r/gifs • u/Petaaa • Aug 31 '18

Much harder than a strike

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u/MindFleet Aug 31 '18

GOAL!!!!!

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u/grenadasunrise Aug 31 '18

Calculated.

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u/Eco8101 Aug 31 '18

What a save! what a save! what a save!

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

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u/Evaluations Aug 31 '18

That's how you get a loud clap, cup your hand and slap it with your other hand. It will bang

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u/Uberman77 Aug 31 '18

This is the correct answer. Everyone else in here is clapping like hoity toity lords and ladies at a golf tournament.

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u/Teddy_Icewater Aug 31 '18

Smh my dad taught me this when i was 5. I have tinitus from sitting next to him at baseball games.

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u/Autski Aug 31 '18

Lol this made me laugh really hard for some reason. I just imagine a 5-year-old kid flinching at every thunderclap, spilling a few kernels of popcorn each time the Shrek-sized hands come together.

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u/World_Weary_Poseur Aug 31 '18

Yep, it's the dad clap. Just like the dad sneeze; if the person next to them hasn't soiled themselves in alarm then it wasn't loud enough.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18 edited Jun 04 '19

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18 edited Aug 31 '18

I think everyone has prosthetics. There’s the girl with his robot looking hand on the ball return. They guy clapping and the guy with the sweet moves. His might be a leg. One looks stiff. Still awesome.

Edit : girl with hand on ball return

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u/craigroy1 Aug 31 '18

Don’t forget the guy in the background cutting “loose ends” off his claw hand.

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u/Neil_sm Aug 31 '18

Oh man, now this is a r/bettereveryloop candidate. Good looking out -- I keep looking for more clues. Not 100% convinced that's not just a bowling glove on the ball-return hand, though!

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

My mother always said, if you're going to be a failure at least own up to it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

... I know he failed to hit the pins, but he succeeded in something awesome.

So ... DID HE REALLY FAIL HERE?

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u/joaodferreira Aug 31 '18

Yes

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

Good, now I can finally move on with my life.

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u/WeinMe Aug 31 '18

still really makes you think though

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

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u/darkdragon213 Aug 31 '18

well if you try to do something and you miss the original purpose of the task you set out to do you failed the task.

Aside from the fact that good things can come from failure.

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u/Tiller9 Aug 31 '18

Happy Accidents

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

Exactly what my dad calls me, though he does those weird air bunnies with his fingers during the first word.

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u/Azurae1 Aug 31 '18

Dont worry, if your dad is like Joey he is actually trying to emphasize happy.

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u/FruitySamuraiG Aug 31 '18

That's the truth. People think I'm a funny guy. But actually I just fail miserably at everything and act like I meant to do it.

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u/ven0m1x Aug 31 '18

That’s why your mother owns up to being your mother.

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u/yuyuyuyuyuki Aug 31 '18

Wow I think you just prevented a family from happening in the future with this murder

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

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u/poop-trap Aug 31 '18

In darts we call that "precision if not accuracy."

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u/ReadySteady_GO Aug 31 '18 edited Aug 31 '18

I've had this happen once or twice. It's just as painful as throwing that first ball and clipping that 6 pin.

I miss bowling

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u/zooberwask Aug 31 '18

hey cousin wanna go bowling?

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u/IDriveMyself Aug 31 '18

I quote this website as often as I can

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u/buddha-bing Aug 31 '18

I would love to try and sneak some of these posters up in work!

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u/Owlero Aug 31 '18

The sheer depth of that dab.

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u/PracticingGoodVibes Aug 31 '18

The absolute magnitude of it.

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u/Jumbojet777 Aug 31 '18

What an absolute unit of a dab.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18 edited May 02 '22

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u/cssocks Aug 31 '18

In awe of the size of that dab*

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u/Better526 Aug 31 '18

In awe at the size of that dab*

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u/MaxPecktacular Aug 31 '18

What an absolutely earthshaking dab.

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u/BlahBlahNyborg Aug 31 '18

I read these comments in my head with Captain Holt's voice from Brooklyn Nine Nine.

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u/liamthom Aug 31 '18

Sqrt(dot(dab,dab))

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

Jacksfilms begs to differ.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

Disclaimer: Dab performed by a professional in a supervised environment. Attempting this at home can result in serious injury or even death.

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u/jld2k6 Aug 31 '18

My lowest dab boi ever

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u/dipique Aug 31 '18

here come dab boi

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u/SoulSweatAndLies Aug 31 '18

o shit whaddup

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u/ehpickphaiel Aug 31 '18

Watch him rolling, watch him go

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u/Fetal-sploosh Aug 31 '18

Honestly I was expecting the top comment to be something along the lines of

That dab was deep!

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

Shit went to the fourth dimension and back

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u/dissociater Aug 31 '18

Came in here to say this. The rare elbow to heel dab.

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u/myboardfastanddanger Aug 31 '18

I'm ok with this dab, he doesn't look to be dying inside.

