We Hit A Baseball Until The Cover Came Off!
Summary
TLDRIn a grueling test of endurance and baseball durability, a group of friends took on the challenge of hitting a new baseball as hard and as many times as possible with the goal of knocking its cover off. Starting with an average lifespan of seven pitches, they swung away, one after another, tracking the ball's condition and their own physical responses. The ball withstood over 5,000 hits, showing only minor signs of wear around the seams. Despite the group's hands blistering and the bat showing some wear, the ball remained resilient. As the count approached 5,800 swings, the seams began to fray significantly. Finally, on the 5,894th swing, the baseball's cover was dramatically knocked off, much to the surprise and relief of the exhausted group. The video also humorously explores various recovery techniques for their battered hands, including a controversial suggestion involving urine. This extreme test not only demonstrated the durability of a baseball but also the power of teamwork and determination.
Takeaways
- 🏀 The average lifespan of a baseball is believed to be around seven pitches, but the group aimed to see if it could last longer.
- 🔨 They took turns hitting a new baseball as hard as they could, with the goal of eventually hitting the cover off.
- 👊 The first tactic involved each person taking 25 swings, focusing on power and trying to hit the baseball hard.
- 🚫 Despite their efforts, the baseball remained largely intact, with only minor signs of wear and some rolling paint.
- 🎯 One participant, aiming for a specific number of hits (69), struggled with the bat but managed to achieve the goal.
- 📉 As the number of swings increased, the exit velocity of the baseball began to decrease due to the ball becoming squishier.
- 🧤 The person who chose not to wear batting gloves experienced blisters on their hands after a significant number of swings.
- 📈 The group made predictions on how many swings it would take to remove the cover, with estimates ranging from 8,900 to 69,000.
- 🚫 The bat, despite the numerous swings, remained in good condition, with the group expressing surprise at its durability.
- 🏆 A light-up tee was destroyed in the process, but the group switched to a different tee and continued swinging until significant damage was noted on the baseball.
- 🏁 The final swing count when the baseball cover was hit off was 5,894, marking the end of the challenge.
Q & A
What was the initial belief about the lifespan of a baseball?
-The initial belief was that a baseball has an average lifespan of seven pitches.
What was the main challenge the group attempted in the video?
-The main challenge was to hit a brand new baseball as many times as possible, aiming to dislodge or damage the cover.
How many swings did each member of the group initially take?
-Each member initially took 25 swings.
What was the special goal set for one of the participants?
-One of the participants was given the goal to hit the baseball 69 times.
What was the first significant damage observed on the baseball?
-The first significant damage was the fraying of a seam after 200 swings.
What unusual method was suggested to help with the recovery of blisters on the hands?
-One participant suggested using urine to treat the blisters, as it was believed to help with the healing process.
How many total swings did it take before the baseball cover was finally hit off?
-It took 5,894 swings to finally knock the cover off the baseball.
What was the humorous side-discussion that took place among the group?
-The humorous side-discussion was about the movie 'Rush Hour' and whether it was considered the greatest movie of all time by one of the participants.
What was the total number of seams that were visibly damaged on the baseball by the end of the challenge?
-By the end of the challenge, there were four seams that were visibly damaged and starting to come apart.
What was the participant's strategy to speed up the process of hitting the baseball?
-The participant stretched the net on the cage to make the ball bounce back faster, and moved the tee closer to the net to feed the tee faster with less assistance.
Which participant ended up hitting the cover off the baseball?
-The participant named Eric was the one who finally hit the cover off the baseball on the 5,894th swing.
Outlines
🏑 Baseball Durability Challenge Begins
The video starts with an introduction to a challenge aimed at testing the durability of a baseball. The participants believe a baseball can last longer than the average lifespan of seven pitches. They plan to hit a new baseball as hard as they can and try to remove the cover. The initial tactic involves each of the five participants taking 25 swings, but the baseball remains largely intact. The use of a signature bat is noted, and its durability is also a point of interest. The group is surprised by the difficulty of the challenge and the resilience of the baseball.
