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
Sports / Fitness
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
Eliud Kipchoge's sub-two-hour marathon
"Kipchoge completed the challenge with an official time of 1:59:40.2, an average speed of 5.88 metres per second (21.2 km/h; 13.2 mph)." --wikipedia
World swimming (FINA) bans transgender athletes from women’s events
Calibration of this decision
GuerrillaZen Fitness (YouTube channel)
Corrective Exercise + Holistic Health + Injury Prevention + Bio-Optimization + Functional Fitness --channel
backward running as a sport
"Running (aerobic)" is at 350 in TvF.
Why I Stand, by [NBA player] Jonathan Isaac
On July 31, 2020, the Orlando Magic starting forward Jonathan Isaac was the lone NBA player not to kneel for the national anthem amid a league-wide demonstration in support of Black Lives Matter --amazon.com
Pilates
"a mind-body exercise that requires core stability, strength, and flexibility, and attention to muscle control, posture, and breathing" --wikipedia
Wimbledon banning of Russian players
The All England Club (AELTC) -- the Wimbledon organizers -- said the decision was made to "limit Russia's global influence through the strongest means possible." —espn.com
rugby
Points can be scored in several ways: a try, scored by grounding the ball in the in-goal area (between the goal line and the dead-ball line), is worth 5 points and a subsequent conversion kick scores 2 points; a successful penalty kick or a drop goal each score 3 points —Wikipedia
hacky sack
Request: a small, round bag usually filled with plastic pellets or sand, which is kicked into the air as a part of a game or as a display of dexterity.
Lia Thomas
First openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I national championship --wikipedia