Awesome Talents

How many ways can you play with a hula hoop? Let hoop dancing instructor Rachael Lust show you with this sick compilation of stunts, exercises and dance moves. The song is Groove by Oiki.

Musician Sam Edelston rocks out with his dulcimer out in this performance of Led Zeppelin’s classic Whole Lotta Love. His Psycho Killer and 19th Nervous Breakdown covers ain’t too shabby either.

Musician Luc Arbogast’s bald head and tattoos belie his vocal talents, an uncanny ability to sing in a range normally reserved for the most talented female vocalists. He can also sing in a more typical range as well. More here.

Taiwanese street performer Isaac Hou demonstrates his incredible balance, strength and grace as seemingly defies the laws of physics on his rolling Cyr wheel. Filmed beautifully by Kuma Films, the track is Heart by Pistol Shrimp.

Guitarist John Denner shreds an impressive cover of Eddie Van Halen’s Eruption solo, but what’s truly impressive is what you’ll see about 25 seconds into the video. Watch, and you’ll be amazed too. More here.

For his 15 seconds of Internet fame, yodeler Mark Jackson chose to throat-warble out an unlikely tune – the ominous theme music from The Godfather. And just when we thought we were out, Mark pulls us back in.

While you have to go to a fancy pastry competition here in the States to witness this art form, in Xian, China, it’s as easy as going to this street vendor, who crafts intricate candy animals by blowing into molten hot sugar.

Go, go #yoyobaby! Despite his age, 6-year-old Kazuya Murata is already better at spinning a yo-yo than you ever have been or will be. We’re not sure what this skill qualifies him for later in life, but for now, he’s a champ.

We didn’t even know that this was a thing, but it is. Watch as pen spinners Ian Jenson and PPM demonstrate their incredible manual dexterity sending their writing instruments twirling around their fingers like tiny batons.

Musician Kawehi records unique cover versions of popular songs and original tracks by combining electronic loops with her soothing vocals. Here, she covers one of Michael Jackson’s classics. Be sure to check out her YouTube channel.

While he hasn’t managed to keep them in the air for more than a few seconds, we’re still duly impressed by Alex Barron’s ability to toss 13 balls into the air, and catch every single one of them. In fact, he throws in two bonus catches.

While today’s DJs largely rely on playing music with digital controllers, it takes just a couple of seconds of this clip of DJ Jazzy Jeff mixing it up on analog turntables to realize just what we’re missing these days.

Voice master Brock Baker does numerous impressive impressions of The Muppets as they sing the classic The Rainbow Connection. Though we still think nobody can do them quite like Jim Henson and Frank Oz could.

This hypnotic compilation of some of the fastest choppers, dicers and slicers in the kitchen does not involve any loss of digits or blood. While their speed is impressive, none of them have anywhere near the precision of this guy.

Face it. This little Japanese girl can play the guitar better than you or I can. Watch in awe as Li-sa-X shreds a cover version of Racer X’s Scarified, on an electric guitar that looks like its bigger than she is.

Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee is challenging enough to play on a musical instrument, so when we stumbled onto opera singer Malena Ernman performing the song with her voice, we were speechless.