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These are a collection of the best extreme youtube vids to be found...

if anyone wants to add anymore mad stuff, go for it!


PHYSICAL (ACROBATICS ETC.):


World's Best Tricks Volume 3 (everything from breakdancing & gymnastics to martial arts):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lARQ8pkhlag

David Belle, the guy who founded Parkour:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=imDLv5_0POw
And Sebastian Foucan (the guy fom the start of Casino Royale who brought Parkour to the UK in the form of Freerunning):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZiaCU7TGSU
Speeders, combining gymnastics with parkour on the street:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7VK7oLHseo

Martial Arts:
Steve Terada. Never, ever, call his mum fat:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y1lqwvGcwk
And how Tae Kwon Do is used in competition. Skip to 30 seconds (thanks Iain Smith):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gcWAb5Dvz4

Jason Burnett, the world’s best trampoliner (trampolinist?) just warming up before a contest (let me know if you find him in a really good competition clip):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWDFTVAbnrI
Marco Canestrelli pulls off a septuple twist towards the end of Justice Frangipane's video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7KoLqAnt_4

Gymnastic tumbling (thanks Ed Cannon):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfhRF2PALiI

Dude with enormous upper body strength (thanks Hussain Kadim):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLqHOKmD2r8&NR

Japanese skipping (jump) rope final (thanks Karah Sutton):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YplBcmotzk
And an American version:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XG4Hya8nEQ

Doing the splits and skating under 40 cars in a row (thanks Alex Baker):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WTTyuHW2XI

Contortionist sisters, all in the good name of Potato Salad (thanks Peter Frank Chainey):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQTl1ARv-oU

Chinese acrobatics:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz4LKiJZsdY

World final. Sports acrobatics 2006 in Portugal (thanks John Else):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jkjSF2VwP4

Top Gun, champion cheerleading team (thanks Lauren Eve):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHOOm7Szlbs

Quick change artists on America’s Got Talent (thanks Ines Taylor):
youtube.com/watch?v=RB-wUgnyGv0
And the masters of quick change, the Pendragons’ famous magic trick:
youtube.com/watch?v=zXumzYarCJw

Catching two girls in either hand, and lifting them above his head:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGpBZsO-8w0

Unicyle bowl flipping (thanks Richard Hussey):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U10IWU_XDPk




EXTREME SPORTS:


Solo climbing:
Dan Osman, who was the best controlled freefaller and one of the best freeclimbers in the world (thanks Chris Eungblut):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIAidlsdlEw
And here’s the full clip of one of his speed climbs (Thanks Jonny Lloyd):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-oc-lhqpIA
Alain Robert. Famous for climbing skyscrapers:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0wmLzS3dt4
Chris Sharma climbing upside-down (thanks Alex Gaastra):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-uMWfDDobM

The skier from the Sky advert jumping off cliffs with a parachute (thanks Alex Baker):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8sx5zBxmb8
Terje Haakonsen snowboarding down "7601" for the first time. Terrifying (thanks Philipp Moy):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd8AJdcnw4A
More suicidal jumps & slopes (a bit slow until 2:20) (thanks Keith Scott):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKLh6q6t49c
Björn-Einar Romören jumps 239m:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBEkilwP1lQ
Skiing down he longest escalator in Europe. The main skill lies in the fact that he only posted it on Youtube exactly six months after he did it, meaning he couldn't legally be prosecuted
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFqQOlYE4EE

Shane McConkey. Skiing down suicidal slopes and BASE jumping off them. At the start he BASE jumps on his friend's back without a parachute. I can't find him on Wikipedia but apparently he’s still alive (thanks Rob Richardson):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6bzGZn4TK4
Reverse BASE jumping to bungee jump:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0LI1CF7wps
Joint BASE jump to bungee to redeployment (thanks Ned Yoxall):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfEwq_yIQsw

Music video showing Joseph Kittinger, technically the first man in space, skydiving out of a weather balloon at 102,800 feet (31,300 m) in a space suit, and breaking the speed of sound in freefall, in 1960. Never been equalled:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xN3t1fSbnc
and a clip of it from a documentary:
video.google.com/videoplay?d...888258105653405

