Brakeboard

A brakeboard is a skateboard fitted with a specialised truck assembly that includes a braking mechanism.

The Brakeboard was first invented in 1999 by Ben Newman of Western Australia.

In 2010 the Australian Government provided an R&D grant which enabled the development of a new iteration which was released in Melbourne in January 2013.

The brake allows the rider to control their speed on a downhill run and bring the board to a safe stop.

[citation needed] The original Brakeboard by Ben Newman was Western Australian winner and national finalist in the Yellow Pages Business Ideas Award in 2001 and a sector winner on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s The New Inventors program 2006[1] Newman was also a runner-up to the winner of the inaugural WA Inventor of the Year competition in 2006, though there was some controversy about the eligibility of award applications.