To be fair, I guess TKOR finally seems to get back on track with the new hosts. But it had been much easier if they had avoided to get that far off track in the first place. I am happy Nate could keep on and make NFTI another big player in the field of random fun projects. There can't be too many of those.
@@Adam-nv9zo wow, how do they have almost 13 million subs and manage to only get 10-20k views per video? Did they fall off? Either way, looks somewhat interesting.
I'm just so glad NFTI is still going... DUDE... You were my first regular view back in the day, it's always nice when Calli shows up, I'm so glad I still get to watch you, and your content is still as interesting as ever~!!
PGA Pro Dan here. The Pro level ball has a urethane cover and the others have a harder to damage and less sticky plastic, probably Surlyn or Ionomer. You can easily identify a urethane cover by grabbing two similar golf balls and rubbing them together, the urethane will be very grabby and you may not be able to slide them across each other at all. There have been many studies on golf ball temp performance and warmer balls do fly farther. However, if you boil them I'm sure at some point the elasticity gets to the point where rebound effect slows down and distance would decrease. I've had a few balls split in half hitting them in cold weather (under 50 degrees). The urethane cover is what made the PRO V sound different from the others.
They make liquid center golf balls. My uncle got one mixed in with his regulars and accidentally put it in the microwave with the regulars for pre game warming. He has to remodel half the kitchen.
Those were old school and no longer made, I find them still from time to time though. Production of the liquid core ball probably halted between 2000-2010, probably closer to 2000.
This whole thing is bizarre to me I grew up with my grandpa playing golf this is the first time I've heard of a liquid core also what do you mean you're putting golf balls in the microwave
Ya, so when the ball gets boiled the plastic is more plyable, making it more grippy. It would probably not last long but your club face has grooves and the extra grippy balls grabs them better. You'll also generate more spin which will make fade/draw/loft height bigger
Howdy Nate, what you should do next is frozen vs boiled BASEBALLS and team up with the slow-mo guys, to capture the baseball carnage with 10,000,000 frames in slow motion lol. Thanks for all the awesome videos!
Wow golf balls have changed, i cut one open and it was a500 yrd long rubber bands wrapped around a hard rubber core and the inside of the core was a goo .
Good stuff! I was expecting the hot golf balls to perform better because of the Gough-Joule effect. When elastics are stretched, they temporarily increase in temperature, and the temperature also helps it contract more powerfully when released. This is why rubber-powered slingshot enthusiasts want to release as quickly as practical after the draw, while the rubber is still hot. Love to Jörg Sprave for teaching me this particular bit of science. When he has something new, it's a good idea to let him show you its features.
I'd really like if you and Cali made a channel together and started doing wacky and random stuff like you guys once did. I love your guy's content on that other channel which is now garbage. I would give up my Netflix account and feed that you guys for the amount of AMAZING fun you guys once had.
I remember in camp. I put a Golf ball in the fire first. It popped out of its shell, and then it starts spamming, rubber bands all over the place, hot rubber band actually
I think those were the old old golf balls. I remember trying to drill a hole in a golf ball when I was a kid and the drill bit got stuck and when I pulled the bit out, it pulled some rubber bands out which set off a chain reaction of the rubber bands oozing out of the hole
FYI, it's known that golf balls that have been soaked in water perform considerably worse than a ball fresh out of the package. So the boiling potentially added 2 variables (heat and water), rather than just heat.
Actually you are incorrect. Scientific studies have monitored balls soaking up to a year with no difference in performance (Raffel, T. R., & Long, P. R., 2023). I quoted one of the latest and there have been several others. The only exception is when a golf ball is damaged and somehow water can get between the layers. So that pond ball will do just fine 9 times out of 10. Just check it for damage.
Sorry but you are incorrect. There have been several studies showing golf balls that have been soaked in water for over a year and the studies show there is no difference in performance (Raffel, T. R., & Long, P. R. 2023). With the exception of balls that have been damaged deep enough for water to get between the layers. So that pond ball is going to be okay 9 times out of 10.
