This is a video of Red Bull mountain biker Matt Jones jumping his ride through the open rears of two autonomous Scania semi trucks traveling in opposite directions. It’s a tight window (less than a second), but after lots of planning and practice, he successfully makes the jump. That’s cool,
Because everybody dreams of setting a different record (I dream of setting the human hibernation record), this is a video of French cyclist Aurelien Fontenoy hopping his bike up all 686 stairs to the second floor of the Eiffel Tower. I can’t even imagine if it took 686 stairs to
This is a fascinating video of Youtuber pannenkoek experimenting to determine if you can collect any stars in Super Mario 64 by only pressing a single button and not using the joystick. The answer? Yes. In fact he’s able to collect three stars that way. FULL DISCLOSURE: he does play
This is a video of a man spinning himself into the Matrix on a piece of playground equipment. We didn’t have that particular apparatus on my school playground growing up. We had seesaws, swings, a jungle gym, a metal slide that squeaked the skin right off your legs as you
These are a couple videos (the second being dash-cam footage from pursuing officers) of a stolen Audi Q5 hopping the actively opening University Bridge in Seattle. It’s not cool like in the movies, it just sort of drops off to the other side. Did the driver know they weren’t going
This is a video of climber Domen Škofic attempting a climbing route underneath the wings of a flying plane, using handholds made by his father. He falls on his first two attempts (he has a parachute or there only would have been one attempt), but manages to complete the route
This is a video of Brazilian skateboarder Sandro Dias setting the Guinness World Records for ‘the tallest drop into a temporary quarter pipe’ and ‘the fastest speed on a temporary quarter pipe’ by dropping into a ramp built on the side of the appropriately shaped Centro Administrativo Fernando Ferrari (CAFF)
Note: Volume on. Because everyone exercises differently (I work out vicariously through the people running at the park while I lie in the grass playing a Candy Crush knockoff and sipping cocktails out of an insulated tumbler), this is a video of a man in China’s Sichuan province performing what