The flowboard was created by James Harrison and Pieter Schouten and Mike Simonian, two design students attending the Art Center College of Design in Vevey, Switzerland. In 1993, they had the idea to develop a board that would perform like a snowboard, but on asphalt. They found that on a skateboard, a rider could only lean over a few degrees and then the bushings would give resistance in a turn. The two inventors sought a solution that would give a rider the ability to execute more extreme angles while carving without resistance, offering fluid transitions edge to edge. In 1994, Simonian asked Schouten to spend time developing their ideas in Simonian's native California.
Your videos have inspired me to start skating again. I skated for 6 years! I fell out of love with it. I’m now 22, hit a tre flip first try today. Thanks man.
Dope vid man, u guys inspired me to create my own board. I have an extra deck so I screwed a rail on both sides of the bottom of the deck close to the corners so I can use it in the snow down hill, waiting for it to snow so I can try it. Shout out from Staten Island
Yet they uploaded it to a TH-cam channel with 2.3 million people to see, which is just a little bit more than the amount of people at a random skate park.
dude it's not even gay enough. cut that ripstick in half, then cut a pennyboard in half. Attach them together and put flowboard wheels. Then put some scooter handlebars at the front
how do I transition from skate boarding in grass to pavement? I can ollie, and begin to shove it in grass but when I get to pavement I can't do anything and I move around every were unstably. I've been riding a skateboard since I was 5 but didn't get any serious improvement until I started using your videos, but I started in the grass and just can't go to hard ground, please help
I sent in my board design and nothing heard back yet. I'm guessing they're just busy, because my board design is really good. I use it all the time and it fucking shredds.
I'm gonna tell you all why i subscribed to you're channel , This kid had a beat board and was doing tricks to try to get the board and he went way over and beyond i mean he was killing his self and keeped getting up the kid was hard core he is going to be a awesome skater when he gets older over and over he hit them i think it was 5 or 7 step kick flip Aaron gave him a board and i subscribed rite then i was like this is the greatest thing i ever saw on you tube and is why at age 48 i want to lean how to skate....
Have u guys ever thought of sqared wheels? Like taking 4 Longboard wheels and cut of the edges to make them as big as a regular skateboard wheel but shaped like a cube.
Man. Either remove the castor wheels or let them spin freely. You turned one into a permanent brake and the other into a jamming hazard because it can't spin freely D:
Back in 2016 we had to go to the skatepark and back uphill both ways, 10 miles in knee-deep snow...hell we didn't even have a hex-key for our waveboards back then!
Braille Skateboarding You take two alan wrenches stick them in both sides of the wheels and turn one while keeping the other still so the bolt will move.Then pull the wheel out. THEN start undoing the bracket with needle point pliers.(had to replace a broken wheel/ bracket before)
The Ripstick G is one with a metal bar in the middle that spins. Y'all should do a video doing tricks on it! super fun and I can't do any regular skate board tricks but I can do tricks on a ripstick. By the way, love yall's channel and you have inspired me to start skateboarding! I just need to get some money to afford a board.
Epic fail! Come on dudes. If you are gonna make a video at least prepare! Get the ffin tools. I was really expecting that you would remove the swing wheels. Which seemed to be really easy of you just had the right wrench.
I can't tell if you are being serious but Braille skateboarding videos are not supposed to be serious. the point of the videos is for us to be taken along with the process of some random guys who love skating and doing stupid shut for fun. these aren't supposed to be professionally done. why do you think they only use two hardware or use a wrench to open a box?
I think I found Troy making a cameo in a movie, I was watching an old movie today and saw a guy with a skateboard and it looked just like Troy. I screen shotted it an would love for you guys to have him look at it. How could I send you (Lance or Arron) the photo
If you guys still have any of the flexible boards (metal, carbon fiber) put one riser on each truck and then another set of trucks in the middle (no riser).
Oh you guys have to make a ripstick hack where the middle spins freely! I have no idea how it would work but if the half-board-kickflip is possible you guys would be the ones to do it.
My "wife" saw the beginning of this video with me and she totally dissed Arron craftsmanship and "stuff". By the way get that shit to the skatepark. You also can put some suspension trucks in that flow board you dismounted and play who will break it first again. #SkateGod Lance is great.
