Category: Sport

01. Excelling by being yourself

Massimo Voltolina started practising sport only when he was 30 and he trains without following rigid schedules: he simply “listens the his body”. At the age of 43 Massimo Voltolina is one of the two Italians that has swam from France to England across the Channel. Of course, with worse weather conditions and a better timing. He is now getting ready for his next adventure: crossing the Adriatic sea.

Golf Republic

Sander van Rooijen: My trend in ‘Cool Masculinity’ is Golf Republic. This is a new indoor golfcourse in Amsterdam-Zuid. The Golf Republic, and all indoor sportaccomodations, is a new trend in Holland. You can golf where-ever you want (it’s in a simulator), whenever you want an with who-ever you want! No more excuses because it’s raining, or people see you golf in silly clothes. Golf Republic is a new kind of playing sports your own way at your own time, with your own friends, in private!

Urban Wakeboarding

Lodewijk de Vries: This happened yesterday evening. I was just hanging with my friends untill one of the guys rang the doorbell. He had the ingenius idea to take his boat and his wakeboard and try to wakeboard through the Prinsengracht. At first it seemed like a suicide mission, however they proved me wrong. This is the picture I took. It maybe hard to see but this is my friend (who prefers to remain anonymous) wakeboarding through the Prinsengracht.
Maybe this is the start of a new thing; urban wakeboarding!

Sensual Dancing

Anne Oostra:
This picture shows three belly dancers. The woman in orange is a friend of my. Belly dancing is a way of showing and feeling 100% feminine. You become aware of yourself and your capabilities. Small, big, tall or origin does not matter. Belly dancing is coming up.

Lisanne:
Pole dancing/fitness
A real hype under woman is pole dancing/fitness. Women can express their body more, it’s sexy but sportive and off course it’s adventurous.
In Amsterdam there are a lot of pole dancing/fitness schools.
Here you can get lessons in pole dancing and pole fitness. Normally there were only a few pole dance schools but now it’s such a hype under woman that you can find the dancing schools in every part of Amsterdam.
I also discovered the trends wearing skinny jeans and the bob haircut under woman.
Source: Picture taken in pole dance class Amsterdam

10. Howies

Howies are bringing out a jacket with which, if you want to buy it, you have to sign a contract saying when you have finished it you will hand it down to someone else. The company will store spare zips and so on for about 20 years in case it needs repairing.
By John Grant

Skiing on a revolving carpet

Derk Welling, the Netherlands:
Skiers learn all the right moves - inside- as decks provide a fast track for beginners. The revolving carpet is perfect for developing efficient habits and skills and improving your physical strength and conditioning. A full-length mirror at the bottom of the slope lets you see while you learn and monitor your improvement. One lesson can accomplish as much or more than a full day of group lessons on the snow.

06. Rugby in Paris

This ad, designed to drum up tourism for Paris in the run-up to the Rugby World Cup is meant to be funny and eye-catching – which it certainly is. 

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