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Sports: Underwater Ice Hockey World Championship

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The first ever World Cup in the new extreme sport of underwater ice hockey has been staged at Weissensee in Southern Austria. Eight teams from Austria, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia were competing for the world cup. The game is played with teams of two men in a rink 6 meters wide and 8 meters long, under 30 centimeters of ice. Playing without oxygen tanks, the players are chasing a Styrofoam puck with a hockey stick into goals fastened to the ice cover upside down. They have to surface for air approximately every 30 seconds through holes…

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Winter: Ski-Cams around the World

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Good old web site “Earthcam.com” has a section with ski cams around the world online. The selection is a bit limited, but for the most popular ski resorts a link to the…

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Casino Royal: l’art du déplacement

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With Sebastien Foucan playing the villain in 007- Casino Royal and Luc Besson’s District-B13 with David Belle having just arrived in the US a few weeks ago more popularity will be drawn to Parkour, free running, urban free flow or Yamakasi as the “art” behind the incredible stunts in these movies is called…

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Learn (sailing, fishing, climbing) knots with online animations

All of us who had to learn some knots for sailing or climbing know that it often can take some time at the beginning to remember them. Now you can have 75 different knots demonstrated to you 24h/day with Animated Knots. Knots are demonstrated with self running animations and step-by-step. You will also find information [...]