Category: WTF
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A League Of Their Own: Jack Whitehall’s and James Corden’s Synchronised Swims
Goodies for our WTF-category, some kind of crazy male synchronized swimming dance of, courtesy of Sky1 Jack Whitehall’s Trunks of Funk James Corden’s Synchronised Swimmer
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Swimming with Crocodiles
Vince Shaks and Laurent Ballesta journey down the mysterious waters into the heart of the crocodiles’ lair to film these misunderstood animals.
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World’s first underwater sword swallow
‘The world’s first underwater sword swallow’ was performed on May 9, 2006 at Manly Ocean World Aquarium -Sydney Australia, by The Space Cowboy in a tank full of sharks. Awesome!
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Pools are like Facebook
Quote Facebook via Mashable … “Swimming pools are filled with people. Some you know. Some you don’t. And every once in a while you see something that maybe you shouldn’t. That’s why swimming pools are a little like Facebook.”
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The sea water drinkers
A Philip Bloom mini-documentary going straight into my WTF-category.
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Ryan Lochte’s gaffe on ‘GameDay’
Ouch, the ESPN GameDay crew was in Gainesville, Florida, for the Saturday’s Florida-South Carolina matchup, with Ryan Lochte as a guest picker. When asked to pick who’d win between Texas A&M and LSU, he answered “Auburn.” See for instance FCN and Lost Lettermen
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Behold a high bar base jump stunt almost ending in death
Not swimming relevant, but 47-year-old father-of-five hospital surgeon and former gymnast on the Norwegian national team Richard Henriksen attempting a death-defying high bar base jump stunt when the construction collapses. Having no time to think, he decided to just go through with the moves while the setup fell to pieces, head barely missing the cliff…
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Huge eyeball from unknown creature washes up on Florida beach
Taking his usual morning stroll along the surf in Pompano Beach, Gino Covacci noticed a strange ball-like object at the high tide line. He kicked it over and found himself staring at the biggest eyeball he had ever seen. Quite fresh also, by the looks of it, and the whole ‘still bleeding’ bit. They are…
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The FitWet Jet Bike combines a stationary bike and a hot tub
Welcome to the awesome jet bike revolution, where you bike in water, 30 minutes of Jet Bike equalling 2 hours of standard bike while sweating less, according to FitWet. Well, at least it keeps those bikes out of the pool. Via Gizmag