These New Walmart Skateboards Are Ridiculous

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[@shaun8062]

In the 90s when I was about 13 they didn't allow skateboards at school so I drilled holes in a small piece of wood about the same shape but a little narrower and put grip on it so that I could skate to school daily and hide it in my book bag. It ended up being a total blast. My friends and I learned all sorts of tricks on it and it was my daily ride when I couldn't use my full skateboard.

[@yungdrainjesus3091]

This the type of shit I missed out on by being a lazy ass kid. Started skating at 17 last summer

[@shaun8062]

@@yungdrainjesus3091 oh good, you didn't miss out too much then. I starte skating again 20 years later in my mid 30s and im still learning higher impact things like stair sets, loading docs, and rails. You have plenty of time but seize the day!

[@blackghostcat]

Takes a whole new meaning to plywood pusher lmao

[@shaun8062]

@@blackghostcat lol

[@oz_jones]

Life... uh, finds a way

[@Jam_-yx7pl]

Chopping board on wheels 😂 When you gotta skate at 5 but cut carrots at 6

[@Shannonbarnesdr1]

lmao

[@guitarwi3rdo]

When you need a cutting board and a ride to work but you can only afford one

[@dmnd7]

😭

[@AnthonyMoreschi]

Nash made them back in the 80’s. I think it was called a “Dozer”. It was meant for your locker but it was pretty dumb back then too.

[@tumblingworm737]

😂 I have one still

[@xcisnerosx]

I have one lol it’s called a pug dozer and has a picture of a pug dog on it

[@renegado4173]

These skateboards were invented a long time ago. I remember seeing them on shark tank. Some kid in middle school invented it by using used skateboards and so it would fit in his locker. These are rad!

[@Jason-if5qf]

dumbest idea ever.

[@sketchyssk8shop]

I had one way back in 1991. It was used when I bought it off a friend.

[@jimsonjohnson3761]

Doesn't a penny board do the same?

[@Giganigga901]

And their whole propaganda was that they were reusing old boards

[@plethorastudios5772]

Its a joke

[@RealLifeSkater]

Horrible board but I kinda dig those weird items you can share with others at skateparks and trip out on how weird it is to land stuff on. I remember at Nella there was a beat up board with 1 rotating truck and we all loved messing around on it haha

[@RobotronSage]

A friend of mine kickflipped a spoon once !

[@Onix.556]

@12:14 that bird chirping everytime you landed the trip lolol, you had a supporter

[@thimblemunch24]

I didnt think walmart could downgrade their already bottom of the barrel skateboards... But they somehow managed.

[@zack8416]

It was made by a little kid so he could fit his board in his locker at school and just use it to ride around not do tricks with

[@kayceeyou]

They aren't a skate shop.

[@linklink3069]

​@@zack8416 Yeah, it almost makes sense, but at that point I'd just recommend to just get a cheap penny board.

[@zack8416]

@@linklink3069 well the other thing was that he was recycling old boards people threw out, idk if he still does or if Walmart changed that but yeah

[@linklink3069]

@@zack8416 That makes a lot more sense then. I think walmart probably doesn't do that though, considering the existence of a nose/tail. If they do recycle old decks though, that's really cool.

[@keithharmonie]

those lurkers lurking want your camera. Welcome to the new LA lol

[@jessejessee5503]

Man I love how youre obsessive with the things you do. I talk about quitting skating at times. Im 34 and just cant pop it like I use to. No matr if i quit for a couple weeks or months I always come back. Same with art stuff. I think as we get older we learn to navigate those rest periods and start to use them for growth. Thank you for all the lovely content all these years

[@RobotronSage]

Don't skip leg day!

[@shadyacr]

man i needed to hear that. I've been so off my game playing guitar this last couple years, and i'm just now starting to really grow and improve again. I attribute this to just focusing on specific things to practice, but also on learning to skateboard this year. I just now have an ollie and it's pretty bad, but i only started in march and i really feel good about where i'm at. One day i just looked at my progress skateboarding from literally nothing in february to where i am now and thought "well if i can do that, i can improve in something i already know how to do and used to be so much more passionate about." In other words, we both got this!

