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Nice work, but these types of videos always annoy me. Anyone with the basics of athletic skill can perform these stunts with enough tries -- which the guy admitted to taking several tries. Some of the pure-power moves are out of the question for a lot of people, and those are definitely cool, but kicking balls into trashcans and basketball hoops is not.

The exception would be doing several difficult moves in a row without fail.

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Yes, I could get a video of me doing a lot of these stunts. Great. Could I get all of them to happen in an afternoon of trying? Probably not. It would take a long time and a lot of luck to get any one of them.

An interesting, and far more skill showing (imo) version of this video would be to show how close they were on each of the tries - If for example he was within a couple of meters of collision each attempt, I would call that very high skill. But if the other attempts were dozens of meters apart, the skill would be much lower.

There are a handful of uncut scenes in the video where he repeatedly hits his target.

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