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...city's oldest. The throng, more densely packed than any rush-hour train, is an unforgettable spectacle. Young and old are adorned in festive clothes, and pant with the effort of bearing dozens of mikoshi (portable shrines) through Asakusa's 44 residential blocks, while yakuza in loincloths proudly sport their full-body tattoos in a normally forbidden display...
...pong. “The rules are simple—there isn’t much to learn to get in the game.” But not all ping pongers were as willing to give up their street cred, defending the difficulty of their oft-belittled sport. “You have to be reactive and on your toes. It requires a lot more athleticism and skill than most players initially think,” says co-President of the Harvard Table Tennis Club Tim L. Kovachy ’09. Ping pong: not for the weak...
...play in confined areas such as soccer fields. A live person runs on and off the field to play the role of the Snitch, the evasive flying ball whose capture ends the game. Though Harvard lacks a Quidditch team, it isn’t without enthusiasm for the sport. Veteran Quidditch player Christopher J. Carothers ’11 joined the Dartmouth College team in a game against Middlebury, playing as a Beater (one of the two team members responsible for throwing Bludgers at other players, contributing to Quidditch’s badass mayhem). Although Carothers says he doesn?...
...Some sports look grueling - ice hockey, soccer, basketball, for example, with their yards of stops and starts, feints and runs. Others, like gymnastics, appear effortless and soaring. But in the first national study of gymnastics injuries, conducted by researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, 16 years of data show that there is nothing easy at all about gymnastics, and that injuries from the sport are as common as those in soccer, basketball and ice hockey - making gymnastics among the most dangerous sports for girls...
...beautiful and fun as gymnastics is to watch, it's worth remembering that it is a sport, and that the safest way to enjoy practicing it is with trained professionals who can properly train and prepare young children. "You can't play at gymnastics," says Miller. "You shouldn't do pick-up gymnastics in your backyard. If you're doing it right, everything from your little toe to your little finger is constantly in motion. Everything is flipping, moving or turning. It works the entire body in a way no other sport does, and the more body parts that...