If you're familiar with the YouTube sensation How Ridiculous, you know that they're a group of fun-loving guys from Australia who have generated millions of views for their insane, record-breaking basketball trick shots.
This past June, they sunk a near-impossible shot from atop Tasmania's Gordon Dam more than 126.5 meters down toward an awaiting hoop setup. Swish!
Well, earlier this week, the fellas from How Ridiculous returned, on British soil for the first time ever, and ready to make the world's highest backward shot. Moments into the video, two of the How Ridiculous team members are seen scaling the spiraling staircase of the ArcellorMittal Orbit, a 376-foot tall sculpture and observation tower in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in the Stratford section of London.
Once atop the Orbit and safely harnessed, the How Ridiculous guys start doing what they do best — sink jaw-dropping shots to into a stationary basketball hoop waiting below. One of the guys tosses the basketball with one hand, as if he's throwing a touchdown pass in football, and it finds the bottom of the net with ease. Count it! They even bank one of the shots before sinking two more.
Just when you think they've conquered the Orbit location with four made shots, though, one of the members turns around and attempts the shot backward. Flicking the ball with his right hand up and over his head, the basketball free falls 376 feet before finding the bottom of the net. Incredible!
Who cares how many attempts it must have took them? They left with the record for world's highest backward basketball shot in tow. What will these guys think of next?
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