ola youtube my name is Ricardo Lino and I'm a wheel addict, I'm in sunny South Africa
and it's like 10:00 in the morning I'm in a DIY skate park quite in the middle
of nowhere so I just hope that I don't get robbed in here and today well today
I'm gonna talk about this and these this is the new ground control HD frame I got
the the HD 270 millimeters frame and let's talk about it let's see what's
good let's see what's not so good the first thing that I want to take out of
the way is this thing right here this is the solar frame in this video I won't be
making a comparison but I will tell you right away in the beginning that these
and these are two completely different products but if you want to see a
comparison of both these well what you got to do is you got to subscribe to
this channel because that's going to be one of my next video but for today let's
talk about the ground control HD frame this frame is not out yet I got this
frame a little bit before most of the skate shops and when I got this frame
well ground controls send me this frame for these videos for these reviews and
they send it to me with both h-block I do not know if when you buy this frame
it's going to come with aluminium age block or with a plastic edge block
the aluminum one is actually a lot easier than the plastic one it doesn't
really feel that much area on hand but when you put them on the scale let me
show you something here I got the plastic one here I got the aluminum one
and it actually feels a bit of a difference also the groove
it's a bit deeper on the plastic one than on the aluminum one now I actually
started by scaling it with the plastic edge block and when I first started
escaping with the plastic edge block and with the new ground control sixty
millimeter wheels they have a different shape from these wheels that I have here
and these are the wheels that I've I've tried to use them as much as I can these
are the famous F a mu s fast wheels and that I really love this wheels out fast
they are and everything but I first started by using them with this this
profile here it's called flat top on the top of the wheel is flat and then other
than that it's very very pointy meaning that when you when you skate with these
wheels it's a lot safer for wheel bite then if you skate with a round wheel or
if you skate with a with a completely flat wheel like when when the profile of
the wheel is very flat on top this bill would make it a bit easier so I started
by skating these frames with the plastic edge block and the ground control wheels
I can tell you that it didn't even felt like I was skating flat at first I kind
of felt like I was getting some a in skates and I keep on saying the same
when it comes to skating flat I don't think there's any other skate on the
market like the USDA and so putting these wheels these edge block it kind of
felt like they and I basically had all my tricks I could do from the back
slides even in ledges that I don't really do them that much front side and
back side I could front side and back side back slide with a plastic edge
block and this was very easy the trick that I wasn't doing it as good would be
the frontside torque or the backside torque but I'm not that good with
torques anymore especially when I skate flat but it was very very possible to do
them it was just me not being able to do them because the space was there the
groove is deeper than the one on the aluminum I didn't really felt that I
would need to go aluminum it it does feel different it does sound different
than when I skate a bowl I do love to skate aluminum but if this frame would
just come like this it would still get amazing it would still be an amazing
frame but now when you put the aluminum age block then it's it's it's actually
very different the thing is now to start with the the shape of the plastic age
block it's much rounder than the aluminum one the aluminum one is more
it's more point here now this one's starting getting a bit more more grooved
but at first when it straight out of the box it's very very flat how can I
explain it's very very pointy I think that's the easiest way to explain when
under on the plastic age block it's a lot rounder and it's it is deeper so
some of the tricks are going to feel a bit different you need to bend your foot
a bit more and obviously it's going to sound different but that you already
know now a lot of people that try aluminum frame because the previous
brand that brought out aluminum frame was solar
they are expecting the frame to be a lot slimmer because that was what solar sold
as one of the main advantages of having an aluminum frame these these are
completely different when it comes to that because this frame when you look at
it it doesn't really look a lot slimmer then then a plastic frame in fact when
you tried to put it on the boot when you put this on the boot it actually just
fits if you had like one millimeter more it wouldn't fit that central line that
you have on your boots so it is not that much slimmer I don't even think that
it's slimmer at all now the top here the top when you look at the top of them of
the frame you will see that it's completely different from a plastic
frame the construction of this of this frame is actually very well-thought it
does feel like a very very stiff frame so you feel that every push goes
straight to the ground giving you a very very good speed and amazing for grinds
now is it the same for all the grinds no sew tricks I really didn't have any
difficulties with it like I said already block tricks either with the aluminium
age block or with the plastic edge block they worked really really well
everything from one footed grinds to the regular front sides back size whatever
now when it comes to top sides yes it is very possible to do all of them but at
first because it's a bit pointy the edges here you kind of feel especially
if you're gonna be if you're going to be doing top sides on a on a wooden top
mini ramp or a wooden top coping you kind of feel like these edges here are
going to be digging into the flat top so it makes it a little bit slower but I
believe that if you do a lot of top sides in ledges then it's gonna you're
