Okay, first things first, watch this video of this no-hand skateboard loop. You can’t deny that it’s darn impressive. I’m not a skater, I’ve never tried something like this in my life, but the coordination and practice needed to pull this off must be crazy, and the speed at which her legs are moving has to be incredibly fast.
The question we want answered, though, is how fast are her legs moving. There’s no possible way to find that out, right? Would a radar gun be able to pick that up? Almost definitely not. There’s no speedometer on the board, either, so good luck finding the answer there. I guess we’ll just have to accept that we’ll never know for sure.
EXCEPT WE WON’T HAVE TO ACCEPT THAT, BECAUSE MATHEMATICIANS ARE CRAZY. TikToker AndyMath.com used a lot of math that I don’t understand to find an answer for us. He found the diameter, radius, and the circumference of the circle using the average length of a skateboard, and so on. I’ll let you watch the video to see how he solves it.
So her speed is somewhere between 13.2mph and 15.5mph. Honestly, I thought it would have been a bit faster, but I’m not disappointed. Maybe we can call on him to find out just how fast Jesper Tjader’s flips are during the next X Games Knuckle Huck…
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Image Credit: Vanilla Days via Instagram, AndyMath.com via TikTok