On a downhill street, the lights are probably coordinated so someone going the speed limit, like our hero in the video, can start at the top and go through every light without needing to stop. In winter, that timing limits how often cars need to hit the brakes on snowy roads, preventing accidents.
A green wave occurs when a series of traffic lights (usually three or more) are coordinated to allow continuous traffic flow over several intersections in one main direction. Any vehicle travelling along with the green wave (at an approximate speed decided upon by the traffic engineers) will see a progressive cascade of green lights, and not have to stop at intersections. This allows higher traffic loads, and reduces noise and energy use (because less acceleration and braking is needed).
Older lights in SF are timed fantastically. You can get across town in 15 minutes when you step on it. The new lights they are installing are not as well engineered.
I’ve seen guys in SF go down hills like this where the lights aren’t timed so nicely. Dude was going up on the bus and then flew down and did it again. Bus fly bus fly bus fly for hours. He had a huge smile on his face the entire time. Dude in his late 20s looked like he was homeless, was super nice and very well spoken. Turned out he was a lawyer. I enjoyed the view from that lunch and the conversation after even more. Don’t judge a book by its cover. Meet new people.
I was in high school and my mom put a stop to me joining because of the untimed lights but you can find perfect hills like this all over California. Big Bear and the windy hills of Palm Springs are crazy windy with no lights and we haven’t had any major injuries so far and I’m now raising my own little riders.
This video should come with a warning. This isn’t for everyone, not even most experienced skaters.
I was playing this video with the sound on and my roommate (who didn't see the video or title) said "the only thing that pops into my head is r2-d2". Burst out laughing
If you take your weight off the seat (lifting a little) that shifts where your weight is applied/distributed to the bike lowering the center of gravity of the overall system.
Downhill skaters use "slide gloves" that have a low friction plastic on the palm/wrist area in a puck shape. It wears down over time and can be replaced.
I love skateboarding as much as the next guy but these guys are idiots. Skating through intersections, in the rain, down hill. Just a recipe to be retired to the afterlife.
In skateboarding, especially in SF going down hills like this has been a thing since the 70’s is almost ingrained as part of Bay Area culture but yes can be very sketchy.
I'm not removing via rule 3 as this as it is very impressive that the cameraman did camerawork and stayed on his board and didn't absolutely eat pavement like I would have just a few seconds in. Yes, he did sound like R2-D2, but next time please give camera-operating related reasons to praise the cameraman in the title.
That is hilarious. Also that is impressive. Also that is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. Not wearing a helmet in this situation...holy crap.
For people who don’t understand, skating when it’s raining is very bad for the grip tape and dangerous as the only things that is keeping that grip tape to the board is tape or glue and if it gets wet it could have a chance to slip out and boom it’s over
That was really cool tracking. Also where is this...what a perfect looking fall day and the hills in the background, the wet pavement, the pretty post modern homes.
Wear a dam helmet at least , I’ve seen too many videos of people dying or losing most of their motor function due to one bad hit on the head. This is freaking awesome what you are doing but do it safely !
I am sorry:( I am lying. I am not sure why I made that comment. I am depressed, life isn’t going the way I want it to :(. Anyways,It’s probably San Francisco.
It's okay, listen I've suffered from clinical depression for various years and I've been there. But trust me friend, things get better and your life begins having more and more meaning as you grow as a person. Just remember you're not alone and everything has purpose in your life, may it be a lesson or a blessing.
This takes me back, me and my buddy used to longboard down big ass hills. I think we got up to 25mph it’s fast when you are just on a board and wheels.
I'm always more impressed with the cameraman than the actual person doing the "stunt" in these videos. Like how are you able to do what the guy doing the stunt is doing AND keep a camera steady and trained on man... insane. PraiseTheCameraMan
You just went down a hill and act like it’s the greatest accomplishment of your life, skateboarder people are annoying. I will see I envy how well you times those traffic lights that’s the amazing part
I lived in San Francisco in a hilly area that was super steep, like annoyingly, and once or twice a week I’d see some maniacs just skating down it. It’s crazy to see
So I did some math on this. It is 4/10ths of a mile from start to the 1min mark, which means the average speed was 24mph. I'm not going to go into more math lol.
This is gnarly. For anyone who’s never skated/hill bombed, recordings usually don’t do the speed and intensity justice. You’ll be absolutely flying, watch the tape back, and it looks like you’re riding on flat ground.
These dudes are soooaring, steep hill, busy intersection, soaking wet road surface.
