Impossible basketball shot with baseball bat

I actually tried that when I was about 6 or 7.

Big mistake on my part. I hit the Basketball and the bat came swinging back at me hitting me right in the face. Fun times.

 

Hmm it looks fake to me.. but that's just me.

 

based on what? Have a reason if you think a vid is fake..

 

i dont think its fake........they must have tried for days though..

 

In my opinion, if there were any indication that it were fake, it would be the speed with which the ball makes its descent. From so far away it seems like it would appear to move slower than that.

 

now that you mention it, i think you're right. and i did notice the glitch that joesr mentioned, too

 

Its most likely fake.

 

I don't get this stuff all over YouTube (even if it's real).

Who cares? You do something enough times you're bound to get lucky. There's not much skill involved.

 

a lot of youtube videos are glitchy and grainy due their lossy FLV format, what you don't see is a glitch on the kid that falls down in disbelief.

I once drop-kicked a basketball cross-court and swished it, first try. pure luck, but these things happen.

 

I think its real, but it probably took them 50 tries or more.

 

Son of a mother duck!

 

Since it's on a tripod that would be really easy to fake. They can cut the right part of the pictre where the basketball comes down out and have other parts of the video where is no basketball underneath it.

Then they just have to take a picture of a basketball in photoshop, cut it out of the background and keyframe motion in any editing program. You can't see any detail of the goal or the rim. The ball just travels down.


It would seriously take 15 minutes to do.

EDIT: It looks like the ball scales down as well as it moves. Something that isn't hard to do in a editing program.

 

That's definitely fake, he didn't hit the ball that hard and he didn't hit it in that direction.

 

All these new trick shot fakes have one thing in that you don't see the entire trajectory of the ball in the same frame. You see the initial lauch upwards but the apex is out of frame and cleverly the ball reappears on its way down.

That is just clever camera work and editiing to make it look real.

 

The first thing I noticed was the big curve it took, looks kind of like a fake. But what do I know.

 

yep...

 

Well, you can tell it's real because of the full-blown orgasm hooded sweatshirt has when it happens. Time to start talking to girls, or at least go online. (Did I mention I sucked at sports as a kid?) The technique is genuinely impressive, though. Enough power to get distance and enough control to keep the basketball from just bouncing off at a weird angle, especially if it's fully pumped.

 

I couldn't find the news article just now but I remember reading about a kid who tried this and the bat hit him so hard he died a few days later oO.