Vsauce - Can You Boomerang A Football?

[@kurtisokc]

You’re overthinking this. If you want to boomerang a football all you have to do is kick it into a stiff wind.

[@starchild2299]

or just straight up

[@anartismal]

Thank you Micheal, for calling it a football and not a soccer ball, yes I am aware the Brits came up with the name

[@ChrisWollensack]

Well, Michael does live in England. :)

[@tenma628]

because you CAME from Vsause, didnt u?

[@steviewonder1513]

Is he American and lives in England or is he just English?

[@Felipe-sh4ub]

Stevie Wonder "does he sound english to you" 😂(sarcastic tone) Jk no disrespect

[@sorenchristensen2149]

S O C C E R B A L L

[@olmosbananas]

i like how michael just dribbles the ball away like a basketball at the end

[@momo2cool4skool]

Its nice for vsauce to talk about something i have so much passion for.

[@MonkeyDCamacho]

Roberto Carlos can do it, just ask him.

[@thepatriottz9205]

Fernando Camacho they say Roberto isn't big enough to generate that kind of power apparently they haven't seen his legs he has the legs of a horse

[@AqibKhan-oi3mp]

been subscribed to Copa90, STRskillschool and Vsauce since quite a while. Awesome to see all three in one video, would never of thought it would happen!

[@adammartinelli8274]

4:19 At low quality, the word "FLICK" looks like a VERY DIFFERENT WORD...

[@orrinheatlie6082]

lol

[@Gabriel-qx7pw]

wooosh

[@zenanchen9395]

I.N Creator no shit Sherlock

[@dylanzzz561]

Str teaches neymar to fuck

[@Youtube..Enjoyer]

lol it looks like rick

[@GreenDayxRock1]

The way he responded right away "not a chance" just showed exactly how good of a trainer he must be.. Really is impossible for anyone human :S

[@BananaRama1312]

Yea one has to be a spectacular Trainer to know that tf you talking bout

[@naoimporta58]

1 - Roberto Carlos was left-footed. 2 - The kick that the other guy explaining(Not Michael) performed was a finesse shot, the kick Roberto Carlos did was a trivela. 3 - It would be better if, instead of only showing those animations(That were very cool BTW), you showed the actual free-kick, at least once.

[@ro0135]

Eros Viana third one: copyright

[@amieriddles]

Eros Viana wut

[@lourencodenardinbudo686]

Thank you!! (Don't know about copyrights, though...)

[@BarcaPatrick9]

Eros Viana actually...you're wrong...Roberto Carlos's free kick was actually a knuckleball or maybe a swazz...the ball didnt have much spin

[@giantjellyfish2886]

Patrick Interiano seriously!? Carlos's kick was said to have the most spin ever in a free kick. Do your research.

[@liamwilson6102]

Says Roberto Carlos simply wasn't that powerful.. .

[@taytay8948]

I live and work in gillingham, I can't believe you were so close and I missed you, would have been great to say hi!

[@FlowGD]

3:38 BLAZE IT

[@srkstik__]

thanks

[@skillerx79]

Omg XDDD

[@einx7803]

HOLY SHIT! IT'S VSAUCE!!!!!!

[@ehabshanan1601]

Einx It's Michael actually. The fans are Vsauce.

[@FroZenMemes]

Ehab Shanan But his channel name is called VSauce indicating that it's actually him. *VSauce music plays*

[@DaliborJanKomarik]

*howtobasic

[@jamesmaeder3128]

I love how u hear the vsauce guy dribbling like its a basketball in the end

[@qwertyuiop7764]

Copa90 Vsauce hitting the ball with that much force would burst it, van buyten popped a ball from a free kick and hes neither 70 foot tall nor faster than a train

[@Skullkid359]

But those balls were crap

[@qwertyuiop7764]

?

[@zaidabraham7310]

qwerty uiop It might have been a faulty ball

[@OESL230886]

i would love to see the experiment on Myth Busters!!!!

[@hailgod1]

+Oscar Sáenz then all you have to do is make a viral video of a fake ball curving. they might give it the attention it wants and make the real curve happen mythbusters style.

[@riopeynado3959]

I've already done it it's possible

[@dismalthoughts]

@@riopeynado3959 How's the weather up there?

[@winnumber101]

People are over here like: "Stupid Americans" or "Stupid Brits"... and I'm just like: "Cool video"

[@ShadeFC]

remember to be 70 feet tall like he said before you start impressing them ;) best of luck

[@ThatMessiFan10]

LOL nobody liked you comment for 7 years😂 , how does it feel loser?

