All language subtitles for Ripleys Believe It Or Not s01e08_Engish

COLLINS: I've got
lightning in a bottle.

I can barely
hold still.

They are drawn
to the madness.

COLLINS: People think
I'm a big mad --

[ Laughs ]

...but in a good way.

We were like...slack-jawed.

[ Car engine revs ]

KELLY: Don't even
practice this at home.

Don't even
attempt it.

It's very dangerous.

♪♪

CAMPBELL: 100 years ago,
Robert Ripley went on a quest

to the farthest reaches
of the globe

in search of the extraordinary
and unusual.

Today, the adventure continues,

searching for the world's
most bizarre,

astonishing secrets...

♪♪

...on "Ripley's
Believe It or Not!"

♪♪

There's an old saying --

"The only person you should
try and outdo

is the person
you were yesterday."

I'm Bruce Campbell,
and these are the high-fliers

who live
by that motto.

No matter their skill
or obsession,

they're always
pushing themselves

to go
one step beyond,

especially when the phenom
walks on water.

♪♪

♪ Gloria, gloria ♪

♪ Gloria, gloria ♪

UY:
I'm Michael.

This is Abbie.

Some people take their dogs
for a walk.

Other people
go to the dog park.

I take my dog
surfing.

♪♪

Up.
Good girl.

CAMPBELL:
Many dog owners struggle

just to teach
their pups to sit.

Abbie, come!

Come here.
Yeah.

Oh.
[ Laughs ]

Michael Uy went
beyond the basics

and taught his dog Abbie
to hang 10...

♪♪

...believe it...

...or not.

♪♪

♪♪

Michael Uy adopted
his water buddy, Abbie, in 2006.

The first place we went after
I adopted her was the beach.

Ever since then, we've had
a really close connection

with the ocean.

♪♪

Being in the water
is Abbie's happy place.

CAMPBELL:
While Abbie and Michael
may love the ocean now,

there was a time
when neither of them

had any joy
in their lives at all.

UY: About a year
before I adopted Abbie,

everything in my life
caved in at once.

I had lost my job.

Because of that, I was unable
to pay the mortgage on a house,

so I lost the house.

My fiancée decided
to leave as well.

I had
absolutely nothing.

♪♪

I was
driving around,

and I just happened
to see an animal shelter,

and this weird thought
came into my head,

just like, you know,
"Maybe if I adopted a dog

and train her,
we could go jogging together,

and, like,
I'd have a purpose."

♪♪

CAMPBELL: Things didn't
exactly go as planned.

♪♪

UY:
When I first adopted her,

she was actually
very traumatized.

She was afraid
of the dark.

She was afraid
of squirrels.

She was afraid
of other dogs.

[ Dog barks ]

CAMPBELL:
Slowly but surely,

Michael found
the key to Abbie's happiness.

UY:
When I started swimming,

she didn't know
what to make of it.

She would follow me.

Abbie was tired 'cause we were
actually a little bit offshore,

and I asked a surfer if
Abbie could rest on his board.

Most dogs would kind of crouch
down on an unstable surface.

Abbie stood straight up...

♪♪

...and she gave me
a look.

She looked
towards the beach,

was like,

"So we good to go?
We going to do this?"

We just got the idea
to tip her into a wave.

♪♪

CAMPBELL: Not only did
Abbie stay on the board,

she rode the wave
all the way to the shore.

UY: The board hit the beach,
and she turned around,

still standing on the board,

and we were, like...

like, slack-jawed.

CAMPBELL:
Turns out

the timid shelter dog
was born to do this.

UY: Alright!

Way to go, Abbie.

Abbie's
an Australian Kelpie,

and they have a very bizarre
skill when they herd sheep.

[ Film projector whirs ]

[ Dog panting ]

CAMPBELL: Like other dogs
bred for herding,

the Australian Kelpie is
a natural at steering livestock

from one spot
to another.

♪♪

What makes
this breed special

is that they actually run across
the backs of the sheep,

getting to the other side
of a herd

as fast as possible.

♪♪

No wonder Abbie's a natural
on a wobbly surfboard,

plus Michael noticed
surfing improved her mood.

