This is a video documenting Slow Mo Guys (previously) Gav and Dan’s quest to build a watermelon rocket-powered skateboard. It consists of a watermelon zip-tied to a skateboard with its butt stuffed with sparklers. It does move, but when Dan tries to ride it the board’s MPS (miles per sparkler)
This is a video of “movement artist” ModernTarzan (aka Nicholas Coolridge) taking a break from swinging from the tree tops to ride a skateboard through a sewer pipe, ending in a dry water runoff/makeshift skatepark where a friend tries to matador him with a flannel shirt and everyone cheers like
A feet of modern engineering, this motorized electric skateboard built by Youtuber Vagabond Works (vagabonds typically don’t work is the thing) moves on 24 legs inspired by the Strandbeest kinetic sculptures of Theo Jansen. It’s totally rideable and steerable too, featuring two motors powering its legs, and a 661 pound
This is a video of pro freeride mountain biker Sam Pilgrim building a mountain bike skateboard hybrid and attempting to do tricks around a skatepark on the thing. You may previously recall Sam riding a pennyfarthing bicycle downhill and around a BMX track. Or, if you’re like me, you don’t
This is a video of Jack Black driving around Los Angeles trying to find skateboarders, then yelling at them to do a kickflip. Whether successful in their flippy kick or not, the skaters are rewarded with an exclusive signed Jack Black x The Berrics ‘Do A Kickflip!’ skate deck. Not
This is a video of thrill-builder Bob “Rocketman” Maddox (previously: his jet-powered go-kart) taking the ACME Jet Skateboard he built out for a ride. Man, Wile E. Coyote is so jealous right now. “Admittedly, a better idea than I had,” I imagine him thinking to himself while unlacing his roller
This is a video of French BASE jumper Jumaidee Elias 50/50 grinding his way off the side of the Millau Viaduct bridge on a skateboard near Millau in Southern France. Thankfully for him, he wasn’t hit in the head with his board on the way down and knocked unconscious the