You can see things you couldn’t even dream
of online. Pretty much anything is available for your
viewing pleasure on the internet. But that means that sometimes, the greatest
videos go completely unnoticed. Some of these show people doing things which
you would’ve believed to be impossible, things which will totally blow you away and
change the way you see the world. Ready to see the impossible being made possible? Let’s get it on! Skydiving is dangerous. Sure it can be done, maybe you even have a
friend or two who’ve done it, but things can and do go wrong - like your parachute
not deploying. If that happens, then you’re in serious
trouble. With that in mind, it’s definitely impossible
to jump out of a plane without a parachute. Right? Well Luke Aikins decided to prove it’s possible,
even though we all know it’s not. He jumped out of a plane at 25,000 feet in
the air, without a parachute or a wingsuit. Any rational person would declare him dead
after that but it all happened live on TV so we know that’s not true: he just fell
for two minutes at a speed of 120 miles per hour and landed safely in a net, which has
previously only been done by the Looney Tunes, which just goes to prove just how impossible
that stunt actually was. You’ve seen old Kung Fu movies where people
break wooden blocks with their feet or fists. It’s a hugely impressive skill - one karate
chop and that plank is history. Ever seen someone do that to a concrete block
though? Now that’s really a level up. Some people can do that in the traditional
way, but this Bosnian TaeKwonDo champion can do it with his head. That alone should be impossible, but he can
also do more than one block at a time. He holds an absolutely insane world record
for breaking an impossible 111 concrete blocks with his head in only 35 seconds, and he was
only 16 years old at the time. Every part of that record sounds impossible
- even just the basic premise of being able to break concrete with your head, but he did
it anyway and the crowd absolutely loved it. Getting humans into space was an incredible
achievement in human history. Successes like that require incredible amounts
of technology - like the work that’s put into vehicles that can break the sound barrier. The human body simply can’t do it alone. At least that’s what we thought. Felix Baumgartner broke the sound barrier
with his body alone back in 2010, and he did that impossible thing by jumping from the
edge of space. He didn’t get to the edge of space with
a rocket ship though - just to make the entire stunt even more impossible, he got up there
using a helium balloon. Sure he called it a stratosphere balloon,
but it was fundamentally just a balloon. He took it up to 128,100 feet, and then jumped
out, reaching 833mph speeds before the atmosphere slowed him down. Yep, you heard that right, the atmosphere
slowed him, like it does when rockets return from space. His freefall lasted 4 minutes and 20 seconds,
but let’s face it, that’s just a detail among all the impossible stunts happening
in this story. There aren’t many things in this world that
are certain, but one thing is: humans can’t fly. That’s why planes exist. We know for a fact that if you jump from a
height, you fall, so at the very least you need a parachute to save you. Unless you’re Gary Connery. He decided a parachute wasn’t needed and
took only a wingsuit with him when he jumped out of a helicopter 2,400 feet in the air. He then flew back to earth with his wings
and landed safely, with only some cardboard boxes to break his fall, despite reaching
speeds of 80mph. So there you have it: humans actually can
fly. Well, one human can fly. And you better remember that the next time
you feel like you can’t do something, because it’s definitely not as impossible as that,
so we guarantee you can do it. There are only a few people who can truly
make history in their chosen sport. It requires not just talent but dedication
too, and when you add in perfect conditions, you sometimes get something simply spectacular. This snowboarding World Record came with an
amazing platform - a 5 storey high hip jump, one of the highest ever built. It allowed the expert Swiss snowboarder Christian
Haller to do something which everyone would have said was impossible until after he’d
done it - a 37ft high air on a hip jump. Just have a look at how high 37feet over the
coping actually is - the video perfectly shows just how superhuman that record-breaking jump
actually is. This is one of those records that we probably
won’t see beaten for a very long time. No matter how good you are at something, there’s
a limit to what can be achieved - you know, the fastest or highest or hottest something
can possibly get. After that, you’re heading into the realms
of the impossible. Some people don’t care if they’re attempting
something that should be impossible and they just do it anyway. Kyle Wester stepped - or rather, skateboarded
- into the impossible and smashed the record for fastest skateboard speed downhill. If you’re thinking you can’t really go
that fast on a skateboard, think again - his speed was a terrifying 89.41 miles per hour! It smashed the previous record of 81.17 miles
per hour, which already sounds like an impossible speed. So even people who create impossible records
aren’t safe - there’s always someone out there waiting to outdo them. Doing anything extreme is difficult. We tend to think of going up into the sky
as dangerous and complicated, but it’s just as hard to go down. Freediving is possibly the most difficult
