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...legacy endures today, as scouts trawl China's vast countryside and jam-packed cities every year to find the best athletic prospects. Kids with tiny hips and flexible limbs are funneled into gymnastics or diving, children with lightning-quick reflexes are destined for table tennis or badminton, while beefier types are tagged as weight lifters. At nearly every elementary school around the nation, amateur anatomists measure youths' bones to predict their future heights, and the tallest are reserved for provincial volleyball, basketball or handball squads. "Just name the sport," says Xu Guangshu, former principal of the Shichahai Sports School...
...boxing ring in the middle of the stage and put Bob Marley in there with a couple of the guys from Pearl Jam and Paul Simon,” Corrigan said of the band’s influences. “Even though he’s a little guy I think he’d had have to get in the ring, and I think you’d have to throw in some of the classics too—some of the guys from Zeppelin. It’d probably turn into a wrestling match, tag team, with...
...CAMP JAM in Atlanta, the motto is "No Canoes--Lots of Rock." Kids form bands and learn from famous staff members, like founder Jeff Carlisi of .38 Special...
Segovia founded the All Girl Skate Jam in 1997 as a way to recognize female skateboarders. "It was like we dropped a bomb on the skating world, which was mostly male" and somewhat hostile, she says. The competition has helped legitimize the place of women in the sport with its inclusive philosophy, reflected in its motto "All ages, all abilities, all girls." The first year the contest attracted just five female skateboarders. At the most recent event there were more than...
...sell some albums on TV," says Hammett. "We had no f____ing idea what we were getting ourselves into." Things went spectacularly wrong - or right for the viewer - from Day 1. For the first time in its history, the band entered the recording studio with no written material. The jam sessions are excruciating, but not nearly as tough as watching the band members interact. "Back then, I didn't know how to deal with my anger," says Hetfield, 40, who does a fair impression of Stanley Kowalski during the first half of the movie. "I'd bottle...