do it! im 29 and just started a few days ago. ordered a sick alien workshop deck with some indy trucks and bones wheels and bearings. came in the mail 2 days ago. i cant land an ollie properly but its tonnes of fun and my son loves it too. you're never too old to start! go get a board!
Ill definitely be ordering this. I just started skating again after a 15 year hiatus, and because I'm an adult now I have adult sized bills so paying 60-100 bucks every couple months for a pair of skate shoes just isn't in the budget. So just because of that I'll be ordering this with my first braille complete board in the near future. Thanks for bringing this to the light guys!
My Braille waterborne collaboration surfskates have turned out to be on another level, when it comes to the surfskate. For us surf skaters, we like the non-abrasive griptape, because it allows us to surfskate barefoot.
I do like the testing to see how abrasive they are on the shoes and how quickly they damage them. However, I feel like while in a game of skate or just in general, not landing a trick makes it not count, but when testing the abrasiveness of the grip and the damage on the shoes I think you should count it whether they land it or not because the thing doing the damage is the drag and flick on the griptape, not the landing of the trick. So if you do 50 kickflips and you're 50 for 50 without missing and then someone else does 50 but they have to do 75 or 100 due to not landing them all, then the results are kinda invalidated because they did more of the same damaging motions. Still love these videos though, just food for thought for future videos and testing :).
my main thought throughout this was "how is the wear on the griptape itself." Tbh, it was looking a little beat up towards the end. Interesting approach, though!
Maaan this video is exactly why i love skateboarding. the bond and connection people make are awesome! i still hang out and talk with the same people i skated with back in the 90s. love it
When the older dude asked him to kickflip on his board, this man didn't know he was asking the person with the most experience in the world in kickflipping on non standard boards.
You really should make a test bench, where you oscillate the shoe with a consistent weight application a specific number of times at a specific controlled pressure on the same shoe.
A man any tips I can use on my Ollie’s I can pop and have the notion of sliding but I can’t slide and I’m trying todo it and having no hesitation but still can’t do it thanks homie
Recently, I bought the new Vans Zion Wright Zahba shoes. I want those shoes to last me as long as possible so I ordered a sheet of gecko grip from the braille website. Can't wait to try it out!!!!
@rSuarrez The shoes lasted 9 months. I used 2 different decks, both with gecko grip during those 9 months. The grip itself is somewhere between slippery and grippy. It's grippy enough to where it's usable. The somewhat slipperyness kind of makes it easier to slide your foot up for ollies. At first, very tiny pieces of the velcro material will shed off and can go all over your hands. But after about 2-3 days, it stops. I think the grip overall was really cool although I don't use it anymore.
This might be great for my electric board. Unfortunately there's really no other way to hold it but to mall grab (ik ik) cause it's so heavy. So the grip always wears holes in all my pants.
Velcro is a name brand, but the product is called hook and loop. The grip tape is obviously a smaller version. But is it hook, loop or both? Maybe a squiggle?
This is what those fine hairs do. These tiny tufts of hair get so close to the contours in walls and ceilings that electrons from gecko hair molecules and those from the wall molecules interact with each other, creating an electromagnetic attraction...does this grip tape create that effect?
Astounding demonstration of kickflip endurance. All these athletes will be sore tomorrow. It does seem sticky enough, and way less abrasion. Though, the boards used were significantly different. That tiny popsicle with the geko tape on... of course that's easier. Way ligher and built for the job. Swap boards and do the test again. ;-)
I do a lot of footplants, fingerflips, cave mans, handflips etc. After a days skate the fingerprint reader on my phone stops recognising my thumb. This could be the fix.
Dude if it's leaving white marks on the grip after one kickflip then it's really abrasive, it's shaving off a tiny bit of the white from your shoe. I'd be curious to try it but I'm not buying it not being abrasive when I can see it ripping paint off like that.
I do understand uzis point in not wanting that micro stuff on his hands. is it safe? I mean… there are carbon fiber reinforced boards that dust that stuff around when they break. hows the gecko tape when you intentionally rub against it all the time?
For a fair assessment you need to at least take into account the fails as the contact on the board is the same and if you have more fails than the other person it's not an equal test
@Braille Did you know that the world record for the most amount of kick flips in 1 minute is 24. With all that practice you should be able to beat that. 😀👍
Looks like its inbetween normal grip and non-abrasive. It's clearly abrasive just perhaps less abrasive than normal grip. If it was non-abrasive then no white would be showing on the grip.
