Boston.com’s Big Picture blog runs a collection of more than 40 amazing photographs from Vancouver Olympics. Hard work, dedication, pain, and pride – both from the sportsmen and photographers. Stunning!
Updated: There is a second post with even more stunning images.
Daniel Lieberman, a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University, says:
People have been running barefoot for millions of years and it has only been since 1972 that people have been wearing shoes with thick, synthetic heels.
Well, they weren’t running on asphalt for million years. And they weren’t running for the pleasure or the healthy effect of it either, I guess.
There are a few other things I disagree with in the article, but it makes an interesting read non-the-less.
I love it when people who can do something really well start to fool around. Here is a good example, a discovery of the week, so to speak – comedy gymnastics by Paul Hunt.
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There is more on YouTube if you search for Paul Hunt. Here is another example.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO_BnsrWMnI]
As I mentioned earlier, Masters of Dirt – world-wide known group of free-style motocross riders – were coming to Cyprus for a few shows. I went to see their show in Limassol yesterday.
In brief, I had an excellent time. There were a few people who were trying to spoil the fun (DJ Mousaka) or were not quite up to the par with the show (The Fuel Girls), but that was easily compensated by the Masters of Dirt.
Taking the unimportant out of the picture, imagine this: loud hard rock music (Rammstein, Marilyn Manson, AC/DC, and such), fireworks, and motocross bikes jumping off the rump one after another, doing all sorts of crazy stuff in the air! Pure awesomeness!
The show started with some warm-up tricks, which looked like anybody can do them, slowly progressing to more difficult ones and to group jumps in pairs and “trains” of four. After a little break they went totally insane. It was non-stop action from four riders, who were later joined by a quadro-cycle rider.
My favourite bit was when they did the back-flip progressions. I am not very familiar with the free-style motocross sport, so I learned a lot. They were calling for the name of the trick (“tsunami”, “cancan”, etc) and had two riders – one was doing the original trick, and the second one was doing the back-flip variation of it. That is the same jump and move while the motorbike was doing a back-flip in the air. Some of the original tricks looked very difficult. However their back-flip variations were in the “impossible” range.
If you haven’t seen their show yet, here’s your chance. They will have another show in Limassol tomorrow, Sunday, June 28th. I suggest you catch it. And if you have any kids – make sure they see it as well. Tickets are 30 EUR for adults, 25 EUR for minors, and entrance for kids under 6 years of age is free. I had Maxim (4.5 years old) and he enjoyed the show quite bit too.
Highly recommended.
OnThisIsland.com lets us know that Masters of Dirt are coming to Cyprus. According to the Masters of Dirt Cyprus web site, there will be four shows – two in Paralimni (Saturday, June 20 and Sunday, June 21) and two in Limassol (Friday, June 26 and Sunday, June 28).
Tickets are 60 EUR for VIP, 30 EUR for regular adults, and 25 EUR for 15-year old and younger. There will be the bike show, fireworks, more show, and I guess the loud music, because the word DJ is all over it too.
We have a few people from work who want to go, so I think I’ll go too (Friday, June 26th preferred). I am still thinking if I should take Maxim (4.5 years old) with me or not. And there is always this question of tickets availability.
What about you? Are you coming?