🚀 Intense Swings and Strategies
The group continues their challenge with a focus on power, swinging as hard as possible. They discuss the bat's condition and the impact on their hands, noting the lack of batting gloves. A variety of goals are set, including hitting specific speeds and targeting the number 69 as a humorous objective. The participants also discuss the bat's performance and the need to improve their swing techniques. The challenge becomes more demanding, with participants experiencing fatigue and physical strain, but they continue to push through, aiming to reach 100 swings and observing the ball's changing condition.
🌡️ Ball Warm-up and Team Dynamics
As the challenge progresses, the participants notice the baseball getting warmer and softer. They discuss the ball's condition and the impact of the swings on the seams. The team's morale fluctuates, and they attempt to speed up the process with various strategies, such as adjusting the net and using training aids. The participants also engage in friendly competition and share personal stories to lighten the mood. Despite the physical toll, they maintain a determined spirit and continue swinging, aiming to break the seams of the baseball.
🎥 Commercial Break and Continued Efforts
The video includes a commercial break promoting a meat delivery service, highlighting the convenience and quality of the product. After the break, the participants return to the challenge, their hands showing signs of strain and blisters. They discuss strategies for dealing with the physical demands of the challenge, such as changing their grip and taking breaks. The group sets a daily goal of a thousand swings and shares a moment of camaraderie as they work towards their objective.
🤝 Teamwork and Personal Achievements
The participants reflect on their progress and discuss their personal achievements, such as hitting the ball at high speeds. They also share their favorite movies, leading to a humorous debate about the film 'Rush Hour'. Despite the lighthearted moments, the challenge takes its toll, with participants experiencing fatigue and frustration. However, they continue to support each other and push through the difficulty, with some taking on additional swings to speed up the process.
💥 The Baseball Begins to Break
The challenge reaches a turning point as the baseball starts to show significant signs of wear. The participants become more hopeful as they see the seams coming apart after numerous swings. There's a sense of accomplishment, but also increased urgency as they try to be the one to hit the cover off the baseball. The physical strain is evident, with participants dealing with injuries and blisters, yet they remain committed to the challenge.
🏆 The Final Swings and a Surprising Conclusion
As the challenge nears its end, the participants take turns swinging at the baseball with renewed vigor, hoping to be the one to knock the cover off. The competition intensifies, and there's a sense of anticipation as the baseball's condition deteriorates rapidly. In a surprising turn of events, the final swing that disrupts the baseball's cover is not as expected, leading to a dramatic and satisfying conclusion to the challenge.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Baseball
💡Swings
💡Durability Test
💡Seams
💡Blisters
💡Bat Speed
💡Cover Off
💡String
💡Max Effort
💡Rush Hour
💡Goodshop
Highlights
The average lifespan of a baseball is seven pitches, but the group believes it can last longer.
The first tactic was for each of the five members to take 25 swings aiming to hit the baseball as hard as possible.
After 25 swings, the baseball appeared largely intact with only minor markings.
The group hypothesized that the bat might break before the ball does.
The challenge included hitting the baseball with significant power, aiming for 250 mph dead center.
One member of the group, Trevor, had to swing harder than ever before to achieve dramatic effect.
The leather of the baseball started getting rougher after numerous hits.
A member struggled with the bat type and was given a different goal of hitting 69 mph.
The group made predictions on how many swings it would take to hit the cover off, ranging from 8,900 to 69,000.
The exit velocity of the baseball was observed to decrease as it became squishier with each hit.
Hands started to show signs of blisters after a significant number of swings without batting gloves.
The group experimented with different swing techniques and analyzed the impact on the baseball.
After 300 swings, the baseball started to show more noticeable signs of wear, especially around the seams.
The group discussed the need to ramp up the swings to speed up the process of damaging the baseball.
A training aid was used to help improve swing technique and prevent rollovers.
The group reached a milestone of 1,000 swings each day as a collective goal.
After 5,894 swings, the cover of the baseball was finally knocked off, marking the end of the challenge.
