Learning The World's Hardest Skills in Sports

as a kid I've always been pretty bad at

Sports and other kids always made fun of

me because of that Revenge myself I

decided to learn the hardest skills five

most popular sports in the world it was

a challenge and it was personal I just

had no idea how hard that was gonna be

you know what the corner kick this one

is a legendary kicking football you get

it you need to kick the ball on the side

making it spill in the air in order to

give it a curved trajectory it's

extremely cool

and I've never been able to do it

until now and so I started trying and

for the first few attempts I was really

really far it's really hard I wasn't

able to give the proper effect and that

led me to kicking too far from the goal

or behind it but I knew the only way to

get the hang of it was just keep trying

over and over again at the beginning it

almost felt impossible but after 20

minutes

this happened

yes

yes cool so Roger Federer's fastest

serve is about 142 miles per hour which

is absolutely insane and even though

I've never played tennis in my life I'm

going straight to beat that my plan was

to try intuitively first without knowing

the technique and so I started

practicing and at the very first attempt

I got 83 miles per hour I need to double

that I quickly realized they probably

wasn't gonna compete with the best

tennis players in the world with 10

minutes of tennis experience Ziggy went

under the net but you know what I could

do instead I could compete against

myself so I've been trying as hard as I

can for I don't know 10 minutes and the

best I could do was nine so I guess the

goal is going to be 100. I'm not going

to stop until we get there this was

getting way harder than expected I was

throwing with zero accuracy and the best

I could do was going from 90 94 miles

per hour 94 oh my God you know what's

the real problem though is that I'm here

in the net every single time and that

doesn't even count I kept trying without

getting better for a while but I kept

going and even though I was melting on

the Under the Sun I somehow started to

get slightly better results oh 91 yes

cool I'm also slowly learning something

though like for example I realized that

if I want to be extremely fast I need to

hit the ball right in the middle of the

racket here or here it will be way

slower here Perfection unfortunately

though Improvement was just temporary

and a few minutes later my arms started

to hurt the next three minutes I've been

trapped in a loop throwing failing

feeling pain and then all over again all

right I'm looking up the theory because

right now I have no idea seven steps

actually six all right number one find

the right stance and grip stand sideways

to the net just behind the Baseline got

it your front foot should point in the

direction of the New Pulse all right got

it your back foot shoulder line with

your front foot heel

got it number two I don't get it like

tossing the ball

done number three or reach the trophy

pose done jump and swiggle oh you need

to jump you gotta jump that's probably

why I'm hitting the net every single

time however if you are just starting

don't worry too much about jumping I

worry about it we gotta do 100 miles all

right let's do it it turns out jumping

is not really easy I couldn't find the

right combination and I wasn't hitting

the ball stronger than before and here

is when I stopped talking I had to focus

because it wasn't getting better at all

the sun was melting me my arm was

hurting and we also had to leave the

court in like 30 minutes I had to get it

but I had no idea how but then while

watching a video of an adult serving I

realized something I was basically

jumping before throwing and that doesn't

work I need to throw and then

jump when I throw and this way I started

to get better and better I was hitting

the ball as hard as I could and it was

going extremely fast but I wasn't

worried about the accuracy at all it was

just randomly throwing as hard as I

could and so my goal now was to get a

legit and powerful sir not only you need

to pass the net obviously which is

already really hard but if I serve from

there I had to throw the ball inside the

opposite servox so I started trying once

again I was literally melting I had no

energy power and time left but it wasn't

gonna give up we had to leave the court

at any moment and I was struggling so

much because of how tired that was but

at some point I got a 95 miles per hour

serve inside the serving box all right

guys here are the final results

I'm about to throw up I hit 95 here in

the small area I'm gonna sleep okay I'm

gonna shower and sleep all day and after

spending the afternoon on Duolingo the

next day I was ready for skill number

three bicycle kick this one is kind of

scary for me guys I'm not gonna lie I

tried it once when I was a kid and I

never tried since then because they

landed on my neck all right I guess I'm

gonna just try it

it's so scary I need to get comfortable

in throwing myself I'm having backflip

flashbacks here which is not great but I

kept trying

was it good I don't think so my goal for

this one is to nail the style not just

like scoring the goal I need to do it

perfectly I'm gonna be honest this

wasn't too bad actually I mean this

style wasn't perfect and the accuracy

was pretty bad

but it was somehow throwing myself but

unfortunately that didn't last long on

my next attempt I badly landed on my

back that's changed everything that kind

of hurt how are you supposed to land

without hurting yourself I have no idea

I'm landing on my back she's not

