What's not to like about an insane basketball trick shot? Especially one that sets a new Guinness World Record?
The same group of Australian basketball fans that set the Guinness World Record for highest basketball shot in 2011 with a 220-foot swish - and again in 2013 with a 300-foot basket - were back at it this past weekend.
The daring group made it to the top of the massive Gordon Dam in Tasmania with a portable basketball hoop set up at the very bottom ...415 feet below. That's when one of the How Ridiculous group members, looked down, gauged the distance to the hoop and tossed the basketball - with a form that resembled throwing a football - with one hand.
Free falling, the Spalding basketball takes a ridiculous left curve, before finding nothing but net. How ridiculous? Simply put, it's arguably the most ridiculous, mind-boggling trick shot that you'll ever see in your life.
Just like that, How Ridiculous' four team members celebrated their new Guinness World Record for the highest basketball shot of 126.5 meters or 415 feet, nearly doubling their own mark of 220 feet set back in 2011 and adding 115 feet to the mark they set in 2013. Rewriting history!
Watching this again and again, the left curve that the basketball takes toward the basket, before finding the bottom of the net, is so absurd that it almost looks like trick photography more than a trick basketball shot. Then again, How Ridiculous is the same crew that keeps making and breaking their new Guinness World Records, so we feel good lending credence. That, and we can just imagine how many attempts it took to get this to drop.
What will they come up with next?
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