[@cyborgchimpy]

absolutely.. funny thing is, I havent gone out for a sesh in nearly a year(turned 32 last month) and just the other day I found out a new mate of mine skates also. mind you I do longboard freestyle and he's just a cruiser. no matter, it got me in the mood to go out again. might push myself for a new trick.

[@angryzergling7832]

Tony Hawk peaked in his early 30s with the 900. Mid thirties ain't bad - lotsa pro skaters did their most famous stuff in their thirties.

[@Dubsteppah]

I still use my Nash sidewalk surfer from the 1960's. My Grandmother bought it to use to move furniture, and pianos. it's probably worth some money but it's so sentimental. It's also TINY and my feet just hang off of it haha. Cheers John!!

[@shanebreezy4453]

I remember those little Nash boards!! They were around when I was little in the 90's

[@Dubsteppah]

Yes! I remember those too. When I was very poor, I had a Nash street board, and got made fun of. My first real skateboard ever was a Thruster by Madrid Skateboards, no longer around, but I did see a re-issue a while back. Much love to you @@shanebreezy4453

[@MrBiggoh]

Man I beeen watching you for years you got me through some rough times , consistently putting out fire content ❤

[@Shannonbarnesdr1]

yes !!!

[@MrBaskins2010]

My insurance deductible went up just from watching this video. Thank you for addressing the truck wrapping paper issue. Leads to more injuries than they’d like to admit

[@jacques4446]

Just take em off and put em back on lol, don’t be lazy

[@docholliday8238]

I remember seeing the kid that “invented” these on shark tank. Looks like he finally got them in Walmart at least.

[@CynHicks]

When I started skating in the 80s Walmart boards were absolutely worthless. They were essentially there for parents to ruin their kids aspirations of being a skater. 😅

[@Diaramamond]

This episode was nice. This is the kind of episode Joa's mum used to catch him watching.

[@graveyardmanager5718]

gh is going to be under your bed at night for saying that

[@cptcosmo]

I don't know why, but I'd nickname that board "the greasy weasel"... LOL

[@Dr.cactie]

bro love your content bro keep up the good work

[@easydoesit83]

In the 80’s an 90’s they used to make fat stubby boards mainly aimed for kids, they where smaller than the board you have but they had a small kick basically mini old school deck

[@MrMargaretScratcher]

I remember those! I had a cheapo one with plastic trucks

[@ryanrowe1975]

Flip tricks and adding some griptape to level out of the rotations and skating in a cheap market more consistency in skateboarding training

[@breloopharos1919]

I can already feel the corner run across my shins

[@lorenzomendoza1476]

THIS IS INSANE 😂

[@zombiepirateninja1438]

I made one of these out of an old deck that broke which I didn't wanna retire yet. I always keep it in my car, comes in really handy anywhere where you'd use a penny board to get around while being more comfortable than the penny. I don't try tricking it cause that's not really what it's for, but my homie can hardflip the dang thing. 😅

[@rhys.ladouceur4107]

“Weird vibe here” next clip is someone lurking out the door

[@laxrie12]

That fakie back 50-50 is a scary trick. The little Walmart board looked fun.

[@briandenison7608]

Let's see some nollie tricks! Nollie flip would be sick

[@FerdinandZebua]

5:28 Tre-flipping a tray, lol :D

[@the_faba]

love the vibe of your vids

[@Coleman_H]

even when he's not feeling the vibes at the park lol

[@DudeEggs]

Those old Darkstar completes for $35 were actually really solid and don't feel like a Walmart board. My little ones learned to skate on them. The only thing I swapped were the bearings.

