Forward Flip Basketball Shot: AMAZING VIDEO

People have made some amazing shots in basketball, but this one has to be near the top of my list. An Ohio eighth-grader pulled of a stunt shot that has to be seen to be believed. He runs forward, does a forward somersault/flip using the basketball to push off the floor, and then hurls the ball towards the basket at the opposite end of the court, 60 feet away. SWISH!

This video is really incredible. Watch the circus shot below.

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Comments

[CoryC]

This is news?

[nicho]

Yup!

[carstenspolicy]

Lebron James could not make that shot...

[cloudmaker]

Why are lucky shots reported as achievement? Have him do it five times in a row, then write the
story.

[euripedes923]

I'll bet this kid knows where Gov. Sanford is!
And with a shot like that, no doubt he can fix Jon & Kate's marriage!
Perhaps we could also get his opinion about Will.I.am & Perez's dust-up.
I hear he's penning his autobiography "as told to" Joe the Plumber.
I wonder how he'll vote on Sotomayor?

[Palemoon]

Good, now let's send him to Iran to show the protestors the proper throwing technique with accuracy. With that kind of accuracy, they won't need guns, rocks would waylay the basij as quick as any gun.

[Soundofthunder]

Improbable but possible...just like a health care reform bill not watered down by corporate interests. Back off, people. I'm entitled. This is a political site, not frivolity.com.

SOT

[hartkid]

Big deal. I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home and they're not much bigger than three meters.

[delvis]

Luke is that you

[Alexander-Y]

SWG? I am not the only person who plays that game?

[Shannon Cook]

I think somebody just got "H"

[thaggas]

LOL.

[thaggas]

There are worse ways to get your fifteen minutes.

Nice shot.

[Big0725]

At least he earned it. Not like celebutards like Paris Hilton and Lindsey Lohan.

[nanjemoy]

well, Lindsey Lohan did act in movies, and until her recent flailing she was a rising star for her accomplishments and her promise.

[tonewheel]

He's gettin' laid tonight!

[Freemind42]

he's in 8th grade! what is wrong with you?

[aftershock]

Well can the kid at least get to second base? Lol.

[Sayahh]

Yeah, because eighth graders don't have sex, ever. It's naïveté like this that's keeping parents from having "the talk" with their kids until it's too late, resulting in child predators ending up on Dateline, as well as school teachers going to jail and/or getting pregnant (e.g., Pamela Rogers Turner, Rebekah M Todd, Mary Kay Letourneau).

[mummbleswers]

Yeah what's wrong with you? Are you a writer for David Letterman or something?

[feltdizz]

I would be impressed it it was a first take or in a game but hell....I've kicked a ball off a wall and it went in...anything is possible if you keep trying it.

[Freemind42]

you must be the story-topper in your group of friends

[nycvagabond]

good for you chum p

[blindjester]

A HS soccer team I coached into the state quarterfinals got beat by a kid who could do a throw-in like that. Twice he centered the ball right in front of the goal for a header.

We were looking for it the second time, and the kids still couldn't stop it.

We pretty much just had to applaud.

[Antifascist-08]

I know the Stanford women's soccer team used to use that technique. I'm not sure it was banned from competition, though, because i haven't seen it lately.

[aftershock]

Rather than applaud you know, you could've notified the refs that the kid was throwing the ball in illegally.... since you know you're feet aren't allowed to leave the ground. Lol.

[blindjester]

His feet didn't leave the ground. When he released the ball, both feet were square on the ground, according to rules.

If you're gonna be snotty, try to be right.

[EST74]

nice!

[Lauren Collier 1]

I say, "Sign him up!"

[sonnyshook]

Easy, I did this in high school ..I think I was 15 then. There were no cameras around. Anyway it was a long time ago.

[sholbo]

What a pathetic lie

[smchp]

Thank you for demonstrating the psychological disorder of projection.

[buddhistMonkey]

Yeah, well, I did this in middle school... when I was 14. There were plenty of cameras around, only none of them had film loaded.

[sonnyshook]

LOL

[nycvagabond]

GET A LIFE