AIMING HIGH — BASKETBALL ACES SHOOT FOR CHARITY:
Scott Gaunson:
We want to be challenged and do things people don’t expect.
basketball shot (66.89m) thrown off a light tower at the Western Australian Cricket Ground.
“We want to be challenged and do things people don’t expect or don’t believe are possible,” Scott said.
“We can spend hours on a shot but there’s hours of effort and planning that also goes into them.”
The group is in town with child advocacy organisation Compassion Australia and will be shooting hoops at the entrance to Easterfest all weekend.
They aim to shoot 1500 three-pointers during their time here and in the process, sign up at least 150 new child sponsors.
“We decided early on to promote the cause of child poverty. We know it works and that’s the reason we keep doing it,” Brett said.
Keeping their next big trick under their sleeves, the boys said they have no plans to stop anytime soon.
“Watch this space and prepare to be amazed,” Brett said.
“We’re not slowing down that’s for sure.” FOUR young men from Perth will bring their head-turning basketball tricks to the city this weekend.
The group, known as How Ridiculous, is a YouTube sensation with more than seven million hits after first uploading a video of basketball trick shots back in 2009.
Four years later and Brett Stanford, Derek Herron, Scott Gaunson and Kyle Nebel, continue to raise the bar, filming some of the most jaw-dropping tricks on the internet.
They also hold the Guinness World Record for the highest