I don't know if "dismounted" is the word i was looking for now that I think of it. What I meant to be clear is "put some suspension trucks in the flow board you guys dismantled (I had to google translate that word, My native language is spanish FYI) #SkateGod Lance is so cool.
Such mystery. Well she's not really my wife, we're not married but she's my life partner we live together and have been together for 6 years, that's the reason for that one. The stuff quotation mark is a direct quote from Arron since he said it 3 times in the beginning of the video. The dismounted one in the reply is a quote from my first comment and I don't really know why I put quote marks in front of (put some.....) that is my mistake.
do a skate board with the rip stick wheels on a different board but put the ripstick wheels in the middle but space them out then put the two reg wheels on a normal skateboard where they normally would be
now that is just cruel. put that thing out of its misery, please. idea for hack - put some real skateboard trucks and wheels on a ripstick to make it actually skateable and trickable. and please get some real tools so you can do the hacks correctly. the whole thing with the ripstick wheels was kind of painful Xo
Just a tip for when drilling through metal, slow speed and high pressure. If you have some water to keep it cool, even better 👍 I have that drill, set it to "1" on the top tab and spin the grey circular part to drill. More torque, less speed
You should do a video on how to to do a 360 heel flip because it's such a beautiful trick and it's underestimated on it's difficulty and for you to show your fans on how to do this would be great. Ps- you should have lance to try a no comply 180 FIRST TRY!!!
1) cut a skateboard in half.
2) rejoin with DOOR HINGE
3) do tricks without folding the board
Bryan A I think maybe Chris Chann did one like that already.
Bryan A this is an amazing idea!! 😃
Matt Peee
Can't not do stuff because someone else may have done it. Braille is Braille.
Or do tricks that involve folding the board!
Bryan A Oh totally. No drama. Just pointing it out in case you hadn't already seen it. Chris's channel is excellent if you're not already subscribed.
I dont skate,but I don't know why I enjoy this channel
Straxers It's entertaining
Haha, well thanks for coming around!
you should start skating ^u^
Same
Idk why, but I think it's funny when you shout out your Twitter.
Wait You commented on this, wow that suprising
The flowboard was created by James Harrison and Pieter Schouten and Mike Simonian, two design students attending the Art Center College of Design in Vevey, Switzerland. In 1993, they had the idea to develop a board that would perform like a snowboard, but on asphalt. They found that on a skateboard, a rider could only lean over a few degrees and then the bushings would give resistance in a turn. The two inventors sought a solution that would give a rider the ability to execute more extreme angles while carving without resistance, offering fluid transitions edge to edge. In 1994, Simonian asked Schouten to spend time developing their ideas in Simonian's native California.
Thank you Chicken dude. Now we know.
Chicken_dude1 thank you captain google
Chicken_dude1 nice copy past lol
wiki!!!lmao
DIDNT READ LOL LOL
this is the first time i skipped to the middle of the video and the skateboard is not finished
nice profilepic
Your videos have inspired me to start skating again. I skated for 6 years! I fell out of love with it. I’m now 22, hit a tre flip first try today. Thanks man.
You guys shouldnt be allowed to own or use tools.
Yeah... just give them to some random children. They'll make better safer use of them.
Dustin Farnum How to destroy a drill bit 101: Blast through the wood and go for the concrete.
You should tell them about it on Twitter @brailleskate
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Dustin Farnum m vv
I remember this as one of my favorite videos because it's just Lance, Aaron, and Gabe having fun in a cool location.
When you're in San Francisco...and you can't find a hill.
Actually, They have already been skating with one Hill...
+Melon 24 ahahaha I see your8ur joke
I was playing with myself when i clicked on your video, but you guys totally killed it. I went from 4 inches to 1 in about 12 seconds. Thanks a lot.
Wow
💀
I don't know about hacking, but that spot is sick. You should film some skating on a regular setup there for one of your next videos.
Kwotemusic I think they should film some skating on a normal set up anywhere
Aaron's planning on getting some video part clips here.
Awesome. It looks pretty fun to skate. I'm sure he'll get some rad tricks done.
I'm deeply impressed by how far you guys came in life WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO UNSCREW A SCREW!!!
Glad your in sf, the amount of kids at Fremont was frustrating on my Braille enjoyment.
can you guys skate some rad old school boards. preferably with some sort of eye/ shark or snake design on them. thanks
Aaron trying to operate power tools is pretty amazing
its like additional wheels for children's bicycles for studying riding?
