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There’s Nothing Better Than Watching a Firecracker Blow Up Inside Jello in Slow Motion

Jan. 4, 2013 9:15pm Liz Klimas

Who: The Slingshot Channel guy we know and love, Joerg Sprave, complete with a Count Dracula-like laugh in this episode.
What: Slingshots, explosive firecrackers, gelatin and a bayonet.
Where: Probably his backyard.
When: New Years Eve (when else would explosive slingshot shooting being merited?)
Why: Sprave does things like this because he’s a genius. TheBlaze is posting it because it’s Friday and, well, why not? Have you ever seen a firecracker shot from a slingshot into a brick of Jello before? We didn’t think so.

Now, before we get to the wiggly action of what it looks like to shoot a firecracker into gelatin, Sprave tests shooting the explosive straight up, at a 45 degree angle and into a catch box. From there, he tailors it to have a tip that would help it penetrate the object at which it was shot.

Slingshot Channels Joerg Sprave Explodes Firecrackers in Gelatin

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

Then, enters the yellow-colored gelatin. The crack the explosive makes is surprisingly loud and it’s super satisfying to watch the action in slow motion.

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

“Wow, that was pretty good. Nice to see the flames inside the gelatin,” Sprave said.

You think Sprave would leave it at that? No way. He has another block of gelatin, which he sticks with six firecrackers at one time. As if the gelatin hadn’t been tortured enough, Sprave then slams a bayonet through it.

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

Watch the video for yourself to see the gelatin and explosives in all their slow-mo glory:

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Comments (68)

Too_Far_Gone
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 2:18pm
ZZZzzzz .. … ..

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- db321
  Posted on January 5, 2013 at 8:35pm
  Cool stuff, but this man has way too much time on his hands.
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on January 5, 2013 at 10:49pm
  Actually, sex, among a whole lot of other things, is better than watching this. Actually I’d rather scoop up after the dog than watch this again. But that’s just me.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:30am
  Actually I’d rather scoop up after the dog than watch this again
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  Says the troll that hasn’t been hit by a whiff of dog terd, because they haven’t scooped up after anything including themselves.
  
  Do you even own a dog? Quick check the internet for a list of dog breeds. ROFL ;)
  
  Watching the kinetics of gelatin exploding could be educational, scooping after a dog not so much.
  
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- JQuentinEvermann
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 1:28pm
  This is exactly what I come to The Blaze to see…I mean, sites like wimp.com and youtube.com and imgur.com are overflowing with this, but when I’m looking for the political leanings of exploding jello, well, let’s just say my prayers have been answered.
  
  Ok, time to get back to Drudge to read some real news. I may check back in a few weeks to see if Blaze got their **** together.
  
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- NoNannyState4me
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:14pm
  Too quote the first post. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
  
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- naughtycal
  Posted on January 7, 2013 at 9:27am
  You people don’t get it. This man just wants to share his creative hobby or even art with the world.
  I’ld rather see his art than some atheist liberal douc%es art that consist of placing a cross in urine.
  More over this man also is teach his government mandated disarmed society how to arm them at least in some form.
  
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sarcasticus
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 1:40pm
I’m glad to see he was wearing his safety glasses.

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Tom70
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 12:22pm
Why not the republicans will lye down on their backs and put their feet up and ***** with gladly give away the farm.

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YOURSENSEI
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 11:25am
This is what you must know:

There are many things better than watching a firecracker blow up inside jello.

It is so.

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- Patriot101
  Posted on January 5, 2013 at 1:01pm
  Yeah, but not many.
  
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- lel2007
  Posted on January 5, 2013 at 1:02pm
  But it did blowd-up real good.
  
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- Tankertony
  Posted on January 5, 2013 at 4:29pm
  Ahhh, the bearded marxist grants his profound wisdom to us all. We prostrate before your greatness.
  
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Rashomon
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 10:12am
http://www.nobodygoeshere.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/cosby-jello-gif.gif

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lefty5005
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 9:52am
What happens if you run out of bullets. This guy has plenty of stuff other than guns to shoot. I got a genuine katana off ebay a couple of months ago. I has it sharpened and it is scary how sharp this thing got with the high carbon steel blade. No comparison to the cheap one, about 90$ I got in an auction.

