--- title: Skateboarder Tony Hawk Rides Back to the Future Hoverboard: Video description: Watch skateboarder Tony Hawk ride the world's first real hoverboard canonical: https://time.com/3592052/watch-tony-hawk-ride-the-worlds-first-real-hoverboard/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-18T16:13:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:41.046Z og:title: Watch Tony Hawk Ride the World's First Real Hoverboard og:description: Not super graceful, but still pretty awesome og:url: https://time.com/3592052/watch-tony-hawk-ride-the-worlds-first-real-hoverboard/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1c30e1ac32bef25/6987694d524fc015c7deac80/screen-shot-2014-11-18-at-10-33-19-am.png?branch=production&width=764&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 764 og:image:height: 430 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-11-18 at 10.33.19 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Tony Hawk Ride the World's First Real Hoverboard twitter:description: Not super graceful, but still pretty awesome twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1c30e1ac32bef25/6987694d524fc015c7deac80/screen-shot-2014-11-18-at-10-33-19-am.png?branch=production&width=764&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Tony Hawk Ride the World's First Real Hoverboard > Sponsored content. 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But now, to make up for it, here he is riding a [_real_ ](http://time.com/3528690/watch-the-first-real-hoverboard/)hoverboard. Yup, Marty McFly’s [preferred mode of transportation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ZdMOMUgXE) is now a real thing. Or at least, it’s pretty close. What the skateboarding icon rides in the video is a Hendo board, which [bills itself](http://www.hendohover.com/) as the world’s first hoverboard. Its developers recently launched a [Kickstarter campaign](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/142464853/hendo-hoverboards-worlds-first-real-hoverboard), where you can pre-order one of these high-tech boards for a cool $10,000. If that’s out of your price range, then just enjoy this video of Hawk testing one of them out. 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