12-Year-Old Kid with a Football Trick Shot Video of His Own

Johnny Sullivan is a 12-year-old kid from Clinton, Iowa.  You probably have never heard of him, but he has become the newest internet sensation after his football trick shot video on YouTube.  In the video, he does many tricks to show off his arm.

Like my previous post about Johnny McEntee (from UConn), this kid shows great accuracy and ability to hit targets from short and long distances.  What’s so impressive is that he’s not a college quarterback like McEntee is; he is a 12-year-old with an impressive arm for someone his size.  He is able to do similar tricks to the UConn quarterback, even though he doesn’t look to be very tall.  He even adds some of his own tricks to differentiate himself from McEntee.

I always wonder after watching these types of videos how the person who makes these came up with the tricks to do.  How do they know that they can make that trick after a certain amount of attempts?  I don’t even practice trick shots when playing sports, so it intrigues me that Sullivan is so good at doing trick shots at such a young age.  I don’t think I can do any of the tricks in this video correctly.

Here’s the video:

The thing that I don’t like about these types of trick shot videos is that I have no idea how many times this kid tried each of these attempts.  He could have tried each trick one hundred times before he finally got the trick down, but I would never know that because the only shots to make the cuts are the ones that show the trick being completed.  I’m not trying to say that what this kid was able to accomplish wasn’t amazing (because it was truly amazing for someone his age), but I’m not that big of a fan of trick shot videos.