The Magus Effect

You may have seen the video of How Ridiculous dropping basketballs of a dam but how do they get the ball to fly so far. They do it by using something called the magus effect.

The magus effect is where an object with spin moves or changes direction mid flight. It does this because the air currents on one side of the object a flowing against the rotation and on the other side it is the opposite. The air currents on the other side flow with spinning rotation causing it to spin.

Football players like Lionel Messi use this to curl the ball into the goal,