For what its worth: He made it to NY last Saturday.
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2024
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Wow, seriously? What a trek.
Micro cosmology is a problem a majority of Americans live with. If they can't see it from their front porch it don't exist. That played a major factor in the current shitshow preloading in d.c.
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Two weeks, huh? The US is around 3,000 miles from coast to coast, so that puts him over 200 miles skateboarding every single day... I'm not sure, but the person who didn't know mountains exist might be dumb.
Just go faster. I don't get it.
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200miles/8hours of skating straight means an average speed of 25 miles an hour.
Ambitious, considering the average speed of a skateboarder is closer to 10 miles an hour, but it could be possible if he was extremely fit, had unbreakable bones, and the US was a flat plane for 3000 miles like this guy thought.
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Apparently, Chad Caruso set the Guinness world record as the first person to skateboard across America in 2023, from Venice Beach to Virginia Beach. It took him 57 days to cover 3,162 miles, adventure adventure of 55 miles a day.
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Fun fact: mountains are big.
Not-so-fun fact: He'll have to be rescued with taxpayer money
For what its worth: He made it to NY today. No rescue required. The community helped him out along the way.
Awesome! I'm glad they made it. I'd never dare to set off like that without a huge backpack stuffed with a week's worth of food
Boring fact: The highest pass he'll have to cross on his journey looks like this:
If he'll have to be rescued, then because someone ran him over.
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One change of clothes for a 2-week trip... now that's a man's man!
I mean it's not extremely far off compared to Ultralight hiking, you can still be hygienic (like often washing clothes), of course though you're not winning parfume contests along the way... It's a tradeoff to make compared to having a lot of uncomfortable weight to carry around.
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Almost certain they were playing it up and this is satire, sorry to spoil everyone’s fun. https://www.instagram.com/jaayfilms They started again on September 30 this year and are now in Missouri. If these content creators are good at one thing it’s creating a compelling narrative and this guy did it by getting himself called illiterate.
Oh shit, he’s in the home state of illiteracy now
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I met a guy like that in the 90's except he was on a lot of LSD and was making his way around the world. IDK if that was true but my buddy picked him up one night and we had a party with him and he cut his dreads off and burned them so a witch wouldn't get them. Good times!
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How does he use IG?
Assuming its not a parody.
You'd be surprised how functional the illiterate can be.
When I first moved to Japan, I had to use lots of websites that used untranslatable images (not text, like png or whatever and google lens was not a thing). I got help a few times and memorized what clicking on an area did more than even what the image was (which would change sometimes). This is how I got by with ATMs and various websites for quite a while. It works until something changes. Today, screen readers, google lens, and other things exist to help as well.
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Yeah, just look at Trump. Functional illiteracy is a real thing in the US.
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Cant seem to find this dude on ig, there are just too many that tried to cross the usa with a board.
Does someone have a link to this specific persons ig? That would be great, thanks.
I'm not great at this, but from the original x post, I think his handle is @jaayfilms
The news report video says he dropped out of HS. I couldn't find where he got that he's illiterate, thought this would take two weeks and didn't know about the mountains... But I honestly didn't dig much after haha. If someone else finds it, please let me know. I just want to read that comment thread haha
Does he have learning disabilities? How does someone with so much motivation not learn to read
Most likely functionally illiterate and not 100% "I can't read," but I've overestimated instagrammers before
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It is easy to have motivation to skateboard across america when you don't have enough education to understand what doing that means.
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That voter is gonna learn some stuff.
I was not surprised by the presence of a giant cross necklace.
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Well, if you're following him, did you bring more clothes? Maybe you can lend him some.
How many skateboard wheels are needed for a 3000 mile trip?
Not many sites seem to deal in distance when talking about replacing skateboard wheels, but I was able to find this:
https://skateboardscan.com/skateboard-wheels-last/
So according to that he'd need 10-30 sets of skateboard wheels to cross the country.
Of course if you're just riding on the side of highways in a straight line forever you could probably get a little more out of them since you're not doing any precision work or tricks.
Chad Caruso did it last year using just one set of wheels. New record too (57 days).
https://www.jenkemmag.com/home/2023/05/22/how-chad-caruso-skated-across-america/
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