Everyone has an affinity to speed, no I don't mean rushing to work and back, but speed that gets your adrenaline pumping as you hit those curves and push t
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Founded in France and reflecting some strand of Martial art, Parkour is dubbed as 'The art of Movement' or "l'art du déplacement". The sport if focused on moving through city scapes and urban mazes using speed and efficiency. Differing from Freerunning, which focuses on acrobatic moves and flash, parkour is a simplified sport that focuses on natural movement and efficiency instead.
The fore-runner and credited founder of Parkour is David Belle who has done the most service in gr...
With conflicting seasons, it's hard to always remember what's going on elsewhere when the weather is hot and the sun is shining. But let's not forget our winter wonderland. What do kids love to do when the days shorten and the mercury drops? Snowboard. An off season sport for skateboarders in particular, snowboarding has been and will be around for a long time. Hard to reach though, the demographic for snowboarding are either located near snow or good falls, such as southern regions of Austr...
Hong Kong is the place for karaoke and shopping, but who woulda guessed mountain biking to be popular with HK youngsters?!A blade of grass is hard to come upon in this concrete jungle, let alone a forested mountain!
I came across a group of extreme bikers one night in the heart of Central, Hong Kong's finance and night-life centre, their bikes speeding noisily along the ground's uneven stones -- they were riding so fast down the sloped hill, I could hardly make out their fa...
photo: brent kerr
Originally used in the 1950s for winter training sessions by racing cyclists wanting to improve their pedalling style, fixed-gear bikes have recently made the transition from the velodrome to the streets.
The main appeal is of the simplicity of the light-weight, low maintenance, direct-drive bike.
With this direct-drive system, you are able to stop without using a brake. There are competitions in the form of street races from A to B where there is no presc...
