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Being a Bouncer on New Year’s Eve

Being a Bouncer on New Year’s Eve

(PG-13: Language) “I can’t let you inside the bar because you’re not wearing shoes first of all.” Redditor pwilliams58 shares his first-person footage from when he was working as a bouncer for a club on New Year’s Eve back in 2014. We might as well call it drunk debates.

GoPro: Best of 2015

GoPro: Best of 2015

GoPro looks back at 2015 from its customers’ eyes, quadcopters, surfboards, cars, ovens and more in this wonderfully edited compilation. That underwater surfing shot is all kinds of awesome. The song is Blood Theme by Data.

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Quadcopter Racing Through Ruins

Quadcopter Racing Through Ruins

Charpu FPV prefaces this video by saying, “No crazy tricks on this one…” But that only serves to showcase his quadcopter piloting skills. Watch him fly his QAV 210 quadcopter through an abandoned factory using the FatShark Dominator video goggles.

Camera on a Boomerang

Camera on a Boomerang

Boomerang maker Victor Poulin attached a Mobius camera to one of his tri-wing boomerangs to see what it would look like. But the boomerang’s sound ended up being more interesting. It’s like a helicopter teleporting in. Turn the volume down.

Apartment Symphony

Apartment Symphony

Musician Keith Peskosky used household items, his instruments, a ton of microphones and Ableton to play and record this looping song in one take. Not shown in the video? His wife’s a capella track The House Better Be Clean When I Get Home.

RC Plane Goes Snorkeling

RC Plane Goes Snorkeling

YouTuber MrLiftHog lost control of his remote-controlled airplane because he was temporarily blinded by the sun. The plane crashed into the sea and immediately got wrecked, but the GoPro camera attached to it kept rolling.

Stadium Trucks Reverse POV

Stadium Trucks Reverse POV

Some truly immersive rear-view camera footage captured from the Replay XD action camera on the bumper of Paul “The Dude” Morris’ stadium super truck as Matt Brabham attempts to pass him. The jumps and the 3-wheel action are especially awesome.

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Chatroulette Space Game

Chatroulette Space Game

(PG-13: Language) After taking strangers on a zombie adventure, Realm Pictures kicked things up a notch with another chat-based horror game, this time set in space. The company is raising funds for a longer adventure where all donors will participate in production and some will get to play .

On the Roofs: Two Spires

On the Roofs: Two Spires

The crazy free-climbing duo On the Roofs shared their latest video – a view from the very top of the 1,094ft. Shimao International Plaza in Shanghai, China. We nearly peed ourselves when they got to the lightning rod.

Amazing Wingsuit Cameraman

Amazing Wingsuit Cameraman

Extreme athlete Graham Dickinson shared his recent wingsuit flight from France’s Le Brévent mountain not to show off, but to point out the skill of his buddy Dario Zanon, who shot this video and kept up with Graham the whole way.

2015 Red Bull Hardline Trail

2015 Red Bull Hardline Trail

The Red Bull Hardline is a treacherous downhill mountain bike run in the hills of Wales. This year’s course is so hard that designer Dan Atherton and several other pros got injured while attempting it. Here’s Dan’s brother Gee on a practice run. Contest results here.

Nigel Sylvester: GO! NYC

Nigel Sylvester: GO! NYC

BMX rider Nigel Sylvester takes us on a breakneck ride through New York City, offering an enveloping first-person perspective of the Big Apple. The audio mix is just as impressive as the visuals. And yes, that was Jackie Cruz from Orange Is the New Black. (Thanks, Flex!)

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Hardcore (Trailer)

Hardcore (Trailer)

(PG-13 Language, Gore) We’re not expecting nuanced performances or depth of plot, but the non-stop video game style action and violence in the entirely first-person shot Hardcore looks like it grabs you by the balls and doesn’t let go (Thanks Zootor!)

Maybe Don’t Be a Hero

Maybe Don’t Be a Hero

YouTuber XeteraCX pokes fun at GoPro’s slogan and the staple action POV song Sail by showing two people who got punished hard for being reckless. Fortunately both men lived through their painful lessons.

Un Stable

Un Stable

Team Xhover pilot Kevin Dougherty aka StingersSwarm shows off his ace flying skills by zigging and zagging his quadcopter through a livery stable. We’d love to see quadcopter racers recreate the Battle of Yavin.

Raw Run: Zak Maytum

Raw Run: Zak Maytum

Downhill longboarder Zak Maytum takes to a steep stretch of highway in Colorado. We’re not sure if we’re more impressed with his facemelting near-70mph speeds, or the fact that he managed to stay on the board for the entire run.

Saber Sparring POV

Saber Sparring POV

Blood & Iron principal instructor Lee Smith has an exciting saber duel against The Phoenix Society of Historical Swordsmanship’s principal instructor Richard Marsden. YouTuber Skallagrim’s slow mo replays are much appreciated.

Checked Luggage POV

Checked Luggage POV

While travelers curse the airport’s overpriced coffee and slow Internet, their luggage goes on a thrilling roller coaster ride. Here’s an inside look at the baggage handling system of Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport.

Laso Schaller Cliff Jump POV

Laso Schaller Cliff Jump POV

Canyoning expert Laso Schaller set a world record for a cliff jump when he leapt off a ~194ft. high cliff in Switzerland. His target landing area was aerated for safety, but he actually missed that spot. Thankfully he came out okay.

Chatroulette Zombie Game

Chatroulette Zombie Game

(PG-13 Language) Realm Pictures set up a live-action zombie FPS and then let anonymous people on Chatroulette and other chat programs control their actions. It’s the evolution of text-based games. Behind the scenes here.

Pressure Washing GoPro Style

Pressure Washing GoPro Style

We’ve seen that it’s possible to make mundane activities look exciting with the help of a GoPro and clever editing. But just how low can we go? YouTuber Matt Dyson shows us in this quintessential bro video.

Structure Fire POV

Structure Fire POV

Harrowing and immersive video captured by San Bernardino County firefighters as they fought their way through a blaze which damaged two homes in Victorville, California. Their efforts paid off in limiting the spread to more homes.

American Pharoah 360º POV

American Pharoah 360º POV

You’ll need to use Chrome, the YouTube mobile app, or Kolor to view this 360º video from GoPro’s spherical rig, but it’s worth the effort. After all, how often do you get to ride on the back of a Triple Crown winning race horse?

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