1:28 Go Sports!!! Even though I was a nerd, my physical build always allowed me to keep up with the jocks. I'm extremely grateful for the mind and body I was given. I used to protect a fellow nerd named Boris. Until one day on the bus, literally roght after protecting him, I learned why he was bullied, then I punched him in the face. In real life, kids who get bullied, don't have that sweet and innocent personality like in cinema. They have this overall sense of self entitlement, as if them talking to you is the greatest gift you'll be given that decade. It really sucks. The personality of the jock/jerk in cinema, is actually the real life personality of a kid who would be bullied in real life. I think everyone forgets that a few years out of school.
It's been a long time since I've been to this channel, but God I am so glad this video caught my eyes and pulled me back in. I feel like I have to go back and binge what I missed the past year or so now. Exciting, fascinating, but also goofy and fun. The true Nate brand
Hey Nate, I've been a fan of your work since TKOR. I have a video idea or an idea. If you've seen the hunted, there's a scene where benecio's character builds a knife using a makeshift firepit and scrap metal bars and used one to shape his blade. Is it possible to replicate that build? If not how you do it in a survival situation?
@BenSanchez-n6w you're right, I have awful depth perception and would be horrible playing it. I wouldn't say I hate it, though. I just find it boring to watch for long. A few highlights on TV? Sure.
Back in the 1970s when I was a kid there was a bigger variety of golf balls and I used to get out of bounds balls from the course down the street and cut them open some had a core of solid steel, some were liquid filled, with thither water or oil. Also the old balls were made with a smaller rubber core and then the core was wrapped with flat rubber string.
This reminds me of my 4th grade science fair experiment but cooler. I didn’t understand why my teacher liked it so much back then, but now I am impressed with the experimental design I had all the way back then. No wonder I now do method development
When I used to cut golf balls in half as a kid they all had 5k strands of rubber bands? Looks like they might be way better now;) Love the vids you make Nate, thank you!
Loved the vooooo sound of the halved ball you hit at the end. Nate your swing is better than mine I suck at golf. I can hit the ball but it likes to fly to the far right or I hit too high or too low.
The warm/cold golf balls are most likely trying to balance the tempereature outwards. Which surely interacts with the air around it as it travels. I could imagine that having some effect on air resistance, but I don't know enough about physics to make a statement about how.
Rubber is very elastic. Frozen rubber is very brittle. Warm rubber is a little looser. They all use different kinds of synthetic rubber. Just my guess on why the warm ones work a lot better. Still very interesting to see it actually happening though. :)
I had a friend in high school back in the 80's who's father played a lot of golf and worked at a major international airport. He would sneak a case of golf balls into work and put them through the x-ray scanner they use for luggage and cargo. He claimed that the radiation from the x-ray machine hardened the golf balls to make them fly further. Would love to see that put to the test!
Should the pursuit of this distance multiplier procede, do you think that 'ball boilers' will accentuate or replace 'ball washers'? I'm having a tough time keeping a straight face here...
I mean to be fair if you were hitting the ball perfectly it would have a different sound to it. I don't know how to describe it but anybody who's been golfing understands what that sounds like.
I know nothing about golf but I'd assume what makes a golf ball good (on top of resistancy) is it's behaviour when flying and reactions to wind etc... But that's very hard to turn into a video I think hahahaha so maybe not a good idea indeed. But I'd love to see that for some reason.
I once put an exploding golf ball in my neighbors golf bag... it took a year but went off at a tournament, costing him a stroke... 😮statutes of limitations is up
What would happen if you boiled them and then instantly froze a golf ball? On a molecular level you are changing the structures, correct? I am assuming that they would be even more fragile??
When you boil it, the outside of the ball is more pliable with less bounceback.. when you freeze it, it becomes more rigid with less bouncback. What would happen if you boiled it first to make the inside rubber softer, then flash freeze it so the exterior is roughly room tempature. Plyable inside with a mostly normal temp outside?
