Archive for January, 2011

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Building A 737 For Southwest Airlines

Wow, just plain wow. This is a wonderful video of Boeing building and painting a 737-800 for Southwest Airlines (though it looks like the actual airplanes being built are for Jet Blue). What a company! What technology. What a plane.

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Tempo

Photo Darrell Wong So you've read all the technique articles, watched all the videos on you tube, maybe even attended a clinic from one of the pros. You've spent

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Blues and Bearcats

This is a really cool video of Bearcats, which were the airplanes the early Blue Angels flew the most and modern Blue Angel F18s. When they knew the

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Magic Supplement ??

Here's a bit of potentially exciting news for older athletes. A recent (relatively small, but what the heck) study indicates your overall athletic performance may be dramatically increased

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Tom McCahill Tests The New Triumph TR2

When I was a kid I loved Mechanix Illustrated, especially the car tests by Tom McCahill and the feature "Mail for McCahill". I loved his style. As a

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Six Sports With Greatest Decline From Age

We all believe that sprinting and jumping sports decline the most with age, and endurance suffers least. A recent study shows we are simply not right about that.

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Lovely Surf

Bill Boyum, a good friend here on Maui, shot this video from the bluff above Ho'okipa and from the water. Bill is a true Xtreme Geezer, braving this

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Hobie Adventure Island Trimaran

Here's a rig that just made for Extreme Geezers. Hobie now makes a tandem version and has upgraded these boats a lot over the last few years. They

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Maui Places

First of all, here's some general information: Food can be pretty darned good in Maui. It wasn't always so, but the bar has been raised over the past

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Kalama Kamp

One of the primary differences between starting a difficult sport when you're young and crazy and when you're an Xtreme Geezer is that geezers have more money. So

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