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(Gizmodo) Cool Skateboarding down a bobsled run at 50mph is some cool running (w/video)   (gizmodo.com) divider line 24
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DrSieb
2011-11-18 10:37:17 AM
What was the guy filming it using to get down the track?
 
Shaggy_C
2011-11-18 10:49:32 AM
DrSieb: What was the guy filming it using to get down the track?

Exactly my thought - the skateboarder had it easy, all he had to do was balance. The camera guy was going just as fast and had an actual job to do.
 
AceThunder
2011-11-18 11:12:13 AM
cdn.mos.totalfilm.com
 
lakrfool
2011-11-18 11:31:13 AM
I bet this is an X-Games type sport in 3 years. Bobsled runs probably sit vacant during the warmer months...this would be a good way to make some coin off of them.
 
skinbubble
2011-11-18 11:39:52 AM
Shaggy_C: DrSieb: What was the guy filming it using to get down the track?

Exactly my thought - the skateboarder had it easy, all he had to do was balance. The camera guy was going just as fast and had an actual job to do.

I am thinking that he had a helmet cam of some-sort.
 
This Looks Fun
2011-11-18 11:41:04 AM
I gotta be honest. I thought it would look cooler.

/No, I could not have done it.
 
Arxane
2011-11-18 11:52:05 AM
skinbubble: Exactly my thought - the skateboarder had it easy, all he had to do was balance. The camera guy was going just as fast and had an actual job to do.

I am thinking that he had a helmet cam of some-sort.

That, or maybe he held it, like these two guys did (new window).

/First hand-off at 1:45
 
Swoop1809
2011-11-18 11:54:10 AM
I wish it werent so cold, I really want to go longboard right now :(

/cant do crazy things like that
//love just cruising around
//chill, brah
 
skrame
2011-11-18 11:58:37 AM
Every time he went around a corner I had Winter Games flashbacks, and started tapping the opposite arrow key.

www.mobygames.com
 
nyseattitude
2011-11-18 12:03:28 PM
Shaggy_C: DrSieb: What was the guy filming it using to get down the track?

Exactly my thought - the skateboarder had it easy, all he had to do was balance. The camera guy was going just as fast and had an actual job to do.

And carrying a boombox!!

Couldn't you hear the inspirational music in the video?
 
TheNewJesus
2011-11-18 12:12:38 PM
In Jamaica they refernce that movie everywhere. It's really sad.
 
Badafuco
2011-11-18 12:25:16 PM
I was just skating in Sedona, AZ and got the speed wobbles. I'm now nursing some fantastic road rash.

/hates the wobbles.
 
Sun Tzu
2011-11-18 12:25:40 PM
Camaradude clearly had the better wheels. Should have got under him and got him loose off turn 3. Could have ran wide and coasted home from turn 4, rather than burn his paint on the tri-oval trying to take him at the finish.

/dasracin'
 
Donnchadha [TotalFark]
2011-11-18 01:46:21 PM
Badafuco: I was just skating in Sedona, AZ and got the speed wobbles. I'm now nursing some fantastic road rash.

/hates the wobbles.

Wrong thread?
 
bcbwilla
2011-11-18 03:25:18 PM
mongo
 
zez
2011-11-18 04:06:31 PM
For cool I bet that was to do, it was kinda boring to watch.
 
Jerry_Hat-trick
2011-11-18 05:03:42 PM
1 - put in on mute. TERRIBLE music for what this is
2 - I wanted to see him go higher up on the walls!
3 - still cool
 
coldones
2011-11-18 07:33:18 PM
bcbwilla: mongo

That's what I was going to say
 
hogans
2011-11-18 07:38:11 PM
Badafuco: I was just skating in Sedona, AZ and got the speed wobbles. I'm now nursing some fantastic road rash.

Tell me you were doing this along Airport Rd. If you were along Oak Creek on 89A, you should consider yourself lucky you don't look like salsa smeared on a cliff.
 
douchebag/hater
2011-11-18 07:54:48 PM
Meh.

I like the videos of the guy in Paris and in the Alps who has skates on his hands and knees, too.
 
barefoot in the head
2011-11-18 08:04:54 PM
YouTube (why not link YouTube?) says camera operator on inline skates.

/awful music
 
skinbubble
2011-11-18 08:31:36 PM
Arxane: skinbubble: Exactly my thought - the skateboarder had it easy, all he had to do was balance. The camera guy was going just as fast and had an actual job to do.

I am thinking that he had a helmet cam of some-sort.

That, or maybe he held it, like these two guys did (new window).

/First hand-off at 1:45

Man, I LOVE that video!
 
red5ish
2011-11-18 08:40:02 PM
He seemed to take the safest route. It wasn't very scary to watch. I have seen skaters do much crazier things.
csb: I saw those scary things done in the 80s.
 
Minimum
2011-11-19 09:14:55 AM
zez: For cool I bet that was to do, it was kinda boring to watch.

What he said.

And lose the music.
 
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