Hello!
A lot of sports look fantastic in slow-mo, and there's a lot of athletes right here in California.
- Convenient. - Unfortunately, today's athlete is in Austin, Texas.
- Inconvenient. - Let's go.
We're here today at U.T. on a basketball court because we wanna get some gnarly slow-mo footage of a slam dunk. - Yeah, thing is, though, I tried and I got about this far away from the rim with my hands.
I couldn't get anywhere near.
- Pathetic. - Yeah.
I got about this far away from the net. Even worse.
So, thankfully, we've got someone who is much more competent than us at dunking-- Kevin Durant.
Isn't that slightly overcompensating...
- It's quite a step up. - ...to go from us to Kevin Durant?
- All right, Kevin. - Yeah.
- How's it going? - What's up, guys?
Might need to...
Yeah, get me in the shot there.
We were very flattered to see that you have seen us before.
Yeah, man, when I go scrolling on YouTube, uh, you know, I scrolled past your guys' page, and I got stuck there for a couple hours.
- And you-- - Which is a good thing for you guys.
- That's awesome. - Yeah, very good for us.
I mean, I've seen you slam dunk before, and you're maybe in the air for maybe one or two seconds.
- Yeah? - A little bit.
Well, we want to stretch it out to maybe a minute. - Really?
Thirty seconds to a minute and see everything in much more detail.
- Sound good? - Sounds great.
All right, let's do it.
So in a second here, Kevin Durant is going to run up and dunk on this net.
You've all been outfitted with disposable cameras.
As soon as he leaves the ground, you want to snap a picture so that when we follow in slow motion, he'll be in the air and all of your cameras will flash... sort of at the same time, and it should look epic.
In order to increase the cinematic quality of the shot, the camera is going to be speeding alongside him on this dolly.
( crowd cheering )
Kevin: There you go. You got one.
Gav: Let's watch it.
Look at that.
Let's see how our flashes did.
Gav: I think that you could look more casual.
It looks like someone just lifted you up into midair.
Dan: Oh, yeah.
Gav: It looks like you're just walking.
Dan: Yeah, you just stood in midair.
You just stood in midair with your hand up.
Make it look real easy.
- Ah. - Oh, man.
- My favorite part is this arm. - Yeah.
It's just-- it's so casual.
I don't know where to put it.
It's like this arm is playing basketball.
This one's waiting for a bus.
Do you get taught to just have your hand there, like, "Yeah, whatever"?
It's just there. I don't even know.
Nobody taught me where to put it.
Gav: Excellent shot.
Want to go again or...
- Right. - We could do it again.
- One more. - Yeah.
( crowd cheering )
You threw it really far away from the net.
Kevin: I didn't think I would get this one.
Gav: You didn't think you'd get it?
Kevin: All the flashes looks nice.
Gav: Flashes look very nice.
Is it scary to hang off it like that?
- Nah. - Scary!
I mean, for us, that's like a broken ankle.
Yeah.
That's amazing. Look at that shot.
That looks cool. You've just-- completely almost sideways.
- It looks like-- - Like you're caught in a windstorm.
Kevin: If I let go, I'm falling.
Well, Kevin, that was an epic-looking dunk.
Thank you, man.
And these guys nailed the flashes.
Well done, chaps. Well done, chaps.
You know, it was such a good dunk, we've decided to make you an honorary member of our team - Here you go.
Got you a lab coat.
Feel free to come back whenever you want and be in one of our posts.
Yeah. I like this. Put it on?
Comparing those back there, that one is a lot bigger than ours.
Yeah, we did it-- it looks like a dress on me.
I like the cut-off action. I might have to go that route.
- Yeah? - Rip one of the sleeves?
You gonna wear this every day? Sort of...
You could wear it like pajamas, I guess.
I mean, the way fashion is going now, I could pull this off.
- Yeah, I reckon so. - Hit the clubs.
- Yeah, absolutely. - Love it.
- Yeah. - Thank you very much for watching the episode, and big ol' thanks to Kevin Durant for being in it.
And being able to dunk, unlike us.
- Yeah. - It's all good.
It's not every day you get to hang out with Kevin Durant.
- Yeah. - Not a bad one, that one.
I have to say, I wasn't expecting that this morning, that's for sure.
You wake up, you don't.
Turns out he can do two types of dunks.
Gah.
Cheers.
Well, Dan, it's begun.
How often do we usually upload?
- Once every three weeks? - If that.
I'd say once a month, maybe.
Why don't we try 16 a month?
- So 16 times as much work? - Pretty much.
- Seems reasonable.
- That is a lot of work. - That's a lot of work.
Ok, that's all for today.
Bye!