I love these test videos, but if you are truly testing to see the difference, you need to remove as many variables from the equation as possible. So, if you are testing wear, you should count any attempt that adds to the wear of the shoe regardless of whether trick is landed successfully. Otherwise, you'll end up discarding results that directly realted to test you are performing. So, if you land 50 of 60 attempts and the next guy lands 40 of 100, your test will be invalid because one could say the one with more wear was due to it performing more attempts. Also, you all should have your editor add a counter for the viewers.
In every video where they "test a product", there is quite literally no quality assurance. They really need someone on the crew who has some understanding of scientific method. These videos are fun but it would be quite a bit more entertaining if they ever captured real results in the process of making cool content.
So... If you don't land it, it doesn't count? That means you're not comparing even conditions. Each flick is an instance of wear, it shouldn't matter if you land it or not.
Mad respect to that old school shredder. I wanna skate with that guy.
He was rad
He got that perfect middle aged shred
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I love him! Get him to the braillehouse for a full vid! I wanna hear some old school stories
Love the guest star appearance. Always so charismatic to meet experienced skaters.
I love how you guys interact with people at the park really just making peoples days better
Solid example of why I subscribe to this channel
I’m 35 years old and have never skated a day in my life, but after watching a bunch of your videos I am seriously thinking about trying to start
Start skating. Best thing to do after 30
do it! im 29 and just started a few days ago. ordered a sick alien workshop deck with some indy trucks and bones wheels and bearings. came in the mail 2 days ago. i cant land an ollie properly but its tonnes of fun and my son loves it too. you're never too old to start! go get a board!
@@glennh8185You hit that first ollie yet glenn?
lol this man seriously did a damage report after 1 kickflip on non-abrasive griptape... never stop being awesome Aaron
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t make” 😂 I love it
RIght? Truest statement ever
Wayne Gretzky.
High-school math classroom flashbacks.
@@vorpalblades - Wayne said you miss the shots you don't take. This statement is you miss the shots you don't make.
@@arealgoodguy guess that's a miss for me...
Dude I’ve been watching you guys for like 8 years and I finally get to be one of the first comment 😂😂 but keep up the great work guys 🙏🙏
Awesome! Thank you!
Ill definitely be ordering this. I just started skating again after a 15 year hiatus, and because I'm an adult now I have adult sized bills so paying 60-100 bucks every couple months for a pair of skate shoes just isn't in the budget. So just because of that I'll be ordering this with my first braille complete board in the near future. Thanks for bringing this to the light guys!
How is it, if you ordered it.
Yeah any reviews of it?
Respect How MANY TIME YOU GUYS PUT IN YOUR VIDS KEEP UP THE WORK
thank you
I just got my first braille board and I love it!!! My friend tried it and ordered one the next day 💯
sweet!
i’m that friend my board is gonna be here on tuesday
My Braille waterborne collaboration surfskates have turned out to be on another level, when it comes to the surfskate. For us surf skaters, we like the non-abrasive griptape, because it allows us to surfskate barefoot.
Now that sounds fun
Yo braille thanks for all the vids they make my day better
Happy to help
Loved this video, felt a bit like the old school fremont vids!
Kudos to the man at the end nearing on a half-century of skating, absolute legend!
I do like the testing to see how abrasive they are on the shoes and how quickly they damage them. However, I feel like while in a game of skate or just in general, not landing a trick makes it not count, but when testing the abrasiveness of the grip and the damage on the shoes I think you should count it whether they land it or not because the thing doing the damage is the drag and flick on the griptape, not the landing of the trick. So if you do 50 kickflips and you're 50 for 50 without missing and then someone else does 50 but they have to do 75 or 100 due to not landing them all, then the results are kinda invalidated because they did more of the same damaging motions. Still love these videos though, just food for thought for future videos and testing :).
my main thought throughout this was "how is the wear on the griptape itself." Tbh, it was looking a little beat up towards the end. Interesting approach, though!
Maaan this video is exactly why i love skateboarding. the bond and connection people make are awesome! i still hang out and talk with the same people i skated with back in the 90s. love it
Couldn't agree more!
It’s funny to see that’s your kickflips get better in every test❤
When the older dude asked him to kickflip on his board, this man didn't know he was asking the person with the most experience in the world in kickflipping on non standard boards.
Love that you do these tests and the people you meet while doing them 😎👌👏 love braille ❤
U guys just make me want to go skate love you guys
Thanks so much!
