Less than 24 hours after breaking the world record for the biggest skateboard drop-in at 70 meters, Sandro Dias was feeling normal Friday.
“I’m surprised. Nothing is in pain on my body. Actually, it’s kind of crazy. Every test that I did before was super hard and super intensive, but the days after I felt normal. It’s kind of weird for my age,” he said.
The 50-year-old Red Bull-sponsored athlete said that “thinking too much about everything” — specifically reaching more than 64 miles per hour on the runway and the height of the feat — was the scariest part of the endeavor. Skating from a height of 70 meters with a drop of 60 meters, the Brazilian descended on the Centro Administrativo Fernando Ferrari — a nearly 89-meter building in his homeland’s city of Porto Alegre. Although it took s