Tag Archives: acrobatic
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College Cheerleader Sinks Front-Flip Half-Court Shot (Video)
Small liberal arts colleges like William Carey University in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, don’t make sports headlines very often. The school of 4,000 students doesn’t compete in NCAA Division I athleteics, nor do they compete in NCAA Division II, or even Division III athletics. Rather, they compete in the NAIA and play in the Southern States Athletic [...]
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Adam Miller Performs the World’s First Successful Skateboard-to-Skateboard Gainer Backflip (Video)
I’m not a skateboarding expert. In fact, I’m not even a skateboarding novice, as I know very little about the sport at all. Sure, I know that Tony Hawk was kind of a big deal, and I’ve heard of a few other guys like Ryan Sheckler and Bob Bunrquist (thanks, X-Games!). Also, for some reason [...]
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Texas High School Cheerleader Sets World Record For Consecutive Backward Handsprings (Video)
One year ago, a high school cheerleader named Miranda Ferguson wowed the crowd at a high school football game in Dallas, Texas, by performing 20 backward handsprings in a row during halftime. The impressive feat inspired one of her friends to do a little research, and that friend discovered that the official Guinness World Record [...]
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Check Out This Thrilling Play At The Plate To End A Kickball Game (Video)
Hipsters were the ones who started the whole “grownups playing kickball” fad. But it was the yupsters—young urban professional hipsters—who organized it and created a national tournament circuit with a $10,000 championship payout. So in other words, in case you hadn’t noticed, people take their kickball pretty seriously these days. Thus, when a national open [...]