UY:
She looked confident.

She looked like
she was having fun.

She was a different dog
once her feet touched the sand.

♪♪

We found out,
in Southern California,

there are
these dog-surfing contests...

...and so,
we entered one,

and she got first
in her qualifying heat

the first time,

and we were hooked.

♪♪

One of the contest organizers
approached us and was like,

"What's the longest wave
you guys have ever taken?"

And I said, "You know,
I really don't know."

♪♪

So, we had
this idea,

"Let's see
how far she could go,

and let's make it official."

CAMPBELL:
Surf's up.

Today, this talented pup
is going for gold...

♪♪

...trying to catch
the wave of a lifetime,

one that breaks the
Guinness World Record's title

for longest wave
surfed by a dog.

♪♪

[ Indistinct talking ]

[ Crowd cheering ]

♪♪

♪♪

WOMAN: Yeah!
Abbie!

[ Cheers and applause ]

CAMPBELL:
With a flawless ride,

Abbie is now
a world-class surfing dog.

UY: We set the record for the
longest wave surfed by a dog.

We actually got, like,
107 meters,

so that's where
the record is today.

♪♪

When Abbie and I
first started surfing,

we had no idea
what this would lead to.

We didn't even know there were
surfing contests at the time,

and it has become,
you know,

something that is an essential
part of our relationship.

It's part of my life,
it's part of her life,

and she loves it.

♪♪

Abbie gets
a stare and a smile

from practically
everyone she meets.

The same could be said for
D.C. cop Jeff Bloch,

who takes
custom-car-building

and flips it
on its head...

and its back
and its side.

You'll get
the idea.

♪♪

ANNOUNCER: We have an airplane
and an upside-down Camaro.

Are you kidding me?

[ Tires squeal ]

[ Engine revs ]

♪♪

I am Jeff Bloch,
better known as Speedycop.

[ Film projector whirs ]

♪♪

CAMPBELL:
With that nickname,

you'd think Jeff would be
a high-octane,

car-chasing hot shot.

Well, think again.

[ Camera shutter clicks ]

BLOCH:
I'm actually a horse-mounted
police sergeant,

so I ride a house
for a living.

Been a policeman
for 23 years,

and my hobby
and that of my friends

is building
really unusual cars.

♪♪

I mean, you don't see a Cessna
go down the road that often,

and an actual
Vietnam helicopter, no less.

CAMPBELL: Jeff's skill
was born out of necessity.

[ Drill whirs ]

BLOCH:
I was in college,

and I got tired of getting
ripped off at dealerships

for work on my car that
I thought I should be
able to do myself.

So, I'm self-taught,
taught myself mechanics

and fabrication engineering
and stuff like that,

and somehow it
just seems to work.

[ Accordion music plays ]

[ Engine revs ]

JAIME: Some people don't
believe what they see.

We've seen posts
on Facebook about,

"I think there was
a plane that crashed

on the side
of the road."

It's crazy the reactions
that we get.

[ Laughs ]

BLOCH: I love
making people smile.

When you pull in
to get gas somewhere,

you get surrounded,
you get swarmed.

You can't be
in a hurry,

but you also can't
be in a bad mood

because everybody's got
big grins on their faces,

and they're
excited about it,

so it's
kind of contagious.

We love to see
kids come up,

and we don't have these cars
that people can't touch.

We have these cars
that people can climb in

and look inside
and just have fun.

[ Laughs ]

CAMPBELL:
Speedycop is definitely
in a league of his own,

but he's always got
custom car pioneer

George Barris

in his rearview mirror.

♪♪

I always, like,
was inspired by George Barris

because he was so
over-the-top and outlandish.

CAMPBELL:
George made his mark when
he opened Kustoms of Los Angeles

and showcased
his cars on the street,

catching the eyes of
Hollywood's hottest producers.

George Barris
built some of

the most iconic
vehicles of all time,

and, I mean, you see
them at Hollywood in
films and stuff --

the Munsters' vehicle
and the Batmobile

and things
like that.

CAMPBELL:
So many four-wheeled legends
were George's designs.

Like his hero,
George,

Jeff is always
trying to outdo himself.

