--- title: People Fall Off Hoverboard Scooters: Video description: You know those 'hoverboards' you keep seeing? Here's a compilation of people falling off them. canonical: https://time.com/4072208/hoverboard-fall-compilation/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-13T21:13:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:00.728Z og:title: Here's a Compilation of People Falling Off 'Hoverboards' og:description: It's very difficult not to laugh og:url: https://time.com/4072208/hoverboard-fall-compilation/ 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: Here's a Compilation of People Falling Off 'Hoverboards' twitter:description: It's very difficult not to laugh twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # You Know Those 'Hoverboards' You Keep Seeing? Here's a Compilation of People Falling Off Them ## 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 [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 13, 2015 9:13 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 13, 2015 9:13 PM UTC There’s something about seeing people fall down that will always be funny. You can pretend you’re a good person, pretend you’re above it, pretend that seeing people fall down doesn’t make you laugh, at least a _little_. If that’s the case, we invite you to get off your high horse for a few minutes and watch this compilation of people falling off those “hoverboards” you keep seeing everywhere. Very few people, it seems, have the coordination required to properly ride these things, which are also known as [hands-free Segways](http://hands-free-segway.com/). Silly millennials, hoverboards are [for Marty McFly](http://awesomegifs.com/wp-content/uploads/michael-j-fox-on-a-hoverboard.gif). _Read next:_ [_Don’t Even Think About Riding Your ‘Hoverboard’ Around London_](http://time.com/4069830/hoverboards-illegal-london/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4072208/hoverboard-fall-compilation/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4072208/hoverboard-fall-compilation/"},"headline":"You Know Those 'Hoverboards' You Keep Seeing? Here's a Compilation of People Falling Off Them","datePublished":"2015-10-13T21:13:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:00.728Z","description":"It's very difficult not to laugh","url":"https://time.com/4072208/hoverboard-fall-compilation/","keywords":["Newsfeed"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"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/4072208/hoverboard-fall-compilation/","name":"You Know Those 'Hoverboards' You Keep Seeing? Here's a Compilation of People Falling Off Them"}}]},{"@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/4072208/hoverboard-fall-compilation/","duration":"PT1M31S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4072208/hoverboard-fall-compilation/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```