Salomon Soul Flyers demonstrating the wingsuit (think flying squirrels) (thanks Jack Henderson):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdkDdBz6f_o

Aerobatic skills in a windtunnel. Skip past the kids if they bore you:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW3MBEVVKDA

The skyboarder Yves Rossy invents a working Icarus inspired personal jet pack to fly at over 300km/h!! His obsession led to his wife leaving him. Then again, he can fly...(thanks Hussain Kadim):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-66AcTo9TU

Bob Hoover pulling off plane stunts with the engines cut while pouring ice-tea (thanks Simon Clay):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZBcapxGHjE

Great video of a surfer riding a gigantic wave. Genuine as far as I can tell:
video.google.co.uk/videoplay...431919310427956 5&q=amazing

Kayaking down some serious rapids. Check out the two huge waterfalls from around 1:50 (thanks Oli Lazarus):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5oLCh6nEUo

Waterskiing up a ladder:
www.yourdailymedia.com/media...2/Ladder_Water_ Skiing_Stunt

B.M.X.:
Mike Spinner. BMX 1080s plus other ridiculous stunts:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0W1JHPohpc
BMX triple tailwhip:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lYoa-6EGUo
BMX quadruple tailwhip:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_QjLk19_gQ
Neil Tunnicliffe doing the biggest BMX jumps I've ever seen (once you've seen one though...) (thanks Keith Scott):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=780MNlBOFO0
Now see it done on a unicycle! (thanks Reuben Ariyaratnam):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky-PM17bzRQ
Kevin Robinson pulls off the world's first "double flair," whatever that is:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWnxEi2ZXJk

Inline skating:
triple backflip:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f7b7n1ZQKk
The longest rail grind ever. Is this fake? Part of a commercial? Unbelievable:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v11I3886MkE

Rodney Mullen, the man who pretty much invented freestyle skateboarding remains the best there's ever been (thanks Tom C):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcbCCFb0zXI

Impressive and insanely dangerous overtaking battle between Gilles Villeneuve and Rene Arnoux at the 1979 French Grand Prix (thanks Eliot Bateman):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzCqY8Wg5So

Not sure if this is really good or not, or even what it's called. Freestyle and urban motorbike trials? (Thanks Geoff Purvis):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCy9nrchqFI&NR=1

BALL SKILLS:


Football (soccer):
Soccer freestyle by Tsatsulow (thanks Andy Wheble):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=COcczatkNP4
And a flawless set by Mr Woo. During a half time:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQW7I53WVxw
Great in-match skills compilation:
video.google.co.uk/videoplay...634782151609484 42
Kerlon Moura. How do you defend against his seal dribble? By kicking him in the face... (thanks Joshua Erde):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5LdH_km-_o
The ancient, non-competitive sport of Chinlone. 1500 years old, yet strangely similar to football freestyling (thanks Rob Stroud):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OADmYiqwlvI

Juggling:
The standup comedian, Chriss Bliss shows he’s not a bad juggler either :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT-_2oAdN40
Perfect hat and ball routine by Steven Ragatz (thanks Yotam Doron):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOAGkdoXJH4
Victor Kee blows both of them out of the water by combining juggling up to seven balls with rythmic gymnastics and Cirque du Soleil's trademark choreography. This flawless set is from the show, Dralion (thanks Byron Andrews):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uznAQaPIVT4

Pool trick shots:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP1uMgMQa5k
and Eric Yow: Even more impressive spin shots as he plays on a European table (smaller pockets):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCv_HbhVYYI

This one strangely fits into two categories at least - A man called Dan Menendez playing the piano with his balls (thanks Hussain Kadim):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uu6XgRIlsA&NR

Table Football:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS3HpLzabaw

Table tennis. Classic attack vs defence from the back of the court (thanks Ed Qualtrough):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=luVfBZ7I2Mk
And here it is taken to the extreme, from an actual ITTF final between 2 chinese players, Ma Lin and the world no. 1 Wang LiCin. It's the last point of the match, Wang is well ahead so they contrive this ridiculous point where they both end up on each others' side of the table (thanks Ed Qualtrough):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhji0xapVKg

