I definitely still think it's fake, but hard disagree on that the hammer would bounce up slower. I've done this exact type of experiment a bunch of times with different objects and yoga balls absolutely launch objects.
For starters, hammers are weighted. That could mean it's a heavier or lighter weight hammer. This one doesn't look particularly big for a drilling hammer or mini sledge.
Then you have to account for amount the ball depresses when it hits the pavement. As it depresses from the weight of the ball it will simultaneously punch out on the opposite end as the air inside shifts.
Finally you also have to account for the air pressure inside the ball itself. The more it's inflated, the less something is going to sink into it when it's dropped on it.
I don't currently have a yoga ball or I'd go give it a shot my self just to try it. I'm pretty confident that you could achieve this same result with the right parameters.
A sledge that size would probably be at least 10lb, my intuitive sense of physics having used hammers and played with yoga balls tells me that this looks off, in addition to the obviously staged nature of it all.
I think you are heavily over estimating the weight of that hammer. It looks like it's no more than a 64oz hammer. A 10lb sledge would be a demolition sledge and have a 4ft handle.
That might be where your sense of the physics is off and this particular case.
Could be. But, does that mean you think that this is real? If it's not real, then we know that the hammer is not heavy, which means that the physics we see here don't represent what an actually heavy hammer would do.
No I don't think it's real. I think the hammer being dropped is real and I think the kid is real. But I think we're seeing two different videos edited together. Obviously the kids reaction is incredibly unrealistic being that it would have knocked him on his ass.
I'm not super knowledgeable on Photoshop or video editing, so I can't say how he accomplished it, but I imagine it was filmed in two different videos, one with the hammer drop and one with his "reaction." With how advanced video editing can get these days, I have no doubt a kid could figure it out.
As others said, the cyber truck in the background perfectly in frame is also a dead giveaway that it was done for engagement.
There's a lot of videos just like this with people doing stupid stuff with weights etc, that are clearly not heavy. I think tis a lot more likely they used a prop than relying on editing.
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u/UnfitRadish 13d ago
I definitely still think it's fake, but hard disagree on that the hammer would bounce up slower. I've done this exact type of experiment a bunch of times with different objects and yoga balls absolutely launch objects.