Over time, the team has grown
from just Jeff and Jaime

into Speedycop
and the Gang of Outlaws.

BLOCH: The Gang of Outlaws
are a bunch of folks

that are friends of ours
that come over

and just build these
crazy race cars with us

and race with us.

They, I think,
are drawn to the madness.

[ Engine revs ]

♪♪

CAMPBELL: Jeff and
his Gang of Outlaws

often take their babies
to the track.

Today,
they're back at it

in a
first-of-its-kind match-up

between
the Spirit of Lemons

and
the Upside-Down Camaro.

[ Tires squeal ]

[ Engines revving ]

♪♪

COLLINS: People think
I'm a bit mad.

[ Laughs ]

♪♪

Most people drive their car
to a car show.

This guys brings the show
to his car.

♪♪

[ Engines revving ]

BLOCH: Very few
of our cars

are gonna be
the fastest car on the track.

Now, we have had the fastest car
on the track that we've built,

and that's been the case
in a few races,

but most of the time,

they're just
really cool-looking.

So, I started doing
these competitions,

these races where
creativity was rewarded

more than
raw performance,

and then we'd go out
there, and we'd race
the piss out of them.

♪♪

I love
to be competitive,

and I love to be creative
while I'm competing,

so this is the best
of both worlds.

♪♪

CAMPBELL:
Jeff's team gets to the track
at the same time,

a parade of oddities.

♪♪

[ Engines revving ]

♪♪

Holy [bleep].

BLOCH: When we get
to these racetracks,

and people in the stands
see these creations

for the first time,

they just lose it.

Like, they can't believe
what they're seeing.

KATIE:
It's very trippy.

[ Laughs ]

BLOCH: That reaction
is just priceless.

You just watch
faces melt.

It's great.

ANNOUNCER:
Um...

Wow.

This is probably
gonna be

the most interesting
drag race --

an airplane
and an upside-down Camaro.

[ Engine revs ]

♪♪

♪♪

JAIME: A lot of people
can build fast cars.

Jeff just really likes
to use some creativity...

...more than anything
to see a family and a kid

come up and smile
and just have fun.

♪♪

Having grown up
in the Motor City,

I can appreciate Jeff's
passion for customizing cars.

But when it comes
to the human body,

you've never seen
a custom job

quite...like this.

♪♪

CAMPBELL: When they were
just teenagers,

these Brazilian brothers,

now 50 and 51 years old
respectively,

set out to become goliaths.

They've since
achieved that goal

with biceps that are
26 and 28 inches around,

as big as
an average man's thigh.

Antonio is better
known as Hulk.

Alvaro goes by Conan.

They've stopped at nothing
to achieve their dream,

and now they live
with the consequences --

...huge bodies,
constant stares

and a host
of health complications,

believe it or not.

♪♪

Hulk and Conan
are superheroes

and stick out
everywhere they go.

[ Camera shutter clicking ]

♪♪

In Brazil,
where image is everything,

pumping iron
is commonplace,

and Alvaro caught
the exercise bug early.

Before long,

he started bringing
his older brother along.

♪♪

For years,
they worked out religiously

and adhered
to a strict diet,

eating about
six to eight times a day.

♪♪

Slowly but surely,

they both
became massive,

but eventually their bodies
reached their natural limits

for adding more muscle.

That's when they took things
even further.

♪♪

They began injecting
a synthetic supplement

called Potenay B12

directly
into their muscles.

Typically used to treat
exhaustion in bulls and horses,

Potenay B12 increases energy,
recovery time, and blood flow,

allowing the brothers
to work out

harder and more often.

Their plan produced
a shocking outcome.

In humans, Potenay B12
causes irregular heart rate,

dilated arteries,
and high blood pressure,

putting Antonio and Alvaro
at risk of cerebral hemorrhage,

heart attacks,
and internal bleeding.

Hulk's wife has
reason for concern.

These are extremely
serious conditions

that often lead...

to death.

♪♪

COLLINS: I've got
lightning in a bottle.

I can barely
hold still.

♪♪

KELLY: To try and catch
an arrow coming back down,

you know, I would never
recommend anyone do it.

