This is a video of two elderly gentlemen proving they’ve still got it (and never didn’t have it) by demonstrating their skills with a Chinese jianzi (think a cross between a hacky sack and badminton shuttlecock), keeping it off the ground with ease using their feet, heads, and, at one

This is a best-of (or, perhaps more accurately: most dangerous-of) video from speedrider (a gliding parachute + skis) Carl Weiseth featuring some of his most insane flights. That is not how I want to die. I don’t want to be poisoned either, so put away that vial. Not that you’d

This is a video of the last 7-minutes of the 2024 World Chess Championship, in which 18-year old Gukesh Dommaraju of India defeats 32-year old Ding Liren of China after Liren make a fatal mistake with his rook, leaving his bishop trapped. Going into the game, the best of 14

This is an video of a gymnastics floor routine allegedly created by Sora, OpenAI’s video generation model. It did a pretty good job. I mean it’s not perfect, but *raising ‘9’ scorecard over head* its faults were barely noticable. here's a Sora generated video of gymnastics [image or embed] —

This is a video of 13-year old Layla retrieving the last bat of her career with the Clearwater Threshers (a Minor League affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies). Layla has retrieved bats for the team for the past six years, after her owner trained her to fetch beer from the fridge

These are two videos of the world’s first successful frontside and backside 2160s (six full rotations) on a snowboard. The backside (rotating clockwise if you’re riding with your left foot forward) 2160 was accomplished by Japanese teen snowboarder Hiroto Ogiwara in 2023 (he was 16 at the time). The frontside

This is a short video from the US Open of a man returning to his seat with cocktails and trying to hand one to his wife when a man in the row behind them beats him to the punch, depositing a drink in her hand before he can. I wonder

This is a video of Swedish pole vaulter Armand “Mondo” Duplantis beating his previous world record (the 6.25m vault he made at the 2024 Olympics) by an additional centimeter at the Diamond League Silesia, bringing the record highest vault to 6.26m, or 20.54-feet. This is the tenth time in his