The problem with skateboards, snowboards, and I guess rollerblades is that stuff's always breaking or needing regular maintenance. Powersliding is like skating rails, only without a board... or safety gear. [via Crapville]
Update: If you're in Los Angeles, check out the 3rd Annual Powersliding Championships on April 15th at the Santa Monica Pier. "Celebrity" judges include Wee-Man from Jackass. If you go, shoot some video!
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this is pretty much what I want to do everyday
this seems like it should be a parody.
it reminds me of Soap Shoes in trend a long time ago.
Powersliding may not be a crime, but vandalism and destruction of property is... (I seriously hope they knew the person in that Volkswagen.)
More to the point: it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Then it's just fun.
I'm sure they do have gear that wears out: clothing, skin, and bones, probably in that order.
If video cameras hadn't weighed as much as I did and been almost wholly unavailable to us when I was 16, my friends and I could have made this video 20 years ago. I want to see this as an event in the next x-games.
I had Soap Shoes. Great arch support for flat feet.
A few years ago during a late night ride down some of those epic-long escalators in the Tokyo Metro, I mused aloud how much fun it'd be to go sliding down the slick metal ramp between them. My co-worker said how much he'd love to see that... especially after he'd bolted on some fishhooks near the bottom. Great image! :)
Pro Snowboarder Jaime Anderson died from hitting his head doing a powerslide (not on a snowboard) down a set of stairs.
From TWSnow; "TOKYO (AP) - An American professional snowboarder fell to his death after losing his balance while sliding down the rail of a spiral staircase in central Japan early Sunday. Jeffrey Anderson, of Mammoth Lakes, Calif., was trying to slide sideways on his rear down the rail of the hotel staircase at about 3:15 a.m., a Nagano police official said. After starting out on the fifth floor, the 23-year-old snowboarder lost his balance on the fourth and fell 50 feet to the first, the official said on condition of anonymity. Anderson was taken to a hospital by ambulance but was pronounced dead due to injuries he suffered from hitting his head. Anderson was in Nagano to compete in a snowboard competition Saturday and Sunday.".
This is why our insurance rates are high.
Ehh yeah. I keep a baseball bat in my car just in case some moron decides it would be fun to scratch my hood at a stoplight. I also have reverse in my car for the same reason.
In 1995, a kid in my high school died doing a similarly stupid trick. He fell off the hood of a car and landed on his head. Although able to walk away from the scene of the accident, he died later that day. Apparently his brain was bleeding into his cranial cavity.
I recognize that cautionary tales like this are pointless.
I appreciate the return of natural selection in Homo Sapiens.
No front-flip out.. booo..
This is a joke, right? A parody? Right?
when I was a kid we did this down handrails in my apartment complex. the paint they used, a shit-brown color, was really slick and we didn't need wax.
in another apartment I lived in as a kid we used to slide down the carpeted stairs on a boogie board. my mom came home from work early one day and caught us sliding down. she was pissed at first but we were able to talk her into trying it after a few minutes, and she ended up eating shit (not literally) into the bathroom at the foot of the stairs, but laughed about it.
I'm sure that kind of enabling attitude from my mom is what led me to skateboard for 10 years, which were some of the best times in my life.
you can't live in a padded room wearing a helmet and safety goggles and still call it a life.
looks like the streets of good ol' Portland, home of the zoobomb. if i see these guys around town, i'll probably join in!
and, correct me if i'm wrong, but a few young folk getting minor injuries from silly activities is a lot less costly to medical insurers than, say, any form of cancer or heart disease, right? either way, i don't think it has anything to do with insurance costs being (absurdly) high.
but, yeah. looks like fun!
Seriously? That's how I left work at PGE in the World Trade Center building (the escalator with the white pipe ceiling) every day for 2 years. It drove security nuts.
See?
You put chopped up tires under the sliding board and they just go slide over concrete elsewhere.
Consider it evolution in action.
More confirmation to my deeply held belief that street-sport culture is simply a form of ritualized masochism.
Looks fun...painful...but fun.
@ Anon #9
No, your insurance rates are high because of huge CEO bonuses. And I say "your" insurance rates because I haven't had insurance for 14 years now and with Healthy San Francisco, I might never give those bastards a dime.
What's the difference between this and "freerunning"?
@21, Exactly what I was thinking about.
Freerunning is more elegant, I think. And potentially more safe.
Would do a france/america joke, but I think it would be too obvious
When will Nike etc. start making Powersliding clothes?