[@SandStormGamingUKAE]

hold my beer...

[@mikkelcoollinan9285]

I've done it. In wind with a plastic football.

[@AbuJesus1]

Just kick it a 70 degrees up, it will have enough time to fly and spin to come back

[@silavasqquez]

exactly what i thought!

[@tommythai1043]

Hm... Say you kick it up, 70 degrees to the right, it curves to the peak of its trajectory whilst moving left to the center point...Then it continues left while continuing left. Won't you still need more spin to make it come right again back to you?

[@AbuJesus1]

Tommy Thai I think it will move in a spiral motion

[@patbibo6139]

earth flatter alert

[@hellofromc-1374]

Andres Messina How about 90 degrees up. No effort required and will surely come back.

[@johnjohnalmand]

lol 420 meters per second :)

[@aydansn]

Hey 🅱️sauce 🅱️ichael here

[@Jeromy1986]

There needs to be a Mythbusters-esque experiment done with this question in which the ball is made to spin upon a platform before being knocked forward with perfectly measured force to try to boomerang it.

[@kakarotto3]

Mordern projectiles are spun when fired. If you look inside the barrel there will be grooves that cause the bullet to rotate. This is called Rifling, what it does is increase the accuracy and the travel distance of the projectile, while helping it maintain a high velocity for a longer period of time. If the crosswind hitting a bullet is from it's left, the magnus effect will cause the bullet to drop slower, from the right causes it to drop faster because bullets rotate clockwise.

[@gfr97]

Gillingham

[@iceman00265]

er bit weird to find that they filmed this at my hometown club

[@haydeeess]

+iceman00265 utg

[@__nog642]

Just use a fucking machine, all I want to see is a soccer ball boomerang.

[@ForlanceAbice]

Technically, a bullet usually curves to the right, since the rifling inside is designed to make it spin in that direction. Usually the effect is relatively unnoticeable unless one takes a close look at the trajectory, seeing that most bullets hit something before they get to a distance to be of any effect.

[@ghanaboy49]

Copa90 should do more video like this. Merging Football and Science

[@18996doug]

Gillingham till I die... Iam Gillingham till I die

[@recorderchoir]

Can’t believe how good the gills have been playing lately. Threatening a playoff spot when most everyone had you guys in relegation for the season

[@A-Black-Chair]

420 m/s blaze it !

[@sparkfurs6204]

why the fuck there is no top comment??? youtube is boring without top comment

[@gamingwithnicko1942]

Hey Vsauce. Ear Rape: MICHAEL HERE

[@vitesseRS]

The diametrer of a circle?

[@RegalCooper]

Come on guys I'm french, I feel offedend by how you represent the french players x)

[@spazoid123456]

so? who really cares if you are offended?

[@AudreyYun]

should have gotten somebody actually good at football. i'm very disappointed in you michael.

[@BallJuiceOfZeus]

Starts bouncing a soccer ball as he runs off..... lol

[@masterchief9064]

Can proudly say that strskillschool has been teaching me plenty of great football tricks for a really long time now!

[@thehamzashabbir]

Can reducing the ball's size do the boomerang thing?

[@rhysman0001]

or could the ball be smaller instead of you being biger

[@tommythai1043]

No, force equals mass multiplied by acceleration so in order to produce a certain force with a certain acceleration you need a constant mass

[@netopian]

Tommy Thai rhysman0001 yes because you need less force to accelerate the football(which has less mass)

[@SantiagoArizti]

mass dos not scale very well, like an ant that can fall from a table top and be ok, but you falling off a cliff means instant death

[@rhysman0001]

adjust the density as well as scale

[@Obi-WanKannabis]

No, the bigger the ball is the more surface area, the more surface area the stronger the aerodynamic effect is. Smaller ball would get less affected by aerodynamics

[@R4V3-0N]

Fun fact: The Word "Soccer" for the sport Football originated in Britain, not U.S.A. So if you ever see a guy saying Soccer, do not blame USA, blame britain for blaming USA.

[@rachel_mlj]

R4V3-0N hey im british!

[@rachel_mlj]

R4V3-0N and he already did a vid on that anyway

[@R4V3-0N]

Rachel Johnson I know, but not everyone watches EVERY video vsauce made... for eg you remember the video he did while making farting noises and playing mario?

[@poseidongaming8322]

+R4V3-0N fun fact: america was created by britain people ( and spanish and protuguese ) so dont blame america blame britain for the creaton of usa

[@R4V3-0N]

Poseidon Gaming A bit off topic much?

