Robert Maddox is a bit of a mad scientist. He likes rockets, that’s for sure. He likes to go very fast on those rockets. Likes to feel the wind in his hair, of which there is a lot, both wind and hair.
So Robert Maddox makes rockets, puts said rockets onto a variety of vehicles, and sees just how fast he can go. He’s done it with his grandmother’s lawn chair from the ’60s, done it with a coffin, done it with a three-wheeler, done it with a go kart, and done it with a skateboard too, just to name a few. Of course, as you would imagine when attaching rockets to different items, things don’t always go smoothly. And when things don’t go smoothly with a rocket… well, it’s bad.
The video you see above is another go at a skateboard, this one a little different than the first. It went so fast even he, the “Crazy Rocketman” as he calls himself, was a little nervous.
“I tell you what,” he laughed as he came to a stop. “That’s a scary ride. Even moving the camera to the side upsets this thing. I turned it down to half throttle… it’s one of those that I really don’t want to get off of. It’s the only thing I have gotten off of before.”
