Ones impression of speed is heightened enourmously. Unlike driving a car, street luging is a very active sport to watch. Spectators can see you leaning right off your board to get round corners, and slamming your feet into the tarmac, and screeching to a stop amidst clouds of smoke and the smell of burning rubber. In a similar way to motorcycle racing, the narrow width of a luge means there are more opportunities to overtake than in motor racing. The ability to use the slip stream of another rider to catch up also makes for very close and exciting racing.
Races are short.
If you make a mistake in motor racing, you have another 70 laps to make up for it. In street luging there is no room for error. You have to get judge every corner to perfection. The Stunt Factory founded SSSprint, the UK governing body for street luge after seeing it whilst competing in the ESPN XGames in Newport USA, in 1995. We offer members of the public the opportunity to get involved and try the sport at our Taster Days.