[@se7en8ni9e]

2:09 diameter spelled wrong

[@jandildo]

It's so they could appease both British and US ways of spelling it ;)

[@hastings890]

Exactly = You've got the US way, and the plastered-drunk way ;)

[@GoyBenius_0901]

Hastings You mean the way Amerimongs spell it and the way the people who invented the English language (the fucking English) spell it.

[@AnnaGlin]

wha- I just scrolled down, read your comment, then scrolled up again and happened to look to look to the little ad in the upper corner next to the video and bam, same exact ad!

[@sdrawkcabnipyt]

you kick under it, you get a powerful backspin, but most of the momentum is going upward, gravity removes that momentum, which allows the spin to take hold of the trajectory.

[@Tryte]

No, that's not a soccer ball. That's a football, soccer balls look a little different.

[@TheBennychin]

***** They are literally two names for the same thing.

[@danielnizberg1754]

+Tryte its the same.

[@shabbankjes1775]

Sucker balls lol

[@jeffreydsnguyen8091]

Tryte It's the same

[@MisterBrrown]

420m ha

[@yoshtg]

420 meters a second ^^ i see what u did there

[@recep781]

With the increased height of the kicker, what he was trying to imply was the increase in mass. Assuming the length of the kicker is stationary or consistent increased height would mean larger volume and hence greater mass. Since: F=ma, increased m(mass) means increased force.

[@TheBytinator]

That would mean we would need a longer video explaining, because with a smaller ball, there's more factors affecting it, such as weight of the ball.

[@21eny]

Who else kept waiting for an American football to show up in the video?

[@Paulo_Matos_]

Only americans did.

[@sebastianandres99]

Paulo Matos Wrong, I'm american, from South America, and i wasn't expecting that. That shows U.S.A. people put their own stupid names for everything: soccer to football, billion instead of a thousand million, America to just a country (same as if Germany starts to name themselves "Europe"), and a large list of etc. America has over 963 million habitants, U.S.A.-is-not-america Paulo: sé que no eres estadounidense, lucha por nuestra identidad!, saludos

[@majorkatzmann2240]

Sebastian Lazcano You fail at logic. He said that only Americans waited for an American football. That means that there can be both Americans who expected it and Americans who didn't, but there aren't any non-Americans who expected that. So the fact that you're American doesn't make his statement wrong.

[@andreyleonel255]

Major Katzmann To be real, *he's right in some of his statements!* Like, most of U.S.A people just say "I'm American" or referes to U.S.A as AMERICA because *got used to it, doesn't think about it.* But this is some wrong stuff, *U.S.A isn't America, America is the Continent!* *(This may have happened at some point in the past, where America was showing its power!)*

[@GoyBenius_0901]

Sebastian Lazcano Nobody says one-thousand million. It's Million, Billion, Trillion.

[@sdrawkcabnipyt]

most of the momentum going upwards would be lost to gravity, but gravity would not effect the backspin, meaning the backspin wouldn't have to fight the other forces as much... making it more effective with less force needed.

[@AlessandroLCJ]

Search for didi, the brazilian maestro who played in 1958 world cup. He was able to make a move that the ball came back to him like magic.

[@ADailydoseofRandom]

If you alter the meaning of boomerang to mean that after the ball is kicked horizontally away from the player it comes back, boomeranging it surely wouldn't be that hard. You could kick nearly vertically up with backspin so it would come back.

[@SyntheticFuture]

Smaller balls = less resistance from the air = less effect from the spin, although that could be compensated by using different materials... but that would probably make the drag so high that you still need the extra power for it to move forward.

[@FalcoGer]

the point is that the ball drops to the ground before it completes the circle, so if you keep it in the air longer it can then do the full turn. proberbly best to do this without gravity with some sort of gas around (just a thought experiment)

[@KombatGod]

Michel Stevens, Steve Roberts... now we need Robert Michaels and it all comes full circle.

[@Pac0Master]

I am not sure, but i think the ball is made in a way to prevent as much as possible the deformation in mind air by spinning around

[@Pac0Master]

the ball would need to be heavier since a small ball would be more likely be stopped by air resistance. since it would not be massive enough to keep its momentum.

[@Doctormario4600]

And with good reason. It's so weird because just as I'm getting used to a certain layout and starting to enjoy it because I can actually use it, another freaking new layout comes. I prefer consistency because then we know what we're doing and we know how to use the website. That makes it a lot easier to use in my opinion.

[@damobeck1]

Love the kinetic typography in this vid

[@maribakumon]

You also have to make sure you don't make the ball explode when you kick it

[@humanrightsadvocate]

Excluding wind and kicking the ball straight up, you cannot boomerang a football. Because the force required to do it would actually destroy the ball.

