Awesome Stunts

Motorcycle rider Mark Monea has figured out how to pull off a crazy new maneuver on his bike – a full 360-degree front-flip. Do not try this at home – even if you have a foam pit at the end of the ramp.

In dog life, time is of the utmost importance, especially when it’s meal time. This guy decides to take matters into his own paws instead of waiting to get fed. Your move, counter-surfing Viszlas.

The music in the vid is slightly NSFW, but 17 year old freestyling champ John Acquaviva’s sick stunts showcase his impressive proficiency with ball control, dribbling tricks, rhythm and balance.

We’re going to go out on a limb and guess that drifting like this on the streets of Russia is just as illegal as it is here in the States. That doesn’t make it look any less awesome. Still, leave it to the pros.

For the upcoming How Hard Can it Be?, Nat Geo decided to recreate Carl’s flying house from Pixar’s Up, sending a lightweight house attached to 300 balloons 10,000 feet into the sky. More pics here.

It’s hard enough to balance a soccer ball on your head without dropping it. Try doing that while climbing up a lamp post, then switch to your feet in mid-air like this amazing acrobat.

Chris Akrigg rivals Danny MacAskill when it comes to being a crazy trials cyclist. This video shows off his talents with mountain downhill, rock trials, steep jumps and urban downhill riding. (Thanks Jason!)

We recently saw a man with propeller-powered ski rig, but stuntman Troy Hartman totally one-ups that guy with his jet-powered ski pack, which manages 47MPH at 50% throttle. We want 100% throttle!

We think there’s room for one more, but Johnny Mac and Alex Tanney may want to step off after checking out long snapper Zach Enyeart’s accuracy in this trick shot compilation. (Thanks Nate!)

Rider Filip Polc takes us on a totally wild, bumpy ride down a crazy steep hill in Valparaiso, Chile, all captured on his GoPro Hero helmet cam. Warning: You might want to take a Dramamine first.

(Language NSFW) With our HQ in Chicago, we know a thing or two about the great Blizzpocalypse of 2011, and one thing we did not do was dare to step outside in the middle of the storm like these fools.

If skiing wasn’t dangerous enough on its own, wait til you get a load of Sergei Khvalin, and his propeller-powered skis, which put an extra 25MPH of wind at his back as he takes to the slopes.

The girls of the Thousand Pounds Action Company sure know their combo moves, putting a major hurt on all those who dare to enter the ring with them. The guys do just a little better here.

Some might say UConn Football player Johnny McEntee is a big showoff, doing trick shots in the offseason. Others might say a lot of the stuff he does is staged or fake, but we say it’s just fun.

Antoine Montant, the world’s leading speed flyer (a mix of skiing, paragliding and sky diving), pulls off the first-ever speed ride, gliding some floaty cool moves along the old cable car line in Chamonix.

Rusty Slusser, who makes those unbelievably realistic face masks takes to Venice Beach to see if he can fool the unsuspecting public into thinking he’s a fleet-footed, skateboarding grand-dad.

From wheelies to handstands, Ines Brunn offers us a uniquely choreographed mixture of artistic bicycling, spandex and gymnastics on a fixed gear bike in this entertaining video. (Thanks Paul!)

Respect this weapon: stuntman Steven Ho dropped by Conan O’Brien’s show to demo some cool fighting techniques, which means a fun behind the scenes lesson and an amusing Conan beatdown.

Think you’ve got upper-body strength? Clearly you never saw Joel Fletcher’s 1981 short film, The Wanderer, featuring Mark Daniel and his unreal ability to walk (everywhere) on his hands.

Sure, it’s probably not the safest thing you could do, but this madman had the cojones to ski down New York’s Park Avenue at a rather insane 40mph. Awesome, but don’t get any funny ideas.

It wasn’t all misery in 2010. Turns out lots of great things happened (on YouTube), and N0bodyyy decided to follow up his Fail Compilation with some of the more successful feats from the past year.

Stunt rider Chris Pfeiffer takes his BMW G450X out on the Innsbruck Olympic bobsled run and plays a game of chicken with an approaching sled. Don’t try this at home, even if you have a bobsled run.

It takes a couple of minutes for the action to really kick in, but once it gets going, you’re in for 5 minutes of epic freestyle parkour action shot in and around London. Impatient? Jump to 2:25.