According to Guinness World Records some french dude achieved the highest air on a skateboard off a halfpipe in 2005 with an unbelievable 7 ft 8 in. Guess the folks at Guinness have never seen this video
I remember attending that competition! It was Holiday Havoc, I still have the gray T-shirt shown at 1:06 sec. I had it signed by Tony Hawk, Lance Mountain, Steve Caballero and some other pros. Been looking around for this footage for a very long time... Thanks for posting man!
Check out the 9 foot backside judo at 0:19 sec. And also at 2:01 over a 10 foot backside method air by Christian Hosoi. That pipe is about 8 to 10 feet or so, so he's airing about 20 feet or more off the ground total.
Actually that half pipe is more like 11 foot. It had what was a trend back in those days for a while, what we call "eliptical transitions" where the transition started out normally and gradually got tighter and tighter. It was a awful design, it would pitch you to the bottom. Todays vert ramps are a vast improvement. My backyard ramp that was ridden up until '95 was 12' tall with a foot and half vert, that was as big as they get back then. Todays vert ramps are 13 to 15 foot tall...massive.
According to Guinness World Records some french dude achieved the highest air on a skateboard off a halfpipe in 2005 with an unbelievable 7 ft 8 in. Guess the folks at Guinness have never seen this video
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candyandbrian 3 weeks ago
@candyandbrian Homes busted 10' airs regularly, and that's probably not even his highest in this vid
czt1dave 3 weeks ago
Radical !
shepdizzy 2 months ago
nice editing.
jamesmbs1 5 months ago
I remember attending that competition! It was Holiday Havoc, I still have the gray T-shirt shown at 1:06 sec. I had it signed by Tony Hawk, Lance Mountain, Steve Caballero and some other pros. Been looking around for this footage for a very long time... Thanks for posting man!
crom7305 7 months ago
good job homie
tragiksun 7 months ago
1988
SSDecontrol94 9 months ago
Another thing that would of been cool is if they would of had a highest 540 competition also that would have been really sick
mutlijamesbondfan 9 months ago
Check out the 9 foot backside judo at 0:19 sec. And also at 2:01 over a 10 foot backside method air by Christian Hosoi. That pipe is about 8 to 10 feet or so, so he's airing about 20 feet or more off the ground total.
mutlijamesbondfan 9 months ago
Actually that half pipe is more like 11 foot. It had what was a trend back in those days for a while, what we call "eliptical transitions" where the transition started out normally and gradually got tighter and tighter. It was a awful design, it would pitch you to the bottom. Todays vert ramps are a vast improvement. My backyard ramp that was ridden up until '95 was 12' tall with a foot and half vert, that was as big as they get back then. Todays vert ramps are 13 to 15 foot tall...massive.
toowaker37 5 months ago
I believe I used to have this recorded on tape about maybe 9 years ago. And I used to love watching it cause I just thought it was cool.
mutlijamesbondfan 9 months ago
Wow man, I have been looking for this footie for a long time now.. Thanks!
morrocyclon 10 months ago