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Huge Bike Jump into a Pond 35 feet in the air Video. How To Coke Machine Jackpot Hack - a News & Politics video. In the Dutch Mountains. Popular Articles Right Now Is it possible to improve your climbing without even trying?

In the Dutch Mountains

Jack Geldard thinks that a few small changes in your climbing... [ full article ] With junior competitions becoming more popular, training for young climbers is becoming much more popular. However, young... [ full article ] Finger Injuries are almost certainly the most common injuries climbers face. Related UKC Forum discussions The Groningen wall in 1986 Back in 1986 I was visiting friends in Groningen in the north of the Netherlands. I met some members of the local university climbing club - the GSAC (pronounced hay-sac with a bit of a grizzle on the 'hay'). Over the next few days I arranged to meet up with them some more, and made good friends with Gert (pronounced 'Hert') van der Veen one of the most active of the GSAC members.

The Excalibur tower at the Bjoeks wall in 2009 Roll on 23 years to March 2009 and another visit to Holland for an Easter trip with the family. Old mans got skills. Workout: 300 (The Big Apple) - Explore Fitness - Packing like a Pro. Dancers Among Us. Dancing. A universal emblem of passion, joy and lust. How many people do you think you walk past on a daily basis who dance for a living? If you’re a regular reader here, chances are, none. However, according to Jordan Matter, if you’re an active businessman in New York, you’re probably walking past thousands each day.

To give us all an idea of the personalities of these mysterious hidden dancers, Matter took matters into his own hands and decided to undertake a project he decided to call Dancers Among Us in which he featured regular civilians, but with a small twist. Oh, by the way, if you’re interested in looking at the whole set you can find it on Jordan’s website here . My favorite one is the girl with the bath robe rinsing the shaving blade in the fountain.

The one that was used for the thumbnail for this post is my absolute favourite. love it. Really nice photos. Dancing People. (JPEG Image, 1240x825 pixels) Alternate Sleep Cycles. Most people only think that there is one way to sleep: Go to sleep at night for 6-8 hours, wake up in the morning, stay awake for 16-18 hours and then repeat.

Alternate Sleep Cycles

Actually, that is called a monophasic sleep cycle, which is only 1 of 5 major sleep cycles that have been used successfully throughout history. The other 4 are considered polyphasic sleep cycles due to the multiple number of naps they require each day. How is this possible? How is this healthy? Well the most important of every sleep cycle is the Stage 4 REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, which has been shown to provide the benefits of sleep to the brain above all other stages of sleep. This way, you still get the benefits of 8 hours of sleep without wasting all of the time it takes to get to REM cycles, resulting in a much more efficient sleep cycle.

Uberman Cycle: 20 to 30 minute naps every 4 hours, resulting in 6 naps each day. Everyman Cycle: One longer “core” nap that is supplemented with several 20-30 minute naps. 7summits-Large.jpg (JPEG Image, 1250x1103 pixels) Paris Underground. The Bunker It's pretty clear how you get in there, but it's also pretty comical: headfirst with your partner pushing your legs through.

Paris Underground

Again there's a different tunnel architecture. We're supposedly underneath a high school. It's more brick-like. I guess the kids never make it this far downstairs. But the Germans did. One has a lot of wall mounted electrical conduit boxes - makes me think this was a communications bunker. Stephane is pointing to a fissure in the wall.

It's a sideways crawl up and then down. New Tunnels? Stephane smiles at me. We are true explorers now. Every now and then there are little offshoots that go for 20 or 30 feet before coming to a dead end. Epic BMX Pool Jump is Today's BIG Thing - JUN 20, 2008. Everyman Sleep. Most recent update, 2010: Everyman, along with other types of polyphasic sleep, has accumulated quite a body of information since this article was written.

Everyman Sleep

I myself have been on the Everyman 3 schedule for over four years now. Updated details, instructions, and even a book discussing polyphasic sleep adaptation can all be found at Everyman is another type of polyphasic sleep schedule that grew out of the experiments I first wrote about in 2000 under Uberman's Sleep Schedule. As of this writing -- January 2007 -- I have been living on the Everyman Sleep Schedule for approximately six months. How the Everyman Schedule was born The "Uberman" schedule, which was the first polyphasic schedule I experimented with, is very cool, but also really hard to adjust to.

Then someone--I don't remember who was first--suggested that maybe another type of schedule would work. The "Core Nap" Please note that not every combination of naps and core-nap seems viable. TEMPEST FREERUNNING ACADEMY - GYM VIDEO.