Archer Lars Anderson demonstrates the dark art of ‘uncentering’ an arrow on release to bend its flight.
Achieved by a combination of air resistance and a deliberately offset shooting technique, the trick can send arrows around corners, over obstacles and even – with a sufficient headwind – right back to the archer.
A basketball court in Aalst, Belgium painted by artist Katrien Vanderlinden, inspired by the children’s mathematical reasoning game, Logical Blocks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh8_2zQZ3xM
6 minutes, 47.3 seconds on Germany’s legendary and notoriously challenging 20.8km Nürburgring Nordschleife – a new record lap time set this week by a preternaturally calm Lars Kern in the Porsche 911 GTS RS.
Sound up, full screen, lights off, imaginary steering wheel.
The Basque woman five seats down from me was in awe. The stadium was packed. Over 50,000 souls had taken over the place and turned it red. It was only a ‘friendly’, but the supporters of the ‘home’ team cheered every pass and move with a gusto which was totally out of kilter with the importance of the occasion.
“Why does everyone in Ireland support Liverpool?” she asked me at half-time. “Do you not support your own teams?”
In the city of Shamrock Rovers, Bohemians, and St Patrick’s Athletic, she was shocked to see so many Dubliners come out to support a team from the old colonial power.
Fight!
READ ON: Our Divided Tribal Loyalties (Ciaran Tierney Blogspot)
A 30m floating dock anchored in the middle of an ocean surf break at Bali in Indonesia with an open invitation extended to seasoned surfers.
Paddy McGrath tweetz:
1st place qualifier, 3rd overall & still top of the championship for James Deane after Formula Drift Montreal. Not bad for a lad from Castletownroche.
The wickedly fast Japanese sport of ‘pepe-sumo’, or miniature robot sumo wrestling, filmed here in real time and compiled (from several years of footage) by Robert McGregor.
Bouts don’t last long. Refs wear shin pads.
The charming Brian Shaw, crowned world’s strongest man in 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2016, requires 12,000 calories a day to fuel his training regime.
Twelve thousand.
Let’s PREP!
