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Formula D – Are You An Enthusiast?

A lot of people have never even heard of Formula D or Formula Drifting, which gives a much better clue of what this motor sport is really all about. In deed, like all competitive motor sports it takes a great deal of skill, because the vehicles concerned can be anything from 200 to 600 bhp.

The purpose is to manage your car while it slides sideways through a pre-set course in style. The more style the better, speed is secondary.

In a way, Formula D takes all the highlights out of normal racing and packs them into one competition. The US drifting scene takes the excitement a stage further though. They play two vehicles off against each other at the same time.

This makes it a great deal simpler to compare the abilities of the drivers and makes for some really exciting close driving – often the drivers’ vehicles are no more than inches apart.

This is electrifying stuff as the drivers control their cars through tremendous slides that would leave many drivers shaking. The nearest most drivers come to anywhere near this level of skidding is once a year on ice.  Read more...

A Short History Of NASCAR

You will doubtless have heard of NASCAR, but do you know what it means and how much do you know about it? In this short article I will give you a brief history of NASCAR.

NASCAR is an acronym for the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. Amazingly, it was started as a family business in 1947 by Bill France Sr. and is still family owned and family managed. It is by far the biggest sanctioning business for stock car racing in the United States and the three largest racing series that it approves are: the Sprint Cup, the Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series. In deed, NASCAR approves more than 1,500 races at more than a 100 race tracks in thirty-nine states.

For historical causes which we will go into later, NASCAR’s headquarters are in Florida, but its roots are firmly fixed in North Carolina, where it has no less than four regional offices. They are at Concord, Conover, Mooresville and Charlotte, where the vast majority of NASCAR teams are still located.  Read more...

George St Peirre And His Amazing Career

Georges St-Pierre was born May 19, 1981 in Saint-Isidore, Quebec, to Jim and Louise St-Pierre. St-Pierre had a difficult childhood , tending a school where others would steal his clothing and money. He started learning Kyokushin karate at age seven by his father and later by a Kyokushin Karate Master to help protect himself against a bully at school , Nikolas Mavrikos.

He took up wrestling and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu later when his Karate instructor past on and he also trained in boxing . Before he turned pro as a MMA artist he worked at a night club as a bouncer in the South Shore named Fuzzy Brossard and as a garbageman for six months to pay for his school fees and to buy his MMA gear such as his MMA Shorts and MMA Gloves

St-Pierre has trained with a number of groups in a large variety of gyms throughout his fighting career . Prior to his fight with B.J. Penn at UFC 58, he trained at the Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy in New York City. St-Pierre received his brown belt in BJJ from Renzo Gracie on July 21, 2006. In September 2008, St-Pierre earned his black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Bruno Fernandes.  Read more...

Royce Gracie In The UFC

The Ultimate Fighting Championship

Brainchild of Rorion Gracie and Art Davie, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) was an eight-man single-elimination tournament with very few rules that would award $50,000 to the winner. The basic premise was to find out how different styles of martial arts would fare against each other. Art Davie placed ads in martial arts magazines and sent letters to anyone in any martial arts directory he could find to recruit competitors for the event. Among the takers were kickboxer Patrick Smith, Pancrase fighter Ken Shamrock, and Savate world champion Gerard Gordeau.

While Art Davie felt that Royce’s older brother Rickson Gracie, who was stronger and more skilled than Royce, was the obvious choice as the Jiu-Jitsu representative, Rorion Gracie chose the younger Royce to represent the family style.

In his first match, Royce defeated journeyman boxer Art Jimmerson. He tackled him to the ground using a baiana (morote-gari or double-leg) and obtained the dominant “mounted” position, also pinning Jimmerson’s left arm around the boxer’s own neck. Mounted and with only one free arm Jimmerson conceded defeat, mostly due to frustration rather than submission.  Read more...

What Type Of Cars Are NASCAR Cars?

Stock car racing was really born out of the desire of owners of customized stock (meaning: ‘off the sales lot’) cars to show off their vehicles, handimanship and driving skills. The need to ’soup up’ these stock cars came from the wish to escape the law enforcement agencies chasing them when they were running moonshine or put another way, bootlegging.

During Prohibition, a lot of moonshine whiskey was being made in remote areas of the Appalachians and in particular the Allegheny Mountains, from where it was taken by private carriers in their own stock cars often to the southern states. Many of these drivers tuned up their vehicles in order to have more chance of getting away.

When Prohibition was repealed in 1933, this bootlegging continued in order to avoid paying duty, but it gradually died out. However, the fire had already been lit and the drivers of these cars liked to race them in their free time for pride and reward, especially in the southern states and especially in North Carolina, where most of the stock car teams are still situated.  Read more...

10 UFC Facts You May Not Know

10 Things you may not know about the UFC.

1. Original promoters of a Ultimate Fighting Championship longed for to embody such marvellous side shows as alligator moats as well as electric fences surrounding a ring. UFC Doctors of march warned opposite them due to a dangers a fighters could face.

