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This daredevil just set a new world record for the farthest hoverboard flight

Yes, this is real.

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Gabe Bergado

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Move over “hoverboards,” or whatever all the teens are riding around nowadays. Here’s the real deal.

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Franky Zapata already caught our eye back in 2014 with his amazing hoverboard skills, twirling up into the air with the help of this aquatic machinery. The inventor is back, this time to shatter the Guinness World Record for farthest hoverboard flight. 

Watch him launch into the sky and travel 2,252 meters at an event in Sausset-les-Pins, France, like it’s no big deal. 

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So, Franky, when’s our turn to try these out? 

 
The Daily Dot