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Awesome Trick Shots

Loop de Loop Bullseye

Loop de Loop Bullseye

We thought the only way to land a dart on a dartboard was to throw it through the air. This skilled “dartist” shows how it’s possible to place a dart right in the bullseye by tossing it into a vertical loop, where it spins around and hits the bullseye. If you have any doubt this was real, here’s the original How Ridiculous video.

Pool Trick Shot Artist Shows Off

Pool Trick Shot Artist Shows Off

Florian “Venom” Kohler is one of the world’s best pool trick shot artists. As he’s perfected his craft, he has developed over 10,000 tricks and techniques to make billiard balls do his bidding. WIRED met with Florian to demonstrate some of his wildly inventive trick shots. His mastery of ball physics is truly something to behold.

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Through-the-Fan Challenge

Through-the-Fan Challenge

If you mounted a bunch of ceiling fans on their sides and tried to hit a target on the other side of them without hitting any of their spinning blades, chances are you would fail. But the guys from How Ridiculous show us how with enough tries and enough luck, it’s possible to pull off such a feat.

Cat Ping Pong Trick Shots

Cat Ping Pong Trick Shots

We’ve seen our share of cat videos and ping pong trick-shot videos over the years. This clip from Cat Navi Desk combines both of these internet pastimes into one. Regardless of their accomplishments, the cats seem completely over it.

Bowling Ball Trick Shots

Bowling Ball Trick Shots

Skateboarding site The Berrics dusted off and remastered this classic clip of trick shot master Billy Marks tossing around a bowling ball in a skate park. He might only knock down one pin at a time, but he does it with so much style and grace.

Boomerang Trick Shots

Boomerang Trick Shots

It takes a good bit of practice just to learn to throw and catch a boomerang, but champion thrower Logan Broadbent and Dude Perfect show off just how much precision you can achieve with enough time, effort, and skill.

Sound Ping Pong

Sound Ping Pong

Ping pong player Takkyuu Geinin proves that you don’t need a fancy paddle to accurately return a serve. Watch as he nails his target every time, using a variety of silly noisemakers to play the game. English subtitles available.

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2D Trick Shots

2D Trick Shots

DoodleChaos made budget versions of basketball trick shots using wood, marbles, string and other small objects. It starts out simple, but quickly becomes more and more complex. The ball bouncing on the rolling cylinder was nuts.

Never Tell Me the Odds

Never Tell Me the Odds

YouTuber DoodleChaos starts out with a very simple ping pong trick shot, then gradually ramps up the difficulty with an ever more challenging series of trick shots, which require not just precision, but perfect timing to come together.

Extreme Bottle Opener

Extreme Bottle Opener

While he didn’t manage to nail it with every shot, it’s still impressive that Olympic shooting coach Zhou Shibing managed to cleanly take the caps off of several bottles of beer by firing at them with his air rifle on the Chinese reality show Impossible Challenge.

Foam Airplane Trick Shots

Foam Airplane Trick Shots

The dudes from Dude Perfect prove they’re not just good at sportball, and turn in some impressive trick maneuvers with the help of some well-aimed lightweight foam gliders. The breakaway bottles were a bit of a cheat though.

Captain D’s Guide to Trick Shots

Captain D’s Guide to Trick Shots

There are millions of trick shot videos on YouTube (and we’ve featured our share of them.) Now, Captain Disillusion is here to burst our bubble – and all of those basketballs, footballs, tennis balls, and golf balls, as he shows us some of the tricks of the trade.

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Insane Card Throwing Tricks

Insane Card Throwing Tricks

Magician and card thrower Rick Smith Jr. teamed up with the guys from Dude Perfect to show off his incredible ability to use the edge of a playing card like the edge of a knife, and do it with an incredible degree of accuracy. That banana trick made us cover our crotches.

Drone Trick Shots

Drone Trick Shots

Devin Graham teamed up with Cinechopper to rig up some drones to carry a variety of objects, from basketballs to bowling balls, then applied their precision flying skills to perform a variety of tricks and cause general mayhem. BTS here.

Venom’s Trick Pool Shots

Venom’s Trick Pool Shots

We’ve seen pool champion Florian “Venom” Kohler work his magic in miniature, now watch as he literally takes aim at the hyperactive Dude Perfect dudes, then turns in a epic round of trick shots bouncing balls from table to table, across the room, and always hitting his target.

583-Foot Basketball Shot

583-Foot Basketball Shot

To celebrate the first ever World Trick Shot Day (who knew?), Harlem Globetrotter Buckets Blakes headed to the top of the 58-story Tower of the Americas in San Antonio, and took aim at the basket far below. We have no idea how he worked the wind into his calculations.

Ping Pong Carnival

Ping Pong Carnival

Despite the Engrish subtitle of “Ping Pong Boring,” this clip is anything but dull. In it, you’ll see table tennis players use their precision aim to perform a variety of trick shots, and just generally being silly. Also, we might have to try that fishing line trick.

Dude Perfect: World Record Edition

Dude Perfect: World Record Edition

The perpetually shouting dudes convened a session of basketball trick shots in the presence of a Guinness World Records adjudicator, and proceeded to knock out eleven relatively obscure records, stealing a few from NBA greats and the Globetrotters along the way.

Spintop Snipers

Spintop Snipers

Kuma Films showcases 三峽定點陀螺隊, a group of expert spinning top players in Taoyuan, Taiwan. They perform feats of incredible accuracy while making the trick shots look so easy. The tightrope trick is nuts.

Ping Pong Ball Trick Shots

Ping Pong Ball Trick Shots

YouTuber T-Man shows off his ability to hit a precise location with a table tennis ball in this compilation of trick shots. Like most trick shot videos, we have no idea how many attempts these took, but the fact that he could nail most of these at all is impressive.

Soccer Trick Shots

Soccer Trick Shots

Dude Perfect went to London to hang out with Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling and Arsenal’s Callum Chambers and Mathieu Flamini and challenge them with trick shots. Or as the pros call them, drills.

Chris Paul & Aaron Rodgers Trick Shots

Chris Paul & Aaron Rodgers Trick Shots

Clippers court commander Chris Paul and Packers star quarterback Aaron Rodgers hung out with the professional excited guys of Dude Perfect to promote their charities and show off their inhuman precision.

Ballout 4

Ballout 4

“He lost his son, so he adopted the streets.” YouTuber DefendTheHouse made a basketball trick shot video in Fallout 4 with the help of the game’s drug Jet, which slows down everything else but the player. Bonus points for the ballin’ backing track, Whispering Through by Asura.

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