Awesome Tricks

If you have any friends left over after the last three rounds, Richard Wiseman of Quirkology offers up another set of challenges you can use to extract money from your pals when they’re drunk.

Cinematic and moody, that’s just how we like our bike trick vids: here’s 2 minutes of a team of flatland BMX riders tricking through the empty, significantly historical Luna Park in Melbourne.

Professor Richard Wiseman aka Quirkology is back with another batch of parlor tricks you can use to win some change. Unless your friends have also seen this video, in which case you’re on your own.

Quirkology is back with another batch of sure-fire bets. Some of them are so obvious on second thought that they’re also sure to get you beat up once you take all your friends’ money.

We’ve got enough trouble trying to do the old tablecloth trick without hurting ourselves, but the fact that Tomonari “Black” Ishiguro can pull it off with a Yo-Yo scores him extreme bonus points.

He had us at that perfect coin flip. You don’t need to understand Portuguese to know how skilled this guy is with his oversized forklift. If you like seeing precision from big machines, check this out too.

At just 20, Steve Markle is the youngest ranked trick shot player in the world, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have skills. Watch as he makes pool balls obey his every whim. (Thanks Mike!)

Looking for a cool parlor trick? Watch this metal spoon completely disintegrate as it’s stirred into water. The trick? It’s made out of 99.998% pure gallium, which melts at 86°F. Try it yourself here.

There’s lots of tight turning, fun camera angles and cool tricks in this motorbike drift video from professional stunt rider Jorian Ponomareff, who makes it all look so easy. (Thanks Flex!)

Take a good, long look at this mind-bending image. Then try and figure out how the hell the nail got though there. Perplexed? Then watch the video to see the totally logical, but still amazing solution.

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.

It takes a lot of balls to laud your own tricks and deem them “insane”, but in this case, Schrobotindisguise is totally spot on. He is a predator, and the puzzles are his prey. Part I here.

We’ve all seen Roger Federer do this before, but that doesn’t detract from the hot-shot style of this between-the-legs winner from Spain’s Rafael Nadal at the Madrid Masters. (Thanks Kuang!)

One unfortunate team member of the Icelandic football club Þór Akureyri got a faceful of prank during practice, thanks to the well executed and smooth moves by his teammates. (Thanks, Thorir!)

We haven’t managed to get all the way to the end of Portal 2 yet. It’s not for lack of trying, though. Maybe if we had Schrobotindisguise’s mad cube-throwing skills, we’d already be finished.

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.