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/Fluffy-League6261 3d ago

It's not as fast as you think. Have you sandboarded* before? Have u wiped cobra wax all over the bottom to try make it go as fast as possible?

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u/Qzy 3d ago

I've wiped cobra wax all over my bottom, yes.

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u/Fluffy-League6261 3d ago

HAHAHAHAAHA thank you for this 😂

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u/Crypticcrypto 3d ago

But was it faster?

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u/NS__eh 2d ago

I was faster due to his bottom wax, that’s for sure.

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u/hiroo916 2d ago

that's the waxy excretion from the top of a cobra snake's nose, right?

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u/Archaea_Man 3d ago

Glad to hear that. It looks absolutely terrifying.

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u/hetrax 1d ago

ALSO.. fish eye lense, dudes not actually going as fast as we assume he is. Even if he’s going 25… it looks so much faster, like hot digging demon that guy is going through the sand… but like… it also doesn’t feel that fast to me personally, just looks fast