Wilson Sent me a Better Airless Gen1 Basketball

hot take. It's implied that you use this on the way to the kitchen at 3AM.

The bigest drawback is that it is impossible to sign it by players 😂

It's called drag coefficient and I'm a little shocked that no one saw this coming. It's a ball, covered completely in holes. It's trajectory will be affected.

Every video I’ve seen of someone shooting with the airless ball has air balled their first shot

I can’t wait for the temu version

One of the main things for me is the sound. I don't think I can do without the sound of a normal basketball bouncing on the ground, it's as important as the feel to me.

Bring back Lew Later please 😢

This definitely makes sense as a collector's item. High price, low volume, selling to people who want to have a small piece of history so to speak. Wilson probably doesn't need to sell very many of these in the grand scheme to make enough money to recoup development costs so they can continue to comfortably develop gen 2 and so on. Future generations will likely get cheaper as the production process gets more refined and the product gets closer to being usable as a drop-in replacement for an air-filled basketball.

my smoll brain in 2000: humanity will be living on Saturn by the end of 2020 reality in 2024: airless basketball 😂😂😂😂😂

Your skill on the court is impressive 👌🏾

the editing with the texts in this video is chef's kiss

I'd say that the speed holes are interfering with the magnus effect. Preventing it flying as well as a backspinning basketball, golf ball or table tennis ball.

I want that R32 in the background!

At first I thought momentum would be the reason why he kept shooting short due to less weight, but apparently the Airless is very close in weight to the regular. So yeah, while he said air resistance, I'd say he's close to the answer, it'd be turbulance that's causing a lot more drag on the ball flying through the air. All those holes will be creating some mad random turbulance patterns.

I don't get how this guy is still so popular all his vids are 5 mins of ads before he even talks about the product we are here to see him review.

@EngineeringExplained needs to take a look at this. The effect of air around the ball instead of through it. Id watch that for sure.

I agree with you. If they were able to have some sort of leather/faux leather mesh covering the ball, that would definitely help with the air resistance and grip. Hopefully they’re already working on implementing something like that because if they’ve already tried and can’t get that to work then this just stays a collector’s item. It would be so cool to have airless balls that are functionally identical to regular balls

The drag would be quite a bit different because of the holes, which might be why you had to shoot it harder

I too miss lew later 😢

The vivobarefoot choice of shoes is the most impressive part of this video. I love it