Crazy Things I Found on the Internet: November 2011
So I decided, let’s start this new regular post.
Superhydrophobic
Ever dreamed of possessing water manipulation abilies, like the Water Benders from Avatar?
Well, you can’t. Yet.
BUT soon you will have the ability to repel water like you’re its absolute nemesis.
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Dibs to geek-extraordinaire and childhood friend Alex for the finding.
Aurora Borealis: on the flip side
This is really cool. A few awesome people took part in this Around-the-globe Time-Lapse, which in itself is impressive. One thing I didn’t expect is how amazing the Auroras would look like, from the other side.
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Training Videos Medley: Gymnastics, Parkour, Calisthenics
I came upon a couple of videos recently which I would like to share with you. They present three different styles of bodyweight ability training. This goes in line with my earlier posts about giving more focus on bodyweight movements and also Parkour.
Ready to get inspired?
Gymnastics
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So it’s not exactly what you would expect to see from a gymnastics video. However they’re still gymnastics-related movements, and what I like most is seeing the guy try, fail sometimes, try again and progress through his movements. It gives an idea on how his training sessions look and I like how he’s not scared of making a fool of himself. Now of course, many of his movements are definitely impressive, awesome, and stuff I want to be able to do someday. Definitely related to longer-term goals, say, post-challenge-#6.
Parkour
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Parkour Generations is a group part of what we might call the “original traceurs”, from France. I like this video a lot because it gives a nice glimpse of how their training sessions look like. The analyses, tries, fails, perfecting, and also some of the fooling around.
Calisthenics
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Calisthenics is, in my opinion, a very interesting training style. Not unlike Parkour, it uses urban facilities publicly available in order to train. It’s more focused on public park modules and less varied in that fashion. But a lot of what they do could be directly transferred and used on Parkour movements, and it’s amazing how creative they can get using mostly bars.
You know what’s even more amazing?
Most of everything they do actually look easy for them. I love that. As I progress through learning movements and training them, I want them to be and look as easy as possible.
Don’t you?
5 Reasons to Start Traveling (or to do it again)
Tonight, my brother Raphaël is leaving for Spain. His first and main destination: the journey to Santiago de Compostela.
Raph’s blog (French): http://muybiencompostelle.blogspot.com/
The Pilgrimage of Compostela has been famous for centuries, and for many reasons. In our era, it’s been made even more so through Paulo Coelho‘s The Pilgrimage, a novel which I highly recommend you to treat yourself with.
I will leave it to Raph to describe his trip in more detail, hence the link to his blog. If you don’t speak French, here’s a great chance to learn it! As for myself, I will grab this opportunity to describe what, in my view, makes it the most worthwhile to partake in traveling.
Reason #1: To glance at how amazing the world is,
and to learn how all things amazing come at a price.