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obxned
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 9:44am
For their size, his firecrackers were pretty lame.

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- txjb
  Posted on January 5, 2013 at 5:56pm
  That’s what I’m thinking !
  
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- Two Sheds
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:37am
  European firecrackers, more smoke and paper bits flying around. Not so much boom. Fun at New Years to fill the streets with smoke.
  
  An M-80 would have taken care of that Jello =D
  
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Anna Fallaxis
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 7:40am
This loon’s accent and his glee were half the fun. The gelatin part was actually not as explodey as I would have liked, but I must say, he makes very nice gelatin. Think of all the money the military could save replacing Kevlar with filling your BDU’s with jello! Articles like this are why we love the Blaze. Beck realizes that today’s diet of increasingly horrific news needs to go down with some light-hearted silliness, so we don’t all die of despair. Maybe this stuff should go into car bumpers or construction helmets. A brick of it on your coffee table would provide endless amusement. I need some.

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- jcldwl
  Posted on January 5, 2013 at 8:12am
  Nice article filled with explosive violence. Anyone know if Glenn is still going to promote the Michael Vey book series as books to let your kids read. After all they are filled with children committing violent acts against other children and adults as well as torture. Should our kids really be reading these. I read them and enjoy them but what about our kids. Just trying to get that out there because we need an answer.
  
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- jcldwl
  Posted on January 5, 2013 at 8:17am
  How many children will be injured trying to simulate or expand upon this now? I’m just asking. I enjoyed it myself.
- IWILLBEFREE
  Posted on January 5, 2013 at 10:18am
  Right! Because slingshots are a new thing, right? Can you tell me how many “children” reenacted the whole “David and Goliath” thing from the bible? OH NO!! We have to get these violent books entitled “The Holy Bible” out of our children’s hands!! Whatever will we do?
  Maybe… be a parent?
  
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- John.Galt
  Posted on January 5, 2013 at 6:49pm
  @JC>>>> YOU SUCK, GO AWAY LOSER. :-p
  
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nocommie
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 7:29am
I do like this guy.Some kids never grow up.Have some fun people…

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- BecksADweeb
  Posted on January 5, 2013 at 9:26am
  You mean it’s still possible to enjoy life when there’s a commie fascist socialist marxist leninist trotskyist alinskyite in the white house?
  
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- DenverKitty
  Posted on January 5, 2013 at 6:48pm
  NOCOMMIE, This guy just tickles me. And he’s one incredible inventor!
  
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Ralleo
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 6:56am
Is that really his accent or just faked for the camera?

I ask because I love the accent. It would be great to see him doing all sorts of instructional videos just like those old disney cartoons with the duck that looked like Einstein and talked with a thick german accent. Would be funny even if he was just explaining how to make peanut butter sandwiches.

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- danbarlinmar
  Posted on January 5, 2013 at 4:55pm
  well, he is in Germany, so i am assuming the accent is real.
  
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ares338
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 6:42am
News a little sparse this morning?

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dirtypolitics
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 6:25am
Happy New Year to all of us! May our wishes come true!

How about us wishing together for one very important thing for this country and wish that it happens this year………..real change.

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motherboard
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 2:05am
Title of the article is weird for me though, as I can think of a ton of stuff better than high speed camera work on jello. Just sayin…

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- ErinLindsey
  Posted on January 5, 2013 at 4:34am
  That’s not Jello. It’s ballistics gel. Not edible that I know of.
  
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Armyof One
Posted on January 5, 2013 at 12:30am
I love George! I think I’ve seen all his vids at least 3 times. His innovations are real head-turners, especially when they work so well.

His pointers on making serious damage slingshots have paid off with the local ground squirrels. Store bought Wrist-Rockets simply cannot develop near the power one of George’s beasts can.

