A pair of slow-motion experts has managed to capture a very amazing explosion using a 6ft (1.8 metre)-wide version of the classic children’s toy, a balloon. In the video, a man is shown climbing inside the balloon as it fills with water. The balloon gets so filled that is splits, causing water to break free and cascade around the garden.
The video is actually a remake of a 2011 video the pair filmed using a similar sized balloon and the video is called ‘6ft Man in 6ft Giant Water Balloon’. Texas-based Daniel Gruchy attempts to pull the 6ft balloon around his body, over the course of five minutes.
At one point, his partner Gavin Free even has to come and help. Water from a hose is gradually filling the giant balloon with water, all the while. The sides of the balloon burst spectacularly in real-time, after around two minutes. To reveal a huge tear ripping across the top of the balloon by Mr. Gruchy’s legs, the same shot is then shown in slow motion. Before collapsing and surrounding him, the water stays in the shape of the balloon briefly. Even in slow motion, his face goes from shock to grimacing to laughter. The footage was captured on a Phantom Flex in 4K at 1000fps.
The pair filled the same sized balloon, bought from Giant Balloons in Oxford, with water and attempted to burst by jumping on it, in the original 2011 version. Before the surface of the balloon would tear, it took a couple of attempts in this video.
‘I first made a slow motion video back in 2004 of me throwing a water balloon at a friend. I just wondered what it would look like slowed down as far as I could – so I managed to get hold of specialist filming equipment and gave it a shot. I uploaded the video to the internet a few years ago and forgot about it. But then I found out other people had been posting it to different sites, and it had had hundreds of thousands of views. Dan and I decided to film more things in slow motion and upload them. People are fascinated by it, but we just enjoy messing about and having a laugh.’ said Mr. Free.
Water balloons create strong capillary waves, or ripples, on the upper surface when they burst. These ripples eventually cause ‘shear-induced deformation’ of the water, which causes the rubber to tear and peel away.
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