a healthy dose of 10 mm, low, obviously, if it's a really good trick I'll get the cams in a semi straight line and put the skater right dead in the center so I have the whole trick in frame and then I'll go back marker by marker and tweak the pan without physically moving the position of the filmer, until the hands, feet, legs, and board fill the corners of the screen, especially on filthy landings.
I've also been filming in 13 mm recently, less distortion than 10 but almost all the same benefits.
180 for stationary cams with full depth of field, and about 110 for moving long lens cams, with the occasional 300 mm cam when I get bored, but 300 can be really finicky.
Occasionally I use a "zoom drop cam" ( I have no idea what to call this because I don't film in real life) Usually a Zoom Out, I usually move the camera from a birds eye view straight to the ground starting with maybe 180 mm all the way 10 mm on the landing.
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