Anyway, Venus Williams gets an easy victory on her opening game at the French Open as she beats Patty Schnyder with consecutive 6-3 victories. Unfortunately, it was not her performance that drew the most attention.

Children fall down all the time, remember that. But they usually get back up again, and that is a part of growing up. As long as you take some simple precautions, your swings should be as safe as it should be.

Now, I’m amazed to see some innovations are made to improve our backyard swings experience. Here are some really cools swings as well as other really great designs that you may want to have at your home.

The Curl Playground Swing

The construction is more unique with idea to attract children along with colours. I have put metal bars instead of chains because they will make movement more stable. Seats are more comfortable. The mechanical system will additionally increase safety and durability of playground swing. – Milos Todorovic, creator.

Backyard Swings for Adults

Kids aren’t the only ones who love to feel the wind against their skin as they swing back and forth in their backyard. Swings for adults are also getting more and more popular. Outdoor furniture design company Viteo had adults in mind when they created the Swing for the Home Collection

Lily Swing

The magical swings create a wonderland atmosphere and provide a tranquil and relaxing place to ‘hang-out’ in the garden.The couple, Fletcher & Myburg, designs and produces the swings mostly from recycled copper, which is durable for years of outdoor use and will patina beautifully with age. The fun “Bubble Swing” is made from stainless steel circles.

Glowing Swing

It was created by artist and designer Alexander Lervik and comes equipped with fiber optic sensors that glow in the dark. The best part is that it only lights up when you’re actually swinging on it, and not when badgers cross its path like some annoying, hyper-sensitive outdoor lights do. It also creates an amazing laser light show.

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

The most popular one is known as Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ). This is the core fighting style in most mixed martial arts competition these days and touted as the most dangerous form of martial arts today. As a Jeet Kune Do practitioner and I guess other students of different martial arts will disagree with this idea .

This is basically the modified version of Judo and Japanese Jujutsu. BJJ dominated the first large modern mixed martial arts competitions, causing the emerging field to adopt many of its practices. The stand-up techniques in Gracie Jiu Jitsu are largely from Japanese Jujutsu (knife defence, gun defence, throws, blocking, striking etc.

Here are some really cool videos of this Brazilian martial arts.

Capoeira

This is an Afro-Brazilian art form that combines elements of martial arts, music, and dance. It was created in Brazil by slaves from Africa, especially from Angola, Mozambique and Congo sometime after the sixteenth century. The sparring is marked by fluid acrobatic play, feints, takedowns, and with extensive use of leg sweeps, kicks, and headbutts.

Less frequently used techniques include elbow strikes, slaps, punches, and body throws. Its origins and purpose are a matter of debate, with theories ranging from views of Capoeira as a uniquely Brazilian folk dance with improvised fighting movements to claims that it is a battle-ready fighting form directly descended from ancient African techniques.

I hope you find this collection of Brazilian martial arts video very interesting and helpful.

The shoes have been outfitted with audio plugs and connected to a sampler. after working out the sounds and rehearsing, hifana is all set for a final piece. in this final performance the duo basically play the shoes, twisting and turning all of them to produce a totally developed tune. This video displays the group’s sound and the versatility of nike’s new sneakers. the project was developed by wieden kennedy, tokyo.

Toyota 10K Winners

Males:
1 Fernando Ceccopieri, 52, of Loveland, 37:19
2 Mark Harrell, 39, of Raleigh, N.C., 37:44
3 Robert Horn, 34, of Red Bank, New Jersey, 38:45

Females:
1 Shari Klarfeld, 29, of Plainview, New York, 44:00
2 Schoenfeld of Westwood, 23, 44:01
3 Stephanie Moses, 32, of New York, 46:10

Fleet Feet 5K Winners

Males:
1 George Moran,22, of Maineville, 16:40
2 Michael Dehring, of Sycamore Township, 16:42
3 Antony Parnigone,16, of Newtown, 17:36

Females:
1 Meghan Ward, 27, of Cincinnati, 20:10
2 Hannah Helmers, 14, of Cincinnati, 20:38
3 Skyler Green, 14, of Dixie Heights, KY, 21:02

Here’s an advertising campaign for Decathlon from April 4 to April 28 created by ad agency Young & Rubicam Paris. France. The photo above has a tagline “Nothing stops a runner”.

Tagline: “Explore new worlds”. Decathlon ad from April 19 to May 3 Bike Promo

Tagline: Make room for hiking. Decathlon ad from April 30 to May 17

According to ESPN, Texas Stadium was blown up Sunday morning, and Kraft Foods paid $75,000 to sponsor the event in order to introduce its “Cheddar Explosion” macaroni and cheese. Odd as all this seems, we must admit we are intrigued by the image of the grand old structure being covered in macaroni and cheese. We don’t think that’s what they mean, though.

An 11-year-old boy won a Kraft essay contest and the right to trigger the dynamite implosion. Presumably, his essay was not titled “Why I Love To Blow Up Things.”

According to The Dallar Morning News, The demolition plan cost just under $6 million. To be prepared for the implosion, the stadium was stripped down to concrete and steel and the lower bowl filled with dirt. It imploded in a domino fashion starting in the southwest end zone, falling simultaneously along both sidelines to finish in the northeast end zone. The roof with its famous hole fell in over the stadium’s footprint.

The Cowboys won all five of their Super Bowl titles while playing in Texas Stadium. They moved to the new $1.2 billion Cowboys Stadium in Arlington last year.

Located in the city of Stockholm, Hunt is a hunting store that speaks to the urban hunter in an urban way. Hunt position itself as a brand that brings an urban mindset to the forest.

Brief: Create attention and interest for Hunt (Stockholm based Hunting Store) and their Hunting Certification Exam.

Solution: The whole forest is a huge take away full of game – and if you take a hunting certification exam it’s always open.

Advertising Agency: Jung von Matt, Stockholm, Sweden
Art Director: Jacob von Corswant
Copywriter: Petter Dixelius
Photographer:Sven Prim
Designer: Calle Cassel
Published: February 2010

A clever way to recruit gay rugby players using one of the oldest prison jokes.

Caption: Now Recruiting
Join Toronto’s gay rugby team. info@muddyyork.ca

Advertising Agency: GJP Advertising & Design, Toronto, Canada
Creative Director: Lisa Greenberg
Art Director: Lisa Greenberg
Designers: Scott Leder, Lisa Greenberg
Copywriter: Lino DiNallo
Photographer: Jesse Senko
Published: February 2010

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