My mom says freeze dry the balls. I'm not sure that'll do much, but who knows. Me, I like to see what kind of changes, if any, after 5he balls return to room temp after being boild or in liquid nitrogen. Also what about boiling then freezing and the reverse.
You didn't gouge out a bunch of sod, then move the tee a little bit once you got the hang of it, did you? You wouldn't do something like that. That huge patch of scooped out grass 1 foot behind the tee was someone ELSE and it's just coincidence that you drove right there.
Idk abt this but i had these men who had balls instead hands and legs the balls were made off the same stuff as sticky hands or smth similar id love to see a giant one of these they would fall down while spinning
Golf balls were classic tkor but the water advert why would you promote chemically flavoured water when you could just add 10% apple juice, natural and it tastes great and is cheap
Just curious, Nate, but does the fact that you're performing for a camera man instead of to a mounted camera help with your mental health? I sometimes wonder if being a YTber is a lonely job.
First - This has been my ambition for last 15 years. To be actually "The First". So for once I became the first and oh boy, I am ready to take on the world. I am ready! Yeah!!!! YEAAH! - Nice vid Nate btw!
UA-cam is a distributed network with significant delays. So it is quite possible for two different comments to show up first in different locations. You would need the exact time codes to say which was actually first.
Watching Nate brings me back to the good days of TKOR. Great video, as always, Nate.
What is TKOR?
@anonymeister123 The King of Random, the UA-cam channel Nate got his start with.
To be fair, I guess TKOR finally seems to get back on track with the new hosts. But it had been much easier if they had avoided to get that far off track in the first place. I am happy Nate could keep on and make NFTI another big player in the field of random fun projects. There can't be too many of those.
@chabis agreed
@@Adam-nv9zo wow, how do they have almost 13 million subs and manage to only get 10-20k views per video? Did they fall off? Either way, looks somewhat interesting.
I like how Nate is the one who really carriered on TKOR vision
It's the main reason I continue to watch him
Dang my golf drive is amazing isn't it
I’ve never seen better
Keep bouncing and smacking those balls, Nate! Proud of you, son!
better than mine
killing it dude 🤣
You need to get a pro golfer to try out the boiled balls to see what they think when compared to the regular ones.
I'm just so glad NFTI is still going... DUDE... You were my first regular view back in the day, it's always nice when Calli shows up, I'm so glad I still get to watch you, and your content is still as interesting as ever~!!
PGA Pro Dan here. The Pro level ball has a urethane cover and the others have a harder to damage and less sticky plastic, probably Surlyn or Ionomer. You can easily identify a urethane cover by grabbing two similar golf balls and rubbing them together, the urethane will be very grabby and you may not be able to slide them across each other at all. There have been many studies on golf ball temp performance and warmer balls do fly farther. However, if you boil them I'm sure at some point the elasticity gets to the point where rebound effect slows down and distance would decrease. I've had a few balls split in half hitting them in cold weather (under 50 degrees). The urethane cover is what made the PRO V sound different from the others.
They make liquid center golf balls. My uncle got one mixed in with his regulars and accidentally put it in the microwave with the regulars for pre game warming. He has to remodel half the kitchen.
I want to see this.
Wait wait wait wait wait, pre-gsme warming? You're telling me that this is actually normal and the boiled golf balls actually (pun unintended) fly?
That's not normal
Those were old school and no longer made, I find them still from time to time though. Production of the liquid core ball probably halted between 2000-2010, probably closer to 2000.
This whole thing is bizarre to me I grew up with my grandpa playing golf this is the first time I've heard of a liquid core also what do you mean you're putting golf balls in the microwave
This channel really deserves to have more views
Ya, so when the ball gets boiled the plastic is more plyable, making it more grippy. It would probably not last long but your club face has grooves and the extra grippy balls grabs them better. You'll also generate more spin which will make fade/draw/loft height bigger
Howdy Nate, what you should do next is frozen vs boiled BASEBALLS and team up with the slow-mo guys, to capture the baseball carnage with 10,000,000 frames in slow motion lol. Thanks for all the awesome videos!
