Awesome Stunts

It’s always fun to see the cool tricks Red Bull athletes undertake from the fluffy air conditioned comfort of our office couch; here’s a collection of the best of them. This is part of a series and you can view part one here. No hands at 3:17.

There are plenty of fight scenes done by male stunt performers, but this reel of stuntwoman Mickey Facchinello dishing out beatdowns as well as she takes them will have you covering your junk in fear by the time it’s over. More here.

The guys from the Twister Aerobatics Team have a really neat trick up their sleeves. Not only do they perform dizzying tandem flips, turns and barrel rolls, they shoot fireworks from the wings of their stunt planes. Truly awesome.

(NSFW: 2 F bombs) In the mood for an increased heart rate and a stomach ache? Even if you aren’t, take three minutes and check out some of the most cringeworthy moments you’ll ever see, courtesy of the fine folks over at FailArmy. Yipes.

For their latest action video, Devin Supertramp and friends headed to Panama City and set up a perilously steep zipline, and then proceeded to jump off of it just part way down. Fortunately, they had parachutes. BTS video here.

Red Bull and Danny MacAskill dropped by the land of sexy bunnies for a brief romp. The trials cyclist admitted that he was distracted by the mansion’s residents. Check out more about the trip on Red Bull’s website.

Professional stuntman Ethan Swanson jumped from the top of a four-story building then cushioned his fall by sliding down the roof of a house below. If you’re calling shenanigans, his jump is shown in its entirety at 1:45.

Extreme sport junkie Brad O’Neil combined two daring stunts in one, jumping his dirt bike high into the air over a lake off a 60-foot-high ramp, then pulling his parachute as he hits the apex of his jump.

Devin Supertramp’s latest action video features a variety of impressive barefoot waterskiing and his typical entourage of young, good looking folks having fun in the sun, highlighted by an unusual ski towing vessel – an airplane.

For National Geographic’s Die Trying, adventurer George Kourounis zip-lined over a flaming gas crater in Turkmenistan, on an exploratory mission looking for “extremophile” microbes which can survive in such insane conditions.

It sounds like a string of skateboard tricks, but the title is literal. While most slip ‘n slides have the payoff during or after the slide, Niklas Daniel and Brianne Thompson only had it as the icing on their thrill-seeking cake.

Two schoolgirls chase each other around the city in the longest and most badass softdrink commercial you’ll ever see, featuring death-defying stunts, a jazz drummer, ninja props and Japan-level parkour. English captions available.

Watch Swedish stuntman Al the Jumper earn his moniker by jumping over a Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera that was headed towards him at about 81mph. If that didn’t impress you, maybe his crazy workout will earn your approval.

While filming Matt Macduff’s Breathe Easy, freestyle mountain biker Aaron Chase tried to take on the open loops in Macduff’s backyard course. He used a couple of GoPros to record his painful attempts and the sweet victory.

A few years back, this guy in Slovakia gave new meaning to the term “rail grind” with his own single-person trolley car, made from a wooden pallet and wheels that set into narrow-gauge tracks. It’s great until you run into an actual train.

A 37-minute documentary and showreel of sorts from Finland’s StuntFreaksTeam, showing off some of their motor vehicle skills and general tomfoolery. They also are extremely deft at destroying stuff. Turn English captions on.

Originally intended to be an entry level minibike, the Honda Grom has instead become a hit among all sorts of bikers. Motorcyclist Magazine shows us why with this fun romp on two Yoshimura-pimped Groms.

Directed by Alec Berg as part of Lexus’ Amazing in Motion series, dozens of stuntmen were rigged up all over Kuala Lumpur in LED suits to give the illusion of a single parkour athlete crossing the city. Behind the scenes footage here.

To test its driver assist features, Hyundai had stuntmen form and then abandon a convoy of its cars. The lead car’s driver was still there… but he blindfolded himself and took his hands off the wheel.

Amazing vintage footage from an Italian police display, in which over 100 skilled motorcyclists drive in perfect harmony to create geometric patterns – without crashing into each other. Apologies in advance for the music. More here.

Guerlain Chicherit recently attempted to complete the world’s longest ramp jump. After solid test runs, his final run went catastrophically wrong. Go behind the scenes of the jump and see the horrific crash from his point of view.

BMX trick rider Tim Knoll returns with another reel of his incredible agility and balance, as he performs parkour-like stunts with his bike and the environment as his props. That upside-down rail grind is just nuts.

Stuntman and actor Eric Jacobus demonstrates over 200 kicks for use in action flicks. Granted, most of them are variations of five or six general types, but this is still fun to watch. The song is Nightstop’s Drive-by Stalking.