Here's our first video!

First off, the reason for all of our swatting is the gnats at this time of the year. Our yard is swamped with them. So, apologies for that!
Second, the reason that we kinda freaked out when the can crushed would be that the first several times we attempted to execute this experiment it didn't work. It turns out that we had a bad can the first few times.
We got this idea and the information for it from this site: Steve Spangler Science