Awesome How Ridiculous

If you take a balloon and fill it with too much air, it will eventually explode. The guys from How Ridiculous thought it would be fun to see what else would fail catastrophically when overinflated, starting with a hot water bottle and culminating with a big exercise ball. Like Tom Petty sang, “the waiting is the hardest part.”

To help shoot one of their downhill tire-rolling videos, the crew from How Ridiculous enlisted expert FPV drone pilot Seth Moore. During the setup, he pulled off an amazing feat by threading the needle through the center of a tractor tire while it was rolling along at a pretty good clip. He came very close to flying it through both tires.

The gang from How Ridiculous has been launching bowling balls out of a cannon to see how much destruction they can cause. In this video, they wanted to test what would happen if they attached stuff to those projectiles and fired them. After attempting to pull-start a lawnmower with a bowling ball, they moved on to piercing things with giant arrows.

The guys from How Ridiculous spend a lot of their time dropping heavy and dangerous objects from towers and cranes. For this video, they went in the opposite direction by launching things like rubber band balls and an anvil sky-high using explosives. The hang time on that bowling ball was something special.

How Ridiculous continues to build its arsenal of destructive playthings with a cannon that fires harpoons. The cannon uses an explosive charge to launch a sharpened metal projectile with enough energy to shoot straight through a refrigerator. Other targets included ballistic gel, fire extinguishers, and propane tanks. Be sure to watch the final launch for a big boom.

Gav and Dan of The Slow Mo Guys met up with Brett and Scott from How Ridiculous to see what kind of damage a bowling ball cannon can do. Their subject: ballistic gel heads filled with fake skulls. For something a little less gruesome, enjoy some bowling balls vs. trampolines.

After trashing a PT Cruiser with their giant steel dart, How Ridiculous takes aim at a bunch more stuff with their pointy 1300+ pound projectile. Among its latest victims are a pile of inflated tires, a thick piece of timber, a safe, and the ultimate challenge, a stack of cars. The crane operator deserves a raise for his precision.

Because their giant blender, giant axe, and giant hammer weren’t enough, the gang from How Ridiculous commissioned the construction of an enormous steel dart. Instead of just tossing it at a dart board, they dropped it onto various things, including an old PT Cruiser. However, they missed an opportunity by not using a Dodge Dart.

How Ridiculous have a long history of destroying stuff. So when they got their hands on a bunch of goo-filled lava lamps, their first instinct was to see how many they could break by throwing various projectiles at them. After breaking some glass, they moved on to garden gnomes, tiles, and other fragile items. As expected, the slow-mo footage is the best part.

It’s hard enough to protect a soccer goal from a single kicker, so what happens to the goalie when a hundred balls are kicked their way? The gang from How Ridiculous tested this and other ideas where the visiting team has way more players than the home team. Every game basically turns into dodgeball on steroids.

The How Ridiculous guys returned to the Utah Olympic Park to see what else they could roll down the snow-free ski jump. After an attempt to score some basketball hoops and a bottom-of-the-hill round of dodgeball, they played a little mini golf – first with individual putts, then with a cascade of 2000 balls.

The guys from How Ridiculous braved winter conditions in Montana to play with a pair of air cannons with their friends from BealsScience. This time, they loaded up their barrels with soda cans, bowling balls, spray paint, and a pair of glass spheres for an explosive grand finale.

The guys from How Ridiculous are always looking for new ways to entertain us with stupid stunts. This time, their antics aren’t quite as destructive as sticking stuff into a giant blender. Instead, they headed to a ski jump at the Utah Olympic Park and turned it into an impromptu soccer field with a goal at the bottom. How many balls can one goalie keep out?

A round of golf can be pretty challenging depending on your skill and the course’s difficulty, aka slope rating. How Ridiculous went for the maximum slope rating by building a painfully difficult golf hole that requires a hike to the top of a rocky mesa in Utah in order to tee off. They tried their luck with exercise balls, basketballs, and golf balls.

After nearly destroying a bowling ball cannon, How Ridiculous asked BealsScience to make a pair of air-powered cannons. To maximize their destructive power, they pointed them at each other and then fired them to collide basketballs, LEGO cannonballs, and watermelons in mid-air. It took a lot of trial and error to get them to sync up.

When The Slow Mo Guys and How Ridiculous got together, they didn’t just crush some heads. After all, if you’ve got a cannon that fires bowling balls at 500 MPH, you want to destroy all the things. With the help of the cannon’s maker, BealsScience, they tested the strength of bulletproof glass and polycarbonate along with a fiberglass-lined safety door.