If you think you’re a great catch I’ve got news for you, because this New Zealand man has officially proved himself to be the greatest catch of all time, literally.
A video that has now gone viral on Twitter shows the man catching a mobile phone that was flying through the air while *checks notes* riding a roller coaster.
Move over Shane Warne and *insert other cricket player here* because this guy is taking catching stuff to a whole new level.
Samuel Kempf, a New Zealand local that I am now claiming as our own, was riding the Shambhala roller coaster in Spain when he sprung into action to save a fellow rider’s iPhone X.
“Long story short I caught it. This roller coaster is moving at over 130kms and was once Europe’s tallest and fastest coaster,” he humble-bragged to 1 News.
You probably shouldn’t whip out your $2000 phone on a roller coaster, but if you do, you’d want to hope this guy is sitting behind you.
After the ride finished, Kempf returned the phone to his rightful owner. I probably would’ve called catchers keepers, but it appears Samuel is a nicer person than I am.
“He was super surprised and happy at the same time. He gave me a big hug and said he was going to buy the on-ride video for me,” Samuel said.
If you’re wondering how he had the reflexes of cat, it turns out he’s a professional fistballer, who recently represented New Zealand at the World Fistballing Championships in Switzerland.
Yep. Fist. Balling. It’s a sport, I looked it up.
Basically, fistball is glorified outdoor volleyball but because we need to protect the masculinity of players, they use a heavier and harder ball to assert dominance over the volleyballers of the world.
Here’s everything you need to know, according to the experts at fistball.com.au
Yes, Fistball is a real sport. Not some namby pamby thing made up by university students neglecting their studies, an actual real sport. In fact, Fistball is older than pretty much every other sport you can think of. Fistball was invented before Christmas. Fistball was being played when Goths were people that used Roman heads as decorations, not those that hang around bus stations in matching trench coats and poor hygiene. Fistball is probably the reason we humans evolved to have fists.
So there you have it folks, if you’re prone to dropping your phone on roller coasters, you should befriend a pro fistballer to sit behind you and catch your shit.