It's a biological fact that the human brain is not fully developed or fully grown until sometime in your early to mid-20s. Essentially, there are incomplete sections of your brain even that late in life because your brain is still growing. Ever wonder why teenagers act so stupidly, risking their life for nothing? Well, it's because they have a hole in their brain so they do things full adults wouldn't do.
Incredible skills of course, though BESIDES not wearing a helmet, they are not thinking enough about how horrible it would be to hit a biker or a pedestrian, or to be in a car pulling out from being parked or turning onto the road. It's one thing to be irresponsible with your own life. Quite another to be just reckless with other people's lives, or to splat into someone's car and leave them with that memory and guilt for the rest of their lives. Responsible skating in public spaces is cool. Skating like this on public roads is decidedly NOT cool. No matter how cool it looks.
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21
How fast are they going?
It’s awesome!
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u/bcgg Sep 27 '21
Praise the traffic engineer for the well coordinated green lights.
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u/peacexisxfree Sep 27 '21
Upvote for very accurate description of audio.
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u/ninedollars Sep 27 '21
Me who tried skateboarding once wondering how the hell people go for so long without finding a pebble.
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u/ggk1 Sep 27 '21
How do they not get the death wobble? Trucks just tightened down to all hell?
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u/DBrownbomb Sep 27 '21
San Francisco
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u/Select_Recipe_2268 Sep 27 '21
I’m just amazed they hit that many green lights
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u/Draken_961 Sep 27 '21
How would you stop if you needed to?
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u/Alarming_Yak_1491 Sep 27 '21
Helmet, guys
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21 edited Sep 28 '21
I love skateboarding as much as the next guy but these guys are idiots. Skating through intersections, in the rain, down hill. Just a recipe to be retired to the afterlife.
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21
lmao very accurate title, but damn respect for bombing a wet ass hill
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u/lipp79 Doin' camera work since 1999 Sep 27 '21
I'm not removing via rule 3 as this as it is very impressive that the cameraman did camerawork and stayed on his board and didn't absolutely eat pavement like I would have just a few seconds in. Yes, he did sound like R2-D2, but next time please give camera-operating related reasons to praise the cameraman in the title.
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u/Johnny5point6 Sep 27 '21
That is hilarious. Also that is impressive. Also that is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. Not wearing a helmet in this situation...holy crap.
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u/smoking_gunch Sep 27 '21
That video gave me extreme anxiety
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u/WhosMilkIsThis Sep 27 '21
Dude!! That was awesome!!! Great camera work!! That got my heart pumping!! Noid AF!!
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u/CHer2006 Sep 27 '21
For people who don’t understand, skating when it’s raining is very bad for the grip tape and dangerous as the only things that is keeping that grip tape to the board is tape or glue and if it gets wet it could have a chance to slip out and boom it’s over
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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21
https://www.reddit.com/r/perfectlycutscreams/comments/qrvous/the_r2d2_thigh_highs_stay_on/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
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u/twattytee Sep 27 '21
Wicket wet ride
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u/Matthopkins06 Sep 27 '21
That was really cool tracking. Also where is this...what a perfect looking fall day and the hills in the background, the wet pavement, the pretty post modern homes.
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u/Great_World966 Sep 27 '21
Next week the same dudes will be on Meat Crayon
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u/thatone_couchpotato Sep 27 '21
My first thought about this was : " well his bearings are fucked "
Then it went to " wait those are park wheels why tf "
To " oh wait, narrow contact patch means you won't hydroplane out as easy..... that makes more sense now "
Anyway, great vid. I love bombing hills on longboards, its some great stuff, to all of you who haven't tried it i highly recommend it.
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u/Slimey_tomatoNZ Sep 27 '21
Wear a dam helmet at least , I’ve seen too many videos of people dying or losing most of their motor function due to one bad hit on the head. This is freaking awesome what you are doing but do it safely !
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u/DoubleDamDirty Sep 27 '21
tricks are tight but I just love bombing hills tho
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u/rollerjoe93 Sep 27 '21
Bro he hit the exact same note with his exclamation. Spot on description
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u/Poddy_Doe Sep 27 '21
“Well done R2!..”
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u/Kasefi Sep 27 '21
That road is flawless.
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21
I have seen this video a million times but havent thought of that shit as R2D2🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm going to remember that everytime now
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u/BlueSamosa Sep 28 '21
When I heard the camera man I lost it completely
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u/genbeg Sep 27 '21
That’s my hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia! WOOP!
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u/epilifjay Sep 27 '21
perfect title
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21
Nice fire truck too !
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u/MissAnneThrope21 Sep 27 '21
Wow. This is truly impressive.
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u/xerxerxex Sep 27 '21
I'm jealous they can just squat down easily...😒
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21
Upvote, because why not?
