Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Interesting Circles
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Circles are quite useful when we go skateboarding, and are called "pipes" and "half pipes".
Here is a quick video of some Skateboarding inside a pipe.
Here is some more skating inside a pipe, but this time with an awesome full circle loop at the end.
In Skate Boarding, and BMX Bike riding, doing a full rollercaster style loop is called doing a "Loop of Death", (for reasons that will become apparent a bit later on).
Here is a video of two slateboarders making it around the full circle "Loop of Death":
But before you think about trying this at home, perhaps you should check out this video:
BMX bikes and Motorbikes have done some successful full circle Loops.
Here is a great effort from some guys I'm sure you will all instantly recognise:
So we've seen skateboards and bikes do full circle loops, but what about something bigger, like a car?
Here is a failed attempt to have a Car do a full circle Loop:
But here is "Fifth Gear's" Loop the Loop high quality video of a car successfully making it. It gives the math that was used as well. In fact they set a new world record doing it.
Now for something completely mad involving circles that happens in England at Gloucestershire every year.
This one involves a big round circular cheese being rolled down an insanely steep hill, with the competitors chasing it downhill at full speed.
Let's finish off spreading a bit of culture around the globe, by featuring some classic Australian "Circle Work" that country boys do in their Utes:
Well I'm feeling quite dizzy after that final round of circles, and so I won't be doing any circle work in the ute today mate.
Enjoy,
Big Passy Wasabi
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