Watch a water-filled soccer ball collide with Dan’s face in fantastically slow motion

In 2010, Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy made a super-slow motion video of Gruchy getting smacked in the side of the head with a water-filled soccer ball. The video quickly went viral, and has since gone on to garner more than 16 million views. Now, the Slow Mo Guys are back with another football to the face — only this time the action was captured at 28,000 frames per second, instead of one thousand.

If nothing else, Gruchy’s heroic stoicism may come in handy on the soccer pitch…

Real football — played at full speed — is full of unintentional headers, as evidenced in the above compilation.