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Inventing a skateboard trick is difficult enough but Matt Tomasello takes things a step further, creating custom boards that are part of the tricks themselves. Get to know the professional skateboarder (and amateur engineer) who’s reinventing the sport with his own wholly unique approach. Special thanks: Fancy Lad Skateboards Photo courtesy of Adam Novicki Director:…

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Inventing a skateboard trick is difficult enough but Matt Tomasello takes things a step further, creating custom boards that are part of the tricks themselves. Get to know the professional skateboarder (and amateur engineer) who’s reinventing the sport with his own wholly unique approach.

Special thanks: Fancy Lad Skateboards
Photo courtesy of Adam Novicki

Director: Charlie Jordan
Director of Photography: Brian Galford; Jim Petit
Editor: Matthew Colby
Expert: Matt Tomasello
Creative Producer: Wendi Jonassen
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Brandon White
Production Manager: D. Eric Martinez
Production Coordinator: Fernando Davila
Audio Engineer: Tim Haggerty
Production Assistant: Elizabeth Petit
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward

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59 Comments

  1. Barbz

    July 26, 2023 at 2:14 pm

    ” I have a very particular set of skills”

  2. Lobi

    July 26, 2023 at 2:38 pm

    I hate skateboarding but this is actually really cool

  3. Raghunath singh Rajpurohith

    July 26, 2023 at 2:50 pm

    this is elon musk

  4. Lashan

    July 26, 2023 at 3:05 pm

    Unreal. Dude should have an art gallery exhibit with all the boards and videos (or skateboarders) using them in action

  5. zZiL341yRj736

    July 26, 2023 at 3:32 pm

    This dude is doing NewGame+ after he unlocked all the funny accessories.

  6. keith bouchard

    July 26, 2023 at 3:32 pm

    now thats reinventing skate bording because it give the possibility of pulling off more trick that were impossible before

  7. Kenn Reed

    July 26, 2023 at 4:00 pm

    sick.

  8. oogie googie

    July 26, 2023 at 4:03 pm

    I love people who basically make up their own craft and master it. Never seen anything like this before.

  9. Budget Video Rentals

    July 26, 2023 at 4:29 pm

    What a Fancy Lad.

  10. Augustus Murphy

    July 26, 2023 at 4:43 pm

    Very cool to see him getting broader recognition! Wish they chose better music…

  11. Robby Blackwell

    July 26, 2023 at 4:52 pm

    Dude… pad yourself my friend!! You’ll thank me in about 40 years😂

  12. LP

    July 26, 2023 at 5:13 pm

    Man just created a cheat code of skating or he’s gonna be the one to invent hover boards

  13. Treemike 1000

    July 26, 2023 at 5:19 pm

    Awesome!

  14. Stark Parker

    July 26, 2023 at 5:34 pm

    The Calder of skating

  15. Santiago Delgadillo

    July 26, 2023 at 5:53 pm

    sick

  16. sacgeekgirl

    July 26, 2023 at 5:54 pm

    Very badass!!! 🔥🔥🔥

  17. Anym

    July 26, 2023 at 5:58 pm

    dude really said “tricks are cool and all, but what about the board?”

  18. Janet F

    July 26, 2023 at 6:12 pm

    what a magical sense of fun this guy has! Yay for him‼💥

  19. TeddyPESO

    July 26, 2023 at 6:39 pm

    He is like an engineer !!!! Impressive !!!! Kinda like a pioneer of inventions for skateboards !!!!

  20. Random Bogey

    July 26, 2023 at 6:56 pm

    5:52 Honestly, 20%-25% success rate for virtually zero planning and very little R&D is pretty good. If a rocket company was just eye-balling parts onto a rocket engine with no plans or modeling and 1:5 of those rockets even went half straight into the air, it’d be impressive.

  21. Luis Catrofe

    July 26, 2023 at 7:18 pm

    These are probably one of the most useless inventions I’ve seen, and at the same time, probably one of the most impressive.
    Imagine what this man would be able to do with a real workshop and professional tools

  22. muska

    July 26, 2023 at 7:19 pm

    matt is a legend

  23. Nazareth Simons

    July 26, 2023 at 7:34 pm

    Dude living his best life!!! let’s go!!!

