As a kid I used to love leafing through the pages of the Guinness World Records book, marvelling at the world’s tallest living man (a record now held by the 251-centimetre giant Sultan Köse) and thinking how disgusting a 62 kilogram cabbage must smell. You know, the usual records.

Enter the 21st century where flying hoverboards are now a thing, with the Guinness World Records having the record set at 50 metres. That was until Canadian inventor Catalina Alexandru Duru donned his tiny grey shorts and took to the sky. This from TIME:

In the video above, Duru rises 16 feet in the air and then flies forward 905 feet and 2 inches. Under him, only air and a lake. To set the Guinness World Records title, Duru had to achieve a distance of more than 50 meters (sic). The inventor travelled over five times that distance.

“I wanted to showcase that a stable flight can be achieved on a hoverboard and a human could stand and control with their feet,” he told Guinness.

All hail your new world record holder. Now to make them commercially viable for sale to the public…

[source:time]