Fun fact: You guys have a FiberFlex skateboard with Krypyonics on your wall in the Braillehouse... it's the red slalom board near the 5 stair. And I know this because I gave it to you a couple years ago. You're welcome.

I love how enthusiastic and knowledgeable about skateboard history this guy is. That's when you know a person loves what they do.

This is the coolest video you guys have uploaded in a while. Thank you for this

You are a legend mate who convinced me to start skating at the age of 42... never thought that two years later I am even on a mission to skate all the skateparks in Portugal and working on a website for the moment with all the spots from Portugal to Morocco. Skateboarding changed my life and a big part of that is thanks to all your videos that convinced met to give skateboarding a try. Who else thinks this channels rock?

I actually own one of the oldest skateboards in existence. My grandfather got it years ago. It was a couple of planks. The trucks shouldn't be known as trucks and the wheels are honestly fairly similar style but they're like the toughest callus you could imagine.

Come by to skate and get some lessons with me #pushskateboarding

14:05 this killed me how casually he just acknowledges the big shoe and then it slams down

So happy to see you guys interview Todd Huber. Todd has helped sooooo many people learn to skate and have a safe and wonderful experience for so many years at Skatelab (RIP) in Simi Valley. Now he continues to keep the history of skateboarding alive and known at the Skateboard Hall of Fame.

Those birdhouse boards with the original art were amazing!😲😲😲

The skateboard shown at 10:37 has a roller in the trucks to keep the trucks from eroding. This video is amazing

1950: people make their own skateboards 2019: Braille makes their own weirdest possible skateboards

I couldn't believe Carlos was leaving. He was one of the best people from Braille. Good luck on your journeys Carlos.🙃

What an amazing video! I certainly felt educated and now have more knowledge about skateboards. Thank you, Braille Skateboarding!

The way he talks really shows how excited and passionate he is about his shop

This has to be the coolest and greatest video ive seen for a while, just the history behind it all is amazing

Got my first board today and i have had a blast skating it so far, thank you for inspiering me to skate :)

Man.... The stuff sitting in piles..... It hurts my heart. I hope you guys brought back some of those boards to skate.... These videos will exists forever. Skate them while they still exist

To see some early video recording of skateboards from the 60’s, look up the Jan & Dean song Sidewalk Surfin’ - you won’t be disappointed

Seemed like it makes Tod day to show off his stuff. Great video!

Gotta say I love this channel and it encouraged me to start skating so thank you guys for being so awesome. Keep up the good work

After watching this, i looked back on some braille vids to remember what a current skateboard looks like.

Thanks for posting. My Mark Gonzalez looked just like those back in the 80s.

Hey guys i got a skateboard yesterday because of you all! Thanks for giving me the confidence to start skating again at 33 years of age. 🙏

thats an awesome place. you can tell how excited he gets explaining everything to people. he loves sharing the knowledge.

This man is wonderful. I'm so glad people like him are out there. Thanks for sharing!!!

Great Dude, awesome collection, thanks for the tour!

So cool video and such a big shoutout to you for not letting haters get to you and still stand true to what you believe, that skateboarding is for everyone and that it should be FUN and FRIENDLY. Love to y'all

Thanks for uploading this video guys. All that history about skateboarding is so cool! Thanks!

Much respect to the skateboard museum. Lovely, just lovely

I love how passionate this guy is, absolutely amazing.

Aaron when he sees these old boards Aaron: I feel old again

So awesome! Glad you guys shared this.