♪♪

Brazil's Hulk brothers,
Antonio and Alvaro

decided in their teens
that they wanted to be

as muscle-bound
as a man could be.

Now, in their 50s,

their lifestyle could be
catching up with them.

♪♪

♪♪

CAMPBELL:
After facing pressure from
their family,

Antonio and Alvaro claim that
they have been off Potenay

for six years.

Unbelievably though,

their muscles
have continued to grow.

♪♪

Though it
hasn't been easy

achieving
or maintaining this size,

the Hulk brothers have
no intention of trimming down.

♪♪

Guys like
Hulk and Conan

push themselves
to the edge pumping iron,

but John Collins
found his edge...

pushing paper.

♪♪

♪♪

It's a common pastime.

♪♪

COLLINS: I'd meet kids
of all ages,

from 8 to 80,

and they're all interested
in paper airplanes.

CAMPBELL:
But one man has taken it...

to the extreme.

♪♪

There's billions and billions
of people on the planet,

and nobody does
what John Collins does.

COLLINS: People think
I'm a bit mad...

[ Laughs ]

...but in a good way.

I'm John Collins,

the paper airplane guy.

♪♪

CAMPBELL:
Now he's set his sights
on a long-distance feat

that would break the barrier
of anything done

with a paper airplane
ever before --

a flight nearly as long
as a football field...

believe it...

or not.

♪♪

♪♪

John Collins loved
paper airplanes

from the time
he was a small child.

COLLINS: I discovered
really early on

that I could fold just
a little bit better

than my brothers.

There was four of us,
and we were super-competitive,

so anything you could
do a little bit better

than the other guys,

you know, you were --

That's what you
were gonna focus on.

CAMPBELL: His brothers moved on
to other pursuits,

but John's obsession
with paper airplanes only grew.

[ Film projector clicks ]

COLLINS: I studied origami
for about 10 years

and then took all those tricks
back to paper airplane making,

and then I started
studying the aerodynamics.

How is it, why is it
that plane is doing that?

CAMPBELL: Over the course
of his lifetime,

John has designed
a whole fleet of paper aircraft.

COLLINS: The ultimate
challenge here

is really reconciling
a lot of invisible forces.

You've got gravity, air,

the center of lift,
and the center of gravity.

Making all
of that balance,

it's really kind
of this fun puzzle.

CAMPBELL: Each of
John's planes

specializes in a
different type of flight.

♪♪

COLLIN: The stinger is really
a high-speed dart.

It's kind of
a muscle plane.

A plane with small wings
has to fly much faster

than a plane with big wings.

A broad-wind glider,

exactly the opposite
of that stinger idea,

just floats really gently
across the room.

The boomerang plane...

The big trick is that the wings
are sloping downward.

SWANSON:
Most aircraft, and with most
good paper airplanes,

the wings slope upward so that,
if it gets rocked to one side,

the plane will rock back
to neutral.

With this guy,
you don't do that.

The wings are drooping.

COLLINS: So, if you throw it
leaned over,

it stays leaned over,
and because it's climbing,

leaned over,
climbing is a circle.

♪♪

The flapper is the same
folding sequence

as the boomerang plane.

With 11-by-17 paper, something
really curious happens.

A lot of the layers end right
at the front of the plane,

which makes the body
of the plane really flexible.

It starts climbing, only,
as it's climbing,

the wings flex together,

and then it stalls,
and the wings relax,

and then it flies and stalls
and flies and stalls.

Were it not for the idea
that it's moving

like a bird
flapping its wings,

it'd be an awful plane.

SWANSON:
It's the folding.

the precision
of which he does it

is astounding.

It can't be off more than
a half a millimeter.

♪♪

CAMPBELL: Now John
is aiming for the sky,

a world record
for longest distance

flown by a paper airplane,

which currently stands
at 207 feet.

COLLINS:
Going after the record,

it really is kind of
a childhood dream.

Get up there. Get up there.
Get up there. Get up there.

Get up there!

♪♪

Airplane guru John Collins
is on a never-ending flight path

to the history books.

His mission --

fly one of his aircraft
farther

than anyone ever.

