Extreme trainsurfing was pioneered in Germany by a masked man known only as “the trainrider.” This legendary disguised lunatic once surfed Germany’s Inter City Express (ICE), which reaches speeds of 205 mph.

The first video makes the sad claim that the trainrider is dead (from Leukemia of all things). According to the video, he spent the last year of his life doing what he loves most, surfing trains, an announcement that elicited several eulogies in the comments section:

But here’s the catch: the trainrider isn’t really dead. Turns out his name is Alexander Richter and he faked the whole cancer thing. And it’s a good thing too, because in the following (subtitled) video he shows a German television station exactly how he managed to surf trains for all those years without getting killed.