Wow golf balls have changed, i cut one open and it was a500 yrd long rubber bands wrapped around a hard rubber core and the inside of the core was a goo .
I remember those.
Good stuff! I was expecting the hot golf balls to perform better because of the Gough-Joule effect. When elastics are stretched, they temporarily increase in temperature, and the temperature also helps it contract more powerfully when released. This is why rubber-powered slingshot enthusiasts want to release as quickly as practical after the draw, while the rubber is still hot.
Love to Jörg Sprave for teaching me this particular bit of science. When he has something new, it's a good idea to let him show you its features.
Okay Besides me who wants to see NFTI with the Slow-Mo Guys watching Exploding frozen golf Balls lets go Gav and Dan
The Slow-Mo Guys haven't sold out to Cirkul yet. I would like them to stay seperate.
I'd really like if you and Cali made a channel together and started doing wacky and random stuff like you guys once did. I love your guy's content on that other channel which is now garbage. I would give up my Netflix account and feed that you guys for the amount of AMAZING fun you guys once had.
I remember in camp. I put a Golf ball in the fire first. It popped out of its shell, and then it starts spamming, rubber bands all over the place, hot rubber band actually
I think those were the old old golf balls. I remember trying to drill a hole in a golf ball when I was a kid and the drill bit got stuck and when I pulled the bit out, it pulled some rubber bands out which set off a chain reaction of the rubber bands oozing out of the hole
Yeah that type of golf ball is called a balata ball. I don't think any company makes them anymore
Hire somebody that can make consistent contact with the ball.
FYI, it's known that golf balls that have been soaked in water perform considerably worse than a ball fresh out of the package. So the boiling potentially added 2 variables (heat and water), rather than just heat.
Sous vide golf balls anyone?
Actually you are incorrect. Scientific studies have monitored balls soaking up to a year with no difference in performance (Raffel, T. R., & Long, P. R., 2023). I quoted one of the latest and there have been several others. The only exception is when a golf ball is damaged and somehow water can get between the layers. So that pond ball will do just fine 9 times out of 10. Just check it for damage.
Sorry but you are incorrect. There have been several studies showing golf balls that have been soaked in water for over a year and the studies show there is no difference in performance (Raffel, T. R., & Long, P. R. 2023). With the exception of balls that have been damaged deep enough for water to get between the layers. So that pond ball is going to be okay 9 times out of 10.
The new golf meta, just how hot can they get their balls before the next tournament.
1:28 Go Sports!!!
Even though I was a nerd, my physical build always allowed me to keep up with the jocks. I'm extremely grateful for the mind and body I was given.
I used to protect a fellow nerd named Boris. Until one day on the bus, literally roght after protecting him, I learned why he was bullied, then I punched him in the face.
In real life, kids who get bullied, don't have that sweet and innocent personality like in cinema.
They have this overall sense of self entitlement, as if them talking to you is the greatest gift you'll be given that decade.
It really sucks.
The personality of the jock/jerk in cinema, is actually the real life personality of a kid who would be bullied in real life.
I think everyone forgets that a few years out of school.
"Babe what's for dinner tonight?"
"Golf balls."
"What?"
"Frozen or boiled?"
It's been a long time since I've been to this channel, but God I am so glad this video caught my eyes and pulled me back in. I feel like I have to go back and binge what I missed the past year or so now. Exciting, fascinating, but also goofy and fun. The true Nate brand
Hey Nate, I've been a fan of your work since TKOR. I have a video idea or an idea. If you've seen the hunted, there's a scene where benecio's character builds a knife using a makeshift firepit and scrap metal bars and used one to shape his blade. Is it possible to replicate that build? If not how you do it in a survival situation?
