Awesome Stunts

Watch and learn every possible way not to sit on a bike as rider Rafal Pasierbek teaches his motorcycle a thing or two during the freestyle event at Poland’s 2011 Stunt GP competition.

Hey wakeboarders – check out the moves in this clip. Look carefully, and you’ll notice their feet aren’t attached to the board like they usually are, so it really is like skateboarding on water.

Aaron Evans pulls off an amazing gymnastic feat, launching a front flip over a speeding Acura NSX – without getting run over, natch. Needless to say, don’t try this. More angles here and here.

Is there any better combination than horses, a helicopter, a mustache and the beach to inspire a laugh-inducing, kick ass stunt, just like this one on Season one of MacGyver? Nope. Well played, sir.

Vooray used a slip and slide, an ATV and some reckless youth to great effect in their promo video. Some of the living projectiles passed out when they hit the water, so yeah, don’t try this at home.

(Warning: LOUD) While it doesn’t match the all-time record of 172mph, you have to hand it to Egbert Van Popta for popping a wheelie at 169mph on his 1989 Suzuki GSX this month. Another angle here.

If drifting wasn’t thrilling enough for you on a closed track, check out this video of insane driving on a crowded Saudi Arabian street, packed with bystanders and people hanging out of car windows.

(NSFW: Lyrics) Freerunning gets as much plot as it can in this acrobatic short film. Ok, so jumping off of walls and rails isn’t really a story, but it’s still way cool – especially on fire. (Thanks, Ian!)

Street trials rider extraordinaire Danny MacAskill takes his impressive bike talents and sick tricks into an industrial train yard and some derelict buildings in the Scottish countryside.

Hold on to your shorts for a beautiful, death-defying flight through the mountains of Stryn, Norway. For the first minute or so, we had no idea how or where these guys were going to land.

Footage from the grand opening of the Tempest Freerunning Academy. With a an array of walls, ramps, trampolines, bars and foam pits, it’s the parkour or freerunning enthusiast’s idea of heaven.

This crowd of people in Russia are about to jump off of a bridge – in unison. Despite the fact that they are attached by bungee cords it still doesn’t look like the brightest idea.

Go for a ride inside the cockpit with driver Rocky Robinson as he sets the land speed record for a 2-wheel streamlined motorcycle, zipping along the Bonneville Salt Flats at a gut-rumbling 376mph.

You’ll see lots of slick freestyle moves in this video from Singapore’s Marcus Koh, a dude who just happens to be the 2011 winner of the 1A division World Yo-Yo Contest. (Thanks, Joshua!)

It’s a short, but sweet ride, but this 20 second trip through a Polish salt mind will be the most exhilarating ride you’ll take today. Drop into HD and full screen mode for the optimal experience.

It’s not enough that this guy is surfing on the back of a moving train car. He pushes the legal limits on stupidity by taking a flying leap from the railcar into the drink below. Do not try this at home.

Usually whipping out the ring is enough of an attention grabber when proposing to your girl, but this guy thought it would be much better to scare the crap out of his bride-to-be instead.

Photographer Scott Alexander was shooting video for the Red Bull National Wake with a Phantom HD Gold camera, and captured this awesome slow-mo footage of a guy doing a flip off a wakeboard rack.

To promote Cirque Éloize‘s imminent arrival at the Birmingham Hippodrome, this good sport reporter bravely submits his most vulnerable body parts to the harrowing whims of a quicksilver bicycle stunt.

If you enjoyed the drifting on the rooftop in the previous vid, then you’ll probably like the way the BMW 1M seamlessly slips through the Tetris-like cuts in the concrete walls here. (Thanks David!)

(Warning: Loud Audio) Somebody forgot to tell this guy that you’re not supposed to take your Segway through the car wash. Shampooing your head with brushes and hot wax looks awfully painful.

We really want this video to be the real deal, but you certainly have to wonder whether you’d ever be allowed to drift a BMW 1M on a skyscraper’s helipad. If it’s fake, the VFX guys still win.

This little boy is so flexible that he can Limbo – on rollerskates – under cars. And here we thought this guy was limber. The insanity continues here. We need to start taking up yoga after watching that.