way to go down - it means diving deep below the water’s surface without equipment. You need to be able to hold your breath for
a really long time in very difficult conditions, so only 4 people in recorded history have
made it deeper than 560 feet. Herbert Nitsch is the only person to go much
deeper than that. He can hold his breath for 9 minutes and holds
33 world records for doing the impossible, including reaching an impossible depth of
830.8 feet underwater. And it really should have been impossible:
he ended up in a coma for 7 days and the doctors said he would be in a wheelchair for the rest
of his life, but he’s back on his feet now and proving that even the impossible is sometimes
possible, but still really difficult. There’s a stereotype that people who have
a disability, can’t do things nearly as amazing as people who don’t. But there are people who couldn’t care less
about a stereotype and achieve the impossible just because they can. And when I say impossible, I mean impossible
for anyone. This is Aaron Fotheringham and he’s more
of an adrenaline junkie than you. He’s quite clearly one of those people who
doesn’t understand the word “can’t.” And rightly so, because he can obviously do
anything he puts his mind to as this video shows. This is him in his wheelchair, pulling off
a perfect 50 foot front flip. None of us could do that with the use of every
limb on our bodies. Should that be impossible? Maybe. But people like him are here to prove that
humans can do anything. Anything that puts you at the mercy of nature’s
elements is incredibly dangerous. Parachuting is one of those things and it
requires an incredible amount of skill to be able to keep control when you’re being
moved by the wind and air currents. This guy has just got to be supernatural,
because wind seems to have no power over him at all. He can parachute with perfect elegance onto
a seaside cliff and float gently down to find himself seated on a bench enjoying the scenic
view, like it’s no big deal. He lands in a way that makes it look like
he’s been relaxing there for hours, definitely not like he’s just fallen out of the sky. We can only dream of that kind of composure,
it’s impossible for the rest of us mere mortals. Nature is majestic and often untamable. Humans simply can’t compete with the grandeur
found in the natural world, and there are unconquered parts of the world everywhere
you look. El Capitan in Yosemite National Park was one
of those spots, until Alex Hannold came along. El Capitan is a 3000ft natural wall of granite
- it’s smooth and incredibly dangerous and any rock climbers you would have asked would
have said it’s a mountain that’s impossible to climb without ropes and safety gear. They were probably right, it was probably
impossible, but Alex Hannold didn’t take it to heart. He decided to tackle it free solo anyway and
he did, in just 3 hours and 56 minutes. No ropes or safety gear, just a total unwillingness
to believe that it wasn’t possible. It’s gone down in history as possibly the
greatest feat in the history of the sport, and for good reason. The best sportsmen have highs and lows. Sometimes they make mistakes that nobody can
believe can happen on that level, but sometimes they have such a great moment nobody can believe
what they’ve just seen. Uruguayan tennis star Pablo Cuevas has a habit
of pulling off impossible shots. In the middle of difficult rallys, he often
responds with nearly impossible shots, like this no-look forehand. And before you think that was just luck, he’s
won points with no-look shots before, like this one on the first day of Wimbledon 2019. His no-look winning shot isn’t the only
impossible shot, but it might be the most impressive, especially given the accuracy
of it. It’s not every day that you face an opponent
who hardly needs eyes to win a tennis match, so anyone playing against him must get pretty
nervous. Have you ever noticed that when you get bored,
you sometimes go out of your way to make things difficult for yourself. People usually do that in little ways, but
some people go all out. This group of YouTubers go by the name How
Ridiculous. They’re widely known for their crazy trickshots,
more specifically a stunt they do where they skip a dart across pallets and still hit a
bullseye. Every time they hit the target, they add a
few more pallets… and this time it’s an incredible 10-pallet dart skip. Of course, any normal human who finds it difficult
to hit a bullseye without also having to navigate 10 pallets would think this would be impossible,
but these guys have never heard the word impossible. They just set everything up perfectly and
do it. Kids are amazing but they’re often underestimated
by grown-ups who just can’t believe they can do something better than an adult. There are a few kids who have their name in
the history books though, proving they can do extraordinary things. This kid from India is one of them - he’s
an expert limbo skater and he broke the world record for Farthest Distance Limbo Skating
Under Cars at only 6 years old. The record breaking attempt saw him hold his
body parallel to the ground, with his face just inches from the asphalt as he skated
under an incredible 36 Jeeps. That’s a total distance of more than 213
feet with his body locked into that perfectly flat position. I think it’s safe to say most of us couldn’t
even stand in that position, never mind skate with our body like that. This kid has skills that would definitely
be impossible for most of us.
