Perfecting The Perfect Board Setup!! - Paul Schmitt

Not necessarily, its whatever board width you ate comfortable with and how your feet feel, i would urge you to look at and see what the professor at ps stix says about wheel base as i think that has a bigger factor in being comfortable on your board. Linked below Also if your feeling like you can't balance well on it i would get harder bushings [VIDEO]

Short answer is yes. The other short answer is yes but you can learn to ollie on any board and the tail on your board assuming its anything close to a “regular board” is just fine. The long answer that I am not going to even attempt to type out can be much better explained by professor Schmitt [VIDEO]

Height is not the most important factor, is actually your inseam. Here's Prof. Schmidt talking about it at around the 4:15ish mark [VIDEO] ​ The wheelbase is going to affect how the tip of the nose feels to you, whether it feels lighter (shorter wheelbase) or heavier (longer wheelbase). You also need to consider your trucks, as they affect your wheelbase as well. You might get faster spin from a smaller/lighter board but it will also be harder to land tricks on it because there's less area to put your feet on and the timing will be different. Chris Cole talks about how he went up to an 8.5'' to slow down his tricks whenever he was jumping down big stuff.