#droneboarding

You may have heard of drone racing, but people keep coming up with new ways to enjoy these flying machines.

One of the latest twists on drone sports comes from Latvia.

A company called Aerones has developed a drone to use for droneboarding, a new sport that's just what it sounds like — a snowboarder being pulled through the snow by a powerful drone.

When the company first tried droneboarding last year, as a way to test the strength of its drones, the sport didn't even have its name. "We didn't call it like that in the beginning, but somebody, somewhere said droneboarding, and that's how it took off," Aerones CEO Janis Putrams says.

Recipe For New Sports? Just Add A Drone

Watch Aerones Make Droneboarding History By Pulling Four Snowboarders Simultaneously

With a futuristic mixture of drone know-how and snowboarding, the Latvian firm Aerones is redefining excessive sports. Dubbed “droneboarding,” the burgeoning sport pairs expert pilots with fearless athletes. Snowboarders maintain onto a tow rope whereas a 9-foot lengthy drone flies by way of the sky, pulling the riders throughout the frozen terrain. Virtually one yr in the past to the day, Aerones revealed footage of snowboarder Kaspars Balamovskis being towed by considered one of its heavy-obligation drones. The primary-individual perspective from Balamovskis’ GoPro calls to thoughts Anakin Skywalker’s podracing scene from Star Wars. In its newest check carried out Jan. 14, Aerones managed to tug 4 snowboarders concurrently, a exceptional feat of engineering (and coordination). Latvian engineers have developed an enormous drone capable of tow snowboarders and carry individuals pic.twitter.com/1YlE5iR2G7 — AFP news company (@AFP) January 23, 2017 “It

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One of my inspirations, I used to do a lot of filming but he was the first one to make me want to get back into the game.

Un nuevo deporte, droneboarding

Un nuevo deporte causa furor y quien sabe si en breve se pondrá de moda, se trata del droneboarding, solo necesitas una tabla de snowboard, un dron más o menos potente y una pista de nieve plan. La idea surgió hace unos días y se hizo popular rápidamente cuando un usuario decidió subir su vídeo donde se muestra como utiliza un dron para conseguir el empuje suficiente para ser arrastrado por una…

WATCH THIS DRONE PULL A FULL GROWN MAN AND WITNESS THE HUMBLE BEGINNINGS OF DRONEBOARDING