Did you the Balloon World Cup is a real thing that exists? That was news to me when I first started writing this article. Now I feel like I’ve known it forever. Or it was all a dream. Or this is all a mistake. Anyway, this is a video of

This is a man showing off for the camera with a very impressive predominately one-handed diabolo routine. For those of you unfamiliar with the diabolo, it consists of an unattached circular axle that a user spins and manipulates via a string stretched between two poles (it maintains its balance via

This is ‘A Tale Of Two Freddies’, the Two-Face style Freddie Mercury/Freddy Krueger costume created by photo editor Jared Lerner for a previous Halloween. A fantastic job, and Jared certainly would have been in contention for best costume at my annual Halloween party if I didn’t rig the voting so

This is a video of professional bounce juggler Kateryna Nikiforova demonstrating her skills during a very impressive routine. Did, uh, did she just hypnotize me with all those bouncing balls? Quick, tell me to do something! “The dishes like I already asked you to do over an hour ago.” Whew,

Red Bull: it gives you wings. But what you might not know is that it also makes you a pinball, as evidenced by the company constructing this giant 65-foot human pinball machine at a 45-degree angle and letting freerunner Pasha ‘the Boss’ Petkuns attempt to set a high score as

This is a video of the members of parkour team STORROR playing an extreme game of the floor is lava by taking turns attempting to parkour their way across Full Fathom Five, a seafarer memorial sculpture created by artist Michael Dan Archer in Portishead, England. The sculpture consists of 108

Possibly in a bid to have the sport included in the 2024 Olympics in Paris, this is a must-see video of a pair of synchronized Slinkers (aka Slinky manipulators) demonstrating their skills. And what skills they are! It’s like they were juggling rainbow colored lasers in unison. My eyes felt

This is some incredible footage from the innovative Lumiere Brothers in 1899 of a troupe of child acrobats in Paris performing some stunts, including a human pyramid and two members passing and juggling a small boy with their feet like he’s a sack of potatoes. The footage was colorized and