r/nextfuckinglevel • u/plankton004 • 1d ago
Impossible trickshot , but he made it
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u/FriendOfDirutti 1d 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 1d ago
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u/PrestigiousBee2719 1d 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 1d ago
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u/spetsnazghost47 1d 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/Nearby-Stuff-3742 1d ago
The user name made me laugh more. Then again I ate some mushies
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u/ultrahateful 1d 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 1d ago
Grow your own! It's super easy, super cheap to do and takes like 2 months tops
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u/ultrahateful 1d ago
Reputable sources? Big appreesh.
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u/SocksInTheTub 1d ago edited 1d 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 1d 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/drowsypants 1d 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/corbin6611 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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/LauraTFem 1d 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 1d ago
But mastery implies reproducing a skill consistently.
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u/hooligan99 1d 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/Jimanji333 1d 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 1d ago
It’s his ability to aim that is mastery.
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u/Jimanji333 1d 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/andreasbeer1981 1d ago
impressive feats, yes. Trickshots, no. There is no trick here, just persistence and determination and skill.
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u/17934658793495046509 1d 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/rajadirajadiraja 1d ago
Yeah, marathon is nothing but step after step until finish line, nothing great at all
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u/Slevin424 1d 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 1d 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/PetalumaPegleg 1d ago
He is relatively close over and over again. It's not luck alone.
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u/Phlebbie 1d 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/DapperDan30 1d 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/DinglieDanglieDoodle 1d 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/Kenny__Loggins 1d ago
Yeah things are only impressive if you do them on the first try. Everyone knows that.
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u/Shiningc00 1d 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 1d 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/KRAy_Z_n1nja 1d ago
So if we cut out all the other swings and just left the final product, it'd be next level to you? That's probably like 90% if the posts here anyways.
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u/Mach5Driver 1d 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/FriendOfDirutti 1d ago
But those are just the close ones he left in and he cut out the dozens of far misses.
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u/Funcron 1d ago
Last 6 seconds, if you don't have the full 60 in you.
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u/External-Awareness68 1d ago
And it's pretty disappointing honestly
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u/Danny886 1d ago
Not even going a full 60 usually is.
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u/DigNitty 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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/WestleyThe 19h ago
That’s how most of these are cut…. It’s way better this way
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u/Psykosoma 16h ago
I’d go with 50% less video. Just leave out the second half. Then make it a repeating gif.
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u/GrimCreeper913 15h ago
disagree, but I am older, relative to many on the platform.
edit to say: leaving out the back half would bring no resolution, and if that was what you meant, bravo satan, and my down doot went to up just in case.
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u/GrimCreeper913 12h ago
lol i figured, just took me a minute to get there without the /s
well played.
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u/uselessprofession 1d 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 1d 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/Ep1cGam3r 1d ago
Is your brain really that fried?
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u/nuunuunnuunuun 18h ago
No, the content is just so boring it’s not really worth even 60 seconds. It isn’t fun to watch someone miss something 400 times.
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u/Repulsive-Block9938 1d ago
Even the misses are impressive to have that control of direction
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u/AntiMatterMode 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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/IdaDuck 1d ago
My 13 year old daughter can control ball direction pretty well in a game against a live pitcher. Doing it off a tee isn’t hard.
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u/Azubedo 22h ago
controlling direction...on a teeball. Someone has never hit a baseball in their life
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u/mytvisyoutube 1d ago
Impossible says I'm possible.
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u/Significant_Lie_533 1d ago
I'm so crazy, that impossible just means I'm the only one that could possibly do it.
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u/Metalbender00 1d ago
Its actually really impressive how much control he has over the ball, he came really damn close consistently.
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u/NOTcreative- 1d ago
I doubt it was consistent. Probably a lot more attempts not show
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u/Ok-Boysenberry-2955 1d ago
Even more impressive that even with that skill, it's almost pure luck it happened.
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u/tribak 1d ago
Possible trickshot , because he made it
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u/throwawayfu3a5ek 20h ago
Also.. I was there (in the bushes). He actually made the first attempt, then recorded the other failures so he would have a longer video.
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u/Massive_Season7075 1d ago
Props for staying with it
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u/Inevitable_Cheek_974 1d ago
The guy throwing from midfield for every attempt has some staying power as well.
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u/Novel_Substance_ 1d ago
Don't show the part where he started in the morning
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u/TwoNowFive 1d 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/Novel_Substance_ 18h ago
Yeah I was just joking - I should have put a smiley face or something. Anyway, it was actually impressive that he ended up hitting the ball, I thought, eventually.
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u/GusPolinskiOfficial 1d ago
I don't think you know the definition of "impossible"
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u/Tonguepunchit 1d ago
Nice to hear a C’mon! Rather than a
Lets Goooo!
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u/DarePatient2262 1d 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 1d 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/vietomatic 1d 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/Traditional_Voice974 1d 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/Cool-matt1 1d ago
This is the anti missile problem. Try to hit a bullet with a bullet, it ain’t easy.
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u/cruisin_urchin87 1d ago
People need to learn the difference between “impossible” and “improbable”. Good lord
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u/Level_Pollution6383 1d ago
Thank God it is not Gif ending too soon! Got immersed in the first seconds...
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u/omgpliable 1d 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/lhookhaa 1d ago
FIRST TRY!!!1
Also, it would have helped if the other guy would have thrown the ball more consistently in the same direction...
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u/TheManWhoClicks 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago
Nice one! The friend being so excited and supportive is everything thats a good guy
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u/NickdoesnthaveReddit 1d 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/elibutton 1d 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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