r/nextfuckinglevel • u/plankton004 • 15h ago
Impossible trickshot , but he made it
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u/Funcron 15h ago
Last 6 seconds, if you don't have the full 60 in you.
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u/External-Awareness68 15h ago
And it's pretty disappointing honestly
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u/Danny886 15h ago
Not even going a full 60 usually is.
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u/DigNitty 15h ago
I’m happy for him. We need more useless entertainment for ourselves and appreciation of the small things.
That being said, yeah this could have been 14sec
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u/WestleyThe 13h ago
True but I did seeing how close he was every time. The balls were basically a meter between eachother each try
It’s cool to see that he’s good enough that it’s not just luck but also show how many times it takes
I’d like this video a lot less if it was just the one successful attempt
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u/Fuschiakraken42 11h ago
That would just be a 6 second video though. And it would feel dishonest, like he just smashed it first try.
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u/uselessprofession 14h ago
On the flip side I do appreciate the man posting the failed attempts as well, he was honest.
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u/TwoNowFive 13h ago
People that can't watch 60 seconds are the reason why the trend of putting the ending first exists.
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u/Repulsive-Block9938 15h ago
Even the misses are impressive to have that control of direction
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u/AntiMatterMode 14h ago
Unless this is a compilation of the close shots, with dozens more clips that were totally off. Which I think is likely given how every close shot elicits a reaction from the batter.
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u/MobileArtist1371 13h ago
Look at the dirt and balls on the ground. Each attempt shown is clearly multiple attempts between each.
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u/BoringPoolPlaying 4h ago
Iirc, I was following their attempts on Instagram, and this took more than one night.
They also have a series where they’re hitting a ball off a tee, then a player in the outfield hits it back to them, and they catch it. They kept adding an additional hit in between, to the point it was taking them hours to complete.
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u/Azubedo 1h ago
controlling direction...on a teeball. Someone has never hit a baseball in their life
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u/mytvisyoutube 15h ago
Impossible says I'm possible.
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u/Significant_Lie_533 15h ago
I'm so crazy, that impossible just means I'm the only one that could possibly do it.
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u/Novel_Substance_ 15h ago
Don't show the part where he started in the morning
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u/TwoNowFive 13h ago
Jfc. I know you're joking (maybe) but if there weren't any misses and he only showed the success all the comments would be "ai slop" or "yeah but how many times did he miss? Der Der der"
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u/Metalbender00 15h ago
Its actually really impressive how much control he has over the ball, he came really damn close consistently.
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u/Ok-Boysenberry-2955 7h ago
Even more impressive that even with that skill, it's almost pure luck it happened.
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u/Massive_Season7075 15h ago
Props for staying with it
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u/GusPolinskiOfficial 15h ago
I don't think you know the definition of "impossible"
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u/FriendOfDirutti 15h ago
This isn’t next level at all. It’s literally just hitting a ball a bunch of times until you hit the other one.
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u/MilkMeFather 15h ago
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u/PrestigiousBee2719 14h ago
Man why you gotta make me laugh at your response then become extremely uncomfortable when I notice your username
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u/TheJivvi 14h ago
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u/Nearby-Stuff-3742 13h ago
The user name made me laugh more. Then again I ate some mushies
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u/ultrahateful 10h ago
Envious. I could use some gooms for a good reset. Been a while. Need to move to CO.
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u/SocksInTheTub 8h ago
Grow your own! It's super easy, super cheap to do and takes like 2 months tops
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u/ultrahateful 8h ago
Reputable sources? Big appreesh.