Hey Braille, I was wondering if there would be a way for you to get your skat products into Australian skate shops such as beyond skate. :)
We need to see a 'King of Consistent Kickflips' contest guys ❤
Wow someone who has been riding as long as me Awsome keep it up. Hi from Iowa
I just seen an ad last week for some kind of rubber grip tape, I'd love to see your guys reaction to that
I'm using this stuff on the top 2 inches of my nose so I don't get grip thumb. Works perfectly!!
You really should make a test bench, where you oscillate the shoe with a consistent weight application a specific number of times at a specific controlled pressure on the same shoe.
That old timer is a legend!
We now need a comparison of this grip to the dkl non abrasive grip
yea
It almost sounds like it deadens the pop of the board .why don’t skate shoe makers make Ollie pads on shoes anymore , Vision Street Wear had them .
Also Airwalk.
Etnies still make some.
The old skool ripper needs to be on the team 🤙
So cool to see do many new griptape that I never thought could exist 👍
Those braille shoes look so fire, I need a pair
Yeah geckos can stick to any surface apart from teflon. Pretty cool
That dude in the Led Zeppelin shirt stole the show.
I was dying when he had a moment with the board.
i bought some of the black out shoes and they are sooooo skinny in the toe section are the braille shoes this skinny or just those?
It’s also the way you flick off that determines where the wear will come in
A man any tips I can use on my Ollie’s I can pop and have the notion of sliding but I can’t slide and I’m trying todo it and having no hesitation but still can’t do it thanks homie
4:41ish UFO above your head?
👀
How does this compare to DKL gen 7? That is what I usually run and I really like it.
Im not sure you would have to try it
Also, to do the test properly, you need a similar size and weight person, and any flip should count (even missed).
Recently, I bought the new Vans Zion Wright Zahba shoes. I want those shoes to last me as long as possible so I ordered a sheet of gecko grip from the braille website. Can't wait to try it out!!!!
I know it’s been 9 months, but how was the grip?
@rSuarrez The shoes lasted 9 months. I used 2 different decks, both with gecko grip during those 9 months. The grip itself is somewhere between slippery and grippy. It's grippy enough to where it's usable. The somewhat slipperyness kind of makes it easier to slide your foot up for ollies. At first, very tiny pieces of the velcro material will shed off and can go all over your hands. But after about 2-3 days, it stops. I think the grip overall was really cool although I don't use it anymore.
Digging the shoes! What model are they? 🤙🤙
This might be great for my electric board. Unfortunately there's really no other way to hold it but to mall grab (ik ik) cause it's so heavy. So the grip always wears holes in all my pants.
Dude Dan musta been sweating to death with black pants and long sleeve and black t over that skating in the sun lol.
@@The_G_in_Jesus true that lol
Velcro is a name brand, but the product is called hook and loop. The grip tape is obviously a smaller version. But is it hook, loop or both? Maybe a squiggle?
Shout out to them OGs just spending a day at the park. I hope thats me when i get up there
That 75' dude must have some cool stories to tell
Truly
cool concept. We used to slap shoe goo on the sides back in the day. Using them on my canvas Adidas.
seeing the title I totally thought non abrasive. Awesome video guys
Does the non abrasive grip weigh more than traditional grip?
Good question, this version is pretty similar, the DKL rubber grip is a bit heavier
when will it be available to try it out in Europe? :)
Feels like everyone is out from the braille team , we need to have a video with everyone in it
That older guy is a legend
Man! O.G. dude was awesome!
Do they deliver worldwide mr braille?
Hoping that you have your control and do equivalent test---same shoe, same number of flips, compare damage.
This is what those fine hairs do. These tiny tufts of hair get so close to the contours in walls and ceilings that electrons from gecko hair molecules and those from the wall molecules interact with each other, creating an electromagnetic attraction...does this grip tape create that effect?
Aaron needs to do tests like this, but heel flips.
Astounding demonstration of kickflip endurance.
All these athletes will be sore tomorrow.
It does seem sticky enough, and way less abrasion. Though, the boards used were significantly different.
That tiny popsicle with the geko tape on... of course that's easier. Way ligher and built for the job.
Swap boards and do the test again. ;-)
Thanks
I am a Braille Army Plus Memeber!! And its awesome!!
DKL grip tape keeps coming out with updated versions every so often too
It looks like griptape will skating in a different skate review and testing the durability of a great technology product.
This one is actually abrasive. The rubber grip one (DKL, etc) is the real non abrasive, the wear will only be on the rubber grip instead of the shoe
Bro you gotta send that old school guy a box! 10 sheets Gecko!