Transcripts
the average lifespan of a baseball is
seven pitches but we think a baseball
can last a lot longer than that so we're
going to try and hit this brand new
baseball as many times as we can as hard
as we can they try and hit the cover
off let's check it out all right
anything different you did no damage
okay well it's going to take a while
it's going to take a while we didn't
actually think this challenge would be
done after one swing but we also had no
idea how hard this was going to be our
first tactic was to take 25 swings each
between the five of us trying to hit
this baseball as hard as we possibly
could so we're 25 swings in overall
though ball looks pretty intact look at
the bat a little Mark here along with
the ball we're going to see just how
well the king ofo signature bat holds up
with all these swings Maybe This Bat
will break before the ball does all
right TR turn our Focus right now is all
about power that was like 250 dead
center and we needed Trevor to swing
harder than he's ever swung before 95
I'll get you a 95 I'll bet you a dollar
you
won't I know this means a lot to you to
get this Mighty
green oh my God why didn't you just do
that the whole time I just wanted for
the dramatic effect the leather's
getting a little rougher on this side
you can see some of the Rolling paint
that's probably just from hitting the
net right stop choking up bro it's like
34 big ma was struggling as this isn't
exactly her type of bat so Eric gave her
a different goal just go for 69 that's
your that's your goal let's fire up the
69
counter perfect how many do you think
she'll get by the end of these swings
answer in the comments Below guys you
have to hit 69 on number 69 it's a
must it that was such not only did she
miss that
goal oh my God we almost hit hit tracks
ma would also start making potentially
disastrous mistakes Oh
my Jesus the ball how do you do that hey
that's L Cheo right there nice little
what looks like a slice that
can Target first swing I'm going say 93
oh oh no read
have you tried wanting it more no
[Applause]
it's hey as Tosh brought some real power
hitting we were hopeful that he'd be
able to hit our next mini goal of
hitting 100 mph on swing 100 four more
we need 100 on 100 he's got it
no we are now 100 swings in and it's
definitely getting a lot squishier
especially around the seams the bat is
still really good along with the bat I
wanted to see how my hands would survive
this much hitting without using any
batting gloves this is what my hands
look like now let's see after all these
swings 101 on swing 101
stop that's bad that's a great swing
while I may lack real speed I more than
make up for it with my raw determination
you ever hear someone grunt
85 25 swings down and the regret of not
wearing gloves was already starting oh
no that's a terrible one that on about
the first 25 swings for me you can see
here we got a little bit of a blister
form in there but uh overall hands feel
okay do we need to update cuz Cole did
nothing to this ball and now that we've
all had a chance to hit this baseball we
need to make some predictions on how
many swings it would take to hit the
cover off 8,900 12,000 15,000 7,100
swings 69,000 that's a little bit High
69
6900 we all hope that air Joo map was
off as none of us wanted to be here for
69,000 swings now what we will see over
time is that the exit velocity of this
ball will go down as it gets squishier
oh man that's why my exit velocity is so
slow let's [ __ ] go oh I guess science
won't stop air but perhaps fatigue will
my body actually hurts that's a lot of
swings 150 swings 150 plus heart rate
that's 200 right that's still in good
shape yeah I just don't know how many
swings we can actually full sand like
that you know that was all the fire
Trevor needed to start going full gas
dude you don't got 100 in you got I
probably do and to try to hit 100 five
swings get to
100 you don't got it that's no joke with
the wood bath would bet 100 it's no you
haven't done the breathing thing yet
play The Heavy
Metal 100 the
body if there's one thing you can bet
your life on it's ma hitting 699 even
calling it
69
69 I think it's perfect cuz she's
actually swinging hard that's her bass
Fe hey that's on my bat speed you all
see speed yeah yeah oh God oh God the
good news was that herwe was perfectly
calibrated to 69 mph the bad news was
that she really needed to calibrate her
launch angle oh my God [ __ ] how do you
do that guess who's going to get it off
first me we are 191 swings in from the
hit track or maybe she capped it on
reflection we should have actually done
something about the launch angle problem
oh my
God
no this content is
over does that count does that count it
