An award-winning gnarlathon of surf footage from Hawaii’s legendary North Shore commended by ubiquitous extreme sport sponsor GoPro for its ‘cinematography, degree of difficulty of shooting, perspective, overall beauty and lighting’.
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Bye Bye Burj
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French aerial loons Vince Reffet and Fred Fugen BASE jumped off the very top of the world’s tallest building last Wednesday.
Cleared in advance by Skydive Dubai and totally legal, at 830m, it set a new world record for the B of BASE.
Should you have a giant monitor, the video is playable in 4K resolution.
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Statstastic
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Atomic Advertising Agency’s info bomb of stats and facts from the recent 6 Nations Championship.
IRB 6 Nations Statistical Analysis
Thanks Hugh Curran
Beyond Slow Motion combines footage of athletic border collie Jumpy with the human parkour stylings of Alex Van Duong
Song: Straight West by Kasket Club.
A pit crew doing its thing at the 1950 Indianapolis 500 (1 minute, 7 seconds) and its modern counterpart at the 2013 Australian F1 Grand Prix (somewhat nippier).
Best Photo from #Aintree So Far!! #GrandNational pic.twitter.com/OTDtgATyKF
— Jokes & Bets (@UKZeek) April 4, 2014
A vintage clip, uploaded by Motorsport.ie, of a 22 year-old Ayrton Senna, two years prior to his Formula One debut, winning the Benson & Hedges EuroSport Leinster Trophy Race in 1982 at Mondello Park in Kildare.
Alex Eustace writes:
The future Formula One star is driving his FF2000 Van Diemen and he is still racing under the name of Ayrton Da Silva. The race finishes at about 15 minutes in the video and you can catch Ayrton in all his helmet-less glory doing a victory lap.
G’wan the Joey Greenan from Belfast, who (as Alex also points out) actually overtakes Senna early in the race and pushes him for most of it.