I had no idea what hackey sack (or footbag) was until I played California Games on the Megadrive (Genesis) when I was a kid. To be honest I'm still not entirely sure but Jorden Moir is apprently one of the best:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A72jSPEtOJI

Basketball:
Top ten slam dunks:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIhCfQyyYc4
Basketball skill arcade game (thanks Marco Duan):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQiBA2DU4eo
For those of you that haven't seen it, Slamball is a full contact basketball dunk game with trampolines:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXtXynwoKHc
Tommy Baker. Basketball freestyle trickster:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUMljbxsMVw
Seattle Sonics' Dunking Ushers:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfUPAoneeTs

Snooker: Ronnie O'Sullivan - Fastest televised 147 break (thanks John Theis):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw4IiJa3fdk

The flying eagle ten pin bowling shot. One ball, three pins, two lanes:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc9bA-hvqHU

Scorpion bowling ball knife face catching. I really don’t know how else to describe this:
youtube.com/watch?v=EaymiT3_6Cc





DANCE:


21 deaf girls performing the Thousand-hand Bodhisattva dance (Thanks Jonny Kirby):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=24SoPihLdq4

Bboy Junior, part of the Wanted Posse in France, amazing breakdancing (thanks Henry Barnett):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UeOdqjB_7k
and Bboy Physix, who I prefer. Less power but more versitility. Skip the first three minutes:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U3nWicXuo8

David "Elsewhere" Bernal, popping, locking, sliding, and generally looking like a robot:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiLK7S2fXqQ
Here he is back in Kollaboration 2001. The video that made him famous:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUz4OLQi_uw

Dancing with a unicycle:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xuUzuklkoU

That annoying Dance Arcade game thing (DDR? PIU?):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg7WZHukQ4M
And the only person who occasionally makes it look cool, someone called Smidget (thanks to Melissa Goodman for finding the link again):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=crEz8i6oVpI

Love it or most probably hate it, Riverdance still deserves to be here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEYyf6p98yw

And the same goes for Cirque du Soleil I suppose:
Russian Swings from "Varekai." Skip to 2 minutes in:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQvDcZqqalU

Adam Menzies from Cirque du Soleil (above) demonstrating some beautiful trampoline moves:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rThd18M_P6Y





MUSIC:


Acapella:
Rockapella singing "Tonight":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAmiaTblGg4
and my favourite, Take 6 with their better, early line-up, their arrangements are unbeatable:
So much to say:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvun8DywT-o
Goldmine '89:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmLuV64kdqA
Bobby McFerrin (of "Don't Worry Be Happy" fame) showing awesome vocal versatility, at one point humming three notes at once. Astounding:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mX2y0pTcQQ
11 year old yodeller (thanks Jeny Lau):
youtube.com/watch?v=c74zLdaWqmo

Greg Pattillo beatboxing while playing Inspector Gadget on the flute:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ZX5qdIEB0

Playing Super Mario Brothers on an 11 string bass:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5fYwiXZeFU

The best crab scratching and beat juggling I've ever seen by the Scratch Perverts (thanks Jonny Burch):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_PgRkTaDyE

Masami Takeuchi, the best theremin player in the world.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwqLyeq9OJI

The pianist, Cziffra improvising on top of Lizst and Chopin while warming up before a show. Really heats up after 2 minutes (thanks Benedict Westenra):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf2accwGEaU
Emanuel Feuermann plays Popper's Spinning Song - skip to 5:30 (thanks Matthew Ward):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1NMBh47mGw

Guitar:
Stanley Jordan plays Autumn leaves on two guitars at once (thanks Alex Baker):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=baDM3_6w8-E
and here he is with Jools Holland covering "Eleanor Rigby." I challenge anyone not to be blown away by this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-l-IukRxxs
Dragonforce guitarists, Herman Li and Sam Totman. Top notch sweep picking, tapping and beer swigging (thanks James Fellows):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x96hXWAWtSM
Simply has to be seen to be believed. Carlos Gomez playing The Flight Of The Bumblebee stupidly fast:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkbgoQow4TA