[@sn1000k]

are you sure? anything with plastic trucks feels like shit. that said, if you learned on one surely you'd rip once you got a regular board

[@DudeEggs]

@@sn1000k they don't have plastic trucks. It's dark star everything, deck, truck and wheels. The deck looks, feels and rides like a legitimate deck. The trucks aren't the best quality, but, they aren't awful either. Great board for the 4-10 year old crowd.

[@HalfWolf2]

As someone who got a darkstar complete and started skating on it, I can confirm they're actually pretty decent, skated on mine with no mods for a while, the stock bearings got pretty bad pretty quick but the rest actually felt just fine, after I got some reds in there it ran super nice, I've now upgraded it with some nicer trucks that have better bushings for my weight and it handles quite nicely

[@sn1000k]

@@HalfWolf2 that's awesome.

[@HalfWolf2]

@@sn1000k appreciate that, and yea, some of the Walmart boards are actually pretty okay

[@ithinkicandothat7675]

NASH skateboards made an 18" shaped board like this called a Doz'r in the 80's

[@jvon3885]

My grandpa was a wholesaler from Arizona. He was estranged from my mom but wanted to get involved with us later in life. He asked me what I was into and I said skateboarding. He then sent me two pllets of NASH boards to sell to my friends. I ended up just giving them away and had a bunch left in my closet after moving out at 14 most were still wrapped in plastic. My dickhead step dad used them for a campfire one night after hearing I wanted to come get all my stuff. He burnt them and all my Legos, ninja turttles, and GI Joe's.

[@ithinkicandothat7675]

@@jvon3885 Cool attempt on your grandad's side and as a step dad myself, I must say, Major Dick move on his part. The first board I ever bought with the $20 in birthday money from my grandmother in 1975 was a blue plastic NASH board from our local Kmart in Longview, TX. I still have that thing.

[@mokeimusic]

Reminds me of when you could order a blank full board that was cut on the ends. Basically a big rectangle.

[@dj_donnychronic]

It’s been a while since I’ve been here. I used to watch everyday. Either way I missed you broski ❤

[@later_skateboards]

Geniune question, @johnhill ? How is it fakie front crook being fakie and front truck, but fakie 5.0 is fakie and front truck? That seems like one would be either fakie nosegrind or fakie salad.

[@TheDiabeticGameMaster]

So, idk if he covers it in the video but for anyone else not paying attention, like me, the idea behind this board comes from a 12 year old? On Shark Tank. He realized that his skateboard was too big for his locker and after seeing some broken boards being thrown out behind a local skate shop he got the idea to recycle those used boards, cut the ends off and veu’la! There you have it! A board just short enough to fit in a backpack and a locker. Like I said in my initial comment, I guess the kid had never heard of Penny or Nickel boards. Hell. I bet most One Wheel type things fit in a bag/locker. I actually think that was part of the selling point now that I’m thinking back on it, lol. I don’t mean to mock the kid, good on him for tryin to find a way to make used boards useful again. I’m more shocked that these adults were so ignorant that they thought they could jump into the skating industry with this pretty dumb idea as though nobody had come up with the concept of “what if skateboard but small!?” before….

[@frenchysk8_]

Sick video as always

[@galvanizedgnome]

Remember when John promised he would quit skating. Prepridge Farms remembers

[@VolcanoEarth]

Looks like the things they sell at Harbor Freight for moving furniture. FWIW when I was a kid still wanting but not having a skateboard, I'd jump on the rolley thing my dad laid on to work under cars. I am fairly sure I was only kept alive back then by my guardian devil for some as yet undisclosed purpose.

[@MrGneiss]

I had one like this in the late 80's..Fit in your backpack.. Although the nose was rounded..Can't remember what they were called.. Very wide, but short and flat thick wood deck.. Very unrideable!! :D

[@BrandonHanson]

Looks like a board after a skater would snap the nose and tail after missing a trick multiple times.

[@L1TOWEAPON]

I, wonder if u; loosen the trucks: would it have performed better? They usually do(as far as wheels go).

[@GhettoWxzrd]

Anddd this is what happened to that kids invention on shark tank... it went straight to walmart lol.