Oh, did I mention his planes
are made out of paper?

♪♪

COLLINS:
I went into this thing with,
you know, a lot of confidence.

SWANSON:
John figured out early on

that he could
fold this airplane

in such a way that he could
probably set a world record,

but he needed a partner.

He needed somebody who could
actually be the propulsion unit.

CAMPBELL:
Someone with just the right
combination of strength,

accuracy, and finesse.

The first guy
had such big, strong hands

he was kind of crushing
the planes a little bit.

I worked with another guy
who was a quarterback

and, you know,

had an elbow-up position

and would
spin his hand,

and he was -- literally
had such a snappy throw

he was ripping
the planes in half,

tearing them in half.

And then I found Joe.

♪♪

I thought I would break
the record the first day

and, you know, shake his hand
and leave the place,

and that's not
how it went.

CAMPBELL:
Joe Ayoob played two seasons
as a college quarterback

and three years
of Arena Football.

SWANSON:
He would throw it so hard
like a football,

the paper would actually
crumble in the front.

John had to go back
and redesign the paper

to match
his propulsion unit.

He looked at this thing
like a lot of throwers wouldn't.

I kept modifying the plane, and
Joe kept modifying this throw.

CAMPBELL: The current record
is 207 feet,

made with
a javelin-like plane

nearly a decade ago.

I decided we're gonna go
a whole new direction.

We're going to do it
with a glider.

Come on, baby. Carry, carry,
carry, carry, carry.

Mysteriously, we were
plateauing at like 202.

Ooh.
Oh.

Then we saw it.

On the
super-slow-mo camera,

we could see
the big problem.

Ridges were generating
this ripple effect.

CAMPBELL:
After 18 months of modifying,
training, and tweaking,

John and Joe
switched from ridged paper

to the smoothest stock
of paper they could find...

...and everything changed.

♪♪

COLLINS:
Hit the wall!

I've got
lightning in a bottle.

I can barely
hold still.

[ Plane engine running ]

CAMPBELL:
McClellan Air Force Base

outside of Sacramento

is home to much
bigger aircraft,

but today, it will be
the backdrop

to John and Joe's
world record attempt.

They only have one chance
to get it right.

COLLINS:
Stay in your zone.

Don't overpower it.
Like, 95%, 97%.

Stay right there.

CAMPBELL: Even a minute error
in the fold or the throw

could dash
all of their hopes.

World record day, I was like --
I didn't sleep.

I wasn't eating good.

AYOOB: John hands me the plane
and says,

"Alright, you know,

throw that thing
over the record."

COLLINS: There it is.
There it is.

We are
all over that one.

Get up there. Get up there.
Get up there. Get up there.

Get up there!

[ Cheers and applause ]

♪♪

CAMPBELL: John's design reached
226 feet, 10 inches,

breaking the
Guinness World Records title

by 19 feet, 6 inches.

It was literally
a dream come true.

[ Whistling, applause ]

It felt so great
to break the record

and then to see John's dream
come to fruition.

So, I went from being crazy
to just simply eccentric.

Until that point,
I was nuts.

[ Laughs ]

Halfway around the world,

another team
is taking off...

without a flight plan.

♪♪

NAUTA: My name is
Ralph Nauta.

GORDIJN: I am
Lonneke Gordijn.

NAUTA: And we're in Amsterdam
in our studio, Studio Drift.

Welcome.

♪♪

CAMPBELL: Studio Drift creates
all kinds of cool stuff.

Now they're in
Miami Beach, Florida,

with their most
ambitious project yet.

They're trying to simulate one
of nature's greatest spectacles,

but in place of birds,

they will be
releasing

an airborne swarm
of lighted drones,

believe it...

or not.

♪♪

Since 2007,

Amsterdam-based design firm
Studio Drift

has been
pushing the boundaries

between
nature and technology.

NAUTA:
I'm very sci-fi-oriented.

Lonneke was more into
natural processes.

♪♪

CAMPBELL:
It was 10 years ago that
Lonneke, Ralph, and their team

first became obsessed
with birds in flight.

♪♪

We connected the swarm behavior
to human social behavior.

We found it
very interesting.

