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
This is a video of Tom Scott visiting the Montreal Olympic Sports Centre (built for the 1976 Summer Olympics), which features the only indoor 20-meter diving platform in North America. Apparently cliff diver Lysanne Richard convinced the Montreal Olympics Park to add an 18m platform in the rafters when the
These are several videos of a sugar glider named Titan Bool leaping from heights to glide and land on his owner’s hand. For those of you unfamiliar, sugar gliders are small gliding marsupials native to Australia, and can glide like flying squirrels (which are rodents and not related, but an
This is a video of a jumping jack style ground compactor hopping around on its own like Luxo Jr. at the beginning of Pixar movies. That’s cool. Of course if I was that guy in the video I’d be sticking my foot underneath it every time it jumped because I
This is some cool footage of a wingsuiter soaring through the ‘Sputnik Crack’ located in the Appenzell Alps near Walenstadt, Switzerland. The crack is a canyon that formed over the side of a cliff that a wingsuiter can drop into and fly through provided they don’t smack a wall and
Because what’s life if not constantly cheating death, this is a video of cliff diver Owen Weymouth launching off an oceanfront cliff balcony followed by Robert Wall, who’s capturing all the action with a camera in his mouth. Were there mathematical calculations involved with this jump, or just a “Eh,
This is some home security cam footage of a FedEx delivery driver following the instructions on a jocular yard sign to ‘STAY ON GRASS’. At first I thought he was dodging cracks to avoid breaking his mother’s back, but no, he was just being courteous. That’s nice. For reference, I
This is a video of a daredevil leaping off a tall bridge into the water of the gorge below and doing a bit of airwalking on the way down. That’s fun. For him — that looks terrifying to me. I don’t care if my middle name is Hite, I’m scared