anybody remember rollerblades? remember 15, 20 years ago you couldn't walk down the street? now where did they go? the answer, to france. where a guy they call roller man has transformed his entire physique into one giant rollerblade. which he uses to torpedo down the sides of mountains, reaching speeds of over 70 miles an hour. this guy's name is john. and this video from youtube. as you can see, roller man can steer. he goes around corners. he can even brake as well. check him out. he is kicking it on those runs in the olympics. look at this. he is flying. what better place for a roller man to test out his skills when there is no snow on the ground. it's pretty amazing as long as he stays alive. which is a situation you have to figure could change at any second. >> i wonder how many bones he has broken. >> we'll be right back. >>> we want to hear what you think. send your e-mails to mcginty's mail bag. the address, mailbag@wusa9.com. 9news now will be right back. >>> in the mail bag tonight, the 17-year-old that got sent home for wearing high heels. the man is openly gay,

>> he's got rollerblade wheels on his elbows, hands, toes, knees, on his belly. >> how does he stop? >> great question. he stops similar to how a skateboarder or rollerblader, he slides, skids to the side and that slows him down. he can get up to 70 miles per hour in the suit. look at the reaction he gets from people as he goes through the town. people are amazed to see what he can do. he can go from prone to kneeling to standing like a transformer. >> you know what this reminds me of? it reminds me of the wheelers in "return to oz." >> his face is like two inches from the ground as he's going by. >> this could be a new olympic sport. >>> next time on "right this minute" -- >> join us this friday for a special year-end m top 2 the 20 best >> friday, on "right this minute." >>> a man, a stroller, and a crying baby recording. >> shut the [ bleep ] up! >> funny prank? or interesting social experiment. >>> and, this mom gives her boys the giggles. >> she's failing miserably is what she's doing. >> failing miserably at juggling is a pretty funny thing. but the laughter is even >>> do you

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larry rollerbladed in. the most important question is we want to be the $100 billion corporation. i said does that mean revenue or valuation? he said it does not matter. >> said, i give up. i found out later this was something they did with everyone. things andd do these this was not a joke. we're sitting there and there is an ad product being proposed and one of the engineers whose name is ruron. he said, that would be evil, and it is like a bomb goes off in the room. then the whole schedule gets thrown away. they spend an hour-and-a-half having this detailed argument as to where those changed -- where they cross the line. thing you can pull. people feel like they can speak out. >> the conventional wisdom was that search was an afterthought. it was thought that portals were the way to go. what was that that google did that made its search engine better and went past all the other search engines that were out there of which there were many others? >> in 1990 -- 1998, 1999, they invented page rank. a different way of ranking. the polls had used it based on the number of clicks. the

from a very young age, i enjoyed pushing myself whether it was long-distance running, skiing, rollerbladinghe sport i've been doing for the last decade which has been kayaking or extreme kayaking as we call it. >> make no mistake, extreme kayaking is no day at the beach. >> what we are doing is really on the far end of the sport. it is the most advanced, the most dangerous and arguably the most rewarding as well. what we are doing out there is really a different sport altogether. it is extreme and it is dangerous. >> today the professional kayaker has turned his eye to the camera and shoots footage of his co-extremists. >> we go out all over the world and find the toughest, most dangerous, most difficult rivers to access all over the world and then we film the process of getting to the rivers and running those rivers. it is pretty exciting stuff, really. >> in 2009 they plan one run that will break records. the kayaker making the death-defying ride is brazilian pedro olivia who ben met in 2007. >> pedro was competing for the brazilian national team and i was filming for a company producing