Old guy here, 69 years old. In the 1950's some of my friends removed the crates|handles from their crate style scooters to end up with the first skateboards that I recall. I bought my first skateboard in 1962, with steel wheels, and a couple of years later one with clay wheels. In 1965, I bought a Hobie Super Surfer wooden skateboard and later a Hobie waffle pattern fiberglass skate board, which was concave, and probably the first skateboard that could be considered to have a kick tail and a kick nose. Both of the Hobies used Super Surfer clay wheels and the same or similar trucks. Vita-Pakt was associated with Hobie, but I only recall seeing the Vita-Pakt label on a pack of Hobie clay wheels. Sunkist was associated with Makaha skateboards. In 1972, someone from Blue Cheer (Hobie) saw me on the fiberglass board and asked if they could use it to remake the molds, but by the time I met up with that person again, they had bought one that they wouldn't have to replace. The remolded boards were released around 1975 with "Super Surfer" polyurethane wheels, but they no longer had the center stripe decal which looked like wood with the Hobie logo on it. I bought one of the 1975 remolded boards, and I still have it. It is still working and has the original trucks and wheels (I managed to not lose any ball bearings). The 1965 board is in storage somewhere, but missing threaded inserts used to mount the trucks, and I no longer have the trucks or wheels for it.

Sweet I recently placed myself on the braille world map it's amazing how many skaters are out there

Yes Doug!!!

So cool, and brought back so many memories of skating from my younger years.

I luv your guys vids learned to Ollie and drop in small drops and kick turn in 5 days

this is so cool! do more of this kinda stuff please!!!

I just got my board less then 2 hours ago and I kind of learned from you guys. Thank you!

What an incredible place. I could watch hours of video from here really showing off everything.

Great collection. What I remember was that Skateboarding (Sidewalk Surfin) started in 1963 in California and spread to the whole USA in 1964 and later worldwide in 1965. Take it from one who was there. Check out the newly published "The Skateboard Craze Of 1964" on KZfaq which also include the original Skateboard music.

That Back Room is a-maz-ing .. so much history, some one needs to make a long video with this guy, a wealth of knowledge.

Wow, that was a great tour! Thanks guys!

I want to thank all you guys at braille for helping get into skating you're all such an inspiration to me

Thank you so much for sharing this video! I'll definitely plan this museum in my travel trips!

genuinely love how excited he is to show off his passion and collection

Great video! Love the skateboarding history!

Skateboard collection... Wow, just wow..

Love this guys passion.... you can tell he loves sharing it as well. 🤘

I just realized this is guy to who I sold board on ebay.com . It was on 2017, the board was from USSR. I sent it from Latvia. It was laying on my balkony, I thoght it would be cool to give it a second life. boards brand is RIPO, it was manufactured in Latvia when it was part of USSR, I think, in 80's. I added a letter to packedge, there was written "if you dont like this board, send it to braille skateboarding youtube channel guys''. And now, you visit this place which's adress is next to adress I sent my board. It is breath taking!!!

Very great video and educational. Found a great guy to interview.

Thanks for everything you do for skateboarding!!! Epic video

Great video! More of this kind of content!

I can finally do treflip because of u guys love u guys keep it up🤘

hi, I love your guys videos, they always cheer me up when I get sad or mad. And I always fell inspired to learn tricks. I learned how to pop shuvit from one of your videos

I see my old Black Knight w/ clay wheels from 73'. lol. and my fiberglass Bahne from 75'. Cadillac and Metaflex urethane took us places we never could before. Nice museum!

wow, just wow. cool to see all the memories

LOVE this guys enthusiasm!

I’m glad that I’m watching y’all Videos again! 🔥🔥🔥

keep up the great work with these videos, fascinating stuff here

this man is so enthusiastic and has so much interesting stuffs to show and shares his passion. visit him again and make a 3 hour video with him, please.

Landed my first ollie today

When I was a kid they didn't have store-bought skateboards yet, so my friends & I made our own. Mine was a wooden 2 x 4 plank, about 18" long, with the skate trucks nailed on with bent-over nails. The wheels were metal. We decorated them by using crayon or thinned oil enamel paint to color in the grain patterns of the wood. They didn't turn. If you wanted to turn you stopped, picked up the board, and re-positioned it in the direction you wanted to go. They made a LOT of noise going down the sidewalks.

possibly the best video you guys have ever made

awesome video guys!! piece of history there! flex molds...!!

