FUN THINGS COME IN SMALL(ER) PACKAGES.
Continuing the legacy of Loaded dancers, the Mata Hari embraces a progressive and rapidly evolving new era of longboard dancing and freestyle. Compact dimensions, lightweight construction, poppy kicktails, and a range of wheelbase options make the Mata Hari our most technically adept board for those who live to explore and challenge what is possible on a dancing skateboard.
LONGBOARD SPECS
- Length: 44.5” / 113 cm
- Width: 9.25” / 23.5 cm
- Wheelbase: 27.25, 28.25, 29.25” / 69.2, 71.8, 74.3 cm
- Profile: rocker
- Weight (deck only): 4.6 lb / 2.1 kg
FLEX RECOMMENDATIONS
STANDARD SETUP
- Loaded Mata Hari deck
- Paris V2 180mm 50° Raw trucks
- Orangatang 65mm Fat Free (80a, orange) wheels
- Loaded Jehu V2 bearings
- Loaded 1/16” shock pads
- Loaded button head hardware (1”)
- Assembled on middle (28.25”) wheelbase
VERSATILE VARIATIONS
The Mata Hari includes three wheelbase options for a range of performance characteristics.
- Outer (29.25”): Ideal for dancing. Increased stability and space for footwork. Yields a slightly softer (but subtle) effective flex from the deck for cruising and carving comfort. Allows the rider to progressively shorten the wheelbase to maintain leverage at the kicktails as they wear.
- Middle (28.25”): Ideal for a blend of freestyle and dancing.
- Inner (27.25”): Ideal for freestyle. Increased agility, greater kicktail leverage, quicker pop, and reduced swingweight for more technical, aggressive freestyle riding. Yields a slightly firmer effective flex from the deck for enhanced control and resilience under heavy landings.
FUNCTIONAL DESIGN
Compact, symmetrical shape with mild rocker and concave provide a comfortable and highly versatile platform for longboard dancing and freestyle trickery. Aggressive, street-inspired kicks generate powerful pop and help protect the rails and top surface of the deck when the board lands upside down.
STRONG, LIGHT, AND POPPY
Dual vertically laminated bamboo cores are sandwiched between layers of triaxial fiberglass, epoxy resin, and bamboo veneers to create a light, strong, and poppy platform for freestyle and dancing maneuvers. CNC-milled wheel wells allow for loose trucks and reduce the chance of wheelbite.
GRAPHICS
Hearkening back to an era of significant progress in music and dance, we’ve opted for an Art Deco influenced design to inspire you to get your swing on. The griptape design echoes the Art Deco bottom graphic and ensures traction where needed while facilitating spins and pivots on top of the laser-etched top logo.
Dedicated to the growth of board sports through performance,
community, and creative expression.
We build what we want to ride.
We are passionate about materials, are committed to environmentally conscious design and production, appreciate the subtleties of process (the devil's in the details) and are devotees of functionally driven design.
The ideation and design of all of our products are spearheaded by a small, project specific, in-house team followed by input from the entire in-house crew and select ambassadors. The strength of each project team is built on a foundation of trust, maximizing individual strengths/perspectives, accountability, intellectual rigor and constructive criticism. Egos and biased assumptions are challenged and the expectation is that each player brings a healthy dose of positivity and passion to the table. The upshot is both refined product and poignant personal growth.