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i reckon spider-man is the coolest
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superhero and
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other than super strength super speed
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and even worse work-life balance
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the only thing that separates me from
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him are his webs so
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let's do something about that
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so we're here at ice stand academy with
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my mate ross who's a real stunt man
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and i've brought my spiderweb along
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we're going to test it out by swinging
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from this bar we've set up testing rig
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testing rig and we're going to see if we
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can trip over and disarm some bad guys
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so
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let's go but before we get to that let
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me tell you how i got here and what
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exactly it is that i've done
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also i'd like to thank nordvpn for
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sponsoring this video
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now i actually have tried building a
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device to let me swing like spider-man
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once before but i thought for this video
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i'd just like to start fresh and focus
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specifically on replicating spider-man's
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web
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as closely as possible in the movies it
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generally looks like this
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it's like a rope made from scaled-up
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spider silk that's strong enough to stop
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a train and sticky enough to swing from
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now peter parker just throws together
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some chemicals to make this which
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seems like pure science fiction but it
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turns out there are
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a few simple ways to actually produce a
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fiber from liquid
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without needing industrial equipment the
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one i'm going to do now is actually a
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super
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cool way of making viscose also known as
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rayon
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also known as artificial silk
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so to do this process i'm going to need
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some sulfuric acid some ammonia
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and also a rock malachite specifically
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turns out that malachite is almost pure
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basic copper carbonate
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so i took some chips of it and like any
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good chemist i smashed the heck out of
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it with a hammer until i had a fine
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powder
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when i add the malachite to the ammonia
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it turns a very satisfying blue color
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and this compound is uniquely able to
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dissolve
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cellulose which is the primary material
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in wood and also cotton wool
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once that's all dissolved i can fill a
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syringe and extrude it into this
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sulfuric acid
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where it forms these strands of
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artificial silk
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so this is really cool it seems like a
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very straightforward way of making webs
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i should be swinging around in no time
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right well
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not quite so this is artificial silk but
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why is it so weak well on a molecular
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level a polymer is made from small
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groups of atoms called
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monomers which connect end to end with
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other monomers to form a chain
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different monomers produce chains with
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different strengths but that's not the
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whole story
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making these chains longer dramatically
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increases the strength of your finished
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product
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like this ziploc bag it's made of
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polyethylene where the chains are
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i'm guessing around 200 monomers long
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and it's not very strong
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but those same monomers in chains of
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like 200
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000 makes the strongest fiber in the
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world
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more than twice the strength of real
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spider silk and well probably
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several thousand times the strength of
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my attempts unfortunately it's really
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hard to make the chains that much longer
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so they need to use some complicated and
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expensive industrial processes to
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achieve it
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so instead of reinventing the turbo jet
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engine i'll just use some of this
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pre-made ultra strong fiber
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even if i could make this exact material
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from liquid
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this is just a lot less messy all right
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so i've got my rope
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now all i need is a way to make it stick
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and that's got to be pretty strong
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because if my web bun sticks while
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swinging you know that'll be a pretty
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sticky situation
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or wait so i explored a whole bunch of
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concepts of how this could work like
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electromagnets super glue vacuum pads
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and more
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some of these ideas were interesting but
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some quick math showed me that
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they were going to be impractical other
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ideas were just stupid
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but i did the maths anyway and threw
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everything onto a matrix so that way i
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look like i know what i'm doing
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the crucial thing here is that whatever
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i made needed to be cheap and simple
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because spider-man leaves hundreds of
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these webs all over the city
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and that thought led me to velcro now
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obviously velcro is way too weak for
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this but the way it works is with a
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bunch of hooks sticking to a bunch of
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loops and i thought well maybe i can
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make like a super velcro using dyneema
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loops and steel hooks
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the steel hooks were the hard part i
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designed and tested
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so many prototypes before i finally
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arrived at this design
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the pinnacle of functional simplicity
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then i used some math and a stress
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simulation to find exactly the smallest
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size i could get away with if i used
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high strength alloy steel
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so i had the hooks laser cut by a nearby
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shop and i was ready to go
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well i needed to quickly grind off the
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sharp edge first
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now i've been working really hard to
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make sure that this web
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is as secure as possible but maybe
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the market and now after tying the hooks
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on
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the sticking mechanism was finished in
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testing i found i didn't even need the
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loops the string itself worked just fine
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i call this creation the hook chain
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now this is one of those cases where the
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end result seems kind of basic
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but that's the funny thing with
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engineering design simplicity
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is one of the hardest things to achieve
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and often you have to take a tour of
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complex ideas before you can know how to
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make something simple
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okay that's enough backstory let's go
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back to that stunt facility you saw the
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beginning of the video so i can test
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this thing out
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cool so i'm here with my web and
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together with
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where is ross actually
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and together with ross we're going to
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see if we can do some tripping and
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disarming
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[Music]
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you almost it
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that was brilliant yeah i think that
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worked
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that was cool but the real test is going
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to be trying to swing from this
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and i don't know about you seems like
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this would be really hard to hold
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so i could try wrapping it around my
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hand like spidey does in the comics but
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man that just seems so unpleasant
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so i brought this gym ring to hold on to
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got my
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rip off miles morales safety wear and uh
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well let's give this a shot hey
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all right that was terrible it's uh
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mostly my fault i think
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i'm sure i can do this
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there we go all right
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[Music]
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seems sturdy so
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hey it works
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well that works but spider-man can't
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just sit there waiting to see if the
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hook is going to catch on or not right
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sometimes he just needs to take a leap
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of faith so let's adjust our setup a
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little bit
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and give it a go
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yes
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this is great ross you want to go
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totally let me add
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we did a lot more testing than i'm
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showing here and the hook chain honestly
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had a really high success rate as long
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as we timed it right
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i'd say not even that far from 100
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percent
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[Music]
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were you saying about 100 success rates
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well it's down to 90 now
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mine is still 100. there is one thing
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that i really do want to try let's
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see if it works okay spiderman
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yeah okay well this is
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tremendously fun i'm really happy with
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it but you're probably thinking
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it would be way cooler if you could
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shoot the webs and swing multiple times
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and
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if you didn't have this bulky gym ring
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nonsense and even if you're not thinking
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about
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i am so check back in the next video
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for some more of that i just wanted to
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say a massive thank you to
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nathan john greg and especially ross
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from my stunt academy for freely lending
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their
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time equipment and skills to make this
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video possible
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big thanks to nordvpn also for
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sponsoring this video
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and thanks to you for watching
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hey guys new york style pizza
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do we need you now tell me
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oh this is like that bit of spider-man 2
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where spider-man delivers
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well it still tastes good
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