These are several videos from America’s first Official CarJitsu Championship, in which two combatants grapple jujitsu style, but inside a vehicle, utilizing the seat belts and anything else available to them to get their opponent to tap out. Opponents start buckled in, and when the bell sounds immediately remove their
As a means of marketing their jet suits, Gravity Industries recently held the world’s first jet suit races in Dubai. Eight competitors competed two at a time in roughly 60-second races around 12 pylons set up in the water, with the five fastest advancing to the finals. Racers reached speeds
This is some home security cam footage from a Sacramento, California home featuring Solid Snake (apparently he couldn’t find a decent box) stealing a package from a porch while cleverly (that can’t be the right word) disguised as a trash bag. It’s giving me E.T. on Halloween vibes. I imagine
This is a video of multi-species (including homo sapiens) chiropractor Dr. Joren Whitley providing an adjustment to a giraffe with a stiff neck to allow its jaw to move the right way to properly chew. Man, if Joren can work his magic on giraffe’s neck he must be a total
This is a video of parkour athlete Nico Fischer demonstrating his skills by repeatedly (and smoothly) jump-climbing up and down two parallel walls without touching the ground. His friend Aziz gave him the nickname ‘Elevator-Man’, which I’m adding to my list of blackballed houseguests. I made the mistake of letting
This is a clip from what appears to be the Catalina Wine Mixer of a man tossing a grape or olive to a woman, her bouncing it off a tooth, a man saving it from the ground with a well-aimed kick (I bet that dude can hacky sack!), and another
This is a precision walking demonstration by a group of Japanese high school students (this was not a club at my high school), with two groups of walkers passing through each other diagonally without running into each other and winding up a writhing pile of bodies on the gym floor.
This is a clip from the Sir David Attenborough series Frozen Planet II highlighting the life of the world’s most northern-living turtle, the painted turtle. The turtles actually freeze in the winter and their hearts stop beating (leaving only their brains operating at bare minimum), but defrost and comes back