Only thing between us and history, 800 feet.
Let's go, boys.
Come on.
We can do it!
[OH THE LARCENY, "ANOTHER LEVEL"] I'm going all the way.
I'm going, yeah, my blood is rebel.
I'm going, yeah, all the way.
This is the world's highest basketball shot.
We are about to attempt the most improbable trick
shot that we've ever done.
Scientifically this is basically impossible.
And what better place to test the odds--
Than Las Vegas, baby.
[OH THE LARCENY, "ANOTHER LEVEL"]
Since the beginning, Dude Perfect
has been known for mainly one thing--
trick shots.
And for the last 14 years, our goal
has been to push the limits of what we think is possible.
In 2009, we went to Kyle Field and made the world's longest
basketball shot.
[CHEERING]
Yes!
What!
But we didn't stop there.
We went higher--
Yeah!
--and higher.
Holy cow!
Then, in 2016, we went to Oklahoma City
and shot a ball off a 530-foot tower,
officially claiming the record for the world's highest
basketball shot.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Oh, did that go in?
World record, baby!
Finally, in 2018, the record was broken once again
from an insane height of 660 feet.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[CHEERING]
The only problem-- it wasn't us.
Our record was broken by How Ridiculous.
And after five years, it's time to push the limits once again
and see what's possible.
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
Our team has been talking about taking back
the record for quite some time.
I saw the highest shot on the board for like three years.
What used to be, hey, let's go out and shoot a video,
it's not like that anymore.
There's a lot more prep work that goes into these videos.
We physically took 18 people in order to pull this off.
Our team started calling every location
we could think of that was taller than 660 feet.
Obviously, the height limitation comes into play first.
We looked in Houston, Moab, Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona,
Washington, DC, Miami, Chicago.
We got a zillion nos before we finally found a yes.
We went to the place that is known for all the craziness--
Las Vegas.
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
(SINGING) --nothing like this.
We decided to attempt this shot from the STRAT hotel
on the world-renowned Las Vegas Strip.
To truly show you the height of this building,
let's start with our own tall man, Cody Jones,
shown here next to a standard 10-foot basketball goal.
Our Kyle Field shot was from 150 feet.
Then our Oklahoma City shot was from 533 feet.
The current record stands at 660 feet.
And if made, this shot would be from 856 feet,
breaking the current world record by nearly 200 feet.
(SINGING) You ain't seen nothing like this.
We decided to hit up our friends Mark Rober
and How Ridiculous to get their take on us attempting the shot.
If you had to give us odds for it, what are we talking?
It's over one in a million.
Oh, gosh.
It's got to be.
I'm not going to lie to you.
Our team's already planned it.
So I feel like we have to at least just go put in our time.
All things are possible.
It's a bit of a numbers game, right?
You're going to put enough down there, one just might go in.
If it's windy, you're in trouble.
How long are you guys going to be there for?
I think we have the tower booked for three days.
Is that enough?
There is no way.
If you do this, you guys will be the luckiest five
people in the world.
You have the Magnus effect going on, right?
The slightest spin at the top, you could be a football field
away, just laterally, right?
Vegas is super windy.
It's just not going to happen.
I thought we were supposed to feel better
after talking to Mark.
Why did we do that?
[OVERLAPPING SPEECH]
If you feel like you're just not going to get it, I mean,
come on, just dig a little deeper.
Keep pushing.
I will eat a basketball if you guys get this shot.
[OVERLAPPING SPEECH]
Thanks, Mark, very helpful.
The good news for us is if you break it,
then we can try and break it again.
So good luck.
Good luck, gentlemen.
Thanks.
Thanks a lot.
[GROANING]
Great.
Let's do it.
My role on this shoot was creating a net system
to protect the rooftop.
We designed and constructed a 10,000 square foot
net to catch the basketballs to mitigate
any damage to their roof.
Nobody's done this before.
So we're all kind of going into it like, we should
be better off safe than sorry.
This is what we pitched over to the STRAT.
And they said, hey, we love it.
You guys got the green light.
After the art team finished prepping,
they gave us the thumbs-up to hop on a plane.
And we were on our way to attempt the impossible.
The morning of our flight, typical Cody-fashion,
he sends a text message.
