Entries Tagged 'water acrobatics' ↓

Gymnasts — at least — don’t have to worry about drowning while stretching.

That was linked on Facebook by Don Anweiler.

The World Games of 2013 will take place in the city of Cali, Colombia from July 25 to August 4.

32 official sports and 4 invitational sports include:

Acrobatic gymnastics
Aerobic gymnastics
Artistic roller skating
Dancesport
Rhythmic gymnastics
Trampoline & Tumbling

Sport climbing
Waterskiing

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Blob Jump Official Guinness World Record. … Cham, Switzerland, 17 Metres …

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via Rusty Pierce and Brett MacAulay, who love this kind of stuff.

Flyboarding is so new, I can’t find a wikipedia page on it.

This is the best edit I’ve seen so far. Some underwater shots. Some backward somersaults.

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related – FlyBoard fulfils Iron Man fantasies

Thanks Warren.

GymRep Camp in Quebec has one of these BLOBs. Much deadlier than they look.

… some folks at Lake Powell in Southern Utah kicking …

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Thanks George.

by site editor Rick McCharles

We met Danny Hale in 2008, doing his Tarzan thing. For FUN.

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Danny rigged each of his 3 swings personally each day. And took them down when finished.

In 2011, the owner of that private property blocked access to the general public. It’s dangerous. At least 5 people have died there.

After Blake Aldridge’s new dive at the the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in Boston …, it’s worth explaining … the twist.

Done correctly it can be one of the most aesthetically pleasing moves in the sport. And the more a diver does, the more their dive will rate on the degree-of-difficulty chart. Here some of the world’s top cliff divers break it down for you…

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Interesting. Though they land feet first — like a trampolinist — they use diving arms position to twist (one arm behind the head).

Has any cliff diver yet used other arm positions?

Clarification — “piking” only slows the twist. They need to “untilt” to stop twisting.

Inventor (French Jet Ski Champion) Franky Zapata explains how. He calls it the “Flyboard”.

It gets pretty technical after 2min 40sec.

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$9000

(via Get Outdoors)

The best video you’ll see today.

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via Kottke – Water-powered jet pack lets you swim like a dolphin

After our week long coaching clinic in Manila, I flew down to Boracay for some R&R.

Bulabog Beach is the main windsurfing and kiteboarding area, one of the best in the world.

kiteboarding superstar Susi Mai

Kiteboarding (or kitesurfing) has been described as combining wakeboarding, windsurfing, surfing, paragliding, and gymnastics into one extreme sport. …

There were 50 kites out for every Windsurfer today.

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A one day introductory course costs about a hundred dollars in Boracay. Know that you can easily drown, tangle, collide or be blown into palm trees in one of those flimsy rigs. I’ll jog the beach instead.

I might have to book a trip to Macao. This looks awesome.

It just opened.

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… The show was performed in a purpose-built theater with the so-called world’s largest commercial pool, and installation of 258 automated fountains and 8 elevators that make it possible to convert the aquatic stage to a solid floor. …

Amazing visual feast: “House of Dancing Water makes debut in Macao

Thanks Fred and Dana.

Cirque’s Marceline Goldstein linked to this clip. Thanks.

Professional athlete Leander jumping from a 22 floor high building onto a nearby parking roof by the use of a kite. EXTREME!!!

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This guy’s so good he can walk on water.

Posted by Greg Marsden.

Kyndal Robarts, Jamie Deetscreek and Swoop in a belly flop contest at TCU swim meet

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Swoop wins this one. Easy.