Totally
Day 2 of asking for the longest wallride challenge.
I do a lot of footplants, fingerflips, cave mans, handflips etc. After a days skate the fingerprint reader on my phone stops recognising my thumb. This could be the fix.
haha yes
Wait, I could be removing my fingerprints with griptape? 😈
This is crazy video and interesting grip Braille
Why would you not count lands it has nothing to do with the shoes hitting the grip tape, now it’s not as accurate bc Aaron did way less kickflips
Dude if it's leaving white marks on the grip after one kickflip then it's really abrasive, it's shaving off a tiny bit of the white from your shoe. I'd be curious to try it but I'm not buying it not being abrasive when I can see it ripping paint off like that.
I think they might be redesigning the braille skatepark which is why they have been at Freemont for the past couple weeks
Sadly no, we had some Summer Camps and we had to film outside of the warehouse. One day we will refresh the skate park!
@@brailleskateboarding I suggest doing a setup like the woodward progression park.
I do understand uzis point in not wanting that micro stuff on his hands. is it safe? I mean… there are carbon fiber reinforced boards that dust that stuff around when they break. hows the gecko tape when you intentionally rub against it all the time?
Yes its safe
They have been making grip for a long time in europe and it works well.
@@brailleskateboardingwho produces this tape?
For a fair assessment you need to at least take into account the fails as the contact on the board is the same and if you have more fails than the other person it's not an equal test
@Braille Did you know that the world record for the most amount of kick flips in 1 minute is 24.
With all that practice you should be able to beat that. 😀👍
The amount of shoe money I coulda been saving…
why 2 screws and not 4 ?
It’s a 90s thing, Aaron is and OG
Got to go back a little further than the 90s to be OG
I love this channel
Can you guys do some street skating videos aswell?
So my guess is, to keep the griptape clean and skate in a clean indoor skatepark.
I hope you got contact details for old school, I'd love to see him in more videos.
Teak Tuning be like “ WE ARE THE SUPLLIER FOR FINGERBOARD GEKO TAPE”- the fingerboard gang
I really wonder if it feels like carpet. Or maybe the Thistle seeds.
Looks like its inbetween normal grip and non-abrasive. It's clearly abrasive just perhaps less abrasive than normal grip. If it was non-abrasive then no white would be showing on the grip.
also today just brought my 3 year old her first skateboard :D
That is awesome
Wow he has been skating for 48 yrs, He started the year after I was born. I started 11 yrs. after he did.
well im not sure about the non-abrasive part. to me it seems like they are saying water isnt wet.
I like how it looks darker than regular grip tape
10:51 HOOOYEAHH
😂That "48" dude was so cool 🛹
❤️
Could you come to London one day
We would love to
Why is kyro such a beast though
Good question
I think because he's a sponsored skater from the San Francisco area.
Odd that the wear test is the only thing where a foot on the ground doesnt still count as a make first try at the braille house 😂
Haha
I love your videos there sooo cool
I love these test videos, but if you are truly testing to see the difference, you need to remove as many variables from the equation as possible. So, if you are testing wear, you should count any attempt that adds to the wear of the shoe regardless of whether trick is landed successfully. Otherwise, you'll end up discarding results that directly realted to test you are performing. So, if you land 50 of 60 attempts and the next guy lands 40 of 100, your test will be invalid because one could say the one with more wear was due to it performing more attempts. Also, you all should have your editor add a counter for the viewers.
In every video where they "test a product", there is quite literally no quality assurance. They really need someone on the crew who has some understanding of scientific method. These videos are fun but it would be quite a bit more entertaining if they ever captured real results in the process of making cool content.
So... If you don't land it, it doesn't count? That means you're not comparing even conditions. Each flick is an instance of wear, it shouldn't matter if you land it or not.
He really said “Boneless, first try!” Lmao
That stuff should have been invented 30 years ago,I could have saved loads of shoe money ❤❤❤
bond with the board 🥺
Didn't show or explain how a massive chunk fell off day 1... Sorta ruins the lasting effect of the shoes if you need to regrip super often
I can smell Aaron’s salesmans breath from here with this grip tape…..
you should compare DKL non-abrasive to this one with shoe wear, grip wear and its' grippiness
Yes they should. I've used dkl for about 4 or 5 years, I'd love to know if this is a better replacement.
Here's the real question. Will anyone on braille team now adopt this grip tape for their daily steet/park deck?