This is the kind of thing you need to take into the desert for 9 years and ride 24/7 in order to reach enlightenment.
F#$% you
Dope vid man, u guys inspired me to create my own board. I have an extra deck so I screwed a rail on both sides of the bottom of the deck close to the corners so I can use it in the snow down hill, waiting for it to snow so I can try it. Shout out from Staten Island
It made me cringe so much because he was riding it backwards
Stubbie Gaming
yea cause the 20 extra wheels or sketchy construction were perfectly normal, but riding it backwards...that's the part...
Stubbie Gaming your right
Stubbie Gaming thank god someone noticed
it makes me cringe so much that you know they're riding it backwards
I have a really really good video idea. Is there monetary compensation for this?
Can u try to skate a longboard
I think they already did that one
I suppose so, why not?
Kid Baseball I can't believe he responded to you🙀
I agree ripstiks are amazing I have a red one and it is so fun.
I like all the guys of Braile but the best videos in my opinion are when it's just Aaron, Lance, and Gabe.
Ramsfan09 heck no
Ramsfan09 I agree, they are the OG. I like Fetty Potter too.
Ramsfan09 Fetty?!?!?
Best are when it's everyone/anyone except Aaron. He's so fucking annoying and pretentious.
Kyle Bybee Aaron is the best
You are a genius for making that backwheel holder. Props, Great Video
why didnt u guys even go to the actual skatepark
Yet they uploaded it to a TH-cam channel with 2.3 million people to see, which is just a little bit more than the amount of people at a random skate park.
snailfox7 ripstiks don't have a gender, how can they be gay?
Because of the amount of joy they bring.
I'm gonna guess it's because of all the kids at the park who follow them around. Has to get annoying and it lowers the quality of the video.
dude it's not even gay enough. cut that ripstick in half, then cut a pennyboard in half. Attach them together and put flowboard wheels. Then put some scooter handlebars at the front
9:53 - 9:54 Aaron: oh yea like I'm a circus acrobat
Lance: he's not Fetty Potter
😂😂😂 omg that was so funny
Oh thank god, Lance showed up.
I don't subscribe to this channel but TH-cam always makes sure I know whenever a new video is up.
You skate it we watch it :)
no shit
hahaha
...
And thank you for that!
I would like to see a curved board, like a very shallow 'C' shape with multiple trucks in between so it rocks back ad forth
Just use a regular board and risers
yeah that might work better
make a skateboard with rollerskates wheels
So just an original skateboard...
No not like that attacking the whole rollerskates down
harsh patel already been done on you make it...
harsh patel yes
how do I transition from skate boarding in grass to pavement? I can ollie, and begin to shove it in grass but when I get to pavement I can't do anything and I move around every were unstably. I've been riding a skateboard since I was 5 but didn't get any serious improvement until I started using your videos, but I started in the grass and just can't go to hard ground, please help
I sent in my board design and nothing heard back yet. I'm guessing they're just busy, because my board design is really good. I use it all the time and it fucking shredds.
Do y'all know about the new electric rip stick, I would love to see what y'all you could do with it
Take the trucks from a fingerboard and put them on a regular-sized board, or take the trucks from a regular-sized board and put them on a fingerboard.
David S. never gonna work idiot
or, something that would ACTUALLY work and be fun. longboard trucks/wheels on a pennyboard.
handboard maybe?
I just don't think it would work..
You guys are fucking mean holy shit
Is there such a thing as a board with just two rollers instead of wheels?
You need to take the flow board truck off of the back and leave the front one on so you can still swivel and move forward
Yeah I see where you're coming from
Braille Skateboarding he wasn't coming from anywhere
the follow us on twitter at 15:13 came out of nowhere and I was dying laughing
it's a flipstick
Or a ripboard
littlepiggydog on IG or a flowstick
A1 From Day1 flowstick sounds like a rejected name before tampon
:P
Love the OG crew of Braille, you guys should do a Podcast telling stories of skateboarding.
slow mo 12:12 to watch how close Aaron was to drilling a hole in gab
I'm gonna tell you all why i subscribed to you're channel , This kid had a beat board and was doing tricks to try to get the board and he went way over and beyond i mean he was killing his self and keeped getting up the kid was hard core he is going to be a awesome skater when he gets older over and over he hit them i think it was 5 or 7 step kick flip Aaron gave him a board and i subscribed rite then i was like this is the greatest thing i ever saw on you tube and is why at age 48 i want to lean how to skate....
i like how there using the ripstick backwards the entire video...
