Huge shout out to Ryan for flying all the way across the country to bring us this board!

I'd be down for some Braille 80's style graphics🛹 🤘

I still have all of the original decks from the Bones Brigade. Animal Chin was the inspiration for starting that collection back in the day. Love to see these boards from back when I started skating. Been at it since 85 and still going, although now it's on Andy's deck.

YES, an 80s themed skate vlog. Everyone has to dress up. Try and locate some old or even new vision street wear shoes, airwalk shoes, etc.

Thank you for not breaking that historical artifact! I was going to have an aneurysm!

Aaron should frontside 50-50 a circle handrail.

You are bringing me back to when I was 13, I had that exact board in the same color way, in a mini board. The MCTwist was invented by Mike McGill on that board.

I skate an 80s powell ripper board and they are so sick!! Love to see you guys ripping the Mcgill

Braille skateboarding is so awesome. A couple friends and I decided to get into skating together this spring and shortly thereafter I discovered you guys. I watch the videos every day and it inspires me to keep at it! I’m progressing slowly but surely. Landed my first rolling shuv it yesterday. (Can’t Ollie yet 😆)

Push yourself Aaron, you are a rolemodel in the skate community.. also Gabe: drop in on the Vert please, we need you!!! Fantastic video as always, you guys rock

Love the content! Keep it up guys!!!💙

My dad showed me his old powell-peralta Steve Caballero deck, and told me what skating was like in the 80's. He's one of the main reasons I got into skating, and he still rides it occasionally. it's so cool to see a fragment of skateboard history still in use today.

that deck was my first real board. it was awesome. i had those wheels also on another deck. those boards back in the 80's were real tough, either that, or i was real small. haha

Yeah this is cool. I've got my Dad's old 70s fibreglass board lying around somewhere. It's in pretty rough shape, but I think it's time I finally gave it some love.

I never skated but most of my friends did & I remember boards like this in the mid 80s . Now it kills me to see skaters without rails on their boards just tearing the graphic up under the board . Back then the graphics were so cool & you didn’t want to tear them up . I rode BMX freestyle & in 1989 Haro bicycles came out with the first ever bash guard bike & I put a hot pink skateboard rail on the bottom of the bash guard using longer bolts & thee aesthetics of it was way cool . Nobody in my neighborhood even thought of using a skateboard rail on the bottom of their bash guard , it made for better rail slides on the bike & protected the metal plate on the bottom & nobody that had the same bike as me didn’t pick up on what was on the bottom of the bike until bike company’s started making the bottom plate like a big skate rail , I thought of it first way before bike company’s were doing it .

The weight difference is significant. A testament to the pros of yester year that could shred with those coffins.

3:29 "Camo pants and purple shoes. It's like, are you trying to hide or be seen?" Lmaooo

Friggin sweet. I love skateboards man. That rad old board was waiting years to get back to work.

for some reason I luv these boards great vid 💪

This style boards have always been a fovorite of mine.❤ it

This is cool and fun video idea Braille

Best idea AK recreate 80s vid. Siiick

That brings back memories. Love the Vision Street Wear decal. I still wear my vintage VSW's.

I like this video idea

Aaron what about Braille do a shaped board with a touch of old school for the the old cats out there, that are still stuck in the past. 😜

Braille changed my live forever!!!!

you all should do old school only game of skate

Braille straight 80's Graphics I agree pick a favorite graphic/skater/artist and put a Braille spin on it

Lol, love the Elden Ring banter. XD

An 80s collection would be dope. Yall should try to do a collab with jim phillips

I like your vids so much pls make more

I definitely do agree that you guys should put out a line of skateboards more '80s graphics inspired. Like some iron maiden stuff or like old dark star stuff

Also I love your vids it taught me how to skate

Yessir shout out from Cincinnati 💪🏽🙏🏼💯🔥

Recently bought a board like that with big soft wheels to use as a cruiser board when I want to just take laps around my downtown area.

"Christopher Heitt all the way!!" Agreed!

Those swappeed truck hangers remind me of when we would use tracker ultralight baseplates with gullwing hangers. I liked the Magnesium Street Shadow hangers cuz th3 Tracker mags seemed to wear down fast in the streets.

that deck is sick.. mike hill was my fave back in the day...

We need a full park game of skate with that board 😎

My buddy had essentially that same board while I was riding a Vision Psycho Stick. I broke my board when he went to college, but got a new board. A Vision Groholski that I had forever but sold about 6 years ago, it was like new. He rarely came back home during college so it was only ridden a few times, kinda wish I hadn't sold it.

One of my all time favorite graphics

Ya guys started trying tre's I'm going "If I can tre my hammerhead, you can tre a Powell board." Also Gabe dropped in on it for his 13,981st drop in on vert to give Nigel the courage to try it. Gratz on getting the Madonna on a fish tail Gabe!

