This is a video of Portland Timbers center Dairon Asprilla performing a very impressive long-shot bicycle kick to score a goal against the San Jose Earthquakes after a goalkeeper slip up. The Timbers went on to win the match 2-0, but Dairon went on to win a special place in
This is a video of the fun-loving Australians of Youtube channel How Ridiculous dropping 100,000 bouncy balls from the top of an arena (previously: dropping 100,000 ping pong balls). I’m not going to lie, it was significantly more underwhelming than I anticipated. Half the balls didn’t even seem to bounce.
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,
In continued ball related news, this is a video of the guys from Youtube channel How Ridiculous dropping 100,000 ping pong balls in an empty arena and filming the spectacle in ultra slow-motion. The result, well, the result is this video. The actual 100,000 ball drop begins around 12:50 though,
This is a video reimagining a variety of sports being played with a bowling ball instead of the traditional ball or equipment used. It makes a pretty convincing case why all sports shouldn’t be played with bowling balls. That said, ESPN — would it really kill you to air an
Presumably in the spirit of the Olympics, this is a video of Youtuber Tyler Bell using an air-powered tennis ball cannon to blast balls at 560MPH at a racquet made with razor blades instead of strings. Tyler says going into the experiment he believed the balls would get caught up
Because soon the Olympics won’t even have any human competitors, only robots, these are a couple clips of Toyota’s CUE 4 basketball shooting robot at the Olympics sinking a free throw, three-pointer, and half-court shot like shooting fish in a barrel, which is probably a simile it wouldn’t understand unless
Presumably to promote the new Space Jam movie, this is a video of basketballer Tristan Jass performing some sort of spinny over-the-back layup trick-shot that can only be described as “How did he do that?” and “I would have broken both my legs.” Honestly, I think I may have sprained