Source: Dude Perfect
trick shot took 10 hours: What You Need to Know
THE TL;DW
- Dude Perfect shows the grueling process behind one of their signature trick shots, revealing it took a marathon 10-hour session to finally land.
- As always with the crew, the shot only “counts” once it’s made live on camera — no pre-practicing allowed, so every miss during those 10 hours was real.
- The video captures the repetition and frustration fans rarely see, compressed down from hours of misses into the celebratory final make.
The Jupiter Take
Dude Perfect has built a career on making trick shots look effortless, so a video leaning into just how long the trick shot took flips the script by showing the grind behind the highlight reel. It’s a reminder that the viral 10-second clip usually hides hours of failed attempts.
Context
Dude Perfect has leaned increasingly into “behind the scenes” and process-focused content in recent years, pulling back the curtain on just how much failure goes into their viral trick shots. The crew has a long-running rule that a shot only counts if it’s made with cameras actively rolling — no quietly practicing it first and then “performing” the make later — which is part of why some shots can take dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of attempts before success. That ethos was spotlighted in ESPN’s 2024 30 for 30 documentary on the group, which showed frontman Tyler Toney enforcing that rule even on NBA stars who guest-starred in their videos.
The group has chased similarly grueling feats before, including a world-record basketball shot dropped from 856 feet at a Las Vegas tower that took the team three days of filming to finally land. This new video fits that same pattern — turning the tedious, often unglamorous reality of trick-shot filmmaking into content, which has become a reliable format for the channel alongside their usual battles and challenge videos like their recent Target Challenge.