Sir you landed that kick flip first try that is awesome

hahaha! this vid is a banger!

That was the most boss deck in the mid 80's, and we all did our grip tape like that.

Ok guy's, Now you have an 80s setup . Give it some fresh bearings in those wheels, get some of the old 80s launch ramp plans we all used back in the day and build it . Let's see a full 80s jump ramp contest .

80s braille all day 🔥💯 bring the rad back 🤙🏽

Braille 90s shape decks would be sick aswell as 90s graphics!!!

the Braille teams needs to recreate "The search for Animal chin" Ending at the chin ramp at the Y.

Gotta love mogley : ) Such a positive person, Cannot respect him more!

I remember them days I had one of those exact same boards a different color

I still own a perfectly usable caballero powell peralta board from the 80's with plastic side rails and tail skid. Don't ride it much, but it is useful for moving large furniture.. ;)

more shaped boards plz 👍

😂😂😂😂 my place of employment is right next to the train tracks as well. Every gosh darn 1min and 30 secs there is a train blasting by screaming its horn. There is no getting used to it and it's by far the most maddening thing on this planet.😂😂😂

I have this exact deck. Same year, same graphic. Its a huge deck but really fun to ride.

If you guys make 80s themed decks and apparel I would cop in a heartbeat

I have maybe over 100 decks from some bootlegs to original nos to reissue.. i hope braille make shape decks and 80s and early 90s graphics

Can't deny anymore, y'all vids make me wanna learn how to skateboard lol. I'm 39, but if Purple can do it, maybe I can at least learn to kickflip lol.

"Now THAT'S a Skateboard!" Mike V.

Those are Tracker Ultra Lite trucks on that McGill board, I know Tony Hawk use to skate them trucks before he went to indy. Yeah baseplate some kind of plastic but you would be surprised how strong they are.I still have one of my boards from the 80s wit them on there the Hawk claw board,Tracker trucks,and slimball wheels

I had that same color around the year that deck came out.

Loved the shaped boards! What happened to my favorite Braille member, fellow short dude, Chris McNug?

I sadly broke my wrist skating, had to get surgery I think about skateboarding everyday ughhh I can’t wait to be back on! Fr fr

I got one of those 80's style deck too i use it as my cruising board

Aaron is right 80's video reboot all the way please❤

Six track ultra light tracker trucks on that board.. but talk about trucks should see deadbolt trucks and gullwing trucks and cutter trucks and g&s . alot them made composite or plastic base plates.. Braille..!!

Those trucks are Tracker ultralights. A lot of pros skated them back in the day including Hawk.

I had no idea 1988 was 40 years ago!

Blue tracker ultralites, my first set of real trucks.

I still have my 80’s McGill board! The tail is all chipped up from using it to stop back in the day. Lol

The whole crews here today!

I didn't understand anything you said I'm from Brazil but I loved the video

6:00 lmao, the "special trick" sound from the tony hawk games is my notification sound so it confused me

Aaron 50-50s the rail in the same episode Gabe drops in on vert. Let's go!!!

correct. they dont make graphics like that nor do they make ANYTHING today like they did in the 80s including skaters. You guys are standing on over 40 yrs of history right there. I personally would be honored to ride a deck like that.

This video makes me feel very old hahaha

Man I miss Mr. McNugget!! When is he done down south?

There is a Somber 7 in Nokstella :D

11:41 Mo said it ALL. ❤🤙🏼🛹

I found a board in my garage that looked a lot like this, also probably from the 80s. it was some Australian pro’s model

Every trick im sweating bullets. Old powell peralta boards are lotsa $$$

Thats about my setup, got the 2010 reisue rat bones on there.

That’s a cool board

I wish they weren't so obsessed with flip tricks. them just cruising and skating vert would be interesting by itself.

My first deck was a PP McGill I got it in 1988

i need some braille 80s graphics!

My dream board as a child 😊

McGill XT... soooo sick

These are the skateboards these tricks were invented on.

Cbus in the house! \m/

I grew up riding that board, I need to put and old school board together and that vision streetwear sticker I love it, if I wasn’t wear vans I was wearing vision street wear shoes

Sick

I had one of those exact set ups with tracker trucks and vision wheels I ended up selling it to a collector.

What is Nigel's stream name? I would love to watch him play

I'd put that skate on the wall bros, it's a collectors item. Had the same deck and wish I still had it. My brother borrowed it and I never saw it again. Best graphics from powell peralta back in the day. Don't break that skate... its worth alot. Send it to me. Lol. 👍👊😎

I just got back into skateboarding, and I just want to land my second kick flip in all my 35 years 😂

It’s funny I live in Michigan and I have a skatepark right out of my neighborhood and there was some guy with a 80s board and he was like 50 grinding dropping in and etc.

U got thw McGill lets see a mctwist !!

This is funny cuz right now i actually ride a 1983 Madrid oldschool shaped board😂

Norway tour?? plizz