Original subtitles

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.

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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.

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[ 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.

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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.

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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.