Sports / Fitness

Douglas Heel Method: Be Activated

As well as treating injuries and enhancing sporting performance, it’s a powerful tool for stress management, and can quickly break common patterns of movement dysfunction and chronic pain --douglasheel.com

T/F: Damar Hamlin cardiac arrest was caused by a Covid-19 vaccine

He's an American football player who had a heart attack on live TV last week. He remains in critical condition.

Do NOT Punch In A Street Fight (video)

"average person is just asking to get hurt by throwing closed fist straight punches and hooks to the head. The accuracy and hand strength just isn't there." --comment on video

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

bouldering

Unlike free solo climbing, which is also performed without ropes, bouldering problems (the sequence of moves that a climber performs to complete the climb) are usually less than six metres (20 ft) tall —Wikipedia

sportswashing (concept)

"the practice of individuals, groups, corporations, or governments using sports to improve reputations tarnished by wrongdoing" --wikpedia

2022 FIFA World Cup

Boycotts of the event are planned by several countries, clubs and individual players, and former FIFA President Sepp Blatter has twice said that giving Qatar hosting rights was a "mistake" --wikipedia

Eli Manning goes undercover as a College Football walk-on

Superbowl-winning quarterback dons a disguise and tries to make the team at Penn State.

sailing (as a hobby)

The recreational practice of operating a craft, usually a boat or ship, propelled using wind as the prime mover --wikipedia

parkour

an athletic training discipline in which practitioners (called traceurs) attempt to get from point A to point B in the most fluid way possible, without assisting equipment and in the fastest and most efficient way possible --wikipedia

kickboxing

stand-up combat sports and a form of boxing based on kicking and punching. The combat takes place in a boxing ring, normally with boxing gloves, mouthguards, shorts, and bare feet to favor the use of kicks --wikipedia

rock climbing

The goal is to reach the summit of a formation or the endpoint of a usually pre-defined route without falling. Rock climbing is a physically and mentally demanding sport, one that often tests a climber's strength, endurance, agility and balance along with mental control. --wikipedia

Nick Kyrgios

Australian bad-boy of tennis. Competed in the 2022 Wimbledon men's finals.

Walking the South West Coast Path, UK

52 day itinerary... perhaps the UK’s ultimate challenge for the long distance hiker - a 630-mile adventure around the coastline of the southwest peninsula --southwestcoastpath.org.uk

cricket (sport)

a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a field at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre) pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps --wikipedia