It is a little known fact that slide accidents account for over 50,000 deaths a year in the U.S. alone. That’s more that snakes, alligators, sharks, bears, and mountain lions combined!
It is a well known fact that I often make up ridiculous statistics. But seriously. What the hell is wrong with the people in this video?
Apparantly researchers in Japan just re-discovered a cute, cuddly creature they named the Goblin Shark. They thought it went extint, but surprise! Here it is! Oh Goody! I think this clip comes from a longer documentary that I saw a long time ago. I don’t remember all of it, but I’m pretty sure this thing lays eggs in your chest cavity, and baby goblin sharks hatch out of your rib cage. I saw it on the Discovery Channel.
Here we see a young gentleman named Speal absolutely destroy a workout that always kicks my butt. The routine, affectionately named “Fran” for some reason, is all thrusters (front squats + push presses) and pullups. People sometimes cry foul on kipping pullups but it’s been my experience that they just work your muscles in different ways (not necessary better or worse) than strict pullups. Any way you slice it, 2:05 is a crazy impressive performance.
Vid comes from Crossfit - a great online resource for fitness information and challenging workouts.
I’m glad they spent their time practicing stuff like this instead of trying to stop the mafia. Think of all the great gangster movies that would never have been made!
In tonight’s performance of West Side Story, the part of the Jets will be played by Georgia (on the right). The part of the Sharks will be played by Russia (on the left). The part of Leonard Bernstein will be played by…[checks playbill]…um…Run DMC? Sure, why not.
Via the Pompomist, who reports that the featured badass is named Mike Parsons and the featured wave was judged to be more than 70 feet high. Holy smokes. His real world surfing skills might even rival my internet surfing skills, which, I must point out, are quite formidable.
Here we see the straight gansta yoyo skills of Hiroyuki Suzuki aka Mickey set to some bangin’ hip hop.
Former UFC LHW champ Quinton “Rampage” Jackson was formally charged yesterday for…um…Well, for going on a rampage. On July 25th he got all GTA in his monster truck (pics after the jump) and smashed up a bunch of cars in Newport Beach.
In honor of that idiocy, here he is rampaging through Ricardo Arona:
Easily the most elegant solution to an imminent triangle choke that I’ve ever seen.
I really wish I could have attended the inaugual International Lindy Hop Championships this past weekend. Alas family stuff kept me away, so I’ve been eagerly awaiting results, reports, and videos. By all accounts I’ve heard, thus far, it was a huge success. Congrats to the organizers and everyone who competed.
Of the early vids that I’ve seen so far, here’s my favorite:
Dax & Alice have a very relaxed and musical style that I like a lot. Everything they do just flows easy-breezey into the next motion. Routines that have “cool moves” are pretty common, but this routine actually has cool movement, which seems much harder to find these days for some reason.
…until we meet again in Vancouver. It was tremendous fun watching you, but geez, what the heck am I going to watch until 2010?
hmmm…….