[@Steezy_Mx]

Its bizarre that a whole squad of people are watching you skateboard live but its not bizarre when 1.12M people watch you?

[@legend7951]

Probably not bizarre more like uncomfortable, when he uploads stuff for people to watch on youtube they aren't watching him try to do the trick in real life as he's doing it

[@hugh_manatee]

They sold you a gripped scrap or 3/4” plywood with $5 trucks on it 😂

[@SeanLaMontagne]

1:54 Kevin Hart's impression of Shaq

[@AcridLeNoob]

Love the Video!

[@jason_v12345]

Locker Board? The inventor of these is from Shark Tank and is like 12 years old.

[@MENTAL_909]

I think I remember some 2018 show where it was just kids making the stupidest toys and I remember this exact concept with the same name go on and get rejected😂

[@gamrage]

I never knew clipboards had such a purpose! All this time I've been using them wrong!

[@RobinWilliamsTribute]

Most walmart boards roll better by loosening the nut on wheels. The manufacterer always cranks them down all the way.

[@beastamer1990s]

I think you still end up spinning the bearing around the axel more than actually having the bearing spin though. I've never bought one but have held them before, I don't think they come lubricated tbh

[@RobinWilliamsTribute]

They still arent great but it does help.@@beastamer1990s

[@OwenAlekos-mh7yw]

Skate barn Walmart, not street bars nor west. Regarding Eastside skate barns with Walmarts... Could be an overlooked community with the Walmart groups doing virtual private networking and ruining lives but using things like "at your own risk" park sign laws like it is a social ticket project. Regarding people claiming things like "the person didn't get reported for burning barrels of money screaming fuck you to Walmart and their people with a city wide demonstration of hate" or something like that, like it was skateboarding that did it. Regarding how the government has to see how it looks when people threaten to kill a person burning their money and closing business and deleting everything... It's like a fetish about having teams remind you why you need to, regarding boiling points and being overly sensitive and annoyed. Thus, the sadness about people who work for the Walmart groups making the example of why it's a gang business story before intending to buy oil / take oil from them... Ozark? Was about money going to be burned? Same topic of being annoyed about withholding against the stalker groups and only asking for them to leave rather than retaliate. Retail, tail, retaliate. Tally. Could be humor about retail markets and ergonomics about meeting bankers needs... The New millennium of annoying people and gangs. Walmart is an adverse health insurance group? Regarding how they are the investors? And are making it for independent social achievements and proof of preparation for surgeries and benefits (despite having already succeeded)? Thus, maybe the circumstances socially outweigh the example of purpose of social insurance business but it's still being exampled. Potentially it's the story about people who run the media and news and TV show stations making it like a roleplaying event where they say that they need money (it's disability conversations about the circumstances of solutions when it is like "maybe the employment was recreational but not for hypnotherapy research projects; like, "did it make sense to do a live in roleplaying nurse TV show?" It was always said no to, wasn't it?). News and media reporters and the example of how annoying they are and how the self centered douchebag programs they use is the example of the lengths and distances they go for their meddling. Thus, "did they not understand salary contracts and how it is military?" Like, you have to still be employed by Walmart and just not work. (Could be weird when it was a sign language consent with the psychic about taking the accounts about dada life roleplaying using their favourite new video game developments as the adverse health care character...). Like, "did no one remember to roleplay like they are captain hook with the missing leg?" Potentially they, alone, could be all of the missing leg photography because they are the only allowed licensed actor for the deepfakes of it (imagine it was like the most annoying example of someone ruining therapy by being a thief and criminal to show people about their records as a union boss). Like, "the union has to see it's so public that maybe the therapy examples can be about proving that a lesson was never given nor learned." (Would need to do social work for the business? But who'd make the bad lands choice? Hmm (weird)). And the person is a pornstar? Regarding being the only one licensed to cover it up. It was like a roleplaying story about accepting their conditions in a video game for roleplaying while handling the insurance health care and social sciences and communication of fetish groups telling them to walk and pretending they can walk. A special edition of abuse. Thus, the context was people who were discussing changing the genetics of their characters to be realistic/ theirself by a rapid surgery story (or accident). The circumstances of people who meddle for attention who make violence and stalking related contracts that have anonymous viewers who don't care what happens making an allowance... Thus, Saw; could be about the same story but put into a much more complicated circumstance when the only person missing anything like a limb is the same actor (because they made it legally like they are the only one allowed...). It made medical staff lose grip of reality and commit suicide and so forth. The person is still a nurse and can sometimes be found around the adverse health care group while they various pornography is still up and the video game characters that did the therapy are still nonhuman/nor like theirself; and so forth. Thus, wires (doctors and pain tolerance) and so forth. Like, they all as a group have a losing grip of reality series of life experiences documented (Mr kappas and the Hysteria). Potentially discussing it where they are able to address the solution would be beneficial. Paying would be more intelligent than doing a fundraiser education investments business resume workshop for the individuals.