[CELL PHONE DING]
Hey, by the way, I'm not going to catch the flight today.
He was having monster headaches.
And I thought it was just because he has a broken golf
swing and it was like, look, I mean, you're too jerky,
you're causing headaches.
Turned out to be a little more serious than that.
What's up, guys?
Went to the doctor with that headache, did a CT scan,
and I do have a small tear in one of the arteries
in the back of my head.
And he says it'll heal on its own.
But I got to lay low.
So I will not make the trip.
But I believe in you guys.
I'm doing great.
I'm going to be fine here.
Come on, baby, world record time.
Let's go.
How are we feeling right now?
What time is it?
Whoa.
Is that good?
It's 8:16 at home.
[OVERLAPPING SPEECH]
But here it's 6:16, so it feels earlier.
We are currently setting up tripods and monitors.
If Derek and I don't get blown off this roof,
I'll consider it a success.
[LAUGHS]
That's our bar for success at this point
is getting blown off a roof?
I ain't going to sugarcoat it, brother.
It's windy.
So the first day that we got to the STRAT, my first reaction
was, OK, this doesn't seem like that much higher
than Oklahoma City.
That all changed when we got up to the top of the STRAT.
Oh, my gosh.
That street is so in play it's not even funny.
Everybody buckle up.
Oh, gosh.
12-car pileup on the Vegas Strip today after rogue basketball
falls from tower and lands right in the middle of a windshield
of a car carrying 13 puppies.
It's a headline just waiting to happen.
So finally the day came.
The goal is set up 856 feet away from the tower
that Ty is standing on.
Ty's up there.
He throws the very first ball down.
Here we go.
Day one, first shot.
You good, Chad?
Yep.
This is the world's highest basketball shot.
And the ball did not even hit on the roof.
Oh, dear.
Ooh.
Just about 50 yards that way.
We're OK.
We have time to recalibrate.
So you'd have a ball land on the road,
then you'd have a ball kiss off about the 10th floor
of the nearby hotel.
The wind was just whipping.
Chad and I both just looked at each other
like, there's no way.
Like, this isn't going to happen.
That might-- you hit the hotel.
Heads up, mate.
A little right.
Yikes.
He's got a shot.
Now it's right.
That's on the street.
Trent!
We were missing that net system by so many feet.
We just had to ask, like, hey, are you all cool
with us taking this goal beyond this net?
And they gave us the green light.
What happens first?
Do we make the shot or get kicked out of Vegas?
Oh, you-- this is fun.
I could do this all day.
Day one, shutting it down at 9:30.
Winds are getting too high, getting too dangerous,
losing control of the balls.
Day two is supposed to be better.
Let's regroup.
Let's come back out day two.
We still have two full days.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Headed to n top, day two.
Let's make a shot.
Everyone was like, oh, day two is going to be great.
5-mile-an-hour winds.
It's going to be perfect.
We're getting ready to go out there onto the platform.
They come out and they're like, guys, no good.
Our wind that was supposed to be a nice 5,
gusting to 8 miles an hour, just currently read at 54.
54-mile-an-hour gusts and 27-mile-an-hour winds.
Does it feel that windy down there?
Uh, it's pretty windy.
[MUFFLED SPEECH]
[BLOWING AIR]
[LAUGHING]
It's just so unpredictable.
We had to wait for about an hour for it to die down.
Still didn't get great.
But it was safe enough for us to go out on the platform, start
shooting.
Wow, Wow!
That's more than 22.
Ty's up there.
He throws the very first ball down.
And it was windy, which it wasn't supposed to be.
But of course, it was.
And the ball went into the street.
Oh, my god.
The safety piece was tough because it's
this balancing act.
It's like you know you only have three days in Vegas,
so you want to keep ripping off shots.
Because if you don't, you're never going to make it.
Oh, that's going to hit Coby's car.
[THUNK]
Yep.
But it's a really serious safety concern.
That's not really a position anybody
wants to be in is throwing projectiles
off of 856-foot tower.
Seeing those balls go off of the roof
and knowing that you're the one that threw it--
it became a point where it was like, it's not worth it.
I'm just not going to throw it until something bad happens
and then stop.
I completely agree.
That's just stupid.