CAMPBELL:
Their first installation,
called Flylight,

used lights
to mimic the movements

of a flock on the wing.

GORDIJN:
After we made that installation
about 10 years ago,

we thought,
"How interesting would this be

if we can make
all these lights really fly?"

♪♪

CAMPBELL: Their latest project,
Franchise Freedom,

draws its inspiration
from starlings...

...small,
migratory birds

known for swarming in
a giant, swirling mass

called
a murmuration.

The murmuration,
or mass movement,

morphs and twists in different
directions at different speeds,

yet still maintains
a cohesive group.

There is
no leader here.

Every bird has influence
over the flock.

[ Indistinct talking ]

Ten years ago, most people
didn't even know

what a drone was.

GORDIJN: When we
started the project,

there were four drones
flying at the same time

in a university
somewhere in the world.

So, we had to really
start from scratch.

GORDIJN: The technology
wasn't there.

CAMPBELL:
They also needed to develop
computer code

that could mimic one
of the most complex displays

in the animal kingdom.

You need safety

because the drones
cannot hit each other.

They need to stay certain
distances from each other

and certain speeds,

but they still need to,
you know, see each other,

not literally,

but they see each other
through the computer,

and all work together
in one big group entity.

CAMPBELL: Ultimately, they made
a match at Intel,

the Silicon Valley tech giant

best known
for its microprocessors.

Intel was able to
create an algorithm

that allowed the drones to fly
independently in a swarm

without crashing
into one another,

just like starlings.

By 2017, after
a decade of development,

research, and testing,

Studio Drift was finally ready
to let Franchise Freedom fly.

Without ever testing

the full flock
of 300 Intel drones,

Ralph and Lonneke
decided to go big...

...debuting the murmuration
on Miami Beach

during its renowned
art show, Art Basel.

That was, like, the first time
we were flying before people.

I was very nervous.

♪♪

Don't practice
this at home.

Don't even attempt it.

It's very dangerous.

♪♪

Technology
mimicking nature,

that's a tall order,

especially when your inspiration
is an airborne ballet

performed by hundreds
of swarming birds.

That's what the folks
at Studio Drift did,

and without
a full rehearsal,

they're about to premier
their project

at one of the greatest
art festivals in the world.

Good luck, Chuck.

I was very nervous before
all the drones lift off

because I'd never
seen it before.

You work on this work
for such a long time,

and then it's the first time
you're gonna see it.

CAMPBELL:
One string of computer code,

300 Intel drones,
and a huge audience --

a recipe for
a very public failure.

[ Cheers and applause ]

♪♪

♪♪

GORDIJN: It looks very much
like our lives, I think,

because we constantly
also make choices.

I mean, we think
we're in control,

and sometimes
we're not in control,

and then we make
our own choices,

but they're also --

life chooses
certain things for us.

♪♪

So, you see, constantly,
we have to adapt,

and we have to adapt to all
sorts of input in our lives.

It's not that we have
a clear path.

We don't work
from A to B.

Our life goes all
over the place.

[ Cheers and applause ]

♪♪

Newton's law says
what goes up must come down,

and what comes down
is going really fast.

Just ask this fellow
from Australia,

or, as I like to call him,
"the human bull's-eye."

♪♪

Anthony Kelly
is constantly competing...

against himself.

[ Chuckles ]
Hi-yah!

♪♪

That's why
I love being a ninja.

CAMPBELL: Now he's taking on
his greatest challenge yet...

To try and catch an arrow
coming back down

at about
80 or 90 miles an hour...

♪♪

CAMPBELL:
...believe it...

...or not.

♪♪

This is some
mad collection of arrows

that I've caught from people
around the world.

CAMPBELL: The 55-year-old Aussie
has spent a lifetime

distinguishing himself
from the pack.

KELLY: This little baby
that they made me catch

over in Italy,
I think it was,

nearly killed me.

CAMPBELL:
He catches arrows...

with his bare hands,

sometimes
wearing a blindfold.

♪♪

♪ One, two,
buckle my shoe ♪

♪ Three, four,
knock at the door ♪

♪ Five, six,
he picks up sticks ♪

CAMPBELL: Armidale may look like
a peaceful place to grow up,

but Anthony's childhood
was anything but.

