It’s doubtful that samurai warriors from Feudal Japan would have been big fans of the beloved sport of soccer/futbol/football, preferring combat sports like MMA or a sport that involve a weapon like baseball, but if a samurai time travelled from back in the day to present day he might find it quite relaxing to kick the ball around.
The guy featured in this video isn't a real time travelling samurai, he's Red Bull athlete/freestyle football world champion Kotaro Tokuda, and he was sent to Brazil by Japanese noodle company Nissin to wow the natives with his freestyle football skills, which he showed off while wearing samurai armor.
At least he won't have to worry about taking a football to the face!
-Via Kotaku
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Swim the frigid shark-infested waters of San Francisco Bay, with deadly currents that can sweep you halfway to Japan!
If you make landfall, you then have to assault a random bicycle courier and steal his bike for the second event: a bicycle race through the deadly gauntlet of The Financial District!
Finally, running at top speed up the sisyphean hills of San Francisco!
Only the best and toughest will survive! Only the survivors can win!
(OK, I think I exaggerate a bit on some of the details)
The elevation gain over five loops is roughly equivalent to two times the height of Mount Everest. GPS isn’t allowed, and much of the unmarked course goes straight up the sides of the park’s many 3,000-foot peaks, through downed trees and patches of malicious sawbriers that rip runners’ arms and legs to shreds. The Barkley community has given unofficial names like Testicle Spectacle, Rat Jaw, Son of a Bitch Ditch, Meth Lab Hill, Big Hell, and the Bad Thing to the park’s geographic features.
“This is not a race, this is a colonoscopy gone wrong,” one runner said after finishing a single loop in 2010.