That doesn't make sense.
And I was right there with him.
I was kind of like, dude, I don't know
if we should keep doing this.
It's not worth it to cause a wreck, injure somebody.
Yeah, and I'm saying that can't happen.
Just locked that down.
That cannot happen.
That's a scary place to be and I know one
that Ty was uncomfortable with.
Being totally honest with you guys,
it was tense because we got two completely different points
of view.
Ty and the guys up top, including me,
are seeing what the balls are doing.
And we're like-- and down below, the guys
are just seeing the ball not going the goal.
Guys, we are running out of time.
And we're not going to hit anybody.
Let's just shoot the ball.
The one that I tried to flirt with it, it hit the cable.
And that's the one that went.
I still don't think you feel right.
You have to--
You throw right the whole time.
I was getting pretty frustrated.
So I'm like, Ty, just shoot it to the right.
Ball's in the air.
Oh, boy.
Oh, gosh.
That was not good.
Nope.
I get it.
You don't want to be responsible for that ball,
but at the same time, kind of discouraging
that we weren't seeing the momentum that we expected.
I kind of made the decision, guys,
I do not want to shoot another ball.
Ultimately, there's just one guy up there
who's feeling the weight of launching that basketball off.
And I didn't feel like it was really fair
that Ty was the only one who had to do that.
I got to hand it to him.
Coby stepped up.
Coby was like, man, put me in harness.
I want to try it.
So when I stepped up there, I felt like,
OK, let me just give it a different approach
and see what happens, because there's
no right or wrong answer.
So I let the first shot go.
And shockingly--
Yes!
--it got pretty close.
Yes!
Oh!
So immediately I'm hopeful, thinking,
OK, we may have found a groove here.
Let's stick with it.
Second ball, did the exact same thing,
and it landed in the street.
Hit the street.
Move the goal to the street!
I probably shot-- I don't know-- two, three hours
worth of basketballs that day.
And by the end of all of it, I was
really confident this is never going in.
We still, at this point, had not even
hit the goal, which is a bad sign.
This is not the place to do this.
Very quickly I hear conversations about hey,
what are we going to do as a video replacement?
And I'm like, I can't believe we're talking about this.
I think a big turning point to help continue this attempt,
it was meeting with the GM of the STRAT.
They suggested a plan where we could close down their valet.
That would allow us to not have to worry so much about some
of those stray balls.
I think we're just praying that there's less wind tomorrow.
And I feel like there's at least a little bit of hope.
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
[ELEVATOR DINGS]
If you're not feeling the stress through the camera
this morning, at this point, something's wrong.
Hey, guys, day three.
Been at it for two days, that's--
hence the day three.
And I feel good about it.
This is our best weather opportunity, by far, not close.
For the first time, I felt like when I'd shoot a ball off,
like I could tell Chad, hey, that's good.
We had way better wind conditions.
I mean, there is zero wind.
It's almost eerily quiet.
I was actually supposed to leave day three, which I didn't know
about until we got to Vegas.
I would loved to leave day three, but--
So I actually had to fly out Thursday night ahead
of the rest of the team.
And so 2:00 was the deadline.
Day three, in the morning, was the first time
where I think there was a little bit of hope that came back,
like, when I do everything that I need to do on my end,
the ball goes relatively close to where it should.
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
[GROANING]
Then the wind came back.
It just felt like the most random game of Battleship ever.
Team morale all across the board was pretty bad.
I know I look calm, but it's because it's day three
and you just kind of don't expect it to go in.
I think it was the hottest day of the three.
So that's tough for the crew down below, especially.
Probably the best way I could describe it
would be like taking the SAT outside in the blazing heat.
It was just mentally taxing.
You're focused every time.
I will say, the one thing that kind of
gave me a jolt of energy was you filming Tim up there
in his speech.
And then when y'all sent that out--
He sends us the Miracle on Ice speech.
Great moments are born from great opportunity.
And that's what we have here today, boys.
That is what we've earned here today!
One shot.
We've tried it a thousand times, we might miss 999.
But not this time!
Not this shot!
Today, we make it!
Today, we break history and we make this shot because we can!
Today we-- specifically the five Dude Perfect
guys are the greatest shooters in the world!
Come on, boys.
