Switch Board

Hey kids, remember the Morfboard, Morfboard 2, and Morfboard copiers like the Flybar? Well you can add the Switchboard to that esteemed group of wacky boards, and this one might be best engineered version yet. It’s one skateboard with special mounting plates that allow you to swap out trucks and accessories in a snap. Is it necessary? Maybe. Is it possible? Yes! Who is it made by? Switchboard! But is it this Switchboard? Possibly. The logo is different and the product is conspicuously absent from the skateboard training products section and skateboard trucks section, so who knows. Someone in Poland knows. (Daj mi buziaka.)

Is it Switchboard or Switch Board? Depends on what graphic you’re looking at. Here are some images of “Ride & Slide” technology.

Here are some (curiosity) unsatisfying close ups of the mounting mechanism. It’s odd the they don’t provide a more detailed view. You have to pause the product video to get a better look. It’s unclear what the larger protrusion is, as the smaller one towards the inside of the board is actually the locking/unlocking trigger.

The basic set just includes one board with 2 sets of different trucks and wheels. You have to buy the ollie trainers and the balance board setup separately… but where? Right now the only place you can phrase the board is at Target ($69.99), but they don’t sell the other accessories. I’d be tempted to get one just to check it out, but my basement is full of wacky boards as it is.

Oh boy! It looks like so much fun!

Here’s some stills archived from the product video that is only available on the Target web site so far. I know, I know. This idea is so excellent, the Switchboard will be around forever! Here they are, just in case… The last one in this group should give you an idea about how the truck locking mechanism works. It looks like you could probably use any trucks with this mechanism, you’d just need an extra set of the “male” part to attach standard trucks to. At least I hope that’s the way it works. It would be commercial suicide to require a truck with a custom baseplate instead of just an adapter. Oh no! They committed commercial suicide! After publishing I noticed one photograph that shows they are indeed non-standard baseplates that cannot be used on normal skateboards without the locking mechanism. The funny thing is that the trucks appear to have fake mounting hardware nubbins on the baseplates!

Ollie training trucks action.

Balance board action. Good luck finding this accessory for sale.

Here’s the proof that in theory these truck won’t impede your day to day carving and shredding.