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u/SocksInTheTub 7h ago edited 7h ago
When I did it like a decade ago, I got my spore prints from groups on FB. I remember lots of mentions of sporedepot being reputable but I never purchased from them. But spores should be fairly easy to get ahold of as they're legal to sell "for microscopy". Look up "mushroom cultivation" on YT, a monotub style grow will probably be easiest first time
This how to looks pretty solid https://youtu.be/TIIVXZXnOvg?is=m3H7gKaMfovdCdIr
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u/Nearby-Stuff-3742 10h ago
I've been on them to much for my own good. Off work until mid to late September lol
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u/spetsnazghost47 14h ago
I’m losing my shit even more after reading your comment and realizing what dude’s username is. This is why I love Reddit
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u/drowsypants 9h ago
Fuck why did the guy your responding to make me laugh then make me see your comment, who then made me go check his username and now I'm here uncomfortable
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u/17934658793495046509 15h ago
I skated as a kid and this is literally how you finally pull off a trick. This guy obviously has skill and you can tell by how close it was so many times. And a skater has the skill to pull off a trick as well, it isn't completely random. Persistence is a skill that separates guys in next level videos from guys that comment on them.
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u/LauraTFem 15h ago
That’s how most impressive feats are achieved. It’s just that most people don’t bother to film all the failed attempts that lead to mastery.
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u/Responsible-Sound253 10h ago
But mastery implies reproducing a skill consistently.
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u/hooligan99 3h ago
He is reproducing the skill of hitting a ball towards a tiny fast moving target with pretty good accuracy. Is Steph curry not a master three point shooter because he misses the majority of the time?
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u/andreasbeer1981 7h ago
impressive feats, yes. Trickshots, no. There is no trick here, just persistence and determination and skill.
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u/Jimanji333 9h ago
This isn’t mastery however. Unless he continues to do this until he can consistently hit the pitched ball this is just trial and error until one success.
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u/Destroyer_2_2 9h ago
It’s his ability to aim that is mastery.
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u/Jimanji333 9h ago
True but I think some qualifiers are this is a tee ball and not a pitch, and we don’t see any attempts where he was way off, which there may well be
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u/corbin6611 15h ago
Bro. I couldn’t do it with out straight luck. You see how the balls where close. Yea. It’s skill
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u/Azuras_Star8 15h ago
I'd be lucky to even hit the damned ball. Homie in the vid is hitting them damned close to the other balls trajectory every single time.
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u/MobileArtist1371 13h ago
Each attempt is not attempt number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... There are multiple attempts between each of these shown. Only showing the close ones and with enough attempts, you can get a good amount of close ones.
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u/BuckRusty 8h ago
Yeah - without a doubt the attempts shown in the video are the only attempts they did, and not just a cherry picked selection of the closest ones over the entire time they did this…
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u/rajadirajadiraja 15h ago
Yeah, marathon is nothing but step after step until finish line, nothing great at all
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u/Mach5Driver 8h ago
to me, it's next level because of how incredibly accurate he was with just near misses. add to that, the direction the incoming balls came from changed constantly, so he'd have to adjust EACH time.
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u/Phlebbie 14h ago
He is obviously aiming at the ball in flight. Getting it that close is skill. He's not hitting randomly.
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u/PetalumaPegleg 15h ago
He is relatively close over and over again. It's not luck alone.
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u/Slevin424 12h ago
As a failed baseball player… there’s absolutely no way to barrel a swing so accurately you could hit another ball out of the air without an impressive amount of skill and incredible luck.
If the barrel is off by a millimeter, the ball will have a vastly different trajectory going in a completely different direction once it gets half way to the pitching mound.
And the harder you swing (which he was swinging a decent single) the less and less your accuracy goes. We worship guys like Ichiro and Edgar Martinez because they had godlike abilities in terms of accurately hitting a ball in a gap that’s pretty damn wide going from center field to left or right field. Why? Because being able to aim your shots like that even in that big of a target (waaaaaay bigger than another ball) is impressively difficult.
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u/Jimanji333 9h ago
While what you are saying is true, you are removing the fact that hitting a pitch has a lot more variables introduced and less control than hitting a tee ball.
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u/Kenny__Loggins 9h ago
Yeah things are only impressive if you do them on the first try. Everyone knows that.
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u/DinglieDanglieDoodle 13h ago
They were dumb enough to include the footages of all the failures for our judgement, unlike the other “actual” nextfuckinglevel posts 😤
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u/DapperDan30 13h ago
You think people who incredible shit all the time are doing it on their first attempt, snd have never practiced?
