“Everyone gets ‘hover legs’ their first-time, ” Darren Pereira assures me as i grip his glenohumeral joint, trying to show up cool as my own legs buckle and also quiver. coin8sdh
I am locked in the battle to continue to be upright — and prevent becoming the star of your viral wipeout video — over a self-balancing two-wheeled kid scooter, more popularly (and also inaccurately) called a hoverboard online .
“Hover legs can be a feeling that you’re planning to experience when you step about it, ” the 40-year-old serial businessperson instructs me ahead of time.
“Your legs head out like a fish away from water thing — that’s just your system learning a new solution to balance itself. ”
I’m at hoverboard education alongside Pereira and band of friends he identifies as Toronto tastemakers.