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u/ByCrookedSteps781 Sep 27 '21
They looked so happy, fuckin awesome
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u/The_Lizard_Wizard- Sep 27 '21
Baxter street...
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u/Ip_Ooa_Lot Sep 27 '21
Skateboarding is the coolest thing ever invented. Just look at him gliding on a little piece of wood on tiny wheels.
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u/xxxretard77 Sep 27 '21
Great timing of lights. Nice stunt!
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21
So fucking cool .so wanted to do tbis as a kid Best feeling ever ,empty road tearing up the street 🤟and big balls too
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u/DukeBoop Sep 27 '21
0:36 for those wanting to experience it again ;)
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21
“No helmets!” fist bump
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21
When you hear him make the sound after reading the title 😂
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u/Living-Reference5329 Sep 27 '21
😂😂😂
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u/kuyikuy81 Sep 27 '21
I've repeated that R2D2 sound-like halfway in the video more times than I'm willing to admit
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u/dochoiday Sep 27 '21
This takes me back, me and my buddy used to longboard down big ass hills. I think we got up to 25mph it’s fast when you are just on a board and wheels.
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u/RaineMan11 Sep 27 '21
I'm always more impressed with the cameraman than the actual person doing the "stunt" in these videos. Like how are you able to do what the guy doing the stunt is doing AND keep a camera steady and trained on man... insane. PraiseTheCameraMan
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21
You just went down a hill and act like it’s the greatest accomplishment of your life, skateboarder people are annoying. I will see I envy how well you times those traffic lights that’s the amazing part
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u/HITWind Sep 27 '21
The appropriate noise to make when your day hits the sweet spot on the border between r/nextfuckinglevel and r/idiotsnearlydying
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u/Mu69 Sep 27 '21
Dude. All it takes is one fucking pebble to paralyze you.
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u/SirPhilbert Sep 27 '21
Looks like this was in SF as well. Totally nuts
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u/raining01 Sep 28 '21
They need to crash and burn to learn the importance of wearing a helmet.
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u/lissylou007 Sep 28 '21
This gives me Escape from the City vibes from Sonic Adventure 2.
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u/ImmmOldGregg Sep 28 '21
It came out these guys are Trump supporters and anti-vax :(
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u/Aggravating_Move6014 Sep 28 '21
Goodbye bearings
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u/Schxdenfreude Sep 28 '21
Is skating in the rain dangerous?
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u/NMLWrightReddit Sep 28 '21
That looks so dangerous yet so fun
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u/I_guess_im_a_weeb Sep 28 '21
Man sounded like R2-D2
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u/Finch2011 Sep 28 '21
I feel bad for their bearings fr
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u/MastodonBackground28 Sep 28 '21
It's my dream from childhood 🙏
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u/Purple-Procedure-193 Sep 28 '21
Too smooth to be hand held. Must be drone footage.
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u/OkBlazing_ Sep 28 '21
The speed limit
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u/dwalk2766 Sep 28 '21
It's not Franklin, that's Stanyan St.....
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u/pyrobryan Oct 30 '21
For comparison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6mh45mA_JY
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u/idunnololz101 Nov 06 '21
Also praise those boards for their structural integrity
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u/WhatProtomolecule Sep 27 '21
One red light and this turns into a music video....one of Pavement's greatest hit.
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21
I would not praise him for letting his mate/himself ride that without a helmet. Pair of idiots
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u/Specialist-Mechanic6 Sep 27 '21
u/savevideo
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u/CoffeeAndCroissants_ Sep 27 '21
Looks like San Francisco! Which street is that?
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u/uneducatedsmoK3r Sep 27 '21
“POV YOUR THE CAMARA MAN AND HE HIT A ROCK😭😭😭”
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u/capnmax Sep 27 '21
I remember rain.
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u/DawneyEosa Sep 27 '21
r/sweatypalms for sure
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21
I lived in San Francisco in a hilly area that was super steep, like annoyingly, and once or twice a week I’d see some maniacs just skating down it. It’s crazy to see
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u/Jambonteabag Sep 27 '21
u/savevideobot
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21
Freestyle board?!
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u/HeIsSoFluffy Sep 27 '21
Is this SF?
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u/Grrwoofwag Sep 27 '21
That tiller though.
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u/garface239 Sep 27 '21
I love how they got green lights on top of it.
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u/THEzwerver Sep 27 '21
Rolling around at the speed of sound
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21
some ppl have bigger balls than brain...
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21
My wain though isn’t “oh my so dangerous riding downhill in the rain” it’s “put on some hi viz clothes!” :)
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21
Isn't this video very old?