2. The UFC was founded by Rorian Gracie as well as Arthur Davie. It was combined to foster a Gracie family’s armed forces humanities school. Before a UFC a Gracie’s were well known for mouth-watering fighters of any character to contest opposite a part of of a family or a singular of their students to infer which Gracie jiu-jitsu reigned supreme.

3. Originally Semaphore Entertainment Group, a association which purchased a UFC, was usually starting to reason a singular UFC event. The eventuality was so successful they rught away began to devise some-more tournaments. Good thing it was so successful.

4. With a difference of UFC 9, each UFC up until UFC eighteen used a contest character format. UFC twenty-three additionally used this format. Eight fighters would contest to begin out a tournament. The 4 winners would afterwards contest in semi-final matches. The dual semi-final winners would contest for a championship belt. If a warrior could not go on at any indicate an swap was brought in to take his place.  Read more...

Paint Ball Gun Pistols – What Kinds Are There?

In the 90’s as new technology entered the paintball sport, paintball pistols became less sought after. These 12 gram co2 powered markers just weren’t the latest and greatest. Most players wanted semi-auto markers that could shoot more rounds with a bigger air source. Skip ahead to present time and you’ll find that paintball players have gotten their fix on the newer technology, and are looking for a trusty paintball pistol to act as a backup for their primary marker. The jump back into scenario/woods play has also helped rebirth life into the paintball pistol market.

Nowadays, paintball has evolved into a multi-caliber sport. By multi-caliber, I mean there are different sizes of projectiles being shot. Two rounds that are commonly found to be used by paintball pistols are .43 and .68 caliber rounds. Most paintball pistols use these rounds.

Different sized pistols appeal to different players. When deciding which caliber of pistol is for you, you must decide what you prefer the most. A good number of factors can help you decide which is best for you. For instance, some players like to be able to shoot as far as their primary marker can, so they will go for a .68 caliber paintball pistol. Others however, want their pistol to shoot a smaller caliber round to resemble the real deal more so. For others, it may be efficiency, as they want the most shots per 12 gram co2 cartridge. If that is the case then a .43 caliber paintball pistol is right for you.  Read more...

Paintball Gear Bags For Dirt Cheap – Your Best Alternative?

If you are a paintball player that needs to organize your paintball gear, in an effective manner that allows you to easily and efficiently get to your gear, then consider getting a paintball gear bag. Many of the bags available have plenty of storage capacity to keep your gear comfortable and safe, ensuring you an enjoyable time out with fellow paintballers.

Throughout the years there has been a significant increase in the number of gear bags available for sale. You can literally find them in just about any size, print, color, and design imaginable. Prices vary from extremely cheap to pretty dang expensive. In fact, its almost amazing how cheap and how expensive a bag for paintball can be.

It can be hard to find a bag now since there are so many to choose from. Of the many choices, you can break them down by price, style, and size. It’s almost overwhelming at how many choices paintballers have nowadays. Some players will resort to looking for the cheapest bag over the highest rated. Which is the better option?  Read more...

Pump Paintball Guns – Why You Should Play Pump

People who don’t play pump paintball ask this question a lot. A pump may be seen as a disadvantage, but there are several reasons why a player would choose to play with one.

Armed with a pump paintball gun, the player only can shoot as fast as he can pump, which isn’t very fast at all. Going against an electronic 15+ BPS gun, a pump is a huge disadvantage. Why would anyone want to play so disadvantaged? Let me give you a few reasons.

The most understood reason for playing pump, is to save money. Let’s face it, the sport of paintball is a luxury sport, like golf is. It is incredibly expensive! Many players choose to constantly chase the latest and greatest gear, from the fastest guns to the newest masks, they continuously are purchasing new gear. Instead of chasing the latest and greatest, playing pump simplifies everything. Forget getting upgrades (they aren’t needed), and forget buying the latest and greatest pump, because a pump is a pump. A thousand dollar pump has to be pumped the same way a $200 does. There are many solid pumps out there that will not only save you money, but will also save you time because they are dependable and simple in operation. Not only will you save money on gear, you will also save money on paintballs and air. You’ll be shooting much less, which means you’ll spend less on paint and air. This will let you be able to play more and play longer.  Read more...

Stock Class Paintball Marker

So you want to get into stock class play? It takes a special type of paintball gun, one that isn’t common on the paintball field. More importantly, its different, but for a good reason. See, a stock class paintball gun is a key part of a unique and very challenging part of paintball. A part few paintballers ever give a chance to participate in.

What makes a stock class paintball marker unique? A couple of stuff…

The most noticeable feature is the overall size of the marker. If you take a close look, you’ll see that a stock class paintball marker is missing two parts you often find on a normal paintball gun. These 2 parts are the hopper and the air tank.

A gun without a massive 68ci 4500 HPA air tank is one thing, but a marker without a hopper? Now that’s just a whole other level of crazy…

In place of where a hopper would be, is a 12 to 20 round feed tube, that rests horizontally on the top of the guns body. Most often the feed tube is only 12 rounds, which is 198 shy of what most paintballers are used to hauling.  Read more...