Note: Check your volume, wind. Because extreme sports just aren’t extreme enough for some people and they demand even EXTREMER sports, these are a couple Instagram videos of BASE jumper David Laffargue being launched out of a human slingshot and into the wild blue yonder. That’s fun. I mean not
This is a video from an Autoball match in Germany of two cars immediately crashing into each other at kickoff, since neither could see the other on account of the giant soccer ball between them. That’s a shame. If there’s anything I’ve learned from my time as a demolition derby
This is a video of a college football security guard standing too close to the University Of Tennessee Volunteers cheerleading squad at a football game and refusing to get out of the way when, SURPRISE, he’s part of the act. Of course even prior to knowing this you could probably
This is a compilation of dashcam clips, along with the audio of the drivers near Ross Chastain as he pushed his car against the wall, took his hands off the wheel, and put the pedal to the metal to move from 10th to 4th place and into qualifying for the
Presumably pleased with the Youtube success of his previous two iterations of squirrel mazes (version 2.0 here), this is a video of ex-NASA engineer turned Youtuber Mark Rober holding the Backyard Squirrelympics 3.0, an Olympic style competition in which squirrels compete in seven different events to see which is the
Note: Some appropriate cursing, triple bogie. This is a video of a golfer attempting to chipochet (that’s chip + ricochet) his way out from right in front of a large boulder and the ball, after a very brief visit back to the course, returns to where it started. That sucks
Because soon all sports will be played entirely by robots, this is a video of Google’s i-S2R ping pong playing robot completing a 4-minute, 340-shot rally with a human before it nets a ball because clearly there’s still work to be done. That’s cool, but why did they name it
This is a video of extreme sportster Ryan Williams “going full extension on a Ruler frontflip.” Full extension indeed, I feel like I pulled a muscle myself just watching. And not my penis either, I’m not into extreme sports like that. The trick really just has to be seen to