DON'T BREAK THE 1980'S SKATEBOARD! 

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🛹 🤘

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.

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.

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

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

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

Aaron should frontside 50-50 a circle handrail.

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 😆)

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.

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.

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 .

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

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.

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.

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. 😜

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

Love the content! Keep it up guys!!!💙

for some reason I luv these boards great vid 💪

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

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

This is cool and fun video idea Braille

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

you all should do old school only game of skate

I like your vids so much pls make more

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

I like this video idea

Best idea AK recreate 80s vid. Siiick

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.

"Christopher Heitt all the way!!" Agreed!

Lol, love the Elden Ring banter. XD

Also I love your vids it taught me how to skate

Braille changed my live forever!!!!

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

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 .

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.

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!

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.

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

Yessir shout out from Cincinnati 💪🏽🙏🏼💯🔥

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

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

😂😂😂😂 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 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.. ;)

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.

Sir you landed that kick flip first try that is awesome

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!

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..!!

One of my all time favorite graphics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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❤

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

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

more shaped boards plz 👍

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

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

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.

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

hahaha! this vid is a banger!

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

11:41 Mo said it ALL. ❤🤙🏼🛹

I had no idea 1988 was 40 years ago!

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

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

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

This video makes me feel very old hahaha

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

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

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

So get this I am 41 this year in August when I was 7 years old I was in Cub scouts and there was a scout-O-Rama and I had to sell tickets to it and I sold enough tickets to get the skateboard that was the exact same shape as what you're writing with the rail bars but it had a bump stop on the back and a nose guard but it was sky blue and had wrapping riding a skateboard in a wheelie with a big V8 motor and him cranking gears on the bottom. The bumpers all around were orange and the wheels but the skateboard with sky blue. Watching you guys skate this makes me laugh

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

Blue tracker ultralites, my first set of real trucks.

I'm gonna be honest Nigel Ryan Jones, IDK how you late flip those front shuvs.

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

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

These are the skateboards these tricks were invented on.

In before " dont break the 90s , 2000s and 2010s skateboard"

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.

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

The whole crews here today!

There is a Somber 7 in Nokstella :D

i need some braille 80s graphics!

There's people who can grind round rails, and there's people like me who just about die on round rails.

To be fair, that's a McGill deck. So it's really more suited to vert than park or street. Still tho, yeah. It's just before boards started getting SERIOUS concave. Spoon noses and concave tails even. And longer noses with a bit more angle.

That’s a cool board

U got thw McGill lets see a mctwist !!

Gutted JD wasn’t around to sesh this board on the vert ☹️