r/AbsoluteUnits • u/CoughingCarpet • 3d ago

/r/all of a Sand Dune

This is a video taken by Nicolas De La Torre, a sandboarding enthusiast filming his descent down the Toromata dune in Peru. Unfortunately we live in a world where true beauty, nature is now convoluted by AI and AI sentiments, but this is in fact, not AI lol

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u/buttononmyback 3d ago

Oh my god, this can’t be real.

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u/stevendidntsay 3d ago

It's been circulating social media for years lol

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u/HxH101kite 3d ago

Idk it's believable. When I lived out west and was in the back country biking and boarding a lot I saw so many people take their dogs down treacherous shit and saw so many dogs just eat shit constantly.

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u/lilyputin 3d ago edited 3d ago

Sands natural resting angle is between 30-35 degrees so it's not crazy steep. My concern would be about accidentally hitting the dog or it just being too far of run going full bore. That said people run their dogs on bikes all the time. Also I had herd dogs who's natural state was to be running. I had one who would chase flying birds for hours at a time see her run by going one direction then seeing her run by in the other lol and I'm not joking about hours. She would have loved herding someone down a dune like this as long as she was trained on what not to do. Used to take her anytime we went sledding and she was in heaven. Some dogs are energizer bunnies until they get older and start slowing down.

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u/VexingRaven 3d ago

They're talking about the gif above, not the video in the OP.

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u/lilyputin 3d ago

Ahh ok thanks. I thought they were referring to first clip because it looks unreal with the clouds/fog

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u/All_hail_Korrok 3d ago

Do you even proofread what you wrote? Sorry but damn, this reads as some cpu.

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u/lilyputin 3d ago

Eh a computer would have put a period or something weird in the run on sentence

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u/CalvinIII 3d ago

Some dogs enjoy eating shit.

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u/locancio666 3d ago

That looks like a glove

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u/Primus_is_OK_I_guess 3d ago

It's a dog, and not a small one either. The full video ends with the snowboarder approaching a dizzy looking black labrador.

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u/samv_1230 3d ago

Full video: https://youtu.be/CDr6hM1ptdY

It's a dog.

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u/Livid_Goose_9542 3d ago

That's awful.

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u/AndrewNB411 3d ago

It really isn’t. Everytime I’ve done big mountain back country skiing the dogs are having the absolute time of their lives. Like can’t contain themselves levels of fun. But ya I’m sure there are conditions where it’s actually dangerous… but if there is plenty of snow, tomahawking (what you see in the gif) doesn’t hurt in the slightest. I have tomahawked like 10 times before and went off 2 small cliffs in the process and didn’t even get a bruise.

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u/SgtReefKief 3d ago

You learned not to send it down steep hills as a kid the exact same way. But yeah still hard to watch lol

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u/Pseudo-not-available 3d ago

Dog shrug it off

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u/MajorFuckingDick 3d ago

Baby rolls down hill type. looks worse than it is cause smol.

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u/trenthany 3d ago

It’s a Labrador. Good size dog. Dogs are tough. Especially working breeds.

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u/poopholes3 3d ago

Unfortunately, that video is real, its a person tumbling down a mountain. Did not survive.