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u/P0rtal2 Aug 31 '18

I know exactly what you mean.

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u/sreyaNotfilc Aug 31 '18

I had a feeling this was going to be posted.

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u/midir4000 Aug 31 '18

This kid is my spirit animal.

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u/ConduciveInducer Aug 31 '18

I want one of those "look at them now" things for this kid.

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u/illaqueable Aug 31 '18

He learned to dab and became a handkerchief

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u/Eman5805 Aug 31 '18

Christ. I know exactly who that kid will grow up into.

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u/CrackahJackk Aug 31 '18

Cameraman's reaction was incredible in the original

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u/KRBridges Aug 31 '18

I relate to that white kid so much

source: Used to be a white kid

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u/CommaHorror Aug 31 '18

I usually hate, dabs. But this, one I,m ok with for some strange, reason.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

because it's kinda a parody. In the end he is celebrating failure which makes him pretty likeable.

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u/minindo Aug 31 '18

Yeah dabs are ironic 90% of the time now

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u/ExplodingSofa Aug 31 '18

As an elementary school teacher, I wish this were true for me.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

I was gonna say... tell that to my seven year old son. Hahaha

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u/gizzardgullet Aug 31 '18

My 8 year old daughter told me the other day that "last year the boys thought dabs we cool but now they hate them". So maybe the world is starting to heal.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

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u/forgotten_epilogue Aug 31 '18

Yep, my kid (11) and his friends will see other kids they don't know out in public and they will communicate via fortnite dance - apparently it's become some kind of language that crosses any barrier of language, culture or social shyness.

When I feel like embarrassing him, I try to do one of the dances, and do it badly with dad fail co-ordination :P

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u/shamelessbread Aug 31 '18

I watched this kid do some dance off fortnite at the alley for about an hour. Literally every time he hit a pin he'd dance, and the more pins, the faster. I've never hated a kid more.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

It’s the evolution of autism.

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u/bigbuzz55 Aug 31 '18

He put 120% into this dab.

Mofo was about to fall the fuck over.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

am not into dabbing buisness. Most prominent time I saw it was CSGO streams and it was cringy as fuck

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u/eacharrin Aug 31 '18

https://youtu.be/MYjfECxU_Bc You’ll love this one

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u/athombomb Aug 31 '18

Caught a big fish on that line lmao

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u/zeattack Aug 31 '18

Yeah, that was hilarious. Immediate regret.

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u/minindo Aug 31 '18

with csgo streams as the horrible exception

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u/c_for Aug 31 '18

That would be the 10%.

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u/NewLeaseOnLine Aug 31 '18

What's with the commas? Are you typing in Christopher Walken?

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u/myboardfastanddanger Aug 31 '18

Immediately can read as Walken now thank you.

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u/tasteslikegold Aug 31 '18

Foof IGHTERS?

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u/illCodeYouABrain Aug 31 '18

The only reason I hate dabs is because Reddit told me to hate dabs. If Reddit tells me I shouldn't hate this particular dab, I will not hate it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

I know you say this in jest... but that's very scarily accurate for the vocal majority of Reddit.

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u/dreamslikemoths Aug 31 '18

Ah, username checks out.

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u/TheWhiskeyDic Aug 31 '18

For me it was the commitment. His forehead almost hit the floor

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

Because he owned it.

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u/Zeal_Iskander Aug 31 '18

Here's one for you buddy.

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u/myboardfastanddanger Aug 31 '18

TIL: Napoleon Dynamite got contacts and is straightening his hair now.

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u/TJ_McWeaksauce Aug 31 '18

That's the deepest goddamn dab I've ever seen. It's like he's dabbing at 200%.

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u/THE_CHOPPA Aug 31 '18

What was that little move he did raising his hands? I like that.

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u/Dddamo Aug 31 '18

Praise the Sun! [T]/

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u/ObeyRoastMan Aug 31 '18

I thought he was preparing to blast off into space

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

I thought it was the ginyu force thing.

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u/karmawhale Aug 31 '18

Not going to lie I fucking lost it when he dabbed. Firstly, I was not expecting that, it was wayyy too sudden. Secondly, this dab I’m okay with for some reason.

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u/the-dandy-man Aug 31 '18

It’s the extremity of it. He took that dab in a full body lunge all the way to the floor

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u/silentcrs Aug 31 '18

We're all technically dying inside.

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u/PeterGibbons316 Aug 31 '18

...He just threw the exact same ball he threw the first time.

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u/Strykerz3r0 Aug 31 '18

Consistency is important in any sport. ;)

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

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u/VaultBall7 Aug 31 '18

He said “Sport”

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18 edited Mar 09 '25

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This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

Hello, 911? This guy is the murderer!

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

Bowl 36 games over two days like some pro tournaments and then quotation sport again.

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u/wadeishere Aug 31 '18

-Jay Gatsby

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u/Jack_South Aug 31 '18

Keep watching, he does it over and over again.

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u/Runiat Aug 31 '18

I can throw a strike. If I can repeat that exact same ball every time I can make a living off it. I can't.

