Awesome Stunts

(PG-13: Language) YouTuber I did a thing got so bored line fishing that he transcended enlightenment and went straight to pure, straight edge insanity. He convinced himself that he could pull a boat using fish. After more time-wasting and some of the silliest conversations in the world, he succeeded. Skip to 13:20 for the maiden voyage of the fish chariot.

After building a wobbling thrill ride, Colin Furze thought it might be fun to make a version that could be attached to a moving vehicle. Taking inspiration from Mad Max Fury Road, he and his pal Tom Lamb got to work fabricating a pole with a counterweight that he installed on an old Vauxhall Van. The finished ride looks fun but sketchy as heck.

We know it’s possible to fly an airplane through a tunnel. Now, another skilled Red Bull athlete has paraglided through a tunnel. To pull of the stunt, Patrick Von Känel jumped off a mountainside in Italy’s Dolomites and took aim at the 498-foot tunnel. It required the perfect mix of preparation, precision, and a custom wing to fly through without touching.

Red Bull freeride MTB athlete Dawid Godziek performed one of the most incredible bike stunts we’ve seen in a while. The challenge? Ride and perform a series of jumps and flips on a moving train. The stunt involved setting up a course of narrow ramps across flatbed freight cars. The full runs start at 2:38 and include a bonkers backflip at the end.

Otto Nyholm is an expert stuntman. In this short compilation video by fellow stunt performer Ida Rømo Bakk, he shows off a few of the bone-crunching reaction falls that he uses during gun battle scenes at a Wild West show he performs in. Those ragdoll physics are impressive.

Inspired by Disney’s Aladdin, this daredevil took to the skies on a flying carpet. Over the past two decades, alladin_skylab has flown with all sorts of gear, from wingsuits to hang gliders, but this was his first time flying on an actual magic carpet. MLT Drone Pilots followed along and recorded the journey. Here’s a different angle of the flight.

Not to be outdone by How Ridiculous and their soccer balls, the dudes from Dude Perfect booked a flight with the U.S. Air Force, filled a C-17 cargo plane with 1000 basketballs, and dropped them all to see if they could score a basket or two. Before shooting hoops, they played the world’s largest game of darts and the opposite of miniature golf.

The first big build video Colin Furze posted was a stunt in which he rode his scooter on a sketchy wooden “wall of death.” Now, he’s revisited that build with a bigger budget, more construction experience, and a new vehicle. He built the wall indoors this time and worked out some of the kinks to make its walls smooth enough for his electric drift trike to ride on it.

Henry Behal’s captivating documentary short 26,000 Days introduces us to stunt pilot Eric Tucker, who describes the things that keep him going in his thrilling and dangerous pursuits, and what it’s like to intentionally cut his engine mid-flight. Among its highlights is an incredible 95 seconds of chase footage captured by cinematographer and drone pilot Alex Vanover.

Red Bull skydivers Marco Fürst and Marco Waltenspiel arrived in London, England, in the most dramatic way. They jumped from a helicopter over the River Thames and headed right for the city’s iconic Tower Bridge. After flying through their target, they used the winds to increase altitude so they could open their parachutes and safely land on floating platforms.

Intent on breaking the world record for the longest ski jump, Ryōyū Kobayashi and his team realized there was no ski jump long enough to make it happen. So they flew to Iceland and carved a massive ramp into a snowy mountain, enabling the Olympic medallist and FIS World Cup Champion to fly 291 m (954.7 ft) and stay airborne for 10 seconds.

In 2016, freeskier Jesper Tjäder performed a crazy stunt: He skied a rail grind through a loop-de-loop. Now, he’s back to attempt a similar stunt. This time, the top of the loop is missing, so he has to jump from one side of the loop to the other while upside-down. Here’s a different perspective of the trick, captured from beneath the loop.

Photographers Dustin Snipes and Mason Mashon teamed up to capture amazing images of the 2024 solar eclipse with the help of Red Bull aerobatic pilots Kevin Coleman and Pete McCleod. It took weeks of planning and precise calculations to pull off the perfect shot, and the pilots had to fly at a low altitude and just four feet apart as the eclipse reached totality.

Nico Fischer is an amazingly skilled parkour athlete. This clip shows Nico bouncing between two walls with such command that he looks like he’s defying gravity at times. He couldn’t decide if the moves were more Spider-Man or Prince of Persia, so his pal Aziz came up with a more appropriate superhero name, “Elevator-Man.” More wall-climbing antics here.

We already know it’s possible to drive a car on a frozen lake using sawblades instead of wheels. The guys from CboysTV attempted the same feat with a dirt bike. To pull off the crazy stunt, they fabricated 100-pound steel sawblade wheels for both a dirt bike and an ATV. The blade wheels work shockingly well, though falling off could be deadly.

Between the claustrophobia and the potential for nasty things living in it, a drain pipe is one of the last places we’d want to spend time. Daredevil Nicholas Coolridge, aka ModernTarzan threw caution to the wind and skateboarded down a drain pipe on his back for a low-budget thrill. It looked like a pretty clean pipe, but we’d still never do it.