Bo Hamburger
Years ago

World's best free-throw shooter?

This New York Times piece on a guy called Bob Fisher is all kinds of awesome.

In the past 26 months, Fisher has set 14 Guinness world records for free-throw shooting. He has made 33 in 30 seconds, 50 in a minute, 92 in two minutes, 448 in 10 minutes. He made 2,371 in an hour — nearly 40 a minute — which he called "pretty close to a superhuman feat."


Last December, Fisher made 2,371 shots in an hour, blowing past the old record of 1,968. By then, to fight fatigue, he had developed five shooting techniques for each hand. He made 86 percent of the shots with his right hand, 71 percent with his left.


By midmorning, he was still restless, his mind consumed by the missed shots. In raising the 10-minute record to 448 from 366, Fisher shot 73 percent.

“It was a pretty poor performance,” he said. “There is a speed-accuracy trade-off.”


Here's video of the 33 in 30 seconds record:

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JOaRiDrAN  
Years ago

There's an old guy who is way better, he's made 2700 in a row before. Hit YouTube I forgot his name but he is a freak.

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Moses Guthrie  
Years ago

Interviewer: "Eddie, who would win in a shooting contest between you and Andrew Gaze?"

Eddie: "I would."

Eddie Palubinskas would have this guy for breakfast but on a serious note and ignoring the legend that is the Big E ..... Bob Fisher = wow.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Re the old guy ... his name is Fred Newman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzYh4CGAbCU

Yes this is three pointers not free throws and it is way before the extended three point line.

But shooting is shooting and if you develop a repetitive action (regardless of how great it might look) - pretty much the ball does the same thing every time !!

He might be old (even back then), but I for one am still impressed ...

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