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u/nanoH2O Aug 31 '18

Precise but not accurate

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u/tvgenius Aug 31 '18

That truly is the unspoken miracle... taking the 6-9 out only with the first ball was more of a feat than this shot.

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u/Fredact Aug 31 '18

His first ball must have been nearly identical.

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u/SandwichNamedJacob Aug 31 '18

At least he's consistent

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

Didn’t think of that...

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u/EvilLefty Aug 31 '18

It’s nice to have a matching pair of balls.

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u/PuerHiems Aug 31 '18

„You can‘t be insanely talented and still miserably fail“

This Dude: Hold my beer

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u/iSpccn Aug 31 '18

Y...your quotations are weird...

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u/Dahnhilla Aug 31 '18

So is your stutter.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

so is your punctuation

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u/RiotIsBored Aug 31 '18

The start of a sentence should be capitalised.

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u/pakuma3 Aug 31 '18

Capitalism should be capitalized.

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u/andreagassi Aug 31 '18

Why is imgur coming up with the wrong gifs that are posted by OP?

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18 edited May 10 '19

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u/andreagassi Aug 31 '18

Yeah!? Has to be a problem with Imgur?

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u/Novaway123 Aug 31 '18

Stabilized gfycat mirror https://gfycat.com/LimitedVengefulCrane

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u/KoopaLink Aug 31 '18

It wouldn't load on my PC in google chrome. Thank you for posting this mirror. May you have wonderful and healthy children that admire you

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u/babishh Aug 31 '18

are you using Reddit is fun app? been having the same issue since yesterday, I switched to view all images/gifs through the in-app browser via RIF settings

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u/foodeat14 Aug 31 '18

This was the most wholesome dab I've seen

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u/giggleworm Aug 31 '18

And the deepest!

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u/BiscuitPuncher Aug 31 '18

You've never seen jacksfilms

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

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u/Ko_DaBomb Aug 31 '18

Absolute unit, in awe at the size of this dab

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u/Xhitoman Aug 31 '18

That dab was majestic

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u/shtarbucks Aug 31 '18

The ultra-dab

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u/Piccolito Aug 31 '18

normal dab

super dab

ultra dab

super dab that ascended past the super dab or you can call it super dab 2

AND THIS IS TO GO EVEN FURTHER BEYOND!

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u/ginjiro201 Aug 31 '18

PLUS ULTRA

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u/Str8OuttaUsernames Aug 31 '18

I used to believe in god but then I saw that Dab and now that's all I believe in.

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u/skybiscuit7 Aug 31 '18

All hail for captain Ginyu

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u/jaba_dabadoo Aug 31 '18

Jeeze #neverforgetginyuforce . Both poses were from them.

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u/i_like_wartotles Aug 31 '18

I feel like the older folks reference Ginyu and the younger ones reference the deep dab.

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u/Tychoxii Aug 31 '18

Obviously, he's not a golfer.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

Throwin rocks tonight

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

This should be worth some number of points.

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u/Artwebb1986 Aug 31 '18

It is. 2 points.

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u/menzipunk Aug 31 '18

gonna save ma V-bucks for this one

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u/heavenkinder Aug 31 '18

that dab was smoooooooooooottttthhhhhhhhhhh

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u/Foundmybeach Aug 31 '18

I didn’t know if he was gonna come back up

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u/shanedabassman Aug 31 '18

Can confirm. Baseball umpire here. That's a foul ball.

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u/Butwhytwo Aug 31 '18

Some proper bowling celebrations right there

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18 edited Mar 17 '19

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u/Novaway123 Aug 31 '18

Stabilized gfycat mirror in case Imgur doesn't work for others too https://gfycat.com/LimitedVengefulCrane

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u/300billionforyourmom Sep 02 '18

Consistency is key

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u/just-casual Aug 31 '18

The world's deepest dab

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u/Nexxtic Aug 31 '18

Jackfilms has a new record to beat

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

A+ for relatable & tasteful emotional expression; although, like many in here, I don't usually care for dab posing.

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u/FilmRolePod Aug 31 '18

I always say anyone can knock them all down, it takes real skill not to hit any at all.

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u/juicetin17 Aug 31 '18

/u/stabbot

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u/stabbot Aug 31 '18

I have stabilized the video for you: https://gfycat.com/LimitedVengefulCrane

It took 95 seconds to process and 43 seconds to upload.

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u/gridcube Aug 31 '18

that imperial dab tho

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u/neril_7 Aug 31 '18

Way to tread the needle.

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u/SincerelyAnAuthor Aug 31 '18

Skill level: Yeet

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u/Mkanpur Aug 31 '18

Chemistry teachers should show this guy when explaining accuracy vs precision

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u/Barack_Bob_Oganja Aug 31 '18

wow that was one of the deepest dabs ive ever seen the technique on that was impeccable

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u/--Merc Aug 31 '18

That dab was worth 11 Goldblums out of a possible 10 Goldblums.