German Man Skates On Rollercoaster, Lives

You know how, when skiing, they tell you to lean forward? Well, if you ever find yourself skating down a roller coaster, with track-hugging roller blades strapped to your feet, the same logic applies. That’s presumably how German inline speed skater Dirk Auer survived skating down an 860-meter (roughly 2,812 feet) roller coaster in 60 seconds, beating his old record. The skates reportedly took Auer 110 hours to make, and when he finally took them to the slopes, so to speak, he reached speeds of 56 miles per hour. For Auer, that’s nothing — he once hit 190 miles per hour on roller skates, dragged behind a Porsche GT. And I thought hoisting my arms in the air during the loop-de-loop was extreme.

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[Daily Mail via Like Cool]