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- DadRocked
  Posted on January 5, 2013 at 1:41am
  Armyof One – By reading these posts I thought that I was amongst the few who joined as a member and share Joerg Sprave’s channel with like minded friends.
  
  For those here that what to debunk Herr Sprave than let me enlighten you about him.
  
  The Slingshot Channel is a hobby based, non-profit operation. He makes and his wife (usually) videos each ‘episode’. He doesn’t sell nor ever wants to make money with the channel nor his slingshots. It is all about the fun.
  
  He studied economy at a Deutsch university and holds a master’s degree in business admin.
  He is a CEO of a mid size consumer electronics company.
  
  He is into firearms and knives but his hobby is working in his woodshop making slingshots.
  As a member of his site you have access to his forum where a lot of ideas of the how to’s and what materials to use come into play. e.g. Here is an example from his forum on how to make a golfball shooter: http://theslingshotforum.forumotion.com/t2434-wan-t-to-build-golfball-shooting-pistol#27733
  
  He just likes his hobby and loves to share it…
  
  So get off of your high horses, get into your own hobby but most importantly just enjoy…
  
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- DadRocked
  Posted on January 5, 2013 at 1:45am
  Also thanks BLAZE for sharing his videos to all…
  
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teacherbil
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 11:53pm
I can only hope he will soon be using a few Washington politicians instead of blocks of jello.

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jp2feminist
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 11:13pm
point being?

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- Proverbs17-12NLT
  Posted on January 4, 2013 at 11:33pm
  If you put one in Mooches **** it would look like that.
  
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- banjarmon
  Posted on January 5, 2013 at 12:05am
  When Moochel passes gas. I bet it wiggles and jiggles!
  
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dealer@678
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 10:20pm
Liz Klimas must be bored

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- Weiners Wiener
  Posted on January 4, 2013 at 10:27pm
  You must be even more bored to watch it and post that comment.
  
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- GENEPAGLIARI
  Posted on January 4, 2013 at 10:40pm
  @ Ws Wr
  Time to update your screen name?
  
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- Weiners Wiener
  Posted on January 4, 2013 at 10:57pm
  Gene — No. Why would I? It’s jsut a screen name. Go worry about something more important.
  
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joannariv
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 10:10pm
I have to admit that the Jello part was interesting.

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bava
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 9:51pm
It’s not Jello, It’s ballistics gel. So what. Oh…I forgot. All you gun owners got a major stiffy for the New Year from this. Almost as good as an Arab Strap for most of you. Okay. Whatever.

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SingerGuy
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 9:50pm
That’s a fun diversion for a Friday. I’m glad The Blaze has a bit of story diversity like this. It would be boring if it was all shocking news all the time. Thanks Blaze editors!

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- BecksADweeb
  Posted on January 5, 2013 at 9:30am
  yeah that was a hard-hitting story. i heard world news daily and the national enquirer picked up the story. wow, have to keep the dweebs entertained, right glenda ptbarnum beck?
  
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ArmedAndReallyPissed
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 9:49pm
That’s nothing. Shove an M80 up Michael Moore’s ass and you’ll get a Rainbow of colors. EPIC colors……..LOL……right SALVAWHORAY ?

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John 1776
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 9:36pm
Have to brush up on slingshots for after the big Obama Gun Grab!

(It will be all we have left)

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N37BU6
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 9:27pm
It always cracked me up how he does a little wiggle at the end of every sentence.

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MrButcher
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 9:26pm
FYI

Herr Spave ist deutsches und nicht ungarisches.

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- DadRocked
  Posted on January 5, 2013 at 12:38am
  Nirgendwo im Artikel sagt es, dass er ungarisch ist. Ich verstehe Ihren Kommentar nicht.
  
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- DadRocked
  Posted on January 5, 2013 at 12:40am
  Der einzige Hinweis ist Graf Dracula, die stammt aus Siebenbürgen Rumänien.
  
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JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on January 4, 2013 at 9:23pm
Big deal. Boring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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- salvawhoray
  Posted on January 4, 2013 at 9:41pm
  I’m surprise they didn’t use the word “Epic”.
  
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