  24. Tim Moye

    July 26, 2023 at 8:38 pm

    love his creativity

  25. Alejandro Ramirez

    July 26, 2023 at 10:20 pm

    Im sure I’ve seen his videos before but has rodney or daewon tried the boards?

  26. JJ

    July 26, 2023 at 10:33 pm

    Rodney Mullen foaming at the mouth*

  27. b411z

    July 26, 2023 at 10:48 pm

    Fancy Lad ❤

  28. The Dark Knight Racist

    July 26, 2023 at 10:55 pm

    this guy takes skateboard to engineering level

  29. zach lieb

    July 26, 2023 at 11:54 pm

    As a skateboarder of 23 years I can confirm…. This is lame. As a pedestrian I can confirm this is kind of cool.

  30. Ned Mononymous

    July 27, 2023 at 2:08 am

    I LOVE Matt Tomasello ,fancy lad and wired, so this is a crossover I wasn’t expecting but I am very grateful for. For the racord Fancy Lad is his skate team and they release videos full of shennaigans like this. Just hilarious wacky skating and good vibes, even non-skaters almost unanimously love it in my experience.

  31. colinstu

    July 27, 2023 at 2:43 am

    The Braille Skateboarding guys need to do a collab with him

  32. Nollie Fullcab

    July 27, 2023 at 3:30 am

    Shout out to Orange Man the OG of doing this

  33. Evan Pearce

    July 27, 2023 at 3:57 am

    This has to be the future of skating

  34. Adam Cady

    July 27, 2023 at 4:43 am

    If you learn to fall well, you can just keep trying.
    -Matt Tomasello

  35. krishnan srinivasan

    July 27, 2023 at 6:36 am

    I follow him on Instagram. He is creative & really good at what he does 🙂 Nice video 🙂

  36. Kimithin

    July 27, 2023 at 3:27 pm

    PRopEA LEGEND

  37. Worst SE

    July 27, 2023 at 3:42 pm

    such a fancy lad…

  38. N B

    July 27, 2023 at 3:42 pm

    such a fancy lad…

  39. Taylor Bjork

    July 27, 2023 at 4:18 pm

    Someone get one of these to Daewon

  40. Mike Muponda

    July 27, 2023 at 5:43 pm

    This dude is so refreshing, makes me feel like life can be so much easier with the right attitude!

  41. Kevin Luo

    July 27, 2023 at 7:09 pm

    PROJECTCHRONO?

  42. Keith Raney

    July 27, 2023 at 8:39 pm

    Enter The 37th Chamber !

  43. Johnny C.

    July 27, 2023 at 10:33 pm

    What a fancy lad

  44. Nabeel Mohamed

    July 28, 2023 at 2:42 pm

    He is skateboard man🦹

  45. Invox

    July 28, 2023 at 5:24 pm

    I know a lot of people who tried a skate trick without any pads once…
    Once! 😅

  46. A Z

    July 30, 2023 at 11:08 am

    Love seeing MT get more of a spotlight, but the music choices made this feel like a Tim and Eric skit.

  47. Collin Gill

    July 30, 2023 at 1:20 pm

    fancy lad rules

  48. Collin Gill

    July 30, 2023 at 1:28 pm

    7:35 excuse me mr. tomasello thats a salad grind

  49. Ronald Chesaux

    July 31, 2023 at 6:41 am

    The final boss of unemployment

  50. BOMBON187

    July 31, 2023 at 2:36 pm

    I hope he makes one where you dont hit your nuts with it.

  51. TornadoT

    August 5, 2023 at 12:44 pm

    This guy should totally collaborate with stuff made here. He could run his boards through all his programs 😂

  52. Lucifer Lua

    August 6, 2023 at 5:23 am

    amazing!

  53. Melville Pattesby

    August 7, 2023 at 11:19 am

    genius

  54. OasisOgre

    August 8, 2023 at 4:54 pm

    sick

  55. GrownOcean

    August 11, 2023 at 4:54 pm

    No love for the orange man?

  56. djtomoy

    August 13, 2023 at 11:55 am

    Skateboarding is fine as it is, stop changing it.

  57. Eric M

    August 18, 2023 at 6:22 pm

    Can’t wait for his Swiss Army Knife board!

  58. Abdul Manan

    August 19, 2023 at 12:37 am

    That’s insane.

  59. Mystic Mac

    August 19, 2023 at 11:48 am

    This is really impressive 👏😎

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