One of the things that I was able to do last weekend (one of the first relaxing weekends in a long time), was catch up on all of the YouTube videos I have wanted to watch.
One of the videos I found was of body blading:
Essentially, a guy gets dressed up in a suit that has tons of in-line roller skate wheels, so that in virtually any position, he will be supported by the wheels. That way, he can head-first luge down a road... without the luge. It's pretty amazing.
Near the beginning of the run, the guy has to make a pretty tight turn, and he uses some ridiculous slip angles to generate the necessary cornering force. You can actually see material being left on the road from the wheels as he drifts through the turn.
Near the end, there is a tunnel section that totally reminds me of an infamous level in Test Drive 5 [wikipedia.org] (a.k.a. the best driving game EVAR). And my favorite part of the video is where he blows by a motorcyclist.
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