KELLY: I have
five older brothers,

and I used to get bullied
a fair bit at school,

and it was really
a matter of survival.

I started to do martial arts
so I could defend myself.

CAMPBELL: Sure enough,
Anthony earned black belts

in 20 different
martial arts,

but it wasn't his combat skill
that made him world-famous.

♪♪

I stumbled upon it
quite strangely.

There was an old
'80s movie

that a bloke had
to catch an arrow

to become a master
of martial arts, you see.

[ Film projector whirs ]

I performed it
here in Armidale

live for one
of my martial arts demos.

I sent the footage off
to the world record people,

and within weeks
I was over in Madrid, Spain,

to 20 million viewers
doing it live on TV.

♪♪

From that moment, I thought,
"Well, this is pretty cool."

Other people then, especially
other television shows,

starting throwing objects
literally at me.

CAMPBELL: While he has taken on
all kinds of objects,

from chopsticks
to paintballs,

the arrows have been
his greatest challenge

and his most dangerous.

I've always been worried
that I'd shoot an arrow,

and it would hit his hand,
hit his stomach.

CAMPBELL: Grabbing a
100-plus-mile-an-hour
projectile mid-flight

is a skill that has
taken years to perfect.

KELLY: I just couldn't go
and try and catch an arrow

that's flying
through the air

without my hand
moving super fast.

So, then I started to do
some super-fast hand skills.

CAMPBELL: Now he's taking
his skills to new heights.

KELLY: I started to
toy with the idea

of shooting an arrow
up in the air

and catch it
when it comes back down.

CAMPBELL:
The world record for catching
your own arrow is 15 meters,

about 45 feet,

and Anthony
is determined to beat it.

♪♪

The higher an arrow flies
in the air,

the more speed it will pick up
on the way down.

At 15 meters, the arrow
will fall back to Earth

at 90-plus miles an hour...

the same speed
as a Major League fastball.

♪♪

KELLY: To try
and catch an arrow

coming back down at about
80 or 90 miles an hour,

120, 140 Ks,

it's quite hard.

CAMPBELL:
Hard indeed,

and more dangerous
than anything

he has
attempted before.

One slip-up,

and Anthony's
arrow-catching days are over.

♪♪

Australian Anthony Kelly

catches arrows
with his bare hands.

I feel like I need
to say that again --

with his bare hands.

Today, he's trying to
beat the world record...

for catching
your own arrow.

♪♪

Anthony is using
blunt-end arrows for this stunt,

but at
90 miles an hour,

they are still capable
of tearing open flesh

or shattering bone.

He will need to catch the shaft
just right to avoid injury.

Each arrow is fitted
with an altimeter,

which determines
altitude.

♪♪

♪♪

Oh,
what am I doing?

CAMPBELL:
A strong wind is making
for unpredictable flights...

[ Wind blowing ]

...so Anthony tries
something new.

To counter the wind,
he's trading in his tools.

KELLY: I was using, before,
a 25-pound bow.

I'm now going
to a 60-pound bow.

CAMPBELL: This bow
can shoot his arrow

over 50 meters up
into the air,

around 150 feet,

with a downward velocity
reaching 90 miles an hour.

Since the arrow
is moving faster,

there is less chance for
the wind to blow it off course,

but it comes
at an even higher risk.

KELLY: It will come down
a lot faster,

which means I need
to react quicker.

♪♪

♪♪

[ Grunts ]

Okay.

Coming in,
everyone.

What is
the official score?

Can you
please read?

The altimeter's saying
51.2 meters.

51.2 meters.

Okay. So, there's
the new world record.

♪♪

CAMPBELL: He only needed to pass
15 meters or 45 feet

and walk away uninjured
to break the record.

He's bested that
three times over,

and not even a scratch.

I'm trying to get out of life
as much as I can.

♪♪

Whether driven by sheer joy
or pure grit,

some people
and dogs

are always striving
for new highs and new records.

When you race against yourself
for personal best,

the contest
can last a lifetime,

but chances are

it's gonna be
a very exciting life.