This is the most kindest dude-

The real winner is the man taking the money.

3x for 10bucks... nope

To get the most power out of the hammer, slide your front hand down the handle as you are swinging down. Not before you swing down.

They don’t care if you win or lose. Winners bring more customers. But the biggest reason they don’t care is that the prize costs them less than to cost of playing so they make money either way. I had a customer that supplied carnivals with prizes and breakable plates, etc.

in order to win you need to actually just let gravity do all the work and hit the very edge of the thingy (worked at a flea market that had games like these)

*puts sad music over him playing a carnival game*

How not to swing a sledge hammer/axe for maximum power tutorial

Why does it look like he’s not actually trying to swing the hammer as he’s about to hit it

Love these clout chassers so inspiring 🙌 ❤ 🥺

He looks like a guy that i will meet in heaven

I appreciate him being honest, he didn't sell bullshit

That was the most zesty swing I’ve ever seen.

its all in the swing, anyone who has swung an axe 500 times wins this every time

Bro rlly put David's voice in video💀

In the early 60s I was with Atlas shows out of SoCal. The striker was mybfirst joint. I was a kid and skinny but made the chaser hit the bell every time. It wasn't rigged or gaffed, I learned the first day it is not how hard you hit it, it is how you hit it hard.

It takes a man to ring the bell. It takes a REAL man to fail with such grace and walk away with his dignity intact

I love how his not like that jack and does good things he’s so great

What a great act of kindness

It good to see someone who gives to people be happy 😊

This tooth is so kind You guys should make this thing to 2,000,000Views

Swear there are clones of this carnie. Ive seen that guy my whole life at every carnival

"i work out"😂😂😂

I used to chop wood to heat my house in the winter, I've always been able to do this. It's all abs. Swing the hammer all you want with your arms, but if you're not pulling with your core, the hammer won't go down hard enough to ring the bell.

They don't now me son !!! Hahaha

The biggest difficulty with these is that the hammer is too light. The heavier the hammer is the easier the game is.

Aww u beat it😢❤

wtf happened to us man ten dollars for three swings is mad

This is really spectacular!

Incredible! I’m impressed!

Bro how is this a wholesome experience he’s just playing a game bruh

Just for reference, there’s a spring underneath the mechanism you hit with the hammer. If you hit the mechanism too hard, a lot of your power will go into the spring underneath it and not transfer enough power to ring the bell. Don’t put any power behind the hammer just let the weight of the hammer come down and do the work and you’ll ring the bell.

I’d hug that man just because

My favorite carnival game! I've chopped a lot of wood in my life and the same technique can be used for these. Haven't found a bell I couldn't ring yet

This song makes anything sad

Steve Pulcinella used to own that,we could hit it at every level of the game

Atleast he was being honest about it lol

Old man knows whats up. Probably 1 out of 200 can do it

You got to hit it out on the end to win. It's all about leverage

I stayed watching cause I thought he was gonna change that old man's life 😅

Carny's have to demonstrate that the game can actually be beaten for me to play💯

The key is to use leverage. Hit the plunger arm on its extreme end, ie, the very tip of the corner closest to you. Some swings you might even glance off and hit the ground. I used to be able to do these regularly and at 165 lbs, I was not particularly strong. You can see in the video he is hitting the rubber contact point in the middle. That is not ideal. when he got 90% it was because he hit it closer to the edge.

why does this have wholesome music over it?

Hit the corner of the rubber closest to you, you’ll ring the bell every time. It doesn’t even have to be that hard of a swing. My neighbors were carnies growing up they taught us all the tricks of how to win.

Having known someone who owned one of these it's more about angle than sheer power. The pin you have to hit has a rounded top but has to be hit perfectly straight to not bind up in the tube it runs in.. (the kiddie one has a much larger striking area) If you can get the hammer to fall perfectly vertically onto the pin with the head absolutely flat it should ring the bell without needing a huge amount of force

I feel like that woodsplitter guy would get 100% with his pinky finger

I learned the technique and went with friends to KNOTTS. my friends were pissed even the stronger ones. Only some of them finally rang the bell.😅 they wore themselves out cuz i would walk up and do it with ease.

The music in the beginning had me thinking he was going to give him 200$ at the end or something

I remember my father doing one of those, he made it to the top (he was a hammer swinger on the railroad for 20 years)

Quick tip something a carny told me years ago. Only way to win these is to keep the hammer straight when swinging down. It works every time.

