The adoption of rally point scoring fundamentally changed the strategy in beach volleyball. The original mintonette borrowed scoring from baseball with nine innings — but few people even remember that. Some, though, can probably remember the sideout scoring system, where a team must have served the ball to earn a point. Rallies won by the […]
Age and gender are not barriers to being able to move with confidence, as proven by the number of incredible women that attending the Women's International Parkour Weekend last year, hosted by @parkourgenerati. #parkour #parkourlife #parkourculture #parkour4life #parkourphotography #dailyfreerunning #freerunning #pkfr #parkourandfreerunning #shecantrace #thisgirlcan #seeanddo #strongwomen #outdoorwomen #womenoutdoors #wildwomen #girlstraining #girlstrainharder #thisgirlcanuk #climbinggirl #modernoutdoorswoman #athletesunfiltered […]
The news about the FIVB Katara Beach cup in Doha that has people agog is that Jake Gibb and Taylor Crabb managed to defeat Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena in the second round match of Pool A – which earned them a first round bye in the elimination bracket, but doesn’t really eliminate Phil and […]
It’s the day after the Texas Primary Elections, which serves to narrow the field for the two major American political parties heading into the midterm elections in the fall. Here in Houston, which sits in Harris County, the results are posted online for the Republican Primaries and the Democratic Primaries as PDF files. A peculiar […]
Today was one of the election days in Texas. As a primer for the reader who is unfamiliar with the political set up in America, the scene is dominated by two main political parties: the Republican and the Democratic parties. And before the main elections, each party holds primary elections to install the main candidate […]
The story in the Atlantic. When extinction is spoken about, it’s almost exclusively in terms of land based vertebrates, usually mammals, which form a tiny portion of the biodiversity of the planet. And even that attention is heavily skewed towards “charismatic megafauna” – animals that are cute and big enough to be visible. But it’s […]
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New season, new team for Tuesday night at Third Coast. Here is the shirt design, comments are welcome. You can order the Tanktop version There are also regular T-shirt versions.
One of the problems with “fitness” as an industry: its ties with supplements. And people can’t be bothered to learn the science. #healthisrelative #improveonyourterms #growth #learning #mistakesareok #trainugly #nomiracles #noshortcuts A post shared by Doc Ricky (@doc.ric.ky) on Dec 15, 2017 at 9:19am PST Most people obsessed with BCAAs don’t even know what an amino […]
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