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All In A 1er

People are indeed awesome....

And hats off to the architect of this piece for collecting the videos and crediting the protagonists (those either creative in their hoaxes or truly courageous in their endeavour) as a little reminder ...

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By Sammy on 26/10/10

Roll With It

"... not your average blading session..."

Not much to say here, other than watch and be 'entertained' ... maybe even inspired.

...you have to love the way he handles the tighter bends!

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By Juan on 17/6/10

What No Web?

"But Spidey capabilities nonetheless..."

Meet real-life Spiderman Jyothi Raj.  The 22 year old former construction worker from South India dicovered his superhero ability just over four years ago when facing the daily challenge of scaling the bamboo scaffolding widely used across his country.  Recognising his innate ability to place his hands and feet with the precision to deliver the most efficient and rapid of climbs he thereafter applied himself in an effort to turn his talent into an art.

In this part of the world there are no harnesses, there is no net so these rapid 300 ft climbs up the fort wall in Chitradurga represent art in its most creative and determined form.

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By Juan on 25/1/10

You Can. You Will.

 "... give meaning to the pain, in training and in life."

Pledge Limited ... now here's a great little idea and company we've come across recently. Founded by Simon Feneche - triathlete, marathon runner and recent conqueror of  the Eagle Isle Ultra (75 miles carrying all food and supplies over 3 days) - Pledge Limited are the creators of the waterproof, sweatproof silicon wristband, available in a range of colours, and otherwise known as the Pledgetag®.

The role of the Pledgetag is simple - to help you stay focused on your most important objective in life and on track to achieve your goal. This by making sure a reminder of that goal is never further away than the length of your arm.

Standard Pledgetags come with pre-designed messages such as "BURN FAT – LOSE WEIGHT" (careful who you give this one to!), "TRI HARDER – GET STRONGER" (I like...) and "YOU CAN – YOU WILL" the classic Armstrong cry from the heart. 

But it's when you start considering the power of a personalised Pledgetag that this idea comes into it's own.  The power of the inspirational message, whether to oneself or to another, is never to be underestimated.   "YOU CAN DO IT DADDY" ... who wouldn't run for walls for that?

Additionally Pledgetags can carry ICE (in case of emergency) details such as a postcode or phone number.  Not to be underetimated for those who like to go training with minimum baggage! 

All things considered, we think the simplicity and power of this idea is as cool as they come.

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By Juan on 21/1/10

Doing More With Less

"When he started learning to play the guitar at 16 in Nicaragua, people told him it couldn't be done."

History and the present is littered with men and women who quite simply do more with less.  We are talking about international athletes that find ways to get passed a lack of size or speed, film directors who grew up with no more than a kodak with which to learn their trade, and musicians some of whom have had to battle through great physical adversity.  What unites these people is a steely determination to make more of themselves and their lives.

International guitar player Tony Melendez is one such inspirational man.

Here he is performing "Let It Be" while on vacation Tuesday, July 24, 2007, in a condominium on South Padre Island.

Melendez was born without arms.

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By Juan on 22/9/09

Varna Diablo

One man can cycle faster than anyone else on earth.

You’ve probably seen them, the guys who kick back almost flat on those recumbent bicycles, darting in and out of traffic, too low to show up in people’s mirrors and - to my eyes at least - perennially on the verge of losing control. Georgi Georgiev’s Canadian company Varna builds a whole range of them; one, not for public consumption, is the Varna Diablo III, a bike that, ridden by Sam Whittingham, broke the world record for a human powered vehicle last week out on the flats of the Nevada desert at the annual World Human Powered Speed Challenge.

Competitors usually afford themselves only one run a day; the exertion is too great. But as the sun began to set over Nevada last Thursday, Whittingham saddled up for a second run, and, on a road that’s deteriorated over the last few years, broke the record at 82.3 mph: “I was flying down the course and was getting bumped around like crazy. It was one of the scariest runs of my life.” Whittingham had already broken the record three years in a row between 2000 and 2002. Clearly he wanted it back.

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By on 26/9/08

Urban Earth: Mexico City

I FELT PHYSICALLY SICK WITH FEAR AS WE WALKED. Daniel Raven-Ellison

In 2008, the world reaches an invisible but momentous milestone. For the first time in history, more than half its human population, 3.3 billion people, will be living in urban areas. But does anyone, anywhere, really understand the truth of these cities?

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By on 31/7/08

Half A Century Of Nasa

TO IMPROVE LIFE HERE, TO EXTEND LIFE THERE, TO FIND LIFE BEYOND.

It’s NASA’s fifty year anniversary this year. That’s fifty years since Eisenhower decided enough was enough, that America would no longer trail and splutter in the fumes of Russia’s rampant space development, that the nerdy Nation Advisory Committee for Aeronautics would become a government-funded priority. With a mission statement fit for Armaggedon 2 - “To improve life here, to extend life there, to find life beyond” - the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was born.

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By on 28/7/08

High Crime

In 1968, under the lights of his dentist’s chair, Philippe Petit got wind of a pair of giant towers under construction in New York City. An idea was born. “When I see three oranges, I juggle,” he once said. “And when I see two towers, I walk.”

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Categories Art Endeavour Tags Art Crime New York Tightrope

By on 6/5/08

Soundtrack To Life

“I pressed the button, and suddenly we were floating. It was an incredible feeling to realise that I now had the means to multiply the aesthetic potential of any situation." - Andreas Pavel

How far we have come. If your iPod is of the Nano persuasion, kudos to you. If you’re packing 6G’s, you rock. iTouch? Awesome. iPhone? Spectacular. Anything electronic that has pinching, flicking and caressing as standard operating procedures deserves all accolades.

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Categories Design Music Endeavour Tags andreas pavel creativity Design determination Imagination iPod stereobelt walkman

By on 16/4/08