I have no been to Saudi Arabia (yet), so I did not shoot this video. However, if you have taking your time to read this, I will explain to you how it is possible.
1) The roads in the Arab world are slick and smooth. Much better than the roads anywhere else in the world, and that includes the super-highways of the USA and Canada. Their roads are made so that cars such as the Lamborghini, Ferrari, Dodge and other low-riding sports cars can glide across them at insane speeds.
2) Sandals like those have no traction. They are leather at the bottom and it is easy to slip if you're not careful. This lack of traction makes it easy for them to glide on an already smooth road.
3) Speed. In order to do with with relative 'grace' you need speed. Too slow, and the sandals might give traction, too fast and you might loose your grip. I say that they were doing around 80KM/H, around 55MP/H, my guess. However, I wouldn't put it past them if they were cruising over 100mph.
(Explanation courtesy youtube reposter)
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KrupoCourtesy Lucas at Videosift.pl
My apologies for the weird noise at 5 seconds in; rest of it's interesting to watch - and kinda freaky. Wasn't sure if it's appropriate to tag this as comedy or geek... settled on geek.
choggieGeeks' don't have the balls for this, Black Rain+cheap rubber sandals from Taiwan/leather from afghanistan, this takes more than the geek could muster..
thatguysays...GEEK? seriously. stop overusing this tag.
Krupo[pause, scratch head]
Meh, this would be great with the *action tag. We need that channel... [geek tag removed]
lucky760*dead
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KrupoShe's *undead now - yeah baby, yeah!
New & improved version featuring original soundtrack and commentary box filled in!
siftbotThe link to this video has been fixed (undead called by original submitter Krupo)
KrupoFull soundtrack available on this sift: http://www.videosift.com/video/Habibi-by-Amr-Diab
lucky760Dupe with much better quality and lacking the annoying intro submitted by fedquip here: http://www.videosift.com/video/Um-Darwin-Where-the-hell-are-you
(I recommend replacing the embed.
And in an attempt to help this post regain some of the dupe votes, *doublepromote these nutcopaths.
siftbotDouble-Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 11:29am PST - doublepromote requested by lucky760.
firefly*eia
*wtf
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Pprtsays...The roads may be a bit too smooth.
I can assure you that Saudi Arabia is an exception in the Arab world in this respect.
PaybackFrom my post in the other, duplicate-sift version of this:
I can't believe none of you have gone car door skiing in the rain. You have no lives. It's a rite of passage.
A friend of mine had his cruise control on a wired remote so he could do this while driving the car with us out the other three doors... this was before the YouTube... heck, it was before the Interwebs. Wish I had the cash back then to film it (no such thing as digital imaging).
Issykitty*craaaaazy
IssykittyOh, and *wheels!
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