Freestyle

Freestyle Skater Setups

Freestyle skateboarding is performed on flat ground, focusing on intricate footwork, board manipulation, and choreographed routines. Rodney Mullen is its greatest practitioner.

5 pro riders

street park vert

What Defines a Freestyle Skating Setup

Freestyle skateboarding is the original technical discipline — performed entirely on flat ground, built around intricate footwork, board manipulation, and choreographed lines. It's also the discipline that produced almost every flip trick in modern street skating. Freestyle setups reflect their flat-ground, board-feel-first priorities: smaller decks, smaller wheels, and a focus on precision over stability. The pro pool here is small, but consistent in what they ride.

We track the complete setups of 5 professional freestyle skaters in our database. The numbers below are aggregated directly from those verified setups.

What 5 Pro Freestyle Skaters Actually Ride

Decks

60.0% of pro freestyle skaters in our database ride decks between 8.0" and 8.5" wide. The most common size is 7.7", chosen by 40.0% of freestyle pros. 8.25" (40.0%) is the next most popular. The average freestyle pro deck is 8.06" wide , with Almost the most-ridden deck brand at 40.0%.

Trucks

Tensor Trucks leads truck choice at 40.0% of pro freestyle skaters. Mini Logo Trucks is second at 20.0%. Together, the top two brands account for 60.0% of all pro freestyle truck choices , with Krux Trucks (20.0%) the most common alternative.

Wheels

The average freestyle pro wheel is 51.3mm. 52mm is the most-ridden size at 40.0%, followed by 50mm at 20.0%. Spitfire Wheels dominates wheel brand choice at 20.0% of freestyle pros, with Powell Peralta second at 20.0%.

Bearings

Underway Bearings leads at 20.0% of pro freestyle skaters with verified bearing data , followed by Bones Ceramic Reds at 20.0%. Pros consistently choose precision bearings over budget options because performance under repeated impact matters at this level.

Shoes

Shoe choice is more distributed than wheels or trucks. Adidas leads at 20.0%, followed by Etnies (20.0%) and Converse CONS (20.0%). Treat shoe data as a quality signal across the top brands rather than a strict recommendation — sponsorship plays a heavy role here.

How Freestyle Setups Compare

Freestyle is the outlier of the six disciplines. While street, park, vert, transition, and bowl all share the same general direction (wider as terrain gets bigger), freestyle goes the opposite way — narrower decks, smaller wheels, lower platforms — because every gram and every millimetre matters when the trick happens under your feet on flat concrete. If you're pulling from this data set, treat it as a specialist reference rather than a general all-purpose setup.

Component	Street	Freestyle	Park
Deck width	8.29"avg 8.25"median	8.06"avg 8.25"median	8.33"avg 8.34"median
Wheel size	53.1mmavg 52.0mmmedian	51.3mmavg 52.0mmmedian	54.6mmavg 54.0mmmedian
Top truck	Independent Trucks (41.5%)	Tensor Trucks (40.0%)	Independent Trucks (62.8%)

Freestyle Setup FAQ

What deck size do most pro freestyle skaters ride?

The most common deck size among pro freestyle skaters is 7.7", ridden by 40.0% of the 5 pros in our database. The average freestyle pro deck width is 8.06", and 60.0% ride somewhere between 8.0" and 8.5".

What truck brand is most popular for freestyle skating?

Tensor Trucks is the most-ridden truck brand among pro freestyle skaters, chosen by 40.0% of the 5 pros in our database. Mini Logo Trucks is the next most popular at 20.0%, with the top two brands together accounting for 60.0% of all pro freestyle truck setups.

What wheel size do pro freestyle skaters use?

The average pro freestyle skater rides 51.3mm wheels. 52mm is the most-ridden specific size at 40.0%, and Spitfire Wheels is the dominant wheel brand at 20.0% of the 5 pros tracked.

What shoes do pro freestyle skaters wear?

Adidas leads freestyle skating shoe choice at 20.0% of pros in our database, but the field is more distributed than wheels or trucks because shoe choice is heavily influenced by sponsorship. Treat the data as a quality signal across the top brands.