Awesome Talents

After a concert in Wuppertal, Germany, the vocalists of Icelandic folk band Árstíðir stopped into the nearby train station after they discovered its incredible acoustic properties. We can only imagine how this sounded in person.

If you enjoyed the earlier performance we posted from beatboxer Dave Crowe, crank your speakers up to 11 and check out this awesome 10 minute show from the Swedish entertainer. Things go seriously off the hook around 2:30.

Watch Chicago Blackhawks’ star forward Patrick Kane navigate an increasingly tricky field of pucks as he juggles another one with his stick. Kane told the Chicago Tribune that the video is real, except for the very last bit.

Theatrical pickpocket Apollo Robbins shares the foundation of his tricks – “attention is a limited resource” – and backs it up with another suave display. The fun starts at 4:45. Be sure to catch his last trick.

We’re not sure how anyone can toss basketballs this fast, let alone put almost every one in the hoop. It’s too bad that all he could probably afford with the tickets he won was a pack of temporary tattoos and a Beanie Baby.

Marquese “Nonstop” Scott pays homage to Michael Jackson by applying his mind-boggling style to Thriller. We might be able to outrun a Nonstop zombie. Then again we’re not sure what his moonwalk’s top speed is.

Guitarist Sam Westphalen is wearing a hole in his acoustic six-string as he plays a rousing percussive rendition of Michael Jackson’s Black or White. More here. We’re particularly taken by White Wedding. Previously: U Can’t Touch This.

As if Daft Punk needed any more publicity. LA-based Arrow Signs Spinners‘ best talent pull off their most impressive maneuvers in celebration of self expression to the appropriate soundtrack of Lose Yourself to Dance.

Ukulele hacking. Yes that’s a thing. Musician James Hill uses a pair of chopsticks and a cheap plastic comb to turn his uke into an analog drum machine and esoteric sound making machine. Skip to 3:45 to dive right in.

An amazing dance routine by the B-boys of the Morning of Owl crew as they bring down the house at Korea’s R16 breakdance competition with some moves we’ve never seen before. Watch the full battle here.

YouTube channel STRskillSchool followed Andrew Henderson around London as he showed off his football freestyle tricks in his hometown. The 21-year old is the reigning World Freestyle Football Champion.

As if it’s not insane enough to carry around an upright piano on your back, this guy has to really show off, playing a brief concert with the thing strapped to him. More musical mayhem here.

14-year-old electric guitar prodigy Tina S. returns to blow our minds and eardrums once more with a rendition of Patrick Rondat’s rock and roll tribute to Summer from Vivaldi’s classical opus The Four Seasons.

(NSFW: Language) YouTuber Quinton Kappel can imitate the voices of a wide range of characters, whether fictional and real, from John Lennon to Jigglypuff. He falters a bit towards the end but most of them are spot on.

While music store performances aren’t always the best, you’ve got to hand it to this little old lady who stopped by La Crosse, Wisconsin’s Coalition Drum Shop to turn in an impromptu performance. (Thanks Aaron!)

An epic beatbox performance by artist Tom Thum captured during TEDxSydney this past May. The man makes noises we had no idea humans could create. We wouldn’t want to have to clean the spit off of his microphone.

Go for a stroll a jump, a sprint and a roll through Cambridge with this first person parkour video by James Kingston, aka the man who free climbed up a 315ft. high crane. We’d be clapping if we weren’t so dizzy.

Turns out precision and versatility aren’t just for Swiss Army knives. The Top Secret Drum Corps out of the historical drumming city of Basel, Switzerland put on an astounding show at the 2012 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

A spectacular show of athleticism and coordination from YouTuber Gumchan79793 and his high-speed jump rope antics. We just love that “swoosh” noise it makes when he hits his stride. More swooshing here. (Thanks Grigoris!)

38-year old Kenichi Ebina loves to be the center of attention, and he has an arsenal of tricks to keep an entire crowd’s eyes on him. Watch him show off his unique dance style at a recent America’s Got Talent audition.

17-year-old Tim Doner is a hyper-polyglot: he can speak nearly 20 languages, and is said to be the youngest person to achieve such a feat. How did he do it? Through good old hard work. And by watching TV.

We’re really not sure what the real-world application is for clapping this fast, but we’re still mesmerized by the breakneck hand speed of Bryan Bednarek, who manages to clap over 800 times in one minute flat.

YouTube channel Distort slows down the hands of pro yo-yo player Brian Roberts aka Doctor Popular. They also share yo-yo trivia, at least one of which is wrong: “yo-yo” is not the Filipino term for “come back.”