One of the meanest feets in skateboarding is completing a full 360 degrees around a full pipe now
We're seeing this gnarly obstacle introduced into a competitive set up here at Red Bull Roller Coaster
Loop has been part of skateboard folklore for nearly two decades and only a select few brave souls have managed to complete it
We're going to be looking at what makes it just so difficult
Checking in with some of the skaters and find it out. If any of them are crazy enough to get themselves around this thing
Yeah, I'm not you won't see me in there
Set up for there to be 100 bucks
Yeah, I'll give you 200 to try real quick
It says you're gnarly do it, yeah it actually like
Saying if someone does that it's all about physics energy inertia and gravity
Newton's laws of motion are all over this thing
See I'm explaining how you do this. So you should listen really
We've also got two very big things to come to terms with
Centripetal and centrifugal force that's the skater registered a weight
It all gets a little bit confusing after that to be honest
But in essence the inertial force pins the skateboard to the wall all the way round, but gravity is also pulling everything down
So if you go fast enough, you can combat that and stick to the wall all the way through 360 degrees
apparently
Let's talk about the elephant in the room. The little looper the looper the BF Goodrich tire
Initially, I thought that was too small
I was thinking I'm pretty sure you won't be able to go around not a small you after about 40 minutes of being here yesterday
Straight off the plane. You nearly did it, right? Yeah as close
Let's talk about speed like obviously you're amped up. Yeah, but can you hit this with the loads of speed?
Are you gonna go inside? I think it's medium really media
Yeah, definitely medium to fast and you you're just gonna almost hit the wall and not do anything crumpled in the air
But too slow and you won't get the whip because it is like doing a cartwheel or something
You have to whip it like a like a backflip or something like that
It's a bit like liquid in a glass if you spin it round fast enough, it's all good spin it round too slow
Yeah, so for the skaters
it's all about entry speed to fast and you're gonna loop out too slow and
gravity's gonna take control a lot of people there go into the loop and
They are over pump it trying to pump around the top which you can't really do
You've just got to ride it. Yes
Yeah, you pump at the bottom. Yeah, kind of use your momentum
And yeah the sort of weight of your arms and your head or power around so you got round around
What was the way yesterday? Yeah, I was upside down
I think you've got it in the bag man, and I can't wait to see it
Let's see this onyx
Just getting into anything is no it's not
You have to science it what you say for
defying physics a little bit
Going on than just carve in a corner. Yeah, if you don't skate that's a thing to do
Because you leave your heads up in the middle and you can carve around it with this
Yeah, the forces are strain just definitely doesn't feel like anything else you ever do on the skateboard
Me too, me too
Just a car
Having said before that. It's like a slower one. I don't think it like it's two that you did wake up
I think if you go any faster
- faster
Thing that was to speed
Too much with before you would
That one you look like you twisted your body up I think it's just a sprain just stay on it
Like that one your head was fully back that's what I mean
It's like shield rabbit
Place you can you just did it
Going down. I was close. I was pretty much I'm being an idiot
Feel like super privileged to be watching this apply online. This is the kind of thing you see on the video
I
Guess it's not a thing. You can correct. So once you're in you're in either
Your cords coming out that way you're doing it right Anya what was different that guy
I don't know or is that the problem like you can't work out?
And I'm done I
Literally, I didn't talk my head fast enough like 25 watts this many go
Right
Did something go in your eye in my pockets punch me in the face by Alex. I think you can't get closer without landing it
Water flip
I
Think I've officially learn to do it
It's there. It's been learning to do it or is it just doing it now improve it then you gotta write it out
My job Wow
My Wow, so you've just gotta do it once more because I was missed it. Haha. Let me see
Okay, okay
And the first one you wrote to in old honestly only did you think anyone would ever do it
That's the man
Wow
well, there you go like
Alex just
Did it?
Like I've made it look so easy like pretty gnarly slabs and then just like carved it out. Just chilling. So good Alex
Good work for a little bit. So it's always a nice feeling when you walk away from something not doing it
To anyone else
Doc go ahead top the head. It's like yeah
It's like doing a somersault on the flat or something. You just got me
Wow, well there you have it as crazy as it may seem it is possible
The thing to see now is can Alex or any of the other riders?
Hold it together and put it down in their contest run when it counts. This is one of the most unique events
In skateboarding. This is all about the fun that this is read
Goodrich tire loop down there
Yeah
you're not seeing a whole lot of people attempting that and the reason why is because it's so gnarly
One man has done that and he stood out yesterday
As Alex Holford drops in absolutely mind-melting. He's doing it for all of us
No one else is going near it Alex hold for just jumping in there I'm throwing it like it's nothing
That's the first time we've seen him drop it in a competition
Just put in perspective. We've got some of the best skaters in the world here and they were in all
Alex