{"id":137875,"date":"2016-09-24T12:30:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T10:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=137875"},"modified":"2016-09-23T17:04:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T15:04:38","slug":"watch-epic-skateboarder-smashes-downhill-speed-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/137875\/watch-epic-skateboarder-smashes-downhill-speed-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Epic skateboarder smashes downhill speed record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US p<span class=\"st\">ro downhill skateboarder <\/span>Kyle Wester destroyed the the current world record by going 89.41mph\/143.89km\/h in a world record attempt.<\/p>\n<p>On August 29th, 2016, Kyle Wester set out to break the Guinness Fastest Skateboard Speed Downhill record. The previous record was held at 81.17mph\/130.63 kph.<\/p>\n<p>With the hill conditions just right, Wester switched out his wheels one last time before making history.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Wester uses Santa Cruz Skateboards, who posted the following video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QbN_imu_ewA\" width=\"640\" height=\"388\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Videos on BusinessTech<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/115440\/watch-skateboarder-wipes-out-after-hitting-96-kmh\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Watch: skateboarder wipes out after hitting 96 km\/h<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/100452\/watch-epic-skateboarder-flies-down-cape-town-streets\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Watch: Epic skateboarder flies down Cape Town streets<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/115660\/watch-only-in-south-africa-ostrich-chases-cyclists\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Watch: Only in South Africa \u2013 ostrich chases cyclists<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro downhill skateboarder Kyle Wester destroyed the the current world record by going 89.41mph\/143.89km\/h in a world record attempt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":137879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-137875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137953,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137875\/revisions\/137953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}