world record basketball shot
 

Awesome shot

https://youtu.be/H9SF2YIKRY8

http://i.imgur.com/wdysotR.jpg "Pretty clever, I suppose. But I can produce something much more impressive than that..."

A sensible post would be nice :know:

There's not really much to say about a bloke dropping a ball 400 feet into a little net...:hmmm:

http://i.imgur.com/ecSbBzx.jpg But here's a sensible post anyway

I wonder how many times they had to do that before recording that one shot?

he only did it once in the video, bloody long walk to get it on the first try :haha:

I wonder if it is faked. From the casual and non-repeatable way he threw that ball, I really can't imagine he was able to compensate for thermals and wind like that. :nope:

Unfortunately it is so easy to fake videos these days, you really can't trust what you see any more.

Also I have seen players break backboards like that just by jumping-shotting. I wonder what the kinetic energy would be. Especially with that camera being there it was in the last bit. I would imagine that there would be more kinetic force transferred.

But then to quote from the movie The Lost Skeleton of Cadavera "I'm a scientist, I don't believe in anything. "

:)

You would think that the basketball's terminal velocity would be enough to either bend the rim or break the backboard or both. Though it did swish the net, it's still a tad preposterous and possibly faked due to the lack of bounce when it struck the ground. I think the ball should have bounced much higher, even after being slowed by friction from the net. It was travelling at @ 120 MPH after all.:hmmm:

This is a silly record stunt that pretty much anyone could do with enough time. I'm not impressed at all.

It's real.

According to this site the terminal velocity of a basketball is only 20 m/s, or 45 mph. I don't know how much force that would exert on a steel hoop or safety glass, but I'll bet the rubber-and-air ball weighing a whopping 22 ounces would give first.