Amazing, you managed to make golf interesting!
Golf is the best game on earth... people like you , who say those things can't play it... thats why you hate it
@BenSanchez-n6w you're right, I have awful depth perception and would be horrible playing it. I wouldn't say I hate it, though. I just find it boring to watch for long. A few highlights on TV? Sure.
Back in the 1970s when I was a kid there was a bigger variety of golf balls and I used to get out of bounds balls from the course down the street and cut them open some had a core of solid steel, some were liquid filled, with thither water or oil. Also the old balls were made with a smaller rubber core and then the core was wrapped with flat rubber string.
These are my favorite types of YT videos. Ones where I've never in my life thought about the idea before, but I *have* to know the answer now 😂
Love ya Nate!
🤘🤘
This reminds me of my 4th grade science fair experiment but cooler. I didn’t understand why my teacher liked it so much back then, but now I am impressed with the experimental design I had all the way back then. No wonder I now do method development
Glad you could expound on that experiment!
This is the kind of golf I could get in to!
Love your videos from SA🇿🇦❤
When I used to cut golf balls in half as a kid they all had 5k strands of rubber bands? Looks like they might be way better now;) Love the vids you make Nate, thank you!
Loved the vooooo sound of the halved ball you hit at the end. Nate your swing is better than mine I suck at golf. I can hit the ball but it likes to fly to the far right or I hit too high or too low.
Have you ever tired air fried cookies? very interesting texture...
Amazing!
When I was a kid 50 years ago inside golf balls was the longest rubber band in the world all wrapped up.
The warm/cold golf balls are most likely trying to balance the tempereature outwards. Which surely interacts with the air around it as it travels.
I could imagine that having some effect on air resistance, but I don't know enough about physics to make a statement about how.
Rubber is very elastic. Frozen rubber is very brittle. Warm rubber is a little looser. They all use different kinds of synthetic rubber.
Just my guess on why the warm ones work a lot better. Still very interesting to see it actually happening though. :)
I had a friend in high school back in the 80's who's father played a lot of golf and worked at a major international airport. He would sneak a case of golf balls into work and put them through the x-ray scanner they use for luggage and cargo. He claimed that the radiation from the x-ray machine hardened the golf balls to make them fly further. Would love to see that put to the test!
Putting a ball warmer in my golf bag.
You got pretty good advice on the grade of Golf balls….
You should try this at a driving range
Ok, now i want to know if Cirkul will cotton candy!
Hey nate, I'm pretty alright at golf, you should have me come down so I could put some numbers to your tests!
Can you turn spicy candy into cotton candy?
The older golf balls had rubber bands around a rubber ball,try one of them.
Nate it’s urethane around the outside part of the ball
Yes please
What about a ping pong ball? Or a lot of them.
0:28
Should the pursuit of this distance multiplier procede, do you think that 'ball boilers' will accentuate or replace 'ball washers'? I'm having a tough time keeping a straight face here...
Cheap golf balls are softer than pro ones, and soft is better for beginners. So it makes sense you'd like the softer boiled ones.
I mean to be fair if you were hitting the ball perfectly it would have a different sound to it. I don't know how to describe it but anybody who's been golfing understands what that sounds like.
Now I'm curious what happened if you first boil the golfball and freeze it right after...
I feel like the only logical next step is can you make cotton candy from a golf ball? 😂
now all the pros are going to be boiling their balls before competitions,
and also bringing the expensive golf balls, of course.
Liquid Nate-rogen 😁
I know nothing about golf but I'd assume what makes a golf ball good (on top of resistancy) is it's behaviour when flying and reactions to wind etc... But that's very hard to turn into a video I think hahahaha so maybe not a good idea indeed. But I'd love to see that for some reason.
shoot that was my trick when I would golf in the springtime. load some balls in a thermos and fill it with boiling water. They fly!
Idly how a ball holds up to being frozen then boiled then frozen, or whatever order. Assume rapid expansion and contraction will do -something-.
