r/whoathatsinteresting • u/Money-Beautiful5196 • 1d ago

Spanish downhill skateboarder Diego Poncelet set a new world speed record for standing skateboarding, reaching a staggering 94.34mph down a closed section of a road in Canada.

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u/xwOBA_Fett 1d ago

You have to be a special kind of psycho to attempt something like this. 

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u/lia-delrey 21h ago

Don't discourage them. There's a shortage of organ donors as is, if healthy kids who are into sports wanna attempt shit like that imma say godspeed

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u/Funkopedia 17h ago

Yeah maybe we can scrape some of that organ off the pavement

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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt 14h ago

5 second rule

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u/alonzi13 10h ago

Or the front end of the car. Or the undercarriage. Or tires.

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u/Boris7939 14h ago

Yup, I don't see any issues here either. Most of these guys are taking the risk of dying during stunts like these into account.

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u/Darth_MRM 12h ago

Don't worry there are enough people on motorbikes out there

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u/Defiant-Smell-9686 1d ago

Maybe the car doesn’t have to be directly behind them in case they fall?

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u/bleeeeghh 1d ago

It's for motivation to not fall off the skateboard.

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u/thefrenchdev 23h ago

It's creating aspiration, even with an object behind. It's like when cyclists do drafting, it's not only the bikes in front that matters but also the ones in the back. So he couldn't reach this speed without the car behind him.

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u/Single_Offshore_Dad 22h ago

I think if he falls he’s just done for anyway. At those speeds, I’d image whatever hits first is getting ripped off or just grated down to nothing.

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u/ButtonGullible5958 19h ago

If he falls the car will stop much faster than he will 

He's not stopping for a long time at that speed 

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u/Behavior-Coach 12h ago

Nah, I’m sure he had some buffer on his clothes to help. Not saying it wouldn’t fuck him up but getting run over by a car will for sure end him.

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u/Slosher99 1d ago

Yeah I was wondering why not like a 50-100ft gap and a zoom lens?

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u/harryspotter123 19h ago

“I was going 94.34mph on my skateboard in the fast lane and still there’s some Porsche right up my arse flashing me to move out the way….”

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u/B4byR0setteClub 1d ago

Standing on a tiny board going almost 95 mph is a whole different level of crazy.

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u/gstringstrangler 14h ago

Why not just report it in Km/Hr like in the fuckin video OP?

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u/HoBo-on-crack 1d ago

Good thing he doesn't have boobs. Or it will slow him down

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u/gstringstrangler 14h ago

Nah they're usually aerodynamic and add mass to this gravity powered event

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u/KitsuMusics 20h ago

What an odd thing to say

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u/SargeUnited 15h ago

Idk why this is so funny. Yea that’s strange to think of first

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u/OK_Cornelius_826 22h ago

I mean he's in the drag of the car

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u/NaughtyBee420 15h ago

Does that make it less impressive to go 90 mph on a skateboard?

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u/SargeUnited 15h ago

My grandpa had to go 90 mph on his skateboard, uphill, in the snow to get to school every winter.

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u/fabmeyer 1d ago

Reminds me of an old cartoon

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u/ReadItDoneThatAlr 15h ago

What if there was a pebble on the road

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u/Mr_BigFace 13h ago

Or a moose

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u/Pleasant-Carbon 10h ago

They do test runs first.

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u/NeedleworkerOld4696 7h ago

The lycra will protect him.

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u/Electronic_Worker245 15h ago

Im L4-5 fused from a bad deadlift at the gym. If he has an accident I dread to think what will happen.

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u/Typical_Warthog_2660 12h ago

94 mph standing on a skateboard is genuinely nuts and I cant stop thinking about one tiny pebble ruining the whole day. At that speed the chase car staying back makes sense too cause you dont want another vehicle anywhere near the crash zone. Dude is clearly wired different and way braver than me. I wont even go 94 in a car without checking my seatbelt twice.

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u/Dr7House 11h ago

How did he break?

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u/ZePlotThickener 8h ago

Seems like a drone following him would have worked just as well with the added benefit he wouldn't be run over if he wiped out.

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u/mcd0naldss_ 4h ago

of course its RedBull

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u/Probable_Bot1236 16h ago edited 16h ago

It's impressive (and to me terrifying), but dude is 100% benefitting from the bow wave in the air from the car.

I would not certify this as a record. From a physics standpoint there is no way in hell that car isn't significantly helping him.

ETA: ever seen one of those cool videos of a bird flying or gliding alongside a speedboat faster than it should be able to? Same concept. Just like the bird is ultimately benefitting from the boat's passage through the air, so is this guy. The only way he couldn't be is if the car was supersonic. Any subsonic object is pushing an area of high pressure ahead of itself, and this guy is right smack in the middle of that. Again, it's impressive as heck, but it's also 100% guaranteed he wouldn't be going as fast without a 3000 lb 200 horsepower object directly behind him bulling through the air and effectively pushing him a little.

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u/Boris7939 14h ago

I would not certify this as a record. From a physics standpoint there is no way in hell that car isn't significantly helping him.

Things like that are mentioned in the record. For example, there are different top speed records with a bicycle:

  • Fastest downhill bicycle
  • Fastest towed bicycle
  • Fastest unpaced (human powered alone) bicycle
  • ...

I wouldn't know how they'd actually call this skateboarding record. But it surely won't be categorized as unpaced.

The accomplishment here is not just reaching that speed and it isn't the most impressive part either. The biggest accomplishment here is the rider being able to keep his balance at that speed.

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u/NaughtyBee420 15h ago

So? He's still going 90 mph on a skateboard

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u/Miserable_Pen_1867 19h ago

So, one mistake and a car over you head.. got it

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u/Novero95 13h ago

Car has brakes, skateboarder don't.

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u/Miserable_Pen_1867 10h ago

Reaction time + braking distances at 4feet away