Posted on Nov 20, 2008 - 1:25am by John P. in Sports, Videos - 1 Reply
It’s been a while since I featured Unicycle Bastards Invade Portland, and those guys were truly brave (or crazy) – but this little girl has got mad unicycling skills that seem to put those guys to shame!
I’m guessing this little Japanese girl must spend all day, every day, riding this thing. How many broken bones do you think she’s suffered while practicing?
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Posted on Nov 17, 2008 - 3:04am by John P. in Sports, Videos - 7 Replies
Ok seriously, I didn’t even know most of this was humanly possible. This video contains about 7 minutes of crazy Yo-Yo action. I remember when I was a kid and I got my first yo-yo. I played it till my fingers bled… it was the summer of ‘69. Wait… maybe not.
Anyway, I was proud if I could just “walk the dog”. These guys could do that with the yo-yo attached to their little pinky toe!
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Posted on Nov 06, 2008 - 1:16am by John P. in Health & Fitness, Sports, Videos - 2 Replies
Today I was feeling especially lazy. I thought about excercising… for about a minute. Then, since I knew I wasn’t going to actually do it I decided to do a little browsing on the Intertubes and find out what kind of activity other people were engaging in.
It didn’t take long before I decided that jumping rope was the way to go – if I were going to actually do exercise. Which I’m not. But luckily for us, these folks are jumping rope like crazy!
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Posted on Oct 11, 2008 - 5:15pm by John P. in Sports, Videos - 10 Replies
Ok. Regular readers know that I LOVE MMA fights. And when Jimbeau told me that Kimbo got “knocked-the-f” out in 18 seconds I couldn’t believe it! In fact, I think my exact response was, “Show me.”
Well, Jimbeau proceeded to produce the following video, which I must have watched 5 times in disbelief.
Posted on Sep 01, 2008 - 1:29am by John P. in Sports, Videos - 9 Replies
When I was a kid, my brother and I used to rush home from church on Sundays to watch wrestling on TV. That was back when Kerry Von Erich was the coolest wrestler on the planet, and Gary Hart, Ric Flare and Bruiser Brody were the competition!
Anyway, here is a clip from back in the day when wrestling programs had audiences taking a bit more of an “active” approach to participation! In this Eastern Championship Wrestling bout Cactus Jack asks an audience member to toss him a chair to finish an opponent. But he gets a little more than he bargained for.
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Posted on Aug 26, 2008 - 1:12am by John P. in Sports, Videos - 4 Replies
The Stingray All-Stars from Marrietta, Georgia are just a serious cheerleading winning machine. According to Cheer XS in 2007 they were number 2, and in 2006 they were number 7. Any way you cut it though, they are awesome.
Here are Katie Nevin and King doing things I’d never seen before. First of all, she’s incredible. And on top of that, he’s a freaking monster to be able to throw her around like that. Simply amazing.
Posted on Jul 30, 2008 - 1:41am by John P. in Sports, Videos - 8 Replies
This is awesome! I bet you read the title of this post and expected to see some guy from the NBA pull a Michael Jordan and deliver a 10 foot dunk or something. Wrong! It’s a Japanese guy!
Now, I can’t be sure, but I swear this guy is one of the regular contestants on the Ninja Warrior show I watch all the time. If I recall, I think he’s even a Gold medal Olympian gymnast or something.
Anyway he takes about a 20 foot dive off of a freaking trampoline and as he goes hurdling head first towards the basketball hoop he actually slams one home! Of course, the landing doesn’t look very comfortable to me… but I guess it was worth it.
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Posted on Jun 30, 2008 - 1:25am by John P. in Sports, Videos - 5 Replies
As we each go off this fine Monday to begin the work week I just thought it might be nice to take a look at someone with a legitimately hard job.
Here is a lady, filmed in Germany, who rides around doing crazy bicycle stunts all day. So the next time you’re feeling a little overworked and stressed out, just think about this lady standing on the seat of her bike while riding circles in front of an auditorium full of people.
And incidentally, at first I was thinking that this must be some sort of weighted bicycle in order to have such great balance, but if you just watch how quickly she manipulates the bike you quickly realize that this is just an ordinary bike. Fascinating!
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Posted on May 12, 2008 - 1:32am by John P. in Sports, Videos - 2 Replies
You know, sometimes I like to watch people who are just incredibly talented because it motivates me to be less… well, ordinary. I don’t really care what you do, as long as you just do it better than anyone else!
Well, here are a batch of guys who have obviously spent enough time with a Soccer ball that it’s become like another appendage to them. Watch what they do, and just think… what if I was this good at my job?
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Posted on Apr 30, 2008 - 1:25am by John P. in Sports, Videos - 14 Replies
Ok folks. I’m not really into skateboarding, and this video starts out a little slow, but if you’ll stick with it, after about one minute I think you’ll find it’s mesmerizing.
I’m not exactly sure how they did it, but I’m guessing that these guys must have painted their skateboards entirely pink or bright green or something like that, then had the video editing software delete that information.
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Posted on Apr 18, 2008 - 1:09am by John P. in Sports, The Man's Videos - 7 Replies
Folks, I was at Dave and Busters in Frisco, Texas and saw these two guys going to town on this dancing video game! I think it was called Dance, Dance, Revolution… but I could be wrong.
Anyway, just check out these two little clips I took with my crappy cell phone video camera. (Hey, they’re better than nothing!) My question is, how much money do you think you have to spend to get this good at dancing on a video game? And the follow up question is, do you think the chicks dig it?
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Posted on Feb 29, 2008 - 1:08am by John P. in Sports, Videos - 8 Replies
Ronaldo de AssÃs Moreira, commonly known as Ronaldinho (born March 21, 1980 in Porto Alegre), is a football (soccer for us Americans) player originally from Brazil who is now a naturalized Spanish citizen. He plays for FC Barcelona.
As far as I’m concerned Ronaldinho is probably the best footballer alive today, but even if he isn’t he is certainly the most entertaining to watch. He does things with a Soccer ball that seem literally impossible. The only other player that ever amazed me like that before was Pele.
Oh, and one other thing I really like about this guy… despite the fact that he’s the greatest player around he’s humble.
“God gives gifts to everyone, … Some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it.â€