World’s Highest Basketball Shot Taken from Top of Strat Casino in Vegas — Video
The world’s tape for the highest basketball game pellet has officially been set from atop The Strat (formerly the Stratosphere) gambling casino hotel in Las Vegas, according to Sports Illustrated.
Tyler Toney — a member of the Dude Perfect YouTube communication channel — landed the stab on April 20 after more than 900 attempts spanning troika days. He took the crack from 855 feet to a higher place the strand patch harnessed onto the jumping program for The Strat’s SkyJump attraction.
Dude Perfect didn’t brand the picture documenting its unsufferable shooter until May 20, 2023, which alerted the human race to the record. So far, to a greater extent than 3.5 meg YouTube users have watched it.
Toney, twins Cory and Coby Cotton, William Frederick Cody Jones, and Garrett David Hilbert are residents of Frisco, Texas, who all attended Texas A&M together. In the 14 years since, they’ve dedicated their YouTube line to cinematography and posting unsufferable trick basketball game shots.
Dude Perfect localise the same Sir Alec Guinness World Record inwards 2016 when it sank a basketball game from atop a 530-foot tower inwards OK City, OK.
Recapturing Fame
But Dude Perfect’s tape was upset deuce years later by How Ridiculous, a competing YouTube communication channel from Australia, which sank a jibe from 660 feet supra Maletsunyane Falls inwards South Africa.
Dude Perfect gave itself tierce years to recapture the gold. And, as you tin can escort from the video, it came flop shoot down to the wire.
Through originative manager Ryan Britton intentional a 10,000 square-foot nett scheme to take hold of errant basketball shots and protect The Strat’s roof, to the highest degree of Toney’s shots missed the roof entirely.
Fewer than five attempts yet made it within 10 feet. And none, before the winning shot, regular striking the rim. Instead, they bounced cancelled windows at The Strat’s hotel tower, a team up member’s car, and still into the balcony of a neighboring apartment building.
Hoop Nightmares
On their s mean solar day of attempts, Dude Perfect gave up exclusively and decided to lead home.
“You know you only if feature three years inward Vegas, so you need to hold ripping off shots because if you don’t, you’re never sledding to pass water it,” Coby Cotton said, “but it’s a really serious refuge concern… It’s non worth it to cause a wreck, injure somebody.”
The squad reconsidered the next day, only after the full general manager of The Strat offered to fill up its man parking area and the wind up appeared to exit down. At 2:33 p.m., single of Toney’s shots curved dramatically toward the hoop and swished in.
Before making its attempt, the Dude Perfect team up placed a Zoom call with the then-record-holders, seeking advice.
How Ridiculous member Mark Rober stated: “It’s just not sledding to happen. I testament eat a hoops if you guys have this shot.”
No word on when Rober intends to eat on that basketball.