At a roller rink in Essex, UK, a few days ago, an unfortunate skater lost his boot. The boot continued to skate around in the galley area on its own, but eventually reconnected with the skater. How'd that happen? If you've ever tried to roller skate, you know how important it is to keep those things tightly tied to your feet.
It's not a once-in-a-lifetime coincidence, but a carefully planned trick called the ghost boot from professional skater Jack Matthew. You can see him practice the ghost boot here and showing off on the street here. The fact that he does this all the time doesn't make it any less impressive, because the route that skate took through a crowd of people completely separated from the rink is quite amazing. This video shows three different angles of the same trick. The first was a skater following him for this purpose, and the others are standing still to show what this looked like to spectators. You have to wonder how many times he tried this and had someone knock his ghost boot over before it returned to him. You can see Matthew's longer skating videos at YouTube. -via Nag on the Lake