counts it counts okay 197 get it off our
200
swing
yay the hit TRX all right swing number
200 do something cool don't hit the hit
track again don't don't
hit so we're 200 swings in you can see
here we have our first seam that is
frayed I don't know if that was because
of pitx or not but we're going to go
with the 200 Swings with the ball saved
Eric tried to fix Mar
swing what swing training cool we're
going to analyze your swing so you load
here right and then you're
going and if you look at if you see that
finish the whole thing is trash baby I
love the way every day we love hundos
we're going to do two in a
row oh
wow that was definitely
100 Yip tracks oh no oh no oh I thought
that broke this is serious foreshadowing
so stay tuned realizing there's so many
hours in the day this was our first
effort at speeding up the process of
getting the ball back onto the teeth
ball on the loose oh my God that
wouldn't make it any easier on our
bodies though oh shoulders hurt lower
back hurts pain a lot of pain clearly a
better use of this time for me would be
to try and improve my swing I have a
serious case of the rollovers and this
training aid promise to stop that I
would watch your face on this first
swing preventing rolling over huh if
this works as a multi-million dollar
company that felt like it rolled over
looks like the sheer power of my swing
simply can't be stopped and this thing
did nothing except join me for 25 more
swings making the ball a bit softer what
if we just hit the cover off the
baseball and finish video what if we
just hit the cover off the
baseball what do you think Cole like
right along that scene oh dude for sure
yeah it's a lot a lot softer Eric
decided to mix things up and swing Lefty
for his next 25 swings and was pretty
seven to hit 100 with his opposite hand
[ __ ] my god dude sometimes I hit hard or
Lefty I don't
know oh god dude I want hit the 169 it
takes a special person do more yeah
basically show T at this point we
started to understand that we needed to
ramp up the swings oh oh so Trevor fired
through his 25 swings and we hit 300 oh
my God oh my God are you guys not tired
no I'm like my hands are breaking up
hard too bring back six-pack Eric Sim he
had a six-pack that he could push out
and even when he pushed it out it still
had ABS ma was becoming our most
consistent hitter once again knocking
the ball out of the
cage [ __ ] are you serious how do you do
that I don't
know oh that should count you got to put
that in there and dominating 69
mph two in a row oh my who am I let's
hear from our favorite Joo hitting coach
who knows everything about hitting for
power and average
you know what you call this two-piece
nugget have you ever heard of that
before yeah McDonald's it's a two-piece
nugget of a swing it means it's shitty
if you're rotating right if you're
rotating right you go
here and then that right now what Cole's
doing is this not that much progress on
the baseball was getting boring pretty
fast let's speed things up here Tosh
Racers through the 350
uh-oh oh my God no nothing major team
morale was starting to drop and you can
see on Eric's face I rolled through my
next 25 swings still nothing but my
hands are starting to show some weere
you can see this this is all starting to
build up Eric gck through another 25
swings all right switch then Trevor did
the same then ma continued to try and
break expensive
equipment oh my God and then when Trevor
and Eric helped Tosh fly through his
next set of swings this happened pretty
damn quick r
[Applause]
and just like that our glorious light up
te met its unfortunate and unexpected
end the ball fell off Tosh swung and
destroyed it B bat still
great oh
no you know what's funny though we tried
to either break the ball or the bat and
the first thing we broke was a teeth if
this was any other bat we'd be extremely
worried but this was a king of Jugo bat
This Bat is Built Tough it's built
different and it's built to hit
everything but a baseball and if you hit
the link in the description you'll be
able to get your own Joo bat certified
for hitting tanks lifting small bunes in
the ball or if you prefer smashing the
[ __ ] out of rinth dark te's but now with
the best te in the facility destroyed we
subbed it out for a crappy te and got to
swing
475 there was still no significant
damage to the baseball so I stepped in
and I gave it everything that I had do
you want the te down yeah a little bit
if you can but does it not go
down Rous stuck here dude this is the
worst tea possible right now for
us speed more more passion more
energy ow I'm Starry to get a a blister
like right here though
dude yeah now 500 swings in this ball
was definitely changing knowing where
