I Modified My Skateboard Into The Batman Board

Over 10 years ago, I had seen this clip right here. This clip opened my mind, the floodgates, and it sent me on a frenzy. Years later, I'm here trying to understand if anyone had done this, like on a rail, because this was attempted on a rail. So I went ahead, searched, and all I could find was all these dark, I guess, dark 50-50s on a flat surface, which they're all really cool. There's nothing wrong with it. This is probably one of the more proper ones because it was really on the edge. The homie, John Hill, really worked his ass off on this one. He even made the effort to make it on the edge. And then I just found this crazy one. This one was gnarly. I was like, yo, what is this? So knowing that, I tried to do it on the flat surface, got it. And then I just started modifying a board with the homie, Ethan. On this day, I was on a 24-hour live stream. So I was pretty fried out. I didn't know if this was going to work. So we started cutting out a skateboard to kind of make it sit on a rail because I understand that it's really difficult to make a board go flat on an actual flat bar or a round rail. So this is what it looked like. It looked like a Batman board. And I was kind of scared because it's pretty sharp. And if it hits you in the leg, you're going to get cut. So this is going to be very experimental in many ways. So I'm waxing up the rail and you can see me just caveman and it starts working. Like, so I'm pretty confident in it just because of that. And that's what the goal was to do a dark 50-50 with this Batman board. So you're going to see a few attempts of me trying that. I decided to make another board because the one that we did was super cut out and I couldn't really pop. So the new one had more of a tail versus the previous one that was really cut out in the tail and the nose. So the nose is similar to the last one. And this one had more of an actual tail with slight cutouts to have it staying in the rail. If you can see, I'm like messing back and forth with it. Make sure that it could lock in to the rail, which is a crazy thing to think about. But that's what I was going for. A lock-in with the dark 50-50 board. Keep in mind, this is all experimental. I'm just following ideas. Through this process, I learned that regular kickflip to dark 50 would be hard. So I started going frontside and I used heel flip. And we're back at the modifying section because I needed to cut the tail a little more. And then I started filing it because I had an idea that if I filed it in a way where it just smoothly locks in versus like a surface of layers on the rail, it would be a lot easier to just move forward versus it slipping out because it kept slipping out if you saw the one I fell on. So that's what was going on and it started working. Here's the rest of the progress on this battle. So once I landed it, I knew that it wasn't it. But this is what the board looked like. Look at that. You can see where I was filing it so it would smoothly lock in. But I wasn't satisfied because it was more of a kind of feeble looking dark, I guess, variation. That's what we'll call it. So fast forward a few weeks later, I'm back in the group and I'm going for a circle rail. And this rail is familiar. This is what it looks like. Check it out. That I broke the little piece where it would lock in. And this is what it was looking like. It's kind of scary. Like I said, once it hits you, it's over. Like you're getting a cut. So here I am messing around with it because this is a circle rail now, a square rail. And I was getting close. And at this point, I had brought my phone that wasn't fully charged because I wasn't sure how this was going to work out. I just wanted to go out and make sure I could try it. Didn't get it. So the following week, I go to this red rail because I think this is a better location. The other location, I wasn't feeling it just because the parking block curbs are in the way. I was a lot more confident after previous session at the green rail and knowing that I've already rolled away from it. It just wasn't like a lock on 50-50. But I was looking pretty optimistic on this session. I really felt it compared to the last one. I did fall a good amount of times. It's just one of the falls I want to show just to show that even if it's a small obstacle, you can still hit it pretty hard. And these are some of the makes. That one was like a Smith. If you want to think of it like that. I also just want to clear up that I wanted to make sure that I did properly do a dark 50-50. Although it wasn't the same as Brian Hansen slash like this, which is pretty amazing. Like I wish he would have done that. It's just skateboarding is full of like so many surprises and so many things that inspire us. Like I'm pretty sure I would have never tried to dark 50-50 if it wasn't for me ever seeing this clip over 10 years ago. And look at this. I just want to emphasize how amazing this is. Like a lot of people might think things like this are just kooky or just not cool. But for me, this is amazing because it's like it's a possibility. It's something that hasn't been done. And I don't know. Like I just haven't seen it. I've never seen it on a rail. I've seen people do it on the flat surfaces as I showed you in the beginning of this video. And even his reaction is like, dude, even though he didn't land it, he's celebrating. It's amazing. I wish I could fully talk to him and ask about this. Also, if you've made it this far, please leave in the comments any tricks that you think you've never seen that you've scoured the internet and you just want to see it done or you almost seen something cool be done. I will arise to the challenge. I will try my best to make it happen. It's just something that I feel I'd like to keep doing, pushing myself, going for tricks that seem impossible and showing the process. And if you don't know already, I live stream every day, if not every other day on my live channel. This is where you get to see everything. You get to see the makes, the not makes. And lately it's been a lot of me just doing my best to battle tricks. Yeah, it's been a journey. It's been humbling. And it's cool because a lot of people get to see this and just feel it with me. And you get to be there for the experience. So if that's something that you're interested, make sure to go to the live channel where you're just going to see nothing but live streams. 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