New World Record For Long Distance Skateboarding
adamsullivan
- December 02 2008
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Christchurch, New Zealand’s Rob Thomson recently completed an 850-day, 7,555-mile journey on a skateboard, creating a world record for the Guinness Book.
Photo: Creative Commons
When asked about the journey’s highlights, Thomson explains he tried eating horse-penis salami in Kyrgyzstan, but even stranger was that he completed the entire journey with only three pairs of shoes, three sets of wheels, and three boards—and survived only three crashes. Not to brag, but I crash more than that skating down the block to the tweeker deli at lunch.
All tolled, the trip cost Thomson $15,000, and $1,000 of debt. Naturally, he plans to write a book about the trip.
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December 2nd, 2008 at 10:31 am
wow….and from the looks of it he pushed mongo the whole way!!!
Rocket Pushes unite!!
December 2nd, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Pretty expensive for a trip that probably sucked for 80% of the time. I wonder how much of that $15K was for bus fare?
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:06 pm
hey,
My friend is skate’n across Europe in June for an actual reason, raising awearness about cancer, 4 Wheels Against Cancer as the project is called, google it or go to his myspace page
http://groups.myspace.com/skateacrosseurope
it is truely amazing what he is doing, and he needs all the suport and sponsors he can get so check it out!.
Regards.
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:58 pm
wasn’t aware of that! My bad.
more power to him!