[@smellymala3103]

Bro, as a non-skater, track cyclist, when your homie got on and you juked with the camera in reaction…. I felt that. 😂

[@StevenRey]

You should try one of those Sk8mafia mini boards!

[@PajamaPantsStudios]

He already did! Go check out the video

[@user-oo9fl8lp7v]

Or chico stix lol 🤣

[@Hoosierdaddyjones812]

Looks like the found something to do with all them warped blanks they make 😂

[@paulcurtis5317]

What! As a kid in the 60's we used to make thm with a bit of wooden.plank with an old roller skate nailed tho the underneath. They were deathtraps but good fun if you managed not to take a serious tumble, no such thing as a helmet and elbow/knee protectors, they were happy/ dangerous times back then and kids were made of sturdier stuff. Not enough rickets or polio these days, modern kids have gone soft i tells yer! 😀

[@81casperflip]

That board will teach people to land bolts

[@biteme294]

i love it when a teenager sees a bad idea (i.e. cropped board) and immediately wants to give it a shot

[@lukem9697]

if i’m not mistaken, i think locker board was on shark tank a while back. richard branson invested in the kid that brought it on

[@camerenking-dy7hf]

yes it was and hey this kid gave it a shot

[@deatheternal720]

my man put on the dandelion fit

[@allenguimond4634]

So many oranges in the background tree. Yum.😊

[@lowkeysoundsystem6174]

Imagine taking a corner to the shin. 😬

[@richbaritone67]

Remember when part of growing up was outgrowing skateboards?

[@ArrKoKo]

It looks like something I made as a joke in shop class back in the 80's. It was a complete laugh riot. Of course in 2024 Walmart would take something like that seriously. I'm surprised anything could be done on that thing. Har har har.

[@rockerteen8300]

Do a dark side grind and a riding fakey!

[@dyscotopia]

It's funny how "smooth" skate park was a plus at the beginning and became a "slippery" skate park and a negative as things went on. That said, I'm surprised anyone can do anything more than fall off that board, tho the trucks don't look half bad

[@benjipatricia3727]

Sometimes I forget how fucking good you are at skating lmao

[@saltdied]

bro be doing tricks with a walmart square ah looking skateboard while i be failing ollies 💀

[@angryzergling7832]

Just takes practice and perseverance.

[@froggle7085]

What was that flat rail you had in the parking lot at the end? I'm trying to find one for myself!

[@JohnHill]

It’s actually my brand! Progressdaily.com

[@arfriedman4577]

I think the kid called them lockerboard. Shark tank.

[@davecoppenrath]

The tre looked kinda dope

[@travismoore7849]

That mini skateboard is hard mode.

[@jonesman23]

You should try the Urskog Frö from Sweden. It‘s even smaller🤙🏼I guess

[@JoshHoodSucks]

Yeah these were on shark tank can 100% confirm shout out lil guy seems he succeeded

[@Riz2336]

That is one weird little sk8, not sure what kind of skater wants to get one of those

[@chriscullars7636]

I had one in the early nineties. It looked more like a square OS shape. Still terrible but definitely cooler.