We can do this.
Now go out there and take it.
I'm inspired.
I'm inspired by leaders like Tim who step up
in the face of adversity.
And with that being said, I still
don't think it's going to go in.
But I'm going to shoot till my little heart's content
and I got to leave.
So let's do it, boys.
Did you actually believe in your speech?
Uh, no.
No, I didn't.
I knew it.
I didn't.
Start shooting, go for the next hour, 15 minutes, hits 2:00.
Cody Bland is in there shouting through the glass.
And he's like, hey, your flight's delayed.
Just keep shooting.
And I'm kind of like, great.
But at this point, again, it was like, well, great.
You have till 3:30, but balls are going everywhere,
the wind is crazy.
We're back to square one--
You know, Tim's Miracle on Ice speech
has kind of started to wear off.
--until about 2:33, I think it was, or something like that.
I throw this ball off, starts to curve back.
I'm like, OK, that's pretty close.
Cory was laying down right beside me.
We kind of sat up, and we're like, wow,
this looks pretty good.
It isn't even on course for the basketball hoop.
And then, the last second--
About five seconds before the ball got down to us,
I started feeling really good about it.
And knowing how much control that I had over it,
I cannot look at that shot and say that God didn't have his
hand in it.
He has purpose for Dude Perfect.
And in that moment, it was reassuring.
To be able to pull that off should never have happened.
It made me feel like, for some reason,
God's just not done with Dude Perfect yet.
[OH THE LARCENY, "ANOTHER LEVEL"] I'm going all the way.
I'm going, yeah, my blood is rebel.
I'm going.
Let's go, TT!
Let's go, T!
This is the world's highest basketball shot.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Come on.
Come on!
[CHEERING AND YELLING]
[OH THE LARCENY, "ANOTHER LEVEL"]
(SINGING) to another level.
[THUNK]
[CHEERING AND YELLING]
We got it!
[OH THE LARCENY, "ANOTHER LEVEL"]
(SINGING) --to another level.
It's in!
[CHEERING]
Let's go!
Let's go, baby!
Yes!
All it takes is one!
I just want to give everybody a hug.
God, that was stupid, man.
We freaking got it, dude.
Telling the story, I start to get emotional telling it.
But it was such a relief in that moment, truly, at that point,
nobody thought it was going in.
Zero goal hits in three days-- zero.
And the one time we hit it, it went in.
Yeah.
That was awesome, man.
Being able to celebrate with the team,
being able to come together.
I think that, in itself, is probably
one of the biggest inspirations for us, wanting to pull it off,
not just for us in the record, but for our team as a whole.
[CHEERING]
[ZAYDE WOLF, "HIGHER THAN HIGH"] Higher than high,
higher than we ever knew that we could.
We're going up to see Ty right now.
[ELEVATOR DINGS]
[CHEERING]
[ZAYDE WOLF, "HIGHER THAN HIGH"] Farther than the stars ever
thought they could know.
Whoa, oh, oh.
It's all looking up now.
I was so proud of the entire team.
Everybody worked so hard to do their part to pull it off.
It doesn't even feel like a team.
It's a family.
[CHEERING]
As stupid as it might sound to some people
out there that, hey, these guys are throwing balls
off buildings and making shots, yeah, whatever,
that ain't changing in the world,
I can tell you one thing, it's enriching our relationships
here at Dude Perfect.
And that means a lot.
Official ball, for now, going back to the man that shot it--
TT.
This one goes out to everybody here.
This is for you guys.
[CHEERING]
It's fun to bring the record back home.
If How Ridiculous or anyone else wants to try and break it,
be our guest.
It's really cool to see this platform
is given to us for more than just our own successes.
The amount of control that we have over things,
over Dude Perfect, over the world, over our circumstances
is very little.
But whatever God blesses us with and whatever
successes that we do have, we're going
to continue to point back to him and give him the glory for it.
And that's the way that we're going
to continue to look at it as long as Dude Perfect is
a thing.
Should someone signing in honor of Cody?
No.
Nah.
If he ever comes here one day, he can sign it.
There you go.
[CHEERING]
[ZAYDE WOLF, "HIGHER THAN HIGH"] Higher than high,
we won't stop.
Dude Perfect.