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  1. does Alex Toms still hold the guiness recprd for highest drop..(2.5m) or
    has someone else taken it?

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  2. well i watched a video yesterday...i think its from2004 but the record
    he set was 2.5m he also set the longest grind which was a little over
    12 feet.

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  3. trials_uni said:

    he also set the longest grind which was a little over 12 feet.

    The Guinness records aren't necessarily the world records. People had
    done larger drops to flat before the Guinness Record was set. Longer
    grinds have also been done, though the one he does for Guinness is
    pretty rad and probably the longest staircase that had been done at the
    time.

    Guinness is a business and out for the entertainment value of things,
    they aren't too much interested in what the real records are...

    Biggest drop to flat is a pretty ridiculous record to have and I hope
    that people don't aspire too much to push that much farther.

    Alex's grind was
    12 steps, 9 feet

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  4. Yea i have done 5' 8" i believe, amanda knows i think. I saw that vid
    and i think people have done bigger but not proven it under
    circumstances.

    Mike

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  5. ive done like a 6 and a half. I really wacked my anckle though when i
    did it.

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  6. ive done like 4.5 maybe 5

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  7. never landed anything over 4 feet though

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  8. well i kno yoggi has done like 14' but it was onto a tire...does that
    still cout as "to flat"

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  9. He doesnt land it......
    I have done 2,9m to flat (and land it), but flat drops are stupid
    because it has nothing to do with skill.

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  10. link plz 😄

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  11. Lutz said:

    He doesnt land it......
    I have done 2,9m to flat (and land it), but flat drops are stupid
    because it has nothing to do with skill.

    I would say it has alot to do with skill. It's hard to keep balanced on
    high flat drops and if you don't compress your legs right then you run
    the risk of hurting yourself really badly (which I have done).

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  12. im sure that in one of the koxx videos he does it in the beggining and
    bails but the at the end he lands it and tacos the wheel hugely...ill
    try to fid the vid.

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  13. mike is right... its a ridiculous record to persue. drops to flat
    concrete are stupid. i only really did it cos they asked me to, and
    there was no red tape. i hope that some people can beat it and maybe
    replace me in their records.

    the longest rail grind should be better... but i didnt do very well on
    the 16 that day. that record was supposed to be my warm up rail

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  14. well its still cool...your in the record books.

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  15. someone give me a link

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  16. to what?

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  17. video of tomsey's accomplishments

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  18. I think this is it...

    http://tinyurl.com/jyd9q

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  19. 'Just the clips of the records themselves' (http://tinyurl.com/q3rby),
    'a picture compilation' (http://tinyurl.com/h9yho), and 'the 14MB, 6min
    full length video' (http://tinyurl.com/jyd9q).

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  20. sick nice alex

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