Awesome Dog Training

I've not done any new training with Mae for the past few months, but this inspires me!

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Killer Whale Hunting Techniques

Some killer whales seem to have learned how to kill great white sharks! Go killer whales!

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Firefly from the 80's

Priceless! A new introduction for Firefly as a 80's show:



And here, Simon has his own 80's show:



It's all in the music and the graphics!

Oh, and here's an awesome video of Summer Glau training for the fight sequences in Serenty:

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The Hula Hoop's Perspective

Hula hooping, from the hoop's perspective:



Okay, I'm dizzy now!

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Horses: Show Jumping

I've posted amazing dressage videos before, but I don't think I've ever posted any videos of the jaw-drawing performances seen in show jumping. However, since I'm just about to buy some jumps, I thought now would be an excellent time!

Here's two videos from a "puissance" competition, which is an high-jumping elimination competition. The record is for seven feet ten inches. That's just mind-boggling, because neither horse nor rider can see over that solid wall.

Personally, the tallest that I've ever jumped is four-foot fences, back when I was a teenager riding my fabulous horse "Paint." It was fun!! In jumping the more ordinary height of three feet, the horse has leveled out by the time that his hind legs leave the ground. In jumping four-foot fences, the horse is still headed upwards as he leaves the ground. That's a pretty awesome feeling, and I can only imagine what six or seven feet would be like!

First, here's a video of many puissance jumps, including some minor and major failures:



Second, here's a video with the progression of a puissance competition. I've seen one of these in person, and the videos just don't do the excitement of it justice.



As for me, Lila has done a little bit of jumping, but I imagine that I'll be training her basically from scratch, as I've done with her dressage work and cross-country trail riding. I love to jump, so I'm really looking forward to it!

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Parkour Academy

Here's an awesome video of an amazing stream of parkour at the newly-opened Tempest Academy in Los Angeles:



On the one hand, I've love to be able to do that. On the other hand, I know that if I tried, I'd fall on my head, repeatedly.

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Ok Go Music Video

Ok Go. Rube Goldberg. Music video. What more could you ask for?

This video is from 2010, but I just saw it recently.



There's also some background on how the video was made:

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Amazing Football Throws

This 3rd-string quarterback from UConn can really throw the football. Holy crap:



(Via HotAir.)

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Time Lapse Child

Ten years of nearly-daily photos of a child... compressed into 85 seconds.



I love when she begins to realize that she's being photographed.

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Spectacular Horse Training

I'm sure I'll have Lila doing this in no time:



And here's another amazing video with the same trainer:

Dressage by Clémence Faivre from Franck Semonin on Vimeo

More information on the trainer (in French) is here. She's just 28 years old.

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Barkour

Forget doing agility with doggie Mae, I want to teach her doggie parkour, a.k.a. "barkour":



Mae is totally fearless with strange obstacles, and she's quite good at scrambling up gates and fences. So it would be a great fit! Then again, perhaps I don't want to encourage these abilities... at least not for use at home. I already have enough trouble keeping her confined to the dog run and/or our property!

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Contact Juggling

Cool video featuring a Japanese glass ball contact juggler:



Here are more videos of the performer, Okotanpe, at his official website.

(Via Howard Roerig.)

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Yo-Yo Champion

Jensen Kimmitt is the winner of the 2010 World Yo-Yo Contest. Here's why:



I'm just glad he's using his powers for good, rather than for evil!

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Deer Playing with Dog

Wow, this video of a dog playing with a young deer is just too cute!

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Photographer Mothered by Predator

An awesome story, awesomely told: Face-Off With a Deadly Predator

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Equestrial Drill Team + Unicycles = Amazing

Equestrian drill team is "a group of horses and riders performing choreographed maneuvers to music." It's like synchronized swimming for horses and riders. I've done a bit of it just for fun, and the timing is definitely something of a challenge.

However, I've never seen anything remotely like this before. It's an equestrian drill team ... with the riders driving the horses from behind on unicycles. I kid you not!



What can I say, other than... Oh, those wacky Germans!

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Dorm Light Snake Game

Now, for something a bit more fun... I can't possibly convey the sheer awesomeness of this trick.


School Dorm Snake Game - Watch more Funny Videos

As Radley Balko said, "Even with video, I’m still not sure I believe that this actually happened. If it did, pretty amazing."

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18 Seconds of Awesome

I'm not enamored of trains, but this train plowing through the snow is 18 seconds of pure awesome.

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The Resurrection of Flight 1549

This video shows the unsung hero of the so-called "Miracle on the Hudson" -- namely the plane -- being battered by ice, then raised out of the water. On seeing it, I keep having to remind myself just how huge the plane is. I'm so impressed that something so enormous could be raised from the water at all.

Posted on Kontain.com - [Flight 1549]

Here's what the creator of the video says:

Exclusive unseen time lapse video footage of the Miracle on the Hudson, US Airways flight 1549 as it is struggling to stay afloat and avoid the barrage of an ice attack. An unsung hero was the Airbus A320 which survived a crash landing, sinking and safely contained 155 Humans.

I shot these clips from a cheap compact Canon camera. The plane came to a strop outside my apartment here in NYC. Most of the footage on TV from CNN, NY Post, NBC and ABC was filmed from my apartment over those 3 days.

(Via Kelly)

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Bomb-Proof Wallpaper

This wallpaper is not for the homes of ordinary folks, I don't think.



Wow.

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