There’s something deeply pleasing about snowboarders catching copious amounts of airtime. Like, not just on a physical level, on an ironic one – mankind has moulded something that explicitly falls from the sky with the express purpose of launching ourselves up into it. Eat it, nature.
And if we’re still talking irony, Christian Haller is Alanis bloody Morrisette, ’cause he’s officially hit 11.3 metres of vertical air, a bona fide world record. The Swiss ‘boarder hit that figure in the Italian Tyrols and holy shit just look at it:
Christian Haller New World Record Highest Air
It’s official. Christian Haller just set the new world record for the highest air on a snowboard, at a whopping 11.3 metres – this is what achieving orbit looks like!Nine Knights was off the charts – full edit dropping soon.Video: @samoetiker
Posted by Onboard Snowboarding Magazine on Monday, 4 April 2016
Monstrous. Just monstrous.
Because fundamentally different humans are the only ones capable of psyching themselves up for such an unreal feat, Haller said “I felt safe and comfortable, that is what lead me to go as big as I could.”
Safe and comfortable may have different meanings on the slopes. Want more evidence? Well, have a mind-altering alternative angle, you absolute fiend:
Blimey.
Source: Onboard Snowboarding Magazine / Facebook.
Photo: Christian Haller / Instagram.
