Gallery of skateboarders dropping in
Bob Burnquist dropping in on a mega ramp
Dropping In with assistance
A woman wearing a bikini positioning herself to perform a dropping in
Dropping in is a skateboarding trick with which a skateboarder starts skating a half-pipe by dropping into it from the coping instead of starting from the bottom and pumping gradually for more speed. [1] When a skateboarder drops in, they use their gravitational potential energy to gain initial velocity, allowing the skater to skate longer before exhausting themselves and thus to take more runs. [2] [1]
When a skateboarder drops in, they stand on the deck of a half-pipe, put their back foot on the tail of the skateboard, and push it so that the back wheels just roll over the coping into a position like in a tail stall. [2] They then put their front foot on the deck, which now hangs over the half-pipe, lean forward, and start skating the half-pipe. [3] [4]
The highest drop-in ever was performed on 25 September 2025, during an event organized by Red Bull, by the Brazilian professional vert skateboarder Sandro Dias. He skated down the Fernando Ferrari Administrative Center, a government building shaped like a quarter pipe in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, breaking not only the world record in the highest drop-in ever, but also the fastest speed reached on a standard skateboard (103 km/h, approximately 64 mph). [5] [6] [7] Starting at a height of 55 meters, he gradually dropped in at 60, 65 and finally 70 meters. [8] Guinness World Records representatives were present at the time of the event to verify the record breaking. [5]
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