I saw that caliber aluminum deck on the wall.. that takes me back.. in '77 I have a board with an metal deck nearly cut my leg off a few times

Beautiful collection!!!

This is my hometown! Simi Valley shoutout! I wish you guys had the chance to skate at SkateLab when it was still open.

I have a first copy of of Cab. I have it signed and coa. And a lonnie toft 8 wheel. Love seeing the Museum footage. Awesome video.

this is place i have to see one time in my life for sure !!!

The passion this dude has for the history of skateboarding and skateboarding in general is amazing.The braille house has to get a board from him to put onthe wall..

what a place - amazing project hope this is still there and un-affected by tthe lockdowns.

I remember when it used to be SkateLab!! R.I.P. I’m stoked to see what Todd made it into and is keeping it alive.

I love this guys passion

I have a lime green fiberglass Bahne there I sold to Todd in 99’ … I wish I kept it, but I kept skating it and every time you pick it up, you get fiberglass in your finger tips ! Drove me nuts.

Good job guys. The new generation needs to know their history. Do more like this Gabe. Do one on rollerblading and surfing and whatever else you think is cool.

There's a purple metal board at 5:42 on the wall. My dad still has that exact same board. I've kick flipped it. Also has a Tony Alva board on that wall. Kickflipped that one too. Haha!

Epic episode...Thanks for the awesome history lesson.

Well, that's neat. I'll have to add that to my stop-by list next time I'm near LA

This is sick, I love skateboarding history.

Much respect for doing a video like this. love this. I used to own and collect all of transworld mags - sadly I let them go. wish I still collected them.

Fun to see That room with all the Oddball weird boards. I remember most those gimmick toys / skateboards. I remember riding most of those that he has in that room.

Absolutely incredible!!! This guy is next level!

Sucha good flick, thank you, much Love.

Love this guys passion

I bombed a crazy hill on that long red plastic one with the handle. We were having races as kids and someone had one of those so I used it in the race. Cool to see that model again because I often think about that board and wonder how I survived.

Amazing museum 😊 thanks for sharing.

Awesome.. Thank You.. Much Love

9:57 The DRI logo "Skankerman" character on a skateboard. Glad there's some good punk rock reference there. That makes me so happy as a punk/thrash musician. :)

wow this was really dope to watch. love the guys energy on this topic

I live in Santa Cruz and you can find crazy boards and cool little pieces of skateboarding history all over the whole town

They still do grass ski tournaments in Central Europe, like in Austria and Switzerland. The rollerskis are still popular in countries that do a lot of cross country skiing. You see it all the time in the outskirts of cities.

Such an honor just to be able to see everything there!! Thank you guys!!!

man where is this place ive been skating for 25 years omg i would spend 2 days in here. this dude is my hero.

I'll never forget my first skateboard a Sidewalk Surfer my grandfather bought me in a department store Tri City in 1968. It was actually too dangerous at age 8 in 1968. The second board I acquired was a Mickey Bahne from K-mart in 1972. Of course the dream board of 1976 was the Gordon and Smith Fibreflex with Bennett Pro trucks and Road Ryder wheels.

It’s absolutely impressive and incredible !!! And good video

my husband was a skater back in the 70s he said they were small and were not for doing tricks just something to get around town with. His favorite memories is riding down the hills of Santa Cruz CA streets with his buddies, he said 5 guys down a hill sounded like a jet plane that's how fast they got going. He would enjoy this video!

this vid is so sick, thank you! i skated in the mid-80s when i was ~10 to 12 years and i was psyched to see the fat, flat boards! 😍 the art and aesthetic of that time is super close to my heart. i especially love old skate videos like alien workshop "memory screen" - the love and dedication and art and actual hours of time that went into those films must have been incredible. i'm sure the museum must have screenings. i wish i could visit! thank you for this peek though! 🌈

This guys passion is really dope.

This is one of the best SKATEBOARDING video youv made in a longg time