With the music at the beginning i thought he was going to give theild guy $1k for being so awesome

the key is to hit the very end of the black pad and to hold the hammer all the way at the bottom cus its pretty short even if you're not the strongest you can get it if you do it perfect

You almost had it man

At cedar point they increase the sensitivity of it after every winner, so if you one of the first to play it you can win a lot

The tf2 sound *mwah* perfect

Love the biceps, so IDC how many tries there are🤷‍♀️😄

The big ones don't require strength as much as they require accuracy. The strike pads are designed to dissipate a lot of your energy if you dont hit right on the pivot point.

I had a lumberjack show me the proper technique for swinging it for max power and now I hit the top just about every time. Crazy how small change in technique can make all the difference

lumberjack: step aside

My dad would always win these things because hewould pick the small hammer instead of the big one everybody would always use . He was a big guy who worked out and had definitely chopped alot of wood in his life but he always picked the small hammer and always won

I’ve beaten one of these before. One of my old jobs I used a sledgehammer to drive in poles. Guy was surprised and pissed all at the same time.

I worked at this fair. Wade shows incredible

Bro didn’t even swing at his fullest. Held back all three times just to get the little kid one 😂

I’ve hit 100% got it the second try doing this tactic

You can tell the dude felt bad making him spend 10$

I used to work at the carnival I miss it

Orbiter in the background is hell of a ride mind

I’ve won one of those. Had everything to do with my technique rather than strength though. It’s all in the wind up in the wrist.

You have to swing it like an axe or sledgehammer. I always ring the bell, all 3 times, then the guy usually says "OK, once more" so I do it, and ring it again. My guess is he's got a remote control switch which operates a magnet or something to slow it down. That's the time you have to pound it the hardest!!

You can see the old man adjusted the difficulty as he was putting the compressor down as he took the money.

Did this at a county fair sometime around 1997. Girlfriend laughed at me cause of my erratic and swift swing. But I drove the head of that hammer directly and straight down into it and the puck rose up and dinged that bell loudly.

It's not about how hard you hit it. It's about how you hit it.

This started out as like one of those charity videos

I used to always jump and land with the hit. Worked every time

Btw you hit the tip of brick with edge of hammer head. Slide your hand down as you swing. Bell everytime.

If you line up the hammer head to just hit the outer 1 inch of the rubber pad then try to hit that mark with a full swing you should ring the bell every time

How is this wholesome

There's a tension screw on the back side of the fulcrum. You can screw it up and down. When it is screwed up all the way, it causes the lever to have most of the slack taken out of it. Therefore when you hit it with a hammer it's only jumping a few inches. If you screw the tension screw all the way down, the lever will swing 12 to 18 in when hit with a hammer. These games are rigged. No matter how hard you hit them, it is almost impossible to ring the bell unless the tension screw is set properly. Source: I used to run one of these games on the road at various events.

This guy looks identical to my grandfather that passed away that’s so crazy.

Looks like every American kids grandpa, then u see the old faded tattoo on his arm and all the sudden ur on alcatraz and he's your celly.

damn thats the funfair minigame from the videogame Bully 😮😮😮

Hit the tip of the target pad... Works everytime and less force...

its physics, you gotta aim for the very tip of the plate.

Hit the rubber pad on the last few inches to win. Its not about how hard you hit it, its about WHERE you hit it.

The trick is to hit the bottom lip of the stricking pad. It will ding most every time or get you into the top 90% fairly easy.

Hold closer to end of the handle near mallet with one hand, closer to how you where holding it at the beginning of the swing before changed your grip

trick to these is have one grip at the bottom and one in the middle, instead of swinging with momentum you wanna lever it with your middle grip.

dude you've gotta hit the edge

i always do them on the first try. I also split logs with an axe :)

This thing is the only time I broke my nose while not playing hockey. 5 other times it was while playing, but this hammer and chisel thing? Not doing it again😂

Its not about power, its about technique in your swing.

There is a trick on the first one don't hit with power hit with a speed hit works almost every time 😁

i was very tall as a kid, but i was still weak, and i remember the dude at the fair made me swing on the adult version when i was 11 or 12, i still feel scammed lol

The pivot point is actually closer to where the hammer hits than the puck..... lol. aim for the most outside point

You can tell bro never worked with a sledge hammer before.

This man has clearly never split wood.

I got kicked off one of those one time😂 the lady asked if I was a lumberjack😭

that looks like the more force, the less height

A lot of those hammer games arent a test of strength but are rigged to go up at a certain force instead of a minimum amount of force

Honestly I am tired of hearing that music