comfortable at all so I decided to

change approach bicycle key tutorial

literally putting my neck on the line

that's how I like it and after a while I

realized something I mean I believed you

had to kick the ball when he was in

front of you like this and doing sort of

backflip but the guy in the tutorial is

kicking it here he's doing it

like that but jump it makes it like 10

times easier I was confident I tried and

I hurt myself even more oh my god that

hurt a lot I feel like Landing is my

problem after that moment I kept

practicing over and over I really wanted

to go but I had achieved pain and having

a worse technique than before Oh my God

my back hurts so much I don't even know

how to get the ball guys I really want

to keep going but my back is broken I

want to stop for a while we're gonna try

a few other sports and then we're gonna

get this we're gonna get it

basketball shootout my goal I want to

beat Kevin Hart

if you're not familiar with the rules

like myself I have one minute to throw

25 times five from this position Kevin

Hart got 11 shots so I had to beat that

I am absolutely terrible at basketball

guys the only sport I've ever played in

my life was

football and MMA all right let's do it

sorry in advance about my technique and

I really meant that as soon as I started

trying I realized how long this was

gonna actually take out of the first

five throws none of them went in and it

kept the same level of consistency for

all the other attempts after 20 throws I

literally got only one all right guys

first attempt it was an absolute fail I

got one out of 25 with a goal of 12. it

was so bad at basketball I'm gonna

practice for a while though and that's

exactly what I did it had to get better

and more consistent with my shots so I

looked up the theory and I tried to

apply it and actually after practicing

for about 30 minutes I was kind of

getting better at it I was still missing

a ton of shots but I was getting more

consistent I also tried the shootout

challenge over and over only to get used

to the pressure of throwing as fast and

accurately as possible then back to

practicing the theory once again guys

I've been practicing for five hours I'm

absolutely destroyed and melted by the

Sun but it's working though I studied

the technique can I try to apply it and

I'm getting more accurate slightly but

more accurate than before second attempt

they got two the fifth attempt I got

four yes now I feel extremely confident

I want to try one more time we're gonna

get it this video was turning out to be

extremely hard oh come on probably my

expectations were a bit too high yes no

I was thinking I was gonna compete with

people who trained their whole life in a

specific skill but in that moment I

realized the real competition the only

competition that mattered was against

myself and even if the progress came

slow and it took basically all my energy

to achieve it after 20 throws I was

having the best score so far yes

five not only good points but I was also

consistently getting really close every

single time you see what I mean every

single time and then at the last two

throws is happening there was a seven

actually best attempts so far let's get

this one too

and I actually got it yes yes oh my God

eight I'm not sure if I should be happy

about an eighth but I'm so freaking

happy

guys I know eight was impressive but

I've never played basketball in my life

and I feel extremely satisfied with the

other side let's go to the next one I

want to try something that I've always

dreamed of doing scoring a free kick

like Cristiano Ronaldo less painful than

the bicycle kick or at least that's what

I thought anyways I didn't know it was

gonna practice some fake grass so to

hold the barriers up I had to use my

imagination my goal would be to kick the

ball obviously letting the ball go over

the barrier and then scoring right here

if the ball goes anywhere else that

wouldn't count I looked up was the

official distance between barrier and

ball and it should be nine centimeters

you know what's the problem though I am

super far from the goal in the middle of

the field all right that's right I set a

train for a while and the first few

attempts went pretty bad it's gonna be a

long day guys but I had no idea things

we're gonna get much worse than that and

when I trade through that I'm gonna also

tell you a story so four years ago when

I started making videos I quit my job I

basically didn't know how to speak

English oh my God I'm so bad every

single time I had to memorize a sentence

and I repeat it over and over in front

of the camera until one day I realized

that if I want to do this for a living I

probably had to get better at it I

started using Duolingo which I'm proud

to say is the sponsor of this video

and I can clearly remember Duolingo made

the experience of learning any language

actually fun and easy even for me that I

really don't like learning new languages

I was slowed it was great but it was

slow and I mean that's probably also why

Duolingo is the number one way to learn

any language with a hundred dollar

courses across 41 languages in the

meantime I was actually getting better

still low come on but in that exact

moment I realized something terrible

you'll see what I mean later I think it

just broke something let me drink you

know a few years ago I wasn't a budget

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was really close I only got that I would

have saved myself a ton of pain but I

didn't I mean that was freaking perfect

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here is the problem the more I tried the

