Have you ever seen those people that
take their snowboards out to sand dunes and rip around like they’re
nipple deep in Alaska? It’s kind of rubbish, isn’t it. Don’t get us
wrong, hooning around on sand beats not getting any turns in at all, but
it’s just a bit lame looking. Like the kid at school who write ‘ Nike’
on the side of his holdall.
But what if you swap snowboards for bodyboards? That’s exactly what
these guys did in New Zealand, and we have to say, it looks sick! The
guys don’t limit themselves to just the cutdown surf boards. They throw
themselves around on air beds, lilos, inflatable aeroplanes, and former
UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
Okay, we may have made one of them up
Despite the twee inde-folk soundtrack
that makes the edit sound a little like EVERY SINGLE CIDER ADVERT ON TV,
this all looks like a hell of a lot of fun. If only we had a bit of
sunshine, and the odd sandy hill to fly down here in the UK.
How much a flights to NZ again…? Don’t worry, if you can’t quite find
the cash for the plane, the video is in 4k Hyper HD, so if you have
plenty of internet in stock, crank it up and it’s virtually like you’re
there.
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