PickVidsBest Sports & athletics Videos
The 38 Sports & athletics videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 2 introductory, 0 intermediate, 36 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a demo. What they share is that you see the result first and only then decide whether to follow the detail. Channels you will keep seeing include TED, Top Gear, Porsche.
The 919 Tribute Tour: On-board record lap, Nordschleife.
Onboard footage of Timo Bernhard driving the Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo to an all-time Nurburgring Nordschleife record lap of 5:19.
Pop an ollie and innovate! | Rodney Mullen | TED
Skateboarding pioneer Rodney Mullen talks about how the open skate community and its environments drive the invention of new tricks out of pure passion.
High Altitude Leadership | Chris Warner | Talks at Google
Climber Chris Warner talks at Google about his book on high altitude leadership and the 2007 K2 expedition, where eighteen climbers summited and two died.
Lars Andersen: A new level of archery
Archer Lars Andersen demonstrates fast, accurate shooting techniques he says he revived from historical art and texts, arguing Hollywood archery is not historical.
RAT POISON AND BRANDY: THE 1904 ST. LOUIS OLYMPIC MARATHON.
Jon Bois tells the story of the 1904 St.
Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger? | David Epstein
David Epstein argues in this TED talk that improving athletic records owe much to technology, training and the selection of specialized body types, not just humans getting inherently better.
Climbing SOLO with Alex Honnold **INSANE EXPERIENCE**
Norwegian climber Magnus Midtbo spends a day climbing with Alex Honnold on exposed routes, shot as a vlog.
Stealing Baseball Signs with a Phone (Machine Learning)
Mark Rober and Jabril build an app that uses machine learning to decode baseball sign sequences.
The NCAA: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on the NCAA, arguing that the organization profits enormously from college athletes while insisting they remain unpaid amateurs.
Principles of Natural Running with Dr. Mark Cucuzzella
Dr.
El Sendero Luminoso ft. Alex Honnold | The North Face
A short film of Alex Honnold free soloing El Sendero Luminoso, a 2,500-foot route in El Potrero Chico, Mexico, in a little over three hours with no rope.
The ascent of Alex Honnold
A CBS News (60 Minutes) profile of free solo climber Alex Honnold, who scales sheer rock faces without ropes.
Michael Jordan "Failure" Nike Commercial
A Nike commercial in which Michael Jordan lists the shots he missed and games he lost, saying that repeated failure is the reason he succeeds.
Sabine Schmitz's Nurburgring Van CHALLENGE | Top Gear - Part 2
In Top Gear's second part, racing driver Sabine Schmitz tries to lap the Nurburgring in a Ford Transit van in under ten minutes.
Why Figure 8 knot is NOT hard to untie!
Hard Is Easy runs experiments to show that a correctly tied figure 8 knot is not hard to untie after loading.
Shanghai Tower (650 meters)
A POV video of climbers illegally scaling the 650 m Shanghai Tower while it was under construction, filmed on a helmet camera.
Inner Game of Tennis
A 1970 demonstration of W.
Olympic Cyclist Vs. Toaster: Can He Power It?
Olympic track cyclist Robert Forstemann tries to pedal hard enough to power a 700 W toaster and toast a slice of bread.
Joe Rogan Experience #1027 - Courtney Dauwalter
Joe Rogan interviews ultramarathon runner Courtney Dauwalter shortly after she won the Moab 240 in under 58 hours.
Cyclists' hearts: can you be so fit that you die?
Medlife Crisis examines why some elite endurance athletes die in their sleep, covering extremely slow heart rates and the effects of performance-enhancing drugs that thicken blood.
Maradona Goal of the Century - Víctor Hugo Morales commentary - Argentina-England 2-1 1986
Victor Hugo Morales's famous radio commentary of Maradona's second goal against England at the 1986 World Cup.
Rowing 3,000 Miles Across the Atlantic Ocean
Laura Try recounts her 3,000-mile row across the Atlantic as part of a crew of four women in the 2018 Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge.
369 km/h on the Nordschleife | Lap Record Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo
Onboard footage of Timo Bernhard setting the Nurburgring Nordschleife lap record of 5:19.546 in the Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo, beating Stefan Bellof's 35-year-old time.
GoPro: Wingsuit Flight Through 2 Meter Cave - Uli Emanuele
A short GoPro film of Uli Emanuele's wingsuit BASE jump through a roughly 2 meter wide cave opening, after three years of preparation.