Man on Electric Skateboard Sets Guinness World Record (Video)

Electric skateboards are great if you’re too lazy to kick and push yourself around town. But apparently they can also be absolute speed demons.

A man named Mischo Erban recently sat a Guinness World Record for the fastest speed on an electric skateboard when he went 59.55 mph on one at Portoroz airport in Piran, Slovenia. The board the man used was a modified NEXTBoard created by a company called Next Generation Vehicles.

We’re big fans of how the video starts with him falling off and sliding for quite a distance in pretty spectacular fashion, all while the skateboard itself takes off alone for pastures new.

Almost 100 kilometers an hour standing upright on a slim retangle is pretty insane stuff, and the board itself looks like it will be commercially available in the near future, so you too can injure yourself while travelling at speed on something most people would use for a dinner tray.

Agencies/Canadajournal