Flaming Tennis

Tennis made a little more interesting...

Sorry for the lack of pictures I'll add more in about a week.

Step 1 Materials

1. Tennis balls

2. Two or more tennis rackets

3. Lighter

4. Gasoline

5. Common sense

Comments

[frostybob]

reminds me of friends 'fire ball'

[lickpoison]

UMMMMM... jeez... I should get my annoying little brother to play this! PYROMANIA 4EVER

[itsthatsguy]

Please be careful when doing this, a couple local kids got high, and started tossing one of these around in a new house (which they broke into) and the house caught on fire (obviously) and the kids got burned and arrested and sent to jouvy for a few days.

[Tim Temple]

#5 is optional!

[spenfisher12]

lol that sounds like something I would say

[struckbyanarrow]

Change the title to " how to light a tennis ball on fire".

[I died with my head in a washing machine]

hey thought of this when I was like 5 years old but still have'nt tried it :)

[fade400]

heh .. if you common sense is one of the materials .. you may want to avoid gasoline. okay so i havn't tried soaking a tennis ball in gas and playing with it (i used wd40 at the time = not long burn time and huge poof of flame when you strike the ball w/ racket) .. im sure it goes for a long time.

Butttt, one mistake with ur fuel tank an you got a raging fire.

If i were you, I would give lamp oil (tiki torch fluid) a try. I use it all the time for fire poi. It doesn't go out easily, very bright, and needs to be soaked in fabric in order to burn. Another thing used for fire poi is coleman camp fluid (white gas). It burns a lot hotter than lamp oil and is harder to extinguish. But it is also easier to light and some say it is brighter although i can't tell the difference.

good luck and don't die or get arrested.

[The Mollusk]

Funny story lol. One night, I thought it was about midnight or so and Iwent to go play with my friends down at the church. It turns out it wasonly nine o' clock... the people inside called in a terrorist attack andit took the police an hour to get there (take that response time!). By then we had already finished the game,and they ended up just sending us home.

[The Mollusk]

Thanks! I stopped playing though... I can't play in my neiborhood anymore and i don't feel comfortable doing it in other neiborhoods.

[caco caco]

nice

[firefighter1333]

i got hit! shhhhhhhhlllllllllttttttttt..... aaaaaahhhhhhhh....... shhhhhhhhllllllllt.... aaaaaaaahhhhh.......................... IM FINE! LOOOL ROFLMAO! just kiddin i love it

[admin]

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[corey_caffeine]

lol wtf did he say??

[Gamer917]

lol admin got pwned

[The Mollusk]

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[struckbyanarrow]

if you had common sence you wouldn't do ""this""

[The Mollusk]

Thats coming from a 13-year-old pyro who likes projectiles (i.e. airsoft, arrows, fireworks). You'd think he'd love this sport, or at least I'd think so...

[struckbyanarrow]

no i love love this " im just trying to be difficult" as my father says

[The Mollusk]

Lol

[(seabear)]

ROFL

[mage]

this looks like something i would try if my xbox was broken. i applaud you!

[emuman4evr]

Hey can I use this for firing out of this mortar?
http://www.instructables.com/id/Tennis-Ball-Mortar/

[The Mollusk]

Go for it.

[dontwealllovebuda92]

gasoline burns way too fast use something light liter fluid or turpentine. Watered down turpentine burns much more slowly for a longer game of fire tennis. (no melted balls)

[The Mollusk]

I used kerosene once (which burns slower than gas), and we couldn't keep the ball lit. Because gasoline is more explosive than lighter fluid and watered down turpentine, its much harder to put out. You can use substitutes, but I think gas it your best bet. (the balls don't melt. the fuzzy stuff burns off and the ball becomes unusable)

[The Porsche Fan]

91% Isopropal rubbing alc. works too :) I tried it last night and did fire soccer, it was fun :)

[TheMadScientist]

if you use acetone, it'll strip off the green color really fast. this lets you know which balls are excessively flammable, and which are not :D

[The Mollusk]

Sorry, I missed that, how will you know which balls are more flammable by stripping the color off, or are you saying use acetone instead of gas? If you want to use acetone instead of gas, go ahead, but there are better uses for acetone, and the flame won't last as long as with gas.

[Horny Toad]

Flaming tennis? I love the materials needed: lighter, gasoline, and common sense. Wait, what? er, am I missing something here?

[Steel Froggy]

No, hit the ball with your face. x3 "I GOT IT!" *headbutts* xD xD xD

[TiLt]

with regard to the melting/burning strings if you have a old tennis racket and some wool you could use that as string so you don't have to be so careful

[The Mollusk]

Good suggestion.

[TiLt]

thanks it was just an idea

[The Mollusk]

Well, all ideas are welcome.

[T-K]

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[Notbob]

The one problem is that if your racket gets some gasoline on it the strings will melt.

[The Mollusk]

Ya, but if you can find an older racket with string strings then they won't melt, but then you have to worry about them burning...

[technodude92]

the picture from step 4 looks kinda like Flaming Field Hockey.

[The Mollusk]

It might be, I just ripped it from the internet, I haven't played in a while.