Talk:3152: Skateboard

Maybe Randall took inspiration for this comic from the recent Red Bull stunt with Brazilian skater Sandro Dias, who dropped from the side of a building from a height of 70 meters (that's little over 229 ft) on 25 September 2025. 2804:214:4102:575A:D862:C9B6:9505:D740 01:25, 9 October 2025 (UTC)vinnycordeiro

Perhaps the “wrong parachute pack” thing is just a common trope, but I was immediately reminded of the example in the Henry Stickmin Collection, where Henry survives the initial fall without a parachute just fine, but is immediately killed by the contents of the backpack falling out and onto his head. KelOfTheStars! (talk) 01:55, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

@vinnycordeiro, I thought of that too. [1] He was able to start in momentary free fall and make a controlled skating descent down the curve of the building (on a smooth skating ramp that had been built to exactly follow the building contour, not directly on the building's normal external surface). Although doing more than twice that height and starting at terminal velocity instead of rest would be extra-impressive. Still, Sandro Dias's achievement shows that a champion skateboarder can keep control of a skateboard with staggeringly large amounts of kinetic energy! Schoen (talk) 03:14, 9 October 2025 (UTC)