--- title: Skateboard Racer Goes 70mph description: Downhill longboarder Zak Maytum skateboard down Colorado slope at 70mph in YouTube video canonical: https://time.com/4026681/skateboard-racer-downhill-70mph-colorado-slope/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-09T16:53:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:08.123Z og:title: Watch a Skateboarder Zoom Dowhill at 70 MPH og:description: Downhill longboarder Zak Maytum skateboard down Colorado slope at 70mph in YouTube video og:url: https://time.com/4026681/skateboard-racer-downhill-70mph-colorado-slope/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a Skateboarder Zoom Dowhill at 70 MPH twitter:description: Downhill longboarder Zak Maytum skateboard down Colorado slope at 70mph in YouTube video twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch a Skateboarder Zoom Downhill at 70 MPH ## Video: 5 Elements of A Viral Video [Watch (HLS stream): 5 Elements of A Viral Video](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8) (1:31)  _Published 2015-06-22. 5 Elements of A Viral Video_  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 9, 2015 4:53 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 9, 2015 4:53 PM UTC A professional downhill skateboard racer, Zak Maytum of Boulder, Colorado, stars in video of himself — filmed from behind — as he flies down a road at 70 mph. In just under three minutes — and to the tune of Metallica’s “The Four Horsemen” — Maytum can be seen soaring past the occasional car, uploaded by sporting goods brand Venom Bushings. While the video shows Maytum emerging from this stunt unscathed, he has had his share of injuries, once breaking his foot and collar bone and slamming into a guard rail, [according to](http://www.skatesafe.org/10-questions-to-zak-maytum/) an interview he did in March. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4026681/skateboard-racer-downhill-70mph-colorado-slope/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4026681/skateboard-racer-downhill-70mph-colorado-slope/"},"headline":"Watch a Skateboarder Zoom Downhill at 70 MPH","datePublished":"2015-09-09T16:53:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:08.123Z","description":"You won't be able to look away","url":"https://time.com/4026681/skateboard-racer-downhill-70mph-colorado-slope/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sports topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4026681/skateboard-racer-downhill-70mph-colorado-slope/","name":"Watch a Skateboarder Zoom Downhill at 70 MPH"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","description":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/vgQtqA8c/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-22T13:42:30.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4026681/skateboard-racer-downhill-70mph-colorado-slope/","duration":"PT1M31S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4026681/skateboard-racer-downhill-70mph-colorado-slope/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```