Top Ten Trick Shot Monday Moments

8. Fortune Favors the Painstakingly Persistent

This video is amazing because it’s easily the longest amount of time the players have spent trying to make a shot, going for a very difficult one at Loftus. Unfortunately, the majority of the team gave up after awhile, leaving Romeo Okwara and Joe Schmidt, the unquestioned leaders of the past couple years’ worth of Trick Shot Mondays, to keep at it in tedious fashion until they finally hit the shot.

Before they do so, though, there are some great moments. Every time someone gets close to making the shot and the team gets excited, the band who is practicing on the Loftus field begins to cheer, leading to various false-alarm cheers from the instrument-toting masses. Later on, a shot by Okwara manages to get the ball stuck in the support beams, meaning the players have to obtain another ping pong ball.

The very next shot is a miss from Schmidt that Okwara fumbles on the rebound, inadvertently stepping on the ball immediately afterward, forcing the players to try to get the first ball unstuck since he destroyed the backup ball. After some finicking with some long poles, they are finally able to get the stuck ball down and continue on their Trick Shot Monday Marathon.

According to the video, 45 minutes pass before finally, with great relief and frustrated enthusiasm, Okwara bounces a shot from on-high off of Schmidt’s waiting head and into the cup, ending the session. Okwara’s pumped-up celebration and the band’s finally-the-right-time cheering is a fantastic pay-off for the longest, most arduous Trick Shot Monday we have ever seen.

Oh yeah, and then Joe and Romeo simulate a fencing match against each other for some reason.

Magnificent.

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