I once put an exploding golf ball in my neighbors golf bag... it took a year but went off at a tournament, costing him a stroke... 😮statutes of limitations is up
yeah more bridge or railroad sir
lol well we can all clearly see that Nate definitely won't be making the PGA tour anytime soon
Try golf ball carving.
awesome
What would happen if you boiled them and then instantly froze a golf ball? On a molecular level you are changing the structures, correct? I am assuming that they would be even more fragile??
I like my golf balls BOILED
bring cali on make cotton candy out of golf balls lol side note ik it wouldnt work just a thought i had
I know they make golf balls to play in the snow. I wonder how they would do in this test.
where do you get your supply of LN2 from? that seems like something you need to have secret contacts to gain access....
When you boil it, the outside of the ball is more pliable with less bounceback.. when you freeze it, it becomes more rigid with less bouncback. What would happen if you boiled it first to make the inside rubber softer, then flash freeze it so the exterior is roughly room tempature. Plyable inside with a mostly normal temp outside?
My mom says freeze dry the balls. I'm not sure that'll do much, but who knows.
Me, I like to see what kind of changes, if any, after 5he balls return to room temp after being boild or in liquid nitrogen. Also what about boiling then freezing and the reverse.
hey im new here (i watched you on tkor!)
Golf balls are coated in urethane, not plastic
1.3 K😅 0:16
9:42 has anyone done an outonof context video for NFTI yet?
😁
Cirkul is none recyclable so how are you saving plastic?
It would really help your experiment if you understood the construction and composition of a golf ball...
8:16 Enter Karen
Bend your knees a bit and try to keep your lead arm straight through the whole swing, might feel awkward at first
air up but is it better
You didn't gouge out a bunch of sod, then move the tee a little bit once you got the hang of it, did you?
You wouldn't do something like that. That huge patch of scooped out grass 1 foot behind the tee was someone ELSE and it's just coincidence that you drove right there.
Oh, it's *not* a cooking episode and he did not try to eat them?
Idk abt this but i had these men who had balls instead hands and legs the balls were made off the same stuff as sticky hands or smth similar id love to see a giant one of these they would fall down while spinning
Golf balls were classic tkor but the water advert why would you promote chemically flavoured water when you could just add 10% apple juice, natural and it tastes great and is cheap
Does anyone else read the “NFTI” as nifty? 😅
The Navy uses a thermal imager for firefighting called the NFTI, which they pronounce "nifty" as well.
wasn't there a stock exchange type thing with a similar name? or one of those indexes/indices
FIRST!
Just curious, Nate, but does the fact that you're performing for a camera man instead of to a mounted camera help with your mental health?
I sometimes wonder if being a YTber is a lonely job.
hi Can you reply please I love your Videos There so good
for the algo
What if you took them directly out of the nitrogen and dropped them in a pot of boiling water?
Whenever someone advertises cirkul I stop watching their channel. I guess this one is next.
First - This has been my ambition for last 15 years. To be actually "The First". So for once I became the first and oh boy, I am ready to take on the world. I am ready! Yeah!!!! YEAAH! - Nice vid Nate btw!
Bike boy was 30 seconds before yours try again next time
UA-cam is a distributed network with significant delays. So it is quite possible for two different comments to show up first in different
locations. You would need the exact time codes to say which was actually first.
@@johnbennett1465 I have an extension on my browser that shows the day and time the comment was posted if you click into it
Pointless...
Sorry but I can't support Cirkul with their use of artificial sweetners and chemicals.
Artificial sweeteners are lifeee. Coke Zero all day err’day 🤤🤤🤤
Artificial sweeteners are thousands of times better than the sugar they replace in the normal diet.
Quit playing with your balls
If you don’t like golf why would you make such a boring video?
I stopped watching your videos since you started with these type of videos
I want to see more knife making and more food videos but not cotton candy
I’m the opposite lol. Less knives.
I stopped watching because of all the knife crap