gonna start getting like the groove if you can call it basically it's gonna
start being shaved it's gonna start being more and more round and then it
won't be a problem anymore not that is a problem because I could basically do
everything especially alley-oops was somehow easier than forward topside
tricks I don't really know but like an alley-oop fishman was easy
to do then a forward Fishman but Fishman still worked very well it's actually
where to explain now this frame is easier this frame is evident most of the
plastic frames on the market and it's not because it's it's right here
flat of course any flat setup is going to be heavier than then anti rocker and
obviously Avior than a free stop because there's only two wheels on the free
style and here I'm also talking about two wheels with aluminium age block and
what's so on but these especially these with the aluminium age block this is
very easy and I was skating this weed oops almost fell from my hand I was
getting these on the Fifth Element boot which is one of the heaviest boots on
the market right now so my setup was actually very very heavy
was that a disadvantage not really especially for me I don't really jump
that much but when I was trying to escape transitions or when I was skating
transitions I actually felt my setup very very solid so I believe that it
depends a little bit of the type of skating that you're going to be doing
but if you're going to be doing a lot of rails and a lot of stuff this is
probably not the type of frame that you're going to be looking for I would
say that this is the perfect skate park frame for me in my opinion it's one of
the the best skate park frames that I've ever skated I haven't been skating that
much straight but I even believe that these would be a very very good street
frames as these not because it has an aged aluminum age block is going to be
worst if you look at skateboarders they also have aluminum trucks and they still
do basically everything so it's not because it's aluminum that is not gonna
be able to grind on ledges now something that I didn't enjoy as much on this
frame was the way that we remove the age block I like the way it looks I think it
looks very very nice but if you want to go from aluminum to plastic edge block
you basically need to remove the frame because there's two screws here on top
and the way you change the edge block is by screwing these ones and then because
the edge block is a little bit tight you need to also loosen the wheels a little
bit which is perfectly normal you listen to wheels a little bit and then for me
the way that I find out it works better is having the screws pushing the edge
block okay so see now it's just coming out it's not like it's gonna take a
million years to do but it would be cool if you could do it without taking the
frame out now to do it without taking the frame out there would only be two
ways at least that I can think of one of them would be by having a screw on the
side and that's exactly what solid and for everyone saying that this is a
copy of the solar frame well I don't see the screw here on the side or would be
the screw from underneath that was used by other brands in the past the truth is
this is a lot cleaner and probably a lot safer it's just if you need to change
the block it's not gonna work as easy but the question here is how many times
are you going to change the block so realistically it's not really a problem
it's just me wanting to change the block the whole time for the sake of it so I
believe that's it now what do I really think about these frames being super
super honest with you I do not know about the price of these yet I do not
know if they come with one or two H blocks but I do know that this is one of
the best frames that I've ever tried again
yes it's Evie yes it's wider than the other aluminum frame on the market but
yes it does feel very very good in basically everything a bit slower on top
sides but other than that not really a problem now when I made the review of
the solar frames I did said that it was a bit harder to lock at first the top
sides unless you you put your frame right like this because if you put it
like that it wouldn't slide now these ones because they are a little bit
thicker depending on the material that you have on top it might just slide into
it I do believe that these frames are going to get better and better and
better the more you skate them I know that's what everyone thinks about every
other frame but in these ones for sure that's going to be the case now I think
they come in two different colors at least I know about the black ones but I
do love the color of these ones especially with the aluminum age block
so that was it again like I just started this video I
will be making a comparison of the two of these frames that will be coming out
very very soon but that that's in another video so if you want to watch
that make sure to subscribe to the channel if you enjoyed this video
well you know what to do give me a thumbs up if
you liked it thumbs down if you didn't like it and like I always say more
important than anything else just don't forget why we all started skating and
that that is because it's fun Cheers and see you soon ah just very
important the space in between the sec the two wheels in the middle it's
actually more than enough for everything i didn't felt like there was ever a time
there wasn't space enough to grind i know that the space is not as big as it
is on the a in skate but at the same time you still have a little bit of
space here in between the first and second wheel and the third and fourth
meaning that with these frames you actually can do channel 1 and channel 3
grinds now what you should also know is this is the 270 millimeter version the
distance in between the second and third wheel is the same on every frame what
changes is here that this is between the first and second and the third and
fourth so the frames will get longer by increasing the distance between these
two and these two but the edge block stays the same so the edge block either
the plastic or the aluminium one it's compatible with all the sizes