This is a video of Brazilian skateboarder Sandro Dias setting the Guinness World Records for ‘the tallest drop into a temporary quarter pipe’ and ‘the fastest speed on a temporary quarter pipe’ by dropping into a ramp built on the side of the appropriately shaped Centro Administrativo Fernando Ferrari (CAFF)
This is a video of visually impaired skateboarder Dan Mancina of Keep Pushing Inc. discussing the features of The Ranch skatepark he built for fellow visually impaired skateboarders, as well as for wheelchair use. The key to most features is making them extra long so that a skater still has
Because dream it and you can kinda sorta make it happen occasionally, this is a video of mad inventor/engineer Allen Pan (previously) building two different versions of automatic trick-performing skateboards. The first is powered by drone rotors and isn’t great (note: he should revisit this build for making a hoverboard),
Because I’m fascinated with skeletons (we all have one) this is ‘Shredding Light’, a stop-motion light painting video created by artist Darren Pearson (aka DariusTwin, previous work seen here) of skeletons riding skateboards. It’s a fun watch, and I can’t even imagine how long it took to make because Darren
This is a video of champion longboarder Jeff Corsi demonstrating his wickedly smooth moves on the streets of Paris. Damn! If you’re into this, there’s plenty of similar action on Jeff’s Instagram. On my personal Instagram? Just a couple blurry bar photos spammed with comments to random OnlyFans. View this
This is a video of pro skateboarder Tyshawn Jones performing a massive rampless ollie over Universal Music Group A&R Senior VP Steven Victor’s ~$5-million Ferrari Monza SP2. Some more details about the car while I print out a poster-sized screenshot of it and tack it to the ceiling above my
This is a video from a GoPro attached beneath the board of pro skater Dean-Paul Denniston as he makes his way around a skatepark performing a bunch of flippy tricks and slides. It was pretty neat to watch. Have I told you that I broke my arm skateboarding? Well, I
Note: I originally posted this back in 2020 but I saw it going around the internet again so I’m dredging it back up like terrifying deepwater fish because the article I wrote was so good I’m lazy. This is a video of a skateboarder wiping out after a jump and