainability. Our construction combines aerospace / snowboard construction with tried and true skateboard curvatures. Concave and camber, a vert lam bamboo core sandwiched between triaxle fibreglass and epoxy, functional shapes, and top quality components achieve lively composite skateboards designed to skate a variety of terrain with enhanced control.

Bamboo - We are excited and proud to introduce Bamboo as our new core material. Structurally, Bamboo enhances the energy retention and rebound of our boards making them even more Loaded. They are stronger, lighter and more durable. Further, since Bamboo is a grass, it is a more renewable resource, growing 10 times quicker than Oak. Bamboo continues growing after being cut – leading to less environmental damage due to new growth and associated forest fire hazards. All this allows us to reduce the toxicity in the production of our cores. Hands down, it’s more fun to ride on grass.

With such a new board the likes of which have not been seen before we have some advice for all riders who want to enjoy the Dance.

HOW DOES THE DANCER SHAPE WORK?
55 inches long: a good dancing length, providing plenty of foot room. But it’s not way huge and clumsy. The dancer may even loose a few inches in the future.

9 inches wide: a nice size to allow plenty of foot room while still allowing you to find the edges easily and quickly.

The nose and tail curvatures are KEY: These subtle features really help with nose manuals and shovits and are a huge advantage over flat noses and tails. They are mellow and comfortable and really lock your feet in—giving you that extra leverage you need. Let’s face it, throwing around a 55in board is not easy. Having a little extra leverage is nice.

Nose and Tail shape: The Dancer is not symmetrical and is built like this for a reason. The nose and tail can perform the same tricks, but each has its own advantages and feel which is nice. The nose of the board is wider and shorter and is easier for nose manual tricks. The back tail is longer and narrower making it easier to get leverage for shovits. Plus a longer tail helps with manuals, providing that extra bit to scrap the ground if you mess up.

The wheel cut outs and wheel wells combined together make it very hard to get wheel bite: We feel it is important to be able to carve like a tiger on your dancer. We just didn’t want you to have to worry about wheel bite and adding tons of risers. Rest assured, the wheel cut outs are placed as wide as possible (while still preventing wheel bite) to give you maximum foot space.

Flat platform: No concave (and almost no camber). We made this board flat to bring it back to the original roots of our flat-homemade dancers. Flat platform for ultimate dancing comfort. Also, the flatness helps disperse the thrashing the board gets flipped on its back. Developing a flat board with a long wheelbase and the right amount of flex was very challenging and one of the reasons it took us so long to launch this board. In the future we may add slight concave to make the board even lighter—time shall tell.

Camber: Very minimal camber along the length of the board to keep the flex positive and the board damp and stable.

WHAT IS THE DANCER FLEX LIKE?
The Dancer does not have a trampoline like flex. It has a damp flex that enables you to have a very comfortable ride while still being able to do boardwalking and manual moves with ease and comfort.

HOW DOES THE BOARD BREAK IN?
With heavy use, the dancer will become slightly softer over time. However, it will not be a dramatic change. The board is pressed with a small amount of camber to help prevent dramatic sagging.

WHAT WHEELS DO YOU RECOMMEND?
We feel a 70mm wheel works the best, but of course you have other wheel options to choose from. Any wheel between 70mm-75mm will work however with a larger wheel you run the risk of getting wheel bite. When the free-ride wheel comes out that will be the new stock dancer wheel.

DO I NEED A RISER?
We recommend using the Paris trucks along with a standard 3/16th” risers. The risers help absorb some of the shock and vibrations, work with the wheel wells, and provide more wheel clearance.

SPRAY GRIP
The Dancer comes with a clear spray grip, which works very well. Once the spray grip wears off it is a good idea to add black magic griptape—especially on the nose and tail of the board where grip is most crucial.

MONSTERS
The Dancer is pressed with Adam Colton’s original monster artwork. The monsters will scare away bad energy and make rough roads turn into smooth butter pavement. They like to eat chocolate covered raisins.

WHY DOES THE DANCER COST SO MUCH?
The Dancer is made using 2 thick bamboo cores. Bamboo is not cheap.
The Dancer is pressed with 100% natural linen, which is a lot friendlier for the environment but costs more than the traditional fiberglass. The cure time for the Dancer in the press is 3 times that of a Dervish, so building costs are more expensive. It’s a big board, so it requires the use of more epoxy and a lot more time to finish the edges.

ANYTHING ELSE I NEED TO KNOW?
Make sure to feed the monsters and wrap the Dancer in a warm blanket at night and tell it a 5 minute bedtime story. Practice makes perfect, ENJOY.

Flex 1: 160 - 230+ lbs 72 to 105 Kg’s
Flex 2: 100 - 170+ lbs 45 to 77 Kg’s

To compliment your riding style Loaded is available in a number of set up options for the ultimate customised ride as well as decks which are graded for rider weight and performance.

Premium 1: Paris 180’s Raw, Orangatang InHeat* 75mm and Max Abec 5
Premium 2: Paris 180’s Raw, Orangatang 4President* 70mm and Max Abec 5
Premium 3: Gullwing Charger Trucks (180mm), Abec11 75mm BigZigs** and Max Abec 5
Premium 4: Gullwing Charger Trucks (180mm), Orangatang InHeat* 75mm and Max Abec 5
Premium 5: Deck Only Option
* Orangatangs are available in Orange 80a and Purple 83a Options
** BigZigs are currently available in Lemon, Lime or Pink Colour Options