Sporstmanship: maybe it isn’t entirely dead after all. Case in point: this archery match between Sergio Garrido of Spain and Claudio Alves of Portugal where Claudio’s arrow release wouldn’t trigger, causing him to forfeit a shot. Sergio asks what happened, and walks away from the line on his next shot,
Because you’re not going to wow audiences with an explosion that looks like my buddy Dave clenching a firecracker between his butt cheeks (classic Dave), this is a video of Tom Scott working with a professional pyrotechnician (my dream gig) to explain why movie explosions look so much grander than
Seen here wasting perfectly good ammo by crying from the wrong eye (you have to focus!), this is a video demonstration of the Tear Gun, the brainchild of designer Yi Fei Chen while she was in design school that freezes a user’s tears for immediate reuse as biological weapons. Some
This is a video of a woman demonstrating her nunchucking skills by attempting to extinguish a row of candles with a horizontal swing. She gets all but two out on her first pass (although it looks like they were all out momentarily), then finishes them off with her second. Like,
Because if you don’t blow something up every day can you really say you lived that day to the fullest, this is a video of firearm lovers Edwin Sarkissian and Mark Serbu shooting up a wall of propane tanks. As much as I do love explosions and fires (I’d marry
Because ninjas are everywhere, this is a video of a man demonstrating his nunchuck skills in a sort of mashup between nunchucking and baton twirling that features a number of throws and catches. I don’t believe those are traditional nunchuck stills. Oh — Michelangelo is shaking his head no with
Seen here looking like a typical Florida Saturday, this is a video of Youtuber TheBackyardScientist creating a ‘One-Punch gun’ by attaching a piston to the end of an assault rifle and using the power of blank cartridges to power that piston into pounding things with aluminum fist, flat block, axe
Because trying hard and believing in yourself is the name of the game, this is a video of a knife-thrower/vaper exhaling a big cloud, then extinguishing a candle from seven meters with a blade. On his first try too. Well, on his first try of this particular take anyways. You