I like how you're using the wrong "they're" the entire comment.
hahahaha
Rusty Nickels i like how i went to the "about" section of your profile and found this sentence typed by you "all I are is dust in the wind."
Miguel Pringle - That's all I is.
Rusty Nickels ok well next time check your own grammer before you check someone else's.
What if you attached the flowboard wood boards to the actual swivel mechanism?!
thumbs up braille their video and Gabe will give you a kiss
:0
Have u guys ever thought of sqared wheels? Like taking 4 Longboard wheels and cut of the edges to make them as big as a regular skateboard wheel but shaped like a cube.
Who else would like to se a Q&A with the Braille squat
Have you guys ever tried beer glasses during a game of skate but all tricks have to be moving when done?
i watched this 5 minutes and I am crying.
Are you boys poor? Get some wrenches and do this sh1t.
i own a rip stick with a metal grind bar. should i send it???
Man. Either remove the castor wheels or let them spin freely. You turned one into a permanent brake and the other into a jamming hazard because it can't spin freely D:
Man I don't even skate but I love you guys, keep it up!!
Lol I love you guys, and that video was garbage.
You guys were literally 5 min away from my house. I would love to know when are you guys there to meet you.
Love the videos keep it up guys
You know, you guys don't need to upload every video you make.
dont the curves of the flow wheels need to be opposite? its got like a locked castor or something
You guys need a nice portable tool box filled with proper HACKING tools!
Indeed
The Dro uuuuhm.
Like full to the brim with hacksaws?
Back in 2016 we had to go to the skatepark and back uphill both ways, 10 miles in knee-deep snow...hell we didn't even have a hex-key for our waveboards back then!
They need to stop making videos all together
Braille Skateboarding You take two alan wrenches stick them in both sides of the wheels and turn one while keeping the other still so the bolt will move.Then pull the wheel out. THEN start undoing the bracket with needle point pliers.(had to replace a broken wheel/ bracket before)
The fact that he is riding It backwards bothers me deeply
Greetings from Munich, Germany. Love your vids 😂
If your going to san fransisco don't forget to wear flowers in your hair.
The Ripstick G is one with a metal bar in the middle that spins. Y'all should do a video doing tricks on it! super fun and I can't do any regular skate board tricks but I can do tricks on a ripstick. By the way, love yall's channel and you have inspired me to start skateboarding! I just need to get some money to afford a board.
Epic fail! Come on dudes. If you are gonna make a video at least prepare! Get the ffin tools. I was really expecting that you would remove the swing wheels. Which seemed to be really easy of you just had the right wrench.
SocialHostage wrench
ranch = salad dressing
wrench = tool
Yeah, super disappointed. Only would've needed a hacksaw at the least. No pun... I guess...
Ok we get it #legalizeranch hur dur
I can't tell if you are being serious but Braille skateboarding videos are not supposed to be serious. the point of the videos is for us to be taken along with the process of some random guys who love skating and doing stupid shut for fun. these aren't supposed to be professionally done. why do you think they only use two hardware or use a wrench to open a box?
The OG team is back ladies and gentlemen!
First ride on finished project: 12:40
Thank me later!
No
I had to take the wheels off my one time so I put the Alan wrench on and took something hollow on it as a lever
Game of skate while eating "War Heads" sour candies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Braille Skateboarding! You guys got me into wanting to try and skateboard! So, thank you!!!
P.s. I luv u guys!!
Do Duct tape grip tape or double sided duct tape grip tape and play a game of skate.
I think I found Troy making a cameo in a movie, I was watching an old movie today and saw a guy with a skateboard and it looked just like Troy. I screen shotted it an would love for you guys to have him look at it. How could I send you (Lance or Arron) the photo
@18:56 did Aaron call Lance a dick? Lol
Jibby Bagoom totally lol
Jibby Bagoom i heard it too
I heard him to
No no no no no!
sounds like it
If you guys still have any of the flexible boards (metal, carbon fiber) put one riser on each truck and then another set of trucks in the middle (no riser).