more my leg was hurting it started like

a light pain but kick after kick after

kick it became a strong one it's getting

worse I was basically forcing myself to

ignore the pain because I wanted to get

it so bad

I arrived at a point I couldn't even

walk anymore I'm not even joking I

wanted to get it mainly because I rented

the football field and I didn't want to

waste time and money I had to get it

every single time I managed to hurt

myself just for you guys it was clear to

me that I strained my legs muscle ah and

still I was trying and I was actually

getting pretty close you see that did

you see that tell me to swim by and I

promise you I was about to give up

because of the pain I'm not joking this

is how I work now but then

this happened and even if it wasn't

perfect I was extremely happy yeah it's

cool oh my God oh my God I'm in pain I

rested a few days and when I was ready I

wanted to try the bicycle kick once

again alright guys I'm ready to try the

bicycle kick once again my back is

basically destroyed oh but I checked the

theory and I feel extremely confident

and I finally got a plan four steps to

get a perfect bicycle kick step one

lifting the non-kicking leg this allows

you to jump higher step two using your

arms to twist your your body while

you're in the air this allows you to

kick towards the goal step three I gotta

bring my non-taking leg down to allow

the kicking leg to go up fourth and

final step and in my opinion that's the

most important one and that's the fall

previously I was literally landing on my

back that's why it hurts right now but

in reality I should twist me there and

then land on my side alright guys my

back actually hurts a lot so I'm gonna

try to get it as fast as possible so I

started trying one more time I gotta

trust myself and John making sure to

apply all the theory I just learned

gotta get Confident come on

ah I got scared they didn't jump here's

the problem some of the kicks were

actually great oh my God that was so

cool but I really was enchanted I didn't

jump but that was so cool I kept

practicing though I spent the next 30

minutes trying getting closer and closer

and actually improving my technique but

after every single attempt my back was

hurting more and because of that I was

also getting more and more scared of

falling guys I'm tired so hot

and then yeah like I have a block in my

head that says I I shouldn't I shouldn't

fall it's almost the same fear I have

when I try to backflip it's probably the

worst fear I have it's a block in my

head that says I I shouldn't flip

backwards and we are seeing that again

right now

it's a challenge against my head I'm not

scared of feeling pain honestly I don't

care about that you just they don't like

to flip

you gotta fight that I gotta fight that

and after getting really close once this

happened I hit my thumb with my knee I

don't know how guys I just know it's

been extremely painful you can actually

hear the sound and from that moment I

had to worry not only about my back but

about my finger too I actually thought

it was fractured or something it was

pretty bad just another reason why I was

blocked and I couldn't let myself fall

oh my God I don't know if you can see

how shaky I am here it hurts I don't

know what it is every single time I hurt

myself every single time all right guys

gonna stop for today I'm gonna try to

rest this finger right here I'm not

gonna be defeated by a bicycle kick

I'm gonna get it

next time I'm gonna get it all right

next one is about baseball I've never

played baseball in my life I have no

idea how to play baseball and I have

never watched a baseball game in my life

and yet I want to try to learn an

extremely cool technique the knuckleball

the knuckleball is a technique that

allows the ball to avoid spinning in the

air and therefore it also moves

unpredictably I started showing

intuitively and I had absolutely no idea

about the technique behind the

knuckleball I just kept throwing trying

to make the ball fly without spinning

and it wasn't working at all the only

thing I managed to do was to hit the

camera in the process alright we're fine

I don't think it's working and most

importantly if you ever played baseball

you're probably cringing extremely hard

about my technique so sorry so then I

decided to check the theory if you want

to get a knuckleball there is a specific

technique you gotta use pinch in the

ball with two fingers and dipping your

nests into the ball and also avoid

touching the stitching to have less grip

as possible on top of that you should

hold your wrist as steady as possible

let the ball go basically without

rotation I was excited I kept trying

over and over but only later I realized

I actually wasn't making progress I went

back home yesterday I was super excited

I checked the footage and I realized I

completely failed I didn't do the

knuckleball a single time turns out the

knuckleball is extremely hard because

you Gotta Throw with your arm at

completely avoiding a rotation on the

ball I tried a ton of different

techniques using my nails changing the

way I was throwing the ball or moving my

arm and I actually got closer but it

wasn't good enough then I completely

changed my technique literally using my

Knuckles this time and trying to push

the ball with my fingers at the perfect

moment I'm not sure I was doing it right

or if I'm still missing something I only

know for the very first time I threw the

ball generating basically zero rotation

I kept doing that over and over is it an

alcohol guys I have no idea let me know

in the comments I had to move on though

because I only had one challenge left

the hardest and most painful one on the

list my back hurts my finger hurts way

more like so much but now we're gonna

get the bicycle kick

thank you

that's sweet I was pumped even if we

started to feel pain everywhere

literally at the first attempt my leg

was hurting from the free kick my back

and fingers were hurting from the

previous bicycle kicks you know I tried

some crazy stuff in the past I hurt

myself a bunch of times and I really

wasn't expecting a video about sports to

be this painful but here it was I didn't

want to give up though I couldn't give

up even if my pain was growing and my

willpower was probably I kept getting

closer and closer not too bad when the

pain was becoming almost unbearable this

happened when he realized I actually did

it it put a huge smile on my face yes

cool guys yes cool

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