Entries Tagged ‘Sport’

Bloody Sport - Freestyle Wrestling

Came across pictures of some Japanese freestyle wrestling where they allow items of different nature to be smashed against one another. In this instance some lighting was used and the effect seems very harmful. But surely you can imagine something like that would only cause some cuts and not actual injuries. Either way the sport [...]

Top Ten Sexist Swimming Pools

Number 10 - Koh Samui Resort, Thailand
Nothing spectacular at Number 10 except a wonderful view of the Thailand island scenary!

Number 9 - Oman Bustan Palace Intercontinental Muscat
After a 18 months re-development at the Oman Bustan Palace this 164m long luxury headed pool was built

Number 8 - Quincy Hotel, Singapore
Surrounded by glass this up market luxury [...]

The Hot Air Balloon Festival

In the weekend the Lorraine International Hot Air Balloon festival was hosted in a small village off the North Eastern part of France. As much as 320 hot air balloon was sent to the air in attempt to break a world record of launching the most hot air balloon in the same time. It was [...]

Extreme Kayak!

A man in America has recently broken the record of kayaking down a waterfall. To break the previous record he kayaked down a 60 meters tall waterfall in the state of Washington. The Palouse waterfall is a (186 ft) 60 meters tall fall situated in the eastern part of Washington State. Althought it is not [...]

The Biggest Fish in the World

Came across an interesting picture recently and it shows an English diver swimming near a Whale Shark that looked as if it was gonna swallow him up. Luckily for him the 20m long Whale Shark are known to only devour small animals like plankton. Whale Sharks is quite a mystery to these days, mostly because [...]

Papa and Big Shark

A 70 year Swiss tourist was reported to have caught a mammoth 480 Kg shark off the coast of Ireland using a single rod. The achievement is a new record in single rod fishing in the Great Britain area.
The Swiss tourist is a retired worker who spends his time fishing in different parts of the [...]