Archive for the ‘Sport’ Category
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Running around the world
Sometimes you hear something so amazing that you just need to sit down, hang your head, and come to terms with it. That’s what I did when I read Kickass Trips recently and learned of Rosie Swale-Pope. In 2002, after … View article
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Amazing slacklining
Lukas Irmler slacklining over Cape Town
If, on a sunny day in the park, you’ve ever noticed someone hovering in mid-air between two trees, the chances are they probably weren’t hovering but were actually balancing on a slackline, having sneakily … View article
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Supercars vs superbikes… on ice
The Yamaha YZF R1 is a beast of a motorcycle. Riding it on ice is madness. Equipping it with insane, spiked tyres and then racing against a Porsche GT3RS on a full-size arctic race track is categorically amazing.
The track … View article
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Amazing night surfing
Through my window I can see frost glinting off car roofs, a frigid pigeon pecking at a frozen puddle, and Damoclean icicles hanging from gutters. In the bleak midwinter, I often find solace in the knowledge that our cousins in … View article
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Amazing jetman races planes
“When I’m older, I want to be a jetman,” I remember mentioning to my parents after seeing Michael Jackson exit the stage on his Dangerous tour.
“You’ll have to be a fighter pilot first, son,” muttered Dad over the top … View article
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Bartendaz
They are known as bartendaz, barstarzz, barbarians. What they do is bar hitting, ghetto workouts, freestyle calisthenics. Okay, so it may not really have a proper name yet, but it is nonetheless a display of strength and physical control to … View article
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Amazing race 4 – Marathon des Sables
The Marathon des Sables (‘Marathon of the Sands’) is the world’s toughest foot race. This ‘ultramarathon’ – the equivalent of about six normal marathons – takes competitors 156 miles (251 km) through the Sahara desert in southern Morocco. It takes … View article
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Göran Kropp Everest mission
Climbing Everest is pretty amazing thing to do under any circumstances, but Göran Kropp was not content with ‘any circumstances’. The Swedish mountaineer was looking for a real challenge. So he decided to first cycle the 12,000km to get there. View article
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Amazing skateboard video
If you look far enough back through the pages of Amazing Stuff, you’ll come to our first ever post, with the no-nonsense title, ‘Amazing bike video’. The hero of that video, Danny MacAskill, this summer appeared alongside various other amazing … View article
