Extreme Downhill Long Boarding

[Wizzo]

Downhill skateboarding is not a game, always be extremely careful. This guys was OK but it could have been so much worse.

[Scott]

That scared the wits out of me and I was just watching it on a screen. 

[Jericoke]

I have a friend who was a skater grl as a teen.

Takes a special kinda person to be sure!

[lkjohnson1950]

Back in the Dark Ages, when skateboards were narrower, taller, and had very hard "tires", we used to skate the ramps at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe. Blacktop, about 20 feet wide, 2 180s and out into the parking lot. You could feel the board drifting in the corners and if you hit a rock BB size or so the board stopped instantly. Ah to be young and immortal again.

[Scott]

I can still do a 360 and a few other little tricks (fun to 'wow' my sons friends on occasion).  Skateboarding was my only pastime from 12-18, and I have all the scars to prove it (along with an arthritic knee from a coming together with a cement wall), but never liked the high speeds (our old boards would get horrible speed wobbles and then you crashed hard).

But these guys are super talented and borderline insane to do that kind of thing.  That said, I bet there aren't very many roads like that with so long and so perfect a grade for that kind of run.

[cosworth151]

I remember those days, Lonnie. Back when it was still called Sidewalk Surfing. My first one had metal wheels!

We had two big "I dare you" runs around here. One was coming down Waterworks Hill on Ohio Rt 37 as fast as possible and through the off camber hairpin at the bottom. The other was coming down Main St. hill while weaving in and out through the parking meters.

Yes, those were the days!