Beatboxing:
Roxorloops one of the best today:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmb_ckJCfJ8
Search for Rahzel to see the man responsible for the revival in 2000. Here he is being taught by Roxorloops:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R-5VnZkoY4
Shlomo shows what a looping sampler can do for beatboxing. Here he is performing at this year's Glastonbury (thanks Nick Whittingham):
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=o2H_ipMFSrk

"Music for one apartment and six drummers." Video showing Kostr-Film sampling sounds from around an apartment to make a music (thanks Jonny Kirby):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2bcPIXl8kc

Amateur musician composes a song by compiling loads of tiny video clips of drum hits and piano notes. Quite fun towards the end (thanks Oliver Rickman):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqumbhfxRo

While my ukulele gently weeps (thanks Ed Cannon):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9mEKMz2Pvo
MISCELLANEOUS:


Rodrigo Cao. World's number one flair bartender. Winner of the Nations International Flair Challenge 2006:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZuQemSvbiQ

Kevin Johnson, ventriloquist, performs Godzilla without the words matching his mouth:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy0mz0t879Q

Alexander Overwijk - World Freehand Circle Drawing Champion:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAhfZUZiwSE

Tom Noddy doing incredible things with bubbles in the 70s:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8fcMDuf5zU

After a long struggle this guy lands a monster fish:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh_VFvIQR5w

Alan Szabo. Remote control helicopter. After 25 seconds it goes mental (thanks Daniel conway):
youtube.com/watch?v=gi7G-VzU2r4

Amazing remote control plane skills (thanks Sebastian Pinski):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gulv_bvZS94

Poker chip tricks:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP1sZCI_p4Q

Juggling cards (or extreme card manipulation as we must all now call it):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPr8xd0dkE4

Awesome street puppeteer. Not quite "Being John Malkovich," but then they used more hands:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uALk5DKdU2I

Surprisingly exciting clip: Phil "The Power" Taylor. The only player to get a 9 dart finish on live TV, and he's done it three times. This was the first:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVXDPL54TSs

Mark Jeffries, British aerobatic world champion 2005/6 (thanks Andrew Chetwood):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8GzVnloNZY

I just don’t know where to put this video. David Smith: human cannonball. Ridiculous:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX9S_m7W4UA

Julian Beever. Perspectival street art:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyPhCO3LrtQ

Shadow puppetry at its best, and funniest:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOggqRNH9yo

Stephen Wiltshire - The savant "human camera" who draws accurate cityscapes from memory (thanks Marco Duan):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVqRT_kCOLI

Travis Tomasie reloads a pistol in a split second:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwhUMM43Cms

Aries Spears performs very convincing impressions of Jay Z et al:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ3vIYow7ns





POINTLESS WORLD RECORDS:


Jamie Pierre jumps off a 77m cliff with no parachute. Not entirely sure how much skill it took but it's still a world record (thanks Tim Barnett):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzlXlTv5V7U

36 pirouettes non-stop (thanks Christopher Blackmon):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaKWStmq7mM

World's fastest drinking (thanks Alex Baker):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvqXlLkeojA

124 headspins without his hands touching the ground:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwaOiF87tLA

Rubix Cube:
World's Fastest:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pqUedt1HdI
One handed:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wYPwT_2h58
Blindfold:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHgrLOAK3A8

World's highest shallow dive Danny Higginbottom:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSXzBSPQ50k

World Record bubblegum blower. This is really quite disgusting:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=62HjZ1-LGDo

Mike Mangini is the world's fastest drummer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7TzWrKso4I

Matt McAllister wears the most T-Shirts in one go (thanks Emma Lodato):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsK2L37CRtM

Phone book tearing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OglYJPkMVsQ

The world record cup stacking:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyXCQnzWK9w

Minesweeper on Expert:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsI6RA3o6yM

Forced eating record:
World champion, Takeru Kobayashi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnDjpLDMxRM





ASTOUNDING TIME WASTERS:


Etch-a-Sketch artist, George Vlosich (thanks Oli Dacombe):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYM__s3R5q0&NR=1

This is just ridiculous. A never ending set of pool trick shots set off by dominoes. Very French (thanks Jonny Kirby):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHeCXWt3X20&NR

Drawing the Mona Lisa in MS Paint (thanks Oliver Butler):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk2sPl_Z7ZU

