Bottle flip
Under a Bottle flip ( German as "bottles Alto") refers to a game in which attempts a plastic bottle to make, which is usually about one-third filled, rotate so that it performs a 360 ° rotation to the rear and after this rotation lands on the bottom of the bottle and stops. After a video of the trick went viral , the game became an internet phenomenon . The video resulted in a competition, the so-called Water-Bottle-Flip-Challenge .
The trick
The classic variant of the trick works like this: A 500 ml water bottle that is about a third full is held by the upper opening and thrown forward so that the bottom of the bottle lands on the floor after a full turn. The trick takes some practice. The physical basics are angular momentum , fluid dynamics and gravity . The remaining water is needed to keep the center of gravity low so that the bottle rotates around the bottom rather than the center of the bottle. Gravity pulls the bottle down so that if done correctly, the bottle lands on its bottom.
Later videos vary the trick in terms of the direction of the throw, the size and shape of the vessel and the location of the action. Some tricks show several bottles stacked on top of one another or the appearance on the cap ("cap flip"). However, some videos were obviously digitally post-processed.
history
In May 2016, a video was distributed of 18-year-old Michael "Mike" Senatore performing a bottle flip on a talent show at Ardrey Kell High School in Charlotte , North Carolina . The video has been viewed more than seven million times. In the summer of 2016 the bottle flip found worldwide distribution. Thousands of copycat videos were created, most of which spread on YouTube . There were also compilations on channels such as Dude Perfect , which has around 15 million subscribers. After the 2016 summer vacation in particular, the trend became so widespread in the United States that some schools banned bottle flips because of numerous complaints from parents and teachers.
Michael Senatore later linked the trend he had unintentionally initiated under the name Flip for a cure with a campaign to fight cancer , which is supposed to raise money for cancer research . The American water bottle manufacturer Deer Park Spring Water (belongs to Nestlé ), whose bottle he threw in his famous video, supported the action with 10,000 dollars.
At the height of the trend, four engineering students from Western University developed an app called Bottle Flip 2k16 for the smartphone that requires a virtual bottle to be thrown up. Soon after it was released, it was downloaded more than three million times and topped the iTunes charts in the United States and Canada.
The game was also used in the TV show Hit the Star .
literature
- Oliver Schmid: Water Bottle Flip Instructions & Trickshots. How to put down perfect trick shots and make a powerful impression. Bottle flip tutorial. BookRix, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-7396-9704-8 ( limited preview in Google book search).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Allison Slater Tate: Why water bottle flipping craze is getting on parents' last nerves . October 6, 2016. Accessed March 31, 2017.
- ↑ Josh Rosenblat, Javier Zarracina: The complex physics of that viral water bottle trick, explained. Vox.com, May 26, 2016, accessed April 5, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c d The Bottle Flip. Giga.de , January 2, 2017, accessed April 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Caroline Picard: The Bottle Flipping Trend Is Driving Parents Everywhere Crazy. GoodHousekeeping.com, October 6, 2016, accessed April 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Christopher Mele: Bottle-Flipping Craze Is Fun for Children but Torture for Parents. New York Times , October 14, 2016, accessed April 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Lacey Russell: The craze that's driving parents crazy. CNN , October 24, 2016, accessed April 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Hank Daniszewski: Students' app so simple, so lucrative, you'll flip. The London Free Press, September 26, 2016, accessed April 5, 2017 .
- ↑ "Beat the Star": Stefan Kretzschmar dismantles Tim Bendzko on morgenpost.de, February 19, 2017