Somewhere Xzibit watches this video and crying
you should invite him and shoot Pimp my Board show
That should really happen
Poor Xzibit. We'll send him an invite
How many wheels?
Aaron looks like a scarecrow.
Oh you guys have to make a ripstick hack where the middle spins freely! I have no idea how it would work but if the half-board-kickflip is possible you guys would be the ones to do it.
Holy crap don't quit your day jobs. Construction is not your forte guys.
This was apart of their job, and they're making money from it. So jokes on you.
oxoc ah And adventurous.
Too late O_O
First video I've seen from these guys and it made me want to subscribe. You seem like nice and interesting people. :3
4 TRUCK, 8 WHEELS BOARD SET UP GAME OF SKATE?!
Eh, it'd just be more heavy, not really any other effect
Like it!
how do you guys not have a socket set? lol. would get that caster assembly off no problem.
Get the electric ripstick
hax on bike wheels! use them put a board slight inlay into the board so its like 0>--
Ohhh I see. Yeah that would be cool!
My "wife" saw the beginning of this video with me and she totally dissed Arron craftsmanship and "stuff". By the way get that shit to the skatepark. You also can put some suspension trucks in that flow board you dismounted and play who will break it first again. #SkateGod Lance is great.
I don't know if "dismounted" is the word i was looking for now that I think of it. What I meant to be clear is "put some suspension trucks in the flow board you guys dismantled (I had to google translate that word, My native language is spanish FYI) #SkateGod Lance is so cool.
xavier r what is point of the quotation marks?
Such mystery. Well she's not really my wife, we're not married but she's my life partner we live together and have been together for 6 years, that's the reason for that one. The stuff quotation mark is a direct quote from Arron since he said it 3 times in the beginning of the video. The dismounted one in the reply is a quote from my first comment and I don't really know why I put quote marks in front of (put some.....) that is my mistake.
Haha thanks for the comment man :)
xavier r
Can you make a ripstik with 4 wheels?
Yes
razer scooter hax
What did you have in mind exactly?
***** like maybe trying to replace the wheels, and maybe any other parts of the scooter
Hack
hey gab why did you have two rip sticks?
Put ripstick wheels on a skateboard
do a skate board with the rip stick wheels on a different board but put the ripstick wheels in the middle but space them out then put the two reg wheels on a normal skateboard where they normally would be
You all need to invest in a socket wrench set lol
Yes we do!
braille ur smart
Braille, love your videos, please bring back Lance's road to sponsorship. It would be sick
now that is just cruel. put that thing out of its misery, please. idea for hack - put some real skateboard trucks and wheels on a ripstick to make it actually skateable and trickable. and please get some real tools so you can do the hacks correctly. the whole thing with the ripstick wheels was kind of painful Xo
ForTiorI he already did a vid on the rip stick with regular wheels
Haha thanks for the feedback. We did do the ripstick one in the past. We'll definitely be getting some more tools soon.
Somebody sounds like another dick with a stick up their ass
are you using a drill bit for wood to drill through metal?
I may be mistaken but I think they are often one and the same. It is only masonry that uses a different type of drill bit.
+Eiren Whelan Correct
nope ..google spade bit and forstner bit and auger bit .plenty of bits that are just for wood and a re not suitable for other materials
duhjuh I don't think Aaron is using one of those, so you've kinda missed the point. Your statement is true though, a hole saw is another example
13:34 he uses a spade bit "watch a professor work"
told you to google it
lol this was terrible and yet still entertaining somehow.
Just a tip for when drilling through metal, slow speed and high pressure. If you have some water to keep it cool, even better 👍
I have that drill, set it to "1" on the top tab and spin the grey circular part to drill. More torque, less speed
skate a house with minimum waging tax
You should do a video on how to to do a 360 heel flip because it's such a beautiful trick and it's underestimated on it's difficulty and for you to show your fans on how to do this would be great. Ps- you should have lance to try a no comply 180 FIRST TRY!!!
Hey! We have a couple tutorials on that actually!
Robb
I pun here for the cames
What happened to the old nico hiraga clipped videos
Would it kill you guys to buy a socket set, haha
cool concept. I wish u could do more with it tho id experiment more