I’m not sure what exactly this is, but it appears to qualify as an astounding waste of time. Linerider (thanks Alex Baker):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SVMFCZgvNM

Pixilated (like stop motion) fight sequence. Took them over two months to film 5 minutes:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJzU3NjDikY

Using people as pixels to recreate Space Invaders:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPuc3vDIUbs

Sand Sculpture 2007. I haven't had time to search extensively but there are tonnes more out there if anyone cares to find the best:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=USuecZTgaSw

The best aging timelapse compilation I've seen over 8 years of a boy's life:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc_PU3D3QNE

Alexis Milant shows off his fingerboard!!:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnvyIfeevW4

The famous chain reaction Honda Advert, genuinely filmed in one shot:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGngcQb_0qg
It was inspired by the Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss. Here’s a small section of their 1987 reaction, “The Way Things Go,” in which fire is the main instigator (thanks Jenna Farthing):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U82eWptFxSs

Huge chain reaction using Mintos and Diet Coke:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vk4_2xboOE

ONE OFF SKILLS:
This new section is here for all the videos that appear to be very skilful but, because they’re only on off clips, most people could probably perform them given enough time and inclination:


"Pong" shots. Very dedicated (and presumably very bored) American students scoring incredible cup shots with ping pong balls (thanks George Cotzias):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmxO25DD5X4&NR

The up and coming sport of can throwing (thanks Berrak Dyer):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6szYzaOXSYs

Zack Gort pulls off a flair "flying eagle" ten-pin bowling shot (thanks Sammy Badawy):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmRgfYve3AI

Not sure if this should be here. A gymnast being launched in the air before pencil diving back through a basketball hoop:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=diGIZC4CBJk

There are a lot of these on Youtube. One of the last second basketball buzzer shots (thanks Lee Quah):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AT7KKcwKpw&NR
And here’s a whole series of more outrageous longshots (thanks Sam Lings):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rgE0aorv0o

Amazing coin bouncing shots:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=enik1TlRvU0





FAKE VIDEOS:
I’ve seen a number of videos that are so good they must be fake. These are the ones I know use trickery of some form or another. In particular, commercials often appear to employ incredible videos of skill:


Here’s a fake storm surfing clip from a Powerade advert (thanks Thomas Ramsden):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ti-MRrSH9A
Powerade again. This time showing LeBron James apparently scoring a series of 80 foot three pointers in a row:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ST4Ag87cPs
Ronaldinho features in this Nike advert apparently hitting the crossbar 4 times in a row from 25 yards after he gets his new "Touch of gold" trainers:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsO6D1rwrKc
This VW advert uses some amazing shadow puppetry:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zIODJsnqXE

Catching sunglasses with someone's face. A camera trick, apparently. I still can't work out how it works (thanks Ryan Tulley):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-prfAENSh2k

Finally, here’s a very simple magic trick using shoelaces that looks amazing. I'll let you work out how it's done:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sICZVvqFIk4





ONLY IN JAPAN:


They've compiled, wait for it, all the best pen spinning clips in the world. Unbelievable:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q7s4E94-No

Makoto Nagano, Sasuke Champion - a mental version of the eliminator from Gladiators (thanks Joe Farish):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkBkZpK-fYQ

The world record for a slam dunk, jumping from a trampoline over 6m away:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u6RlOhO0oU

The world’s fastest secretary:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKlv-Ps-ug0

Parking world record:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S98Xjx3LMYk

Hiroyuki Suzuki, yoyo champion. Thrilling. Just thrilling:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6fCPGIvDAQ
And the world champion 2006, Shinji Saito (thanks ed Cannon):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=snqF_FEizWs

Tetris. Watching this nearly gave me an aneurism:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCAnggppNd0

Japanese hand dance arcade thing, lightning quick, and not sped up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbEC4uUbW3o

Using wine bottles and roller blades to play music:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xa2wVBza98&eurl=

Awesome Zippo lighter skills:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Duj_g0WuQF8

A Japanese series of innovative chain reactions. There are at least three more where this came from if you search. Turn the sound off lest the hideously irritating jingle at the end of each chain reaction send you mental:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDudog6zF7k

HOWZAT!