Because everybody needs a hobby and the best hobbies require only a decent pair of shoes and a devil-may-care attitude, this is a video of UK freerunner Max Webb performing a corkscrew jump from a rooftop to a tiny ledge across the alley. That’s wild. Even wilder? That his friends
Sponsored by the video game Warframe, this is a video of inventor Colin Furze testing a giant gimbal he built that allows a user to perform wild jumps like in a low-gravity environment. The gimbal uses counterweights and hydraulics to achieve the feat, allowing Colin to jump from one stack
This is a video documenting Youtuber Allen Pan’s quest to build a pair of moon boots that will allow him to jump higher. His final design involves using compressed air triggered by a handheld remote to launch him places his own muscles could never take him. Specifically, to a height
In nowhere near it news, this is a video of two raccoons hopping up to try to reach the door latch of what appears to be a giant unadorned Hobbit-hole. Unfortunately for them, their little ineffectual jumps hardly bring them any closer to the latch than just standing there. One
This is a video of Balu and human Wolfgang Lauenburger setting the Guinness World Record for “most skips by a dog on hind legs in 30 seconds,” with a respectable quicker-than-one-a-second 32 jumps. Not too shabby. Wolfgang says he and Balu trained hard for the record, which I believe, because
Because there’s no telling what sort of thoughts exist inside a cat’s head besides death and destruction, this is a video of a woman making a giant cat toy by attaching strips of toilet paper to a ceiling fan to see how her cat friend will react. The cat repeatedly
This is a short video of three dogs jumping over a fence, with the first two easily clearing the obstacle and looking like show ponies in the process. The third dog, well…that would be me. Especially if it had toilet paper stuck to its shoe and could never find its
This is a short video of a man at some family fun center mistaking the padded floor of a basketball court for a trampoline, wrecking his back and knees in the process. Or maybe he just did it for the LOLs. Whatever the case, he just took twenty years off