VO: Skaters have always wanted to get some air (lip shot?) but the ultimate air - a hover board like the one in Back to the Future two - has never been possible. Ronall Allen: The hover board that he had in that movie was pretty cool, pretty dope. Elysia Davids: I wish that I could go back to the future and ride on a hover board. Kevin Reierson: I actually have dreams where I’m skateboarding but then it turns into a hover board VO: Those dreams may finally be coming true.This is the Hendo. SOUND UP... Hover board liftoff.. Greg Henderson: We have a hover board! TITLE: HOVER BOARD DREAMS VO: The Hendo is the vision of Greg - Hendo - Henderson. He’s an architect whose interest in hovering comes more from an idea to protect buildings rather than skatepark dreams. GH:. What if you could hover a building out of an earthquake? and that was the genesis for the Hendo hover board. SOUND UP.. Greg riding board.. GH: The Hendo hover board and Hendo hover engines work a lot like mag lev trains but they are a whole lot more efficient and much, much more affordable. Henderson says he’s found a way to rotate multiple magnets to freely balance the board GH: We don’t need a track anymore. All we need is this, a conductive non-ferromagnetic surface. Many have tried to make the hover board a reality. Some used magnetic tracks and nitrogen-cooled superconductors (FRENCH CLIP) others a lot of duct tape and a leaf-blower... (YT CLIP) Last year, It looked like skaters’ dreams had come true when Christopher Lloyd presented Tony Hawk with a functioning hover board... (CLIP) until it was revealed that it was a hoax by the comedy website Funny or Die. Tony Hawk: I want to apologize for the hover board prank. I thought it would be obvious that it was fake but a lot of people believed it. Kevin Reierson : We’ve been stuck on the ground for so long I think it would be cool to mix it up and start borderline hovering, I don’t know borderline flying... VO: I got a chance to try out the Hendo. Is it a realization of the Back to the Future hover board? Not exactly - for now it only works on special surfaces and the battery life is only a few minutes long... and it’s tough to ride! Conor: Marty McFly was a lot better, so no I didn’t feel like Marty McFly. But you can definitely tell that you’re floating, that’s for sure. And you can feel that something is lifting you.. VO: So will we soon all be able to ride hover boards at the mall? Maybe, say the Hendersons. Their goal is to crowd-fund a better prototype and to sell what they call a “white box” with a hover engine inside to developers. We’re not going over hedges, we can’t go over water or a sidewalk, yet. This is the model T, this is just a stepping stone and it’s a necessary stepping stone to the next level if you want a real hover board.