[@npm1811]

This video is so welcomed

[@NDo-93]

its not about the proportion, its about the force needed

[@FujiwarnerCo1dj]

0:48 Question answered video over.

[@sk8rdman]

If you ever watched a skilled pitcher in baseball or cricket, you'll see that they do this. They can make the ball curve in various ways depending on their grip and release. Makes them much more difficult to hit.

[@Goragg907]

You said that when the ball stops traveling forward is when gravity takes hold as if gravity didn't have constant acceleration throughout the balls flight. That part could use an explanation, please!

[@Luckbeats]

There's actually a video on lad bible where someone kicked a ball on a windy day and it came back around

[@GoldeneyeDoubleO7]

OMG Copa 90 keep this as a series, Like mythbusters with soccer. Keep this Copa, drop unboxed and TFV

[@azzouzahmed7404]

even with smaller ball there is the square cube problem so even with same proportion between the human and the ball ,the bigger ball would work better for this trick

[@mauiuam]

I find it funny how Michael dribbled the ball away rather than kicking it as he ended the video

[@ThatBritishSnep]

C'MON YOU GILLS

[@TheAlphasapien]

I suppose according to your definition of "boomerang", you can't put a vertical spin on the ball instead of a horizontal spin? Basically I'm saying, kick the ball straight forward and up with a vertical spin, then the ball slows and reverses it's forward momentum and comes back to you assisted by gravity.

[@alejandromatosanguis5267]

probably, but in this case, the question is for a football

[@bradoldridge9410]

I come here from the why do we play games video where i sore your hat and you standing in priestfield i freaked out, just watching your videos then all of a sudden you're wearing the cress of my local football team lol, awesome that you come down to Kent for a bit and done a few videos, would have been awesome to have met you got a picture, your videos blow my mind everyone i watch and it was a nice surprise to see you've been to my local area, even if you (like many others) cant say the name of our town lol, Gillingham, some people calling it gilling ham, you was close at the end when you said it like jilling HAM although it's pronounced like jilling um

[@iCeCoLDN1NJa]

he's just starting a battle, leave him be.

[@DprxnceCLASSIC]

The answer is yes, kick it at a 70 degree angle up and put as much spin possible towards you making sure you’re kicking against the winds direction

[@DprxnceCLASSIC]

Try not to create a black hole buddy

[@orrinheatlie6082]

Place a large magnet in the ball and hold a large magnet

[@krispyking2450]

there’s 3 recommended videos for me below this video

[@nxone9903]

I feel like I've watched this before. This might be the first vsauce video I have watched

[@artemortis]

Some people just have to be reminded on regular basis.

[@benlismore236]

How tf was I so close to this glorious man without knowing?

[@OmniTron1000]

Micheal Stevens, you're my new hero.

[@eagleeye0078]

Yeah, exactly what I was hoping for when I read the title.

[@M3plusYOU]

why they just explained it perfectly

[@RRB99]

Also, you have to consider Australia, which has the very small population of about 22 million, seems to place in the top 10 (or top 20) most Olympics, despite the small population.

[@SuperChiva]

anyone else notice the shoes used to show how to curve the ball are from the 1990's ?

[@magicalseven]

If the ball traveling with the speed of a bullet can act as a boomerang, would that imply that if one were to create a mechanism to spin a bullet being shot, it could be curved?

[@llKingArthuRll]

Think how small the ball would need to be for this. Theoretically, it would work, but for someone to put such technique in such small object, it would be almost impossible.

[@5tealthlab5]

and of course the sharpest winkle pickers to be able to kick a ball that small.

[@alecmason7378]

no, unless the bullet was spherical and you had it spinning before you shoot it

[@RicardoKloss1055]

I didn't quite get why the height of the kicker was important for the power of the kick.

[@kurtt02]

He's in my hometown again

[@Charovfam5364]

how cool was that

[@jhosped500]

Woah he's wearing a River Park Tee, thats awesome.

[@tsmdyrus3096]

True. The potential of olympians depend on the resources they can afford. Richer countries like the US can afford to have a lot of good athletes and therefore perform well in the Olympics. Talents are all over the world, if u want to make something out of these talents, put resources into it.

[@kakarotto3]

Not only do you have to think about that, you'd also have to put the coriolis effect and azimuth into consideration. I feel bad for snipers, lots of complicated formulas to think about.

[@tonypatino1765]

Thank goodness he called it a football

[@SaucePie1]

It sorta does, you see after he gathers all this information, he probably memories most of it. And by that he get's intellignet.