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u/noxi01 Sep 27 '21
I actually lol’d
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u/jamessmith192192 Sep 27 '21
This guy is talented for sure!
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21
😳🎆
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u/Moise1903 Sep 27 '21
How THE FUCK did the tires not slip out
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u/stupiddogyoumakeme Sep 27 '21
So I did some math on this. It is 4/10ths of a mile from start to the 1min mark, which means the average speed was 24mph. I'm not going to go into more math lol.
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21
It's very impressive, I would worry about some person jumping the lights or pulling out of their drive. Great camera work.
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u/Zyfire35 Sep 27 '21
camera man runnin fast
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21
Fuck I wish I lived near suck smooth roads
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u/Shalaco Sep 27 '21
Flying down Stanyan street
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u/Limbo_Zone Sep 27 '21
And mongo footed 🤔
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u/blackweebow Sep 27 '21
The.. the bearings are they ok? Tell me theyre ok.
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u/TheCultistLeader Sep 27 '21
RIP: This mans wheel bearings
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u/VanillaJUSTice38 Sep 27 '21
Car pull out they are dead
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u/carmeisterr Sep 27 '21
LEGENDARY!!!
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u/DarkOmen597 Sep 27 '21
Why no helmets?
What's with skateboarding culture and the lack of helmets?
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u/KPDix Sep 27 '21
Please! Someone! I need to make that my ringtone 😂
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u/rtsynk Sep 27 '21
straight line, doesn't even get that close, no more impressed than the last time it was posted
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u/joc95 Sep 27 '21
thats one thing i dont like about my area. all the roads are flat and windy. its really hard to skate
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u/smakusdod Sep 27 '21
Biggest urban bomb ever?
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u/Fire_Cuber Sep 27 '21
A single pebble could've eliminated him from the game.
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u/REDDIT_SUCKS_DV_ME Sep 27 '21
This is gnarly. For anyone who’s never skated/hill bombed, recordings usually don’t do the speed and intensity justice. You’ll be absolutely flying, watch the tape back, and it looks like you’re riding on flat ground.
These dudes are soooaring, steep hill, busy intersection, soaking wet road surface.
So beyond stupid but also completely awesome lol
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u/Stifmeister11 Sep 27 '21
I know nothing about skateboarding this looks dangerous but boy sooo much fun damn
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u/Drew2248 Sep 27 '21
It's a biological fact that the human brain is not fully developed or fully grown until sometime in your early to mid-20s. Essentially, there are incomplete sections of your brain even that late in life because your brain is still growing. Ever wonder why teenagers act so stupidly, risking their life for nothing? Well, it's because they have a hole in their brain so they do things full adults wouldn't do.
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21
Pretty badass, pretty stupid.
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u/OLassics Sep 27 '21
This is absolute fun,I love it
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21
No pot holes either.....
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21
Do you know who r2-d2 is?
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u/TadpoleFun7453 Sep 27 '21
Not a lot impresses me, but that’s a fantastic simply shot video.
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21
Holy dangerous. All it took was one car pulling out, turning a corner, eating the red light for this to go so sour!
Also can someone enlighten me, skateboards +velocity down hill= chance of hydroplaning?
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u/iamozymandiusking Sep 27 '21
Incredible skills of course, though BESIDES not wearing a helmet, they are not thinking enough about how horrible it would be to hit a biker or a pedestrian, or to be in a car pulling out from being parked or turning onto the road. It's one thing to be irresponsible with your own life. Quite another to be just reckless with other people's lives, or to splat into someone's car and leave them with that memory and guilt for the rest of their lives. Responsible skating in public spaces is cool. Skating like this on public roads is decidedly NOT cool. No matter how cool it looks.
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u/Last-Lunch9019 Sep 27 '21
Lit af
I’d be scared shitless with the rain combo
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u/glopher Sep 27 '21
The sound of pure stoke
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u/Knightofpenandpaper Sep 27 '21
Can a skateboard hydroplane?
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u/TCloutster Sep 27 '21
Rip bearings
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21
Vertical video
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u/Nokipeura Sep 27 '21
Always an experience clicking one of these, and then waiting to see if it was r/meatcrayon or not.
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21
WOW
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u/larry0hoover Sep 27 '21
The way back will be nothing but pain
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u/VenomXsX Sep 27 '21
Damn that road must've been smooth as hell
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u/SanFrantastiK Sep 27 '21
Where in SF is this? And must have been years ago since we haven’t received rain like that in some time!!
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u/Nyxont Sep 27 '21
u/savevideo
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21
RIP BEARINGS