[@Harmonator94]

Some kid asked for a skateboard for Christmas and is going to get this lol

[@neonblack211]

lol wtf there was a kid selling this idea on shark tank but it flopped, now its in walmart? stolen

[@eyeamnecyrb4567]

this is steps for very impractical skate boarding step one get on board step to while on board angle feet facing the tail then do a ollie step 2 ride then move feet into position opposite of motion then do the trick

[@forestc6014]

I don’t like when it looks like a tail slide and people call it a blunt. That ish needs to be tilted up a little bit. It’s more like a disaster tailslide. You’re a beast though. Crushing it as always.

[@johnyoung5898]

I saw him at the skate park I had the green and blue skooter

[@Severed-]

I didnt have that issue when i was in highschool. I could fit my skateboard and my gfs longboard in my locker 😂

[@truetech4158]

Oh F, the first image of the board's trucks indicated a MISSING FASTENER where there should be 4 instead of only a less safe face to cement causing 3, if used for certain types of performance that causes trucks to break upon high velocity impact as landing gear. Unpausing for further evaluations..

[@buildingglocks5797]

Bro you can put a normal skateboard in a locker unless it’s for the half sized lockers

[@Allthingslife30]

This is basically an under car roller 😂😂😂😂 perfect for automotive body shop work. where is this park btw?

[@samaeltheangelofdeath]

I mean, I like flips, their pretty small, a little smaller would work with 1/4 risers and more concave and the long board orange juice wheels

[@Eremon1]

The new Hellen Keller line of boards...

[@samaeltheangelofdeath]

I used to like skating the little boards, hmmm. Oo nice kick flip. Make a flip but small, but not as small as the little ones that kids have, with the cheap wheels.

[@MultitaskingGuy]

0:31 I love omega tribe

[@estusf1ask]

at 9:38 i thought a big spin required a body varial? is that not true on rails?

[@nelsonx5326]

I invented the skateboard. I screwed the old metal roller skates that would grip to shoes, screwed 2 of them to a plank of wood, one back, one front, and that was it. Did that around 1963. On Long Island in the suburbs of NYC.

[@strangerofthe2067]

Sorry bud but all my homies were doing that shit in 1958.

[@danielkennedyrey1759]

i love you john

[@FerdinandZebua]

Ride feeling-wise how does it compare to skating an iPad?

[@cactuspat8051]

How this ever made it to market I'll never understand lol

[@skatedama]

Big spin front board to regular instead of fakie, really seems like just 360 shuv front board, equally as hard and impressive, I’ve just seen multiple videos over the last few days of that trick and I’m convinced it can’t be a big spin if you don’t come out fakie

[@YONATOOTH]

But… why?

[@HipHopBeatSource]

LA will only get worse John.

[@charlie12T]

I'll give this video a like.

[@Gobbledy.gook.]

Bring back the long form videos 🥺

[@Chairthrower24]

amazing world of gumball type skateboard💀

[@tuckerjones5899]

Shoulda got the Landyachtz Wreck tangle way sicker and higher quality

[@forestioso]

You’re gonna be the first skater sponsored by them lol

[@Vikanuck]

For what it’s worth, I actually have a board almost exactly the same size as the one you said you tried putting out there, and it’s probably from like 2002 when I was about 15-16, and it’s actually still in pretty good shape thanks to my dad putting away for me and not throwing it away when I moved out thinking it was just garbage lol (he actually just gave me a box with all my old stuff from that era and I found one of the very first pairs of grind king trucks in there and they’re just skin and bones now haha 😂) Either way, I guess the world tried those boards once already, and they just aren’t into doing it again 🤷🏻‍♂️ I don’t know, but me and my buddies used to have so much fun on those things, and it was actually a little smaller than yours. We even turned it into a snow skate with a regular old deck of ours lol. Ahhh the good old days 😊