powerlifting
Request: Powerlifting is a competitive strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: squat, bench press, and deadlift.
Sports / Fitness
padel
Priority request: a fast-growing racquet sport that mixes rules and scoring from tennis with the glass-walled rebound style of squash.
kung fu
Kung fu and wushu are loanwords from Cantonese and Mandarin respectively that, in English, are used to refer to Chinese martial arts -- wikipedia.
tennis
Request: Newfound joy of life, what is the field?
flopping in soccer
Players embellishing contact or pretending to be fouled to deceive referees. This tactic is primarily used to win penalty kicks or free kicks in dangerous areas, gain disciplinary advantages by getting opponents booked or sent off, and waste time when leading late in a match -- Brave AI.
table tennis / ping-pong
Request: Incredibly fun activity and very meditative at times.
pickleball
The appearance of a pickleball court, and the manner of play, resemble tennis, but the court is the size of a doubles badminton court, less than a third the size of a tennis court -- wikipedia.
tai chi
Often referred to as "meditation in motion", tai chi aims to concentrate and balance the body's purported qi (vital energy), providing benefits to mental and physical health -- wikipedia. Calibrated at 305 in TvF.
FIFA World Cup
"Globally regarded as the most prestigious association football competition, as well as the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world... engagement with the 2022 World Cup was estimated to be 5 billion, with about 1.5 billion people watching the final match" -- wikipedia.
physical exercise as a spiritual practice
A way of honoring the correlation of the physical and the spiritual.
jogging
By request.
football (soccer)
Request: The most popular sport in the world. Doc may have calibrated it somewhere? [450 in TvF].
Sabastian Sawe's sub-two-hour marathon
Priority request: The first sub 2 hour marathon, completed in 1:59:30.
balance board as a therapeutic tool
Request: can be used for exercise too but just standing on it and balancing my body out makes me feel whole. Afterwards I feel so much more integrated and like there is finally ground beneath my feet that I can feel.
surfing
New event for the 2021 Olympic Games.