Car surfing

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Car surfing (also known as urban surfing) is a form of acrobatics (or an illegal stunt if performed in public traffic) in which passengers of moving vehicles perform various stunts, including hanging out of the car or 'surfing' on the hood (bonnet), trunk (boot) or on the roof of the vehicle while it is in motion. Car surfing has caused several people to be killed[1] during the course of such stunts.

Car surfing has been popularized by the hyphy movement and is nearly identical to ghost riding.

[edit] In popular culture

• In Teen Wolf the main character Scott and his best friend Stiles surf on the roof of a van.

• In the Akio Ohtori Saga of the anime series Revolutionary Girl Utena, the character Akio preforms a move where he flips himself from the driver seat over the windshield of his convertible and car surfs at high speed, presumably after turning on the cruise control.

• In the 2007 film Grindhouse, Zoe Bell's character in "Death Proof" plays a game called "ship's mast" in which she lies down on the hood of a speeding car, hanging on to belts that had been looped around the car doors.

• An example of curly car surfing appeared on an episode of drama series, Casualty in November, 2007.

[edit] See also

• Elevator surfing
• Train surfing

[edit] External links

• Student Dies in Car Surfing Accident
• The origins and risks of car surfing (Naval Safety Center)
• 55-year-old CFO Dies While Car Surfing (The Business Journal, Phoenix, 6 December 2004)
• More detail on above apparent suicide (Phoenix New Times, 29 September 2005)