All Sports All The Time

[Strat]

Yall remember when I brought up dangerous pass routes in (American) football? Case in point, this just happened Sunday:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TJSTm6AziXY

Also, maybe not a sport so much as a game, but I'll be playing in a 9 ball tournament this Sunday. Wish me luck, hopefully I'll win some cash.

[Bluegreen]

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[sunwings]

“It’s a sprint, not a marathon”

-Kipchoge 2019

This Video with nearly 4 million views goes into detail about his accomplishment. Running 100m in around 17 seconds at a speed of 13.1 mph for the duration of the 26 miles is unbelievable!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=A73HQwEct-o

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[Patient]

Canada 2 USA 0

Canadian men's Soccer team beats the US for the first time in over 30 years!

And I am very pleased to say that I was there to witness a great game for Canadian soccer!

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[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Garret/Rudolph, Steelers @ Browns... Just wow. That truly was one of the most shocking things I've seen in sport, in any sport.

[Strat]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gYXDx2YPqDg

Haha, yes it's legal. I was on the receiving end of this in high school a few times. Even in practice, knocked my mouth guard out. Back then you were expected to walk it off and it was referred to as 'getting your bell rung.' Nowadays you have to be checked for concussion (thankfully).

I also remember back then we weren't allowed to drink water when we wanted. We could only have water when the coach said so.

[Bluegreen]

Goooooooooooooooal!

[Bill Ryan]

Ashima Shiraishi - World’s Best Female Rock Climber?

At aged 13 (when this video was published, featuring little Ashima at just 9 years old), yes, pretty much. In 2019, now at age 17, she most certainly is.

When she was even younger, her father was her coach and inspiration; he was a celebrated Japanese Butoh dancer. (Rock climbing is mainly about poise, balance and timing: much less about brute strength.)

A VERY good article about her and her father here, titled The Wall Dancer.

• https://newyorker.com/magazine/2016/...he-wall-dancer

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KKiqVsFAFjc

[Anka]

I hope Wheelie it's counting as a sport...

Wheelie on giant Funicular in Resita,
"I wheelie'd my *Fixie Bicycle* on top of the half kilometer long funicular that goes across the center of Resita city.
The funicular is divided into 7 sections of about 70 meters each, which had to be ridden one by one"

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Svu7UVmKxFc

and if so,when gravity becomes a metaphor,

People Are Awesome 2019 - Fear Is Just A State Of Mind

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KRtFkEaDoEE

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[Bill Ryan]

Watch this and be amazed. Dan Osman, hugely loved by the rock climbing community, eventually died a few years after this was made, doing just this when his rope broke due to a technical set-up error.

Metallica's The Unforgiven II kicks in at 1:02. That's where the fun starts. Don't watch this if you have a fear of falling.

(You have to see this on YouTube. But it's absolutely worth the slight extra trouble.)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SSfPXi99Oco

[Bill Ryan]

Crazy Beautiful Thing: the title is perfect. Steph Davis, 40+ year old superstar rock climber and base jumper. Super-stable, super-smart, and a super-super-nice person. Her dog Cajun goes with her everywhere.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6YZWbgV_jIM

[Siphonemis]

Rest In Peace, Black Mamba.

Kobe Bryant, 41, killed in helicopter crash

Cassandra Negley, Yahoo! Sports
January 26, 2020, 2:45 PM EST


Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, Sunday morning, Yahoo Sports confirmed. His daughter, Gianna, was also on board as was another player and parent en route to a travel basketball game, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported.

Bryant played his entire 20-year career for the Los Angeles Lakers and won five NBA championships prior to retiring in 2016. He was named Finals MVP twice and league MVP in 2008. Bryant was 41.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department responded to reports of a helicopter that crashed into a hillside and caught fire, NBC Los Angeles reported. The crash was called in at 9:47 a.m. local time, per the report, and flames that spread a quarter acre were put out by 10:30. The fire department reported no survivors.

The helicopter, a Sikorsky S-76, crashed under unknown circumstances with five people on board, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. An investigation is ongoing. CNN’s transportation expert said the flight data shows the helicopter tightly circling downtown Los Angeles before heading out to Calabasas. Eric Leonard of NBC Los Angeles shared the radar track on Twitter.

Bryant and his wife, Vanessa, have four daughters: Gianna, Natalia, Bianca and Capri, who was born in June 2019.

TMZ first reported the news.

Kobe’s daughter, Gianna, reportedly on board

Gianna Bryant, Kobe’s 13-year-old daughter, was one of the four passengers killed in the crash, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported.

Gianna is also a basketball player and coached by her dad. He credited her with getting him back into watching the game and they’ve been seen courtside and NBA and WNBA games over the past few months.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Something to watch and be amazed, 7 minutes of pleasure and fear.

The Fastest and Most Dangerous Road-race in the World, the TT Races of the Isle of Man, UK

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iRWp9rhfS_0

[Anka]

Fear is just a state of mind ...
We have the power to guide us through the dark...
We have courage to follow our own heart

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MWuS_i_PFHo

No one can take the freedom of our spirit!!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=uVU37ZY3noU

[Bill Ryan]

Another rock climbing video. This is the world's best technical climber right now, a young Czech guy called Adam Ondra.

In this video, he's climbing something called 'Silence' — after 4 years of preparation, practice and training worthy of any olympic gymnast. (Rock climbs, like mountains and rivers, are always given names.)

Several notes!

• This climb is graded 9c (or in American, 5.15d). This is like a feet/meters thing... grades of difficulty are different in different countries, but can be 'converted'.

• Ondra gives the lie to the idea that strong climbers have to be built like gorillas. He's tall and thin, without a single gram of fat. He has a very long reach with his arms, and a very high strength-to-weight ratio.

• Oxymoronically, while the climb is called 'Silence', Ondra makes a huge amount of noise. (He's famous for that. )

• I described him as the world's best technical climber. That means that he can manage to make moves of ridiculously extreme difficulty without falling (see the video!!) — after enough practice.
  
  But while he can do moves that Alex Honnold could not (he's the guy who climbed El Capitan without a rope: see this thread), Honnold has an ice cool temperament, and 100% total control. On El Capitan, if he'd fallen, he'd have died. Ondra, while a "better climber", could never do that, and wouldn't even try. (What Honnold did, which stunned the world of climbing, may not be repeated for a couple of generations, if ever.)

• The climb itself is kinda crazy. A lot of the time, he's literally upside down (including when "resting"). It follows the roof of a cave in Norway, and really goes 'along', not 'up' He doesn't even get to the 'top' of anything... just to the end of the sequence of close-to-impossible moves.

The video shows his preparation. He climbs the thing at the very end, starting at 10:56. (I wonder if the ETs do this kind of thing? )

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZRTNHDd0gL8

[Ivanhoe]

I love it! Take the ride!
LOL

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=EM6nyGWcXks