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u/Shiningc00 15h ago
Though it's highly unlikely that you'll hit it.
Also I don't necessarily think it's zero skill. You'll have to calculate the timing, aim and trajectory.
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u/denjo-t1aO 11h ago
meh… if i’d try that it would take A LOT longer. i get the point though. the trick shots are getting old… the internet is running out of juice
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u/vietomatic 15h ago
One time at the driving range, I hit my ball and a stranger a few stalls down hit his ball, and our balls smashed.
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u/Tonguepunchit 15h ago
Nice to hear a C’mon! Rather than a
Lets Goooo!
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u/DarePatient2262 15h ago
I'm sick of let's gooooo. Its very overused. I'd say we need a new thing, but I'll inevitably like that even less.
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u/SlideHoon 14h ago
While it’s cool and all, I mean takes some skill to aim for a ball that is coming toward you, I think next level would be both swinging at the same time and colliding midway.
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u/Traditional_Voice974 15h ago
Only if we filmed everything growing up I've seen what people say one in a million chance but witnessed it and those are the moments that when you tell someone you start with you wouldn't even believe me if I told you, or you just had to be there.
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u/cruisin_urchin87 14h ago
People need to learn the difference between “impossible” and “improbable”. Good lord
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u/Level_Pollution6383 15h ago
Thank God it is not Gif ending too soon! Got immersed in the first seconds...
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u/omgpliable 15h ago
Did something similar with a classmate in high school during PE once. We were hitting foam practice golf balls at each other, when we managed to collide the balls in midair. One of the most glorious days of my life.
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u/TheManWhoClicks 15h ago
I thought this is one of those videos that loop and it takes a while until you notice.
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u/Redditarsaurus 15h ago
I see stuff like this and think how do people waste this much time and meanwhile I'll sit and play video games for hours on end lol
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u/ballisticturtle 15h ago
Play this clip to someone who hasn't seen it yet, but have them close their eyes and just listen. Ask them what they think happened in the video.
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u/eloquince 15h ago
Nice one! The friend being so excited and supportive is everything thats a good guy
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u/NickdoesnthaveReddit 15h ago
I thought the very first ball hit him in the nuts and I thought that was the trick. Was about to leave, then I discovered there was more and slowly realized what was actually happening. Tbh I'm disappointed now.
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u/Cool-matt1 15h ago
This is the anti missile problem. Try to hit a bullet with a bullet, it ain’t easy.
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u/elibutton 14h ago
That is pretty cool. Now put him on a Navy ship in the sea in the middle of a war with missiles coming down at the ship and see if he can take them out. But his first time quality has to be 100% or else he’s (we’re) a goner.
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u/kokogrit 14h ago
“ oh yes yes …. Aaah …. Yes … I did it … yoooo … wait .. what … why is my mobile off ….
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u/Klutzy_Ad_1726 14h ago
They always show way too many misses on these, just so we know how hard it was
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u/wasted-degrees 14h ago
This makes me wonder about the viability of adding clay pigeon launchers to training season.
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u/thegryphonator 14h ago
Not at all the same but my sister when she was younger in a game of softball hit a bird out of the air and it died 😭😂🤣😭
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u/Usual-Answer-3891 14h ago
I love seeing this shit because I love seeing someone get ahold of something and absolutely stick with it until they get it. Even if it's something as seemingly insignificant as a trick shot, he stayed there and kept swinging until he got it. A lot of people would've have said "fuck this, this is dumb" hours ago, but this lad kept swinging and it paid off.
In the future when it matters, he will keep swinging when others say fuck it and walk.
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u/RealisticTopic1171 14h ago
Summary of air defense vs modern air threats.
Gotta throw a lot of interceptors to catch that “one” from landing.
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u/cylonlover 14h ago
I like how you built up the tension by waiting till the end until you actually do it, I was like, come on come on come on, my seat has no more edge, and then boom! It would not have been the same if you did it straight away, the timing is next level there!
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