the ball's at right now are you
adjusting your guess on how many this is
going to take I I'm comfor I am I am I
want to go lower lower lower what do you
think I don't think it's going to go
over like 3,000 3,000 I think we're not
getting to 8900 that was my number I'll
change 12,000 ma it was ma I said 12,000
idiot and by this point my hands have
another blister forming and they were
definitely starting to steam meanwhile
Trevor identified that if we stretch the
net on the cage the ball will bounce
back to us faster and Eric is running
experiment of his own science science D
every time I yell science it read 30 do
you read it science no it didn't read I
swear to God try it was reading my my
voice saying science 30 mph that's what
you're saying 30.9 mph science
science
science I'm done Tosh left to continue
being the king of dads and the bounc
your net was helping us get through the
swings faster oh Eric and I took things
a step further with a speedy play and ma
was determined to knock $330,000 out of
the sky not just once oh my God
unbelievable Ma put twice oh my God
and with another round of swings for me
we'd hit
600 ooh a little V there oh my goodness
it's getting a little harder to see
where that initial scene we broke was
that was our fastest 100 swings by far
so we got to keep by far look at
this Perfection number 69 is it's like a
Monumental achievement and we have to
hit 69 number 690 690 on this is the one
no
no we have not hit a single mini
challenge which was terrible for team
morale but we noticed something about
the ball that we hadn't thought about
it's a little warmer like feel this
baseball that's baseball we have feeling
feel this
one yeah it's definitely there's some
energy put in this ball definitely heat
it up some this ball is definitively
harder than this one the ball we've been
hitting is like this is squishy it's
like almost t-all you won't S
it no Muma
we pressed on relentlessly and in no
time we hit 800 there it is 69 800
800
31 nice our seams back it's poking out
texture of the leather is very rough I'm
starting to get blisters here and here
now uh it definitely hurts I give it
another 100 swings before these start to
open up oh I think if we get closer here
by now we' lost interest in the xavo off
the bat
we moved the tea closer to the net which
would allow us to feed the tea faster
which only required one person's help
instead of two this was the first day in
our Quest and we had agreed on a daily
group goal of a thousand swings what
better way to celebrate than by looking
this athletic while
[Music]
yelling
Dr honestly after all this effort I felt
a little bit disappointed I truly
thought we'd have broken some seams or
at least split the leather leaving with
only one seem just may me question how
long this would actually take with a
solid rest we were back and ready to go
especially Tosh who had to leave early
on day one ow and after each of us took
a round of 25
swings one more 1,00 we decided it was
time to move on to 100 swings each so
that we can make our way through this
challenge a lot faster still no major
changes long physical challenges like
this probably test your mental strength
more than anything looking great over
there bud just waiting to and even
though it's only day two you'll see that
we were already starting to lose our
minds
1,300 [ __ ] and it's not like our swings
are going to get
stronger still no major updates you can
see here after 100 straight swings it's
starting to get really red oh my God 100
check this out I'm not even choking up
today sick
right
St more more harder seems still look
about the same but it looks like there
might be a little bit of Separation
right here I I don't know if that's
going to open anything up anytime soon
hey guys you wonder why I'm single it's
cuz I spread my Friday nights hitting
the ball but even if you're descending
in the madness you should always take
time to work on your
swing dude you're going like this what
should I do don't do so when you this is
incred no seriously like when he starts
his swing you like do this don't fing do
that go from here like that okay what
look look look look you're going here to
like this yeah don't don't leave with
your back elbow just go here like
straight this way okay that's why your
elbow hurts Eric I've been hitting with
you for 2 years and you've never given
me any
advice here right so try not to lead
like this so down swing down on the ball
correct chopping it like a sword okay
you're still kind of tucking it but I
mean that better that feel
better Eric it looks way worse he's not
doing it
right am I a good hitter now that I've
taken hundreds of swings off the teeth
no and with those crucial improvements