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Built 150FT MEGA SLIP N SLIDE into NEW POND! ($25,000 Backyard Project)

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Two brothers, a hillside, and 150 feet of soap and plastic sheeting stood between them and a brand-new pond.

Capron and Corey Funk built their YouTube following on scooter tricks, trampoline stunts, and backyard builds that escalate fast, and their latest upload does exactly that. “Built 150FT MEGA SLIP N SLIDE into NEW POND! ($25,000 Backyard Project)” documents the Funk Bros turning a steep slope on their property into a homemade water slide that dumps riders straight into a freshly excavated pond. It’s DIY construction footage first, stunt reel second, and the two blend together the way this channel always does.

• The slide runs roughly 150 feet down a natural hillside, built from heavy-duty plastic tarps and finished as part of an ongoing multi-thousand-dollar renovation of the brothers’ property, framed in the video’s title as a $25,000 backyard project.
• The crew kept the tarps continuously soaked with hose water and commercial soap to cut friction and push riders faster toward the water.
• Runs were made on inflatable pool floats, bodyboards, and bare skin, with the slide dumping directly into the muddy edge of the new pond so riders could hydroplane across the bank before launching into deep water.

Turning a Hillside Into a Water Slide

The build starts with the slope itself. Rather than grading or leveling anything, Capron and Corey laid heavy-duty plastic sheeting straight over the natural hillside contour, stretching the run to about 150 feet from the top of the property down toward the pond. That length is the whole appeal and the whole problem — a slide that long needs consistent slip from top to bottom or riders stall out halfway down in the mud.

Their fix was constant water. Hoses stayed running the entire shoot, dousing the tarp continuously, and the brothers kept dialing in commercial soap to cut friction further. Get the ratio wrong and you either grind to a stop on dry plastic or overcorrect and send someone sliding faster than the tarp can handle — both outcomes show up on camera as the video works through its trial-and-error build.

Rocks, Mud, and the Hazards Underneath the Tarp

Backyard slip-and-slides built over real terrain come with a problem storebought ones don’t: whatever’s actually under the ground. The Funk Bros had to deal with rocks hidden beneath the plastic sheeting, hazards that could tear the tarp or bruise a rider hitting one at speed. Managing that meant adjusting the layout and padding trouble spots as they found them, the same kind of hands-on problem-solving that’s shown up in past backyard builds like Floor is LAVA Parkour Challenge and other DIY obstacle content on the channel.

The other variable was the pond itself, dug and filled specifically for this project. The slide terminates right at its muddy edge, so the transition from tarp to water had to be dialed in — too short a runout and riders lose momentum in the mud; too long and they’re launching into the basin without much control.

150 feet of soaked plastic, a fresh pond at the bottom, and a hillside that doesn’t care how much soap you use to fix its rocks.

Floats, Bodyboards, and Bare Runs

Once the slide held up, the video shifts into pure test mode. Corey, Capron, and their friends work through every method available — inflatable pool floats, bodyboards, and stretches of sliding with no gear at all — chasing higher speed and bigger air off the drop into the pond. The comedic wipeouts escalate right alongside the successful runs, which is the format this channel has built its audience on, similar in spirit to the escalating-stunt structure of Extreme Cup Challenge! Can My Cats Cross the Course? and other backyard-challenge uploads in the same lane.

Each equipment choice changes the physics at the bottom. Floats hold speed longer and skip across the water; bare-skin runs slow down faster in the mud but hit the pond edge with less control, which is where most of the video’s bigger crashes come from.

That’s the whole video — a $25,000 hillside build, a hose that never turns off, and two brothers finding out the hard way exactly how much soap it takes to turn 150 feet of backyard slope into a pond launch.