Chinese influencer Song Xingyu rides homemade hoverboard over mountains, Yangtze River

Song Xingyu has stunned the internet with a video showing him riding a hoverboard that he had spent about two months building. In the video, he is shown soaring over mountains and the Yangtze River.

From invention to flight

Song, 26, from Enshi, Hubei province, is known online as “Amazing Ayu.” He has amassed more than 3 million social media followers by sharing videos of his aerial inventions.

A Gen Z tech influencer from central China, Song handcrafted the manned hoverboard and taught himself flight control and mechanical engineering. His work has brought science fiction to life through a machine he built himself.

The video highlights both the hoverboard and the process behind it: Song spent about two months building the device before riding it over the mountains and the Yangtze River. The footage stunned the internet, adding to the attention around his aerial inventions.

Song believes that because he started with nothing, he has no fear of failure, making courageous forward progress his only choice.

Source: South China Morning Post