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Every year in Florence, Italy, men from different neighbourhoods gather in teams to defend their honor, their pride and their masculinity with three days of Florence football, also known as Calcio Storico (historical football). These men have trained hard, and have been toughened by years of playing the violent game. There are no rules. Players […]
Calisthenics and parkour athlete Keith Horan shows off some of his stunts on a set of bars in a park in New York City. His lithe, fluid movements and skill are inspiring, guaranteeing that if you’re into calisthenics or parkour; watching this guy for a few minutes will leave you itching for some exercise of […]
SubstanceOverHype‘s William Spencer shows off his skateboarding tricks and parkour stunts, often combining the two sports. The video also shows a number of wipe outs which reveals the long and painful process that Spencer has gone through to achieve this level of skill. You can see more parkour by William Spencer in the funny freerunning […]
Two friends, Matt Stanley and Andrew Flounders, were surfing off Amble, Northumberland, when a young seal joined in for some surfing fun. The seal approached them by nudging their ankles before attempting to climb onto their surfboards. According to a spokesman for a nearby seal sanctuary, the seals often sit on surfboards provided for them by […]
This hilariously creative table tennis match between Chuang Chih-Yuan and Jean-Michel Saive shows two athletes at the top of their game having a good time. Instead of taking the game seriously, the two fully grown men decide instead to mess about like two unruly boys having a bit of a laugh together. The most appealing part […]
This parody of a first person shooter game was created with a gopro and a few gamers-turned-actors. Freddie W and his team mates from RocketJump used a GoPro to shoot the footage and Adobe After Effects to create the visual effects of splattered blood, fire and points awarded for each kill.
GoPro is producing small, quality cameras that allow extreme sports athletes and performers to strap the camera to their head and give viewers a first-person point of view of their activities. While most popular GoPro videos showcase the extreme antics of skaters, surfers and other extreme sports athletes, director Ilya Naishuller decided to put the camera […]
Johanna Quaas was born Johanna Geiβler in 1925 in Hohenmölsen, Germany, and began practising gymnastics at a young age. During the Second World War, gymnastics was banned by the Allied Control Council, which forced Quaas to pursue another sport, handball. When the ban on gymnastics was lifted in 1947, Johanna Quaas quickly took up her passion […]
Parkour and free runner athlete James Kingston straps a camera to his head and allows viewers to live vicariously by joining him for a run across the rooftops of Cambridge. While parkour videos are impressive when shot from a distance, the first person point of view used in this video reveals just how daring free […]
Munich is a German city that is hundreds of miles away from the ocean, but determined Munich surfers haven’t allowed this fact to hold them back. Braving the icy cold waters of the river Eisbrach, the surfers show off their talents in the broiling rapids before being ripped downstream to face further dangers in the […]