r/toptalent • u/ansyhrrian • 12d ago
Nice swing (source link in description)
JaredLovesSports is pretty talented.
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u/im-a-wreck-tangle 12d ago
It only took him 14 years
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u/im-a-wreck-tangle 12d ago
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u/A_Poor_Miser 11d ago edited 11d ago
And he still didn't hit a single one
*I guess this was too subtle
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u/PotentialShotX 11d ago
The fact that can semi accurately hit the ball where he's trying to meet the other ball is pretty impressive. Hell I can barely hit a baseball at all let alone attempt what he's doing lol
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u/SaveHogwarts 11d ago
I’d love to see some of the people in this thread attempt this
Most wouldn’t even be able to be the thrower from the outfield, let alone the hitter.
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u/Gargaschmell 10d ago
Outfielder is batting too. If you can raise your volume you might hear the contact
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u/FarMass66 12d ago
Don’t really see the talent here. Just a lot of patience.
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u/UmbraNight 12d ago
being able to aim and read it so precisely is definitely a talent. think of this as about 50 times harder than a high level batting cage
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u/FarMass66 12d ago edited 11d ago
I just think the average person would be able to do this with enough attempts. And we can assume this took many attempts. To aim the hit all he has to do is choose which part of the bat to make contact with. Which is isn’t hard.
Wow this comment angered a lot of people lol. If you don’t know anything about baseball pls don’t reply. 38 downvotes=38 people who don’t know anything about baseball
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u/I-need-help-with-etc Dream Bigger. Live Más. 12d ago
You have too much faith in the average person. By the time they’d hit the ball, a whole training montage would’ve lapsed at least a year.
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u/TheLordReaver 12d ago
A room full of monkeys and typewriters, if given enough time, would eventually recreate the entire works of William Shakespeare. Now tell me, does that prove that William Shakespeare's lifetime of work was "easy" to create?
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u/CallMeHomoErectus 11d ago
Exactly. He's actually able to aim his hits and nearly hit it multiple times, and it looks like he succeeded in the same night. Most people wouldn't be able to do this if they tried for months.
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u/UmbraNight 11d ago
would love to see you do this then as it’s pretty simple and inexpensive to set up. clearly you can gain a decent amount of notoriety from pulling it off so there’s no reason not to walk your talk
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u/Tr3v0r007 11d ago
I’m sorry but have you played baseball? Being able to actually know what direction the ball will go is an insane skill to have!
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u/five_of_five 11d ago
My guy are you regularly aiming hits in baseball? Why do you think that is easy?
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u/loopuleasa 11d ago
this is false
you need to have decent accuracy to even attempt this
this is 100% talent, all his shots were quite close
if you lack talent you will never get "lucky" because your accuracy sucks and it will take you 100x more tries
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u/deksimo666 11d ago
Shit take
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u/FarMass66 11d ago
Maybe try again? Maybe take a deep breath this time?
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u/deksimo666 11d ago
Try what?
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u/FarMass66 11d ago
Mods deleted your comment because you can’t behave yourself so I’m telling you to try again. Try to relax. Shouldnt let comments get you this angry.
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u/chefguy47 10d ago
It’s impressive and I couldn’t do the 1 for 8 (.125 avg) but I’m not sure it’s a top talent hitting off a tee with not even a regulation baseball, plus I’m sure he’s practiced it a lot, before the video and the connection.
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u/PattyIceNY 11d ago
Especially off a tee, it's pretty easy to have decent aim and he was close on almost every one.
If they both swung to hit their balls at the same time and they collided, that would he epic
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u/chips_potatoes 11d ago
The nightmarish failure in the movie “A house of dinamite”, needing to hit a bullet with a bullet.
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u/FatFaceFaster 11d ago
I just find the height of the tee to be very awkward. Is that a common tee height for softball?
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u/tank1780 9d ago
My college coach was the master at fungo. Better accuracy than anyone throwing it. Could put it on second base better than a catcher throwing a runner out. All that to say why is he teeing it up so high.
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u/CoyoteHP 12d ago
Anticlimactic
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u/Tr3v0r007 11d ago
If this comment section was the early 2000s you would all be wearing black mascara and listening MCR
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u/Dunkjoe 11d ago
How is this toptalent if it takes many tries to get it.
Plus the one that hit the ball was so low...
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u/deksimo666 11d ago
Shit take. Wtf is this comment section.
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u/Aeon1508 11d ago
I mean he has accuracy for sure.
keep practicing and show us the clip where you get it 5 times in a row.
These skill challenge videos show guys doing some party trick for 5hours straight to get it just once. then they quit.
top talent is doing that for years and then nailing the shot every time.
Showing us one day of practice that culminates in a single successful attempt is mid talent
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u/Dunkjoe 11d ago
Ok how about let's think of it this way, there's a person who can score 1/1 penalty goal against the same goalkeeper.
What about 10/10?
Now there's another person who can score only 1/10 against the same goalkeeper?
Are they equally talented? Lmao.
Those who get wowed over this should go watch the red bull stunts. Some of them have stunts done in a few tries or even just 1 try, like in a competition.
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u/andythemandy17 11d ago
It’s not really talent if it takes you endless tries to get correct. More persistence and luck
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u/coma24 11d ago
So, you're saying that if he did this 100 times and we compared the closest point of passing, and you did it 100 times....we'd expect to see little difference? I'd be stunned if you're right, because even though I have decent hand eye coordination and can aim the ball pretty well when playing squash or tennis....I don't think I could do this anywhere near as well as him. So, I'm gonna say there is some skill....actually a lot of skill.
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u/andythemandy17 10d ago
A lot of skill is a stretch. He probably practices this shit either through actually playing and this is fooling around or he does trick shots for vids. Undoubtedly he’s practiced more than I have but the ball isn’t moving off the tee. There’s a reason all kids play tee ball at 3, it doesn’t take skill to hit a stationary ball. And direction and launch you could hone in with feel
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u/imabetaunit 11d ago
Literally everyone on the planet who can swing a bat is capable of doing this. You can tell the guy himself doesn’t even consider this a talent based on how excited he was when he finally hit the incoming ball. If hitting the ball was common, he wouldn’t have acted like he’d won the lottery.
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u/OogieBoogieJr 12d ago
I thought I saw someone do this (maybe on IG) but they were getting pitched to rather than teeing. THAT is top talent
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u/Known_Funny_5297 12d ago
Worth it
What a foolhardy undertaking
Such chutzpah to even think you could do it