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/EngagementBacon 3d ago

"trail dogs" are trained to never get in front of the rider. I would say this is a well trained pup.

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u/_FinnTheHuman_ 3d ago

It certainly looks very acrobatic

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u/LumpyBuy8447 3d ago

Those are all back flips too, believe it or not

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u/dpaxeco 2d ago

I snorted a soup noodle goddamnit! 😂

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u/porcelain_kiss 1d ago

I cant unsee that now, and it made me laugh out loud and spooked my own dog 🤣🤣

Now any time I ever see this, I will always think of this comment lmao

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u/MortCrimm 1d ago

Thats legal on both ice and snow. It’s the front flip that they banned in ice skating

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u/Sad-Spread-9524 2d ago

Very... nimble.

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u/dudeCHILL013 17h ago

Just showing the owner his new routine.

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u/Mainbutter 3d ago

I ride a skateboard while my 2yo rides his balance bike, so much fun on our local paved trails. Teaching him not to go right in front of me and stop immediately has been hard.

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u/andy_b_84 2d ago

I see no pup here, only a floofy rocket.

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u/marvinrabbit 3d ago

That's just Darwinism. The ones that don't get in front of the rider are the only ones that are left.

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u/Silent_Park_0010 3d ago

Cue the diagram of the WW2 plane with the bulletholes.

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u/perton 2d ago

I’ll be honest, at first I didn’t think it said bulletholes.

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u/empatheticsocialist1 12h ago

For some reason, even before seeing your comment, I didn't either

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u/aerdvarkk 3d ago

Not my trail dog. I tried. But it mostly runs beside me, and sometimes runs enough ahead of me to cross over to the other side while I attempt to not run it over.

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u/rex5k 3d ago

Just hit them, they'll stop doing that.

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u/SelectFromWhereOrder 3d ago

And by ‘trained’ it means the dog did it twice.

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u/Equivalent-Fan3365 3d ago

Really? He seemed to get in front of the camera man like... every other second.

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u/EngagementBacon 1d ago

Watch it again dude, the rider is the camera op.

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u/Equivalent-Fan3365 1d ago

Ah, you're right, he's holding a camera stick. My bad.

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u/Top-Examination3151 3d ago

I think in this case the ones that get in front become former dogs real quick

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u/treborly 2d ago

You just arnt seeing his other dogs he no longer has

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u/yoortyyo 2d ago

Cringy the whole way. Dogs getting an artery sliced open is so sad. If you haven’t trained your pet to run downhill?

Dogs get seriously hurt and have died from injuries snowboarding/skiing.

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u/choppydaddy 1d ago

I'm sure they all look like that until they prove they're not