Can you call this a sport or not? Some say it is and some say it isn't. I sure think it is on the edge. The matadors, men who fight to bull, must be in good shape and they must have certain skills to defeat the bull. So, they are sure preparing themselves like every professional sport player. But they are killing an animal. Is that a sport? You have to decide for yourself. In the mean time here is something about bullfighting. Bullfighting comes originally from Spain where is called corrida de toros or tauromaquia. Portugal also has his own version and there is called corrida de touros or tauromaquia. Similar, but different. There is also some variations in rules and traditions. The matador provokes the bull with the red cape and tires him off. They are playing with the bull and that is how they are entertaining the crowd. Then picadors enter the arena on heavily padded and blindfolded horses and stab the bull in the neck with the sword. I'll say it is brutal.








There is another way of bullfighting. That is when the two bulls are fighting each other.

Look at this F1 bolide made out of sand. I can not believe this! How do they do it? This is made in Bahrein before the race. They say that for doing a sand sculpture you need only two ingredients, sand and water. But i think that they are putting something in that sand. How can they do it only with sand and water?!? In the sequence are some more pictures of sport sand sculptures.

Tennis legends are posing in front of Spanish Royal Palace in Madrid. The are playing a Tennis Senior Masters tournament there. On this photo from right to left are John McEnroe, Björn Borg, Michael Stich, Goran Ivanišević, Mats Wilander, Alex Corretja. It will be interesting to see the two biggest rivals Borg and McEnroe playing against each other again. It is not the same competition spirit like before, but I'm sure that both of them want to win. On these tournaments you can see good and funny tennis moves. Especially from Goran. So if you have an opportunity to watch them, I'm recommending it.

This photography is taken in Kyrgyzstan. There are no ski lifts, and the skier want to ski, but they are to lazy to climb up every time. They were lucky because the man and his donkey helped them. I'm wondering if they are paying him some money. If they do, I think that they have the cheapest ski lift in the world. Or am I wrong?

Here is the photography of skier flying over Sapporo in Japan. It is night and the lights are already on. The photo is a bit turbid, so the photo looks like somebody painted it. Here is something about ski jumping. It is a sport in which skiers go down an inrun with a take-off ramp attempting to go as far as possible. In addition to the length that skiers jump, judges give points for style. The skis used for ski jumping are wide and long, from 240 to 270 cm. Ski jumping is predominantly a winter sport , performed on snow, and is part of the Winter Olympic Games, but can also be performed in summer on artificial surfaces (porcelain or frost rail track on the inrun, plastic on the landing hill). Hereafter is another photo of a skier flying through the air.

Here is another sport which is played with feet over the net. But this one is different. You can play with hand too. Bossaball is a combination of football, volleyball, gymnastics and Brazilian capoeira. It is played on a court which is made of inflatables and trampolines, and it is divided by net. Here are some basic rules. Bossaball can be played in teams of three to five players. The aim of bossaball is for each team to ground the ball on the opponent's field. Each team is entitled to a maximum of 8 contacts with the ball on its own field, while the trampoline jumper gains height to prepare a smash. Any body part can be used. Players can touch the ball only once with their hands, or double touch it with their feet and/or head. Once a team grounds the ball on the inflatables they gain one point. Scoring on the trampolines is worth three points. Hitting the bossawall - the rings around the trampolines - doesn't count as a score, so the rally continues. The greatest thing about this sport is that it is mixed with music. The music follows the game and the referees have various instruments and they referee with them. Really fun sport. I must try it once. I hope it will be soon. You can watch the video here.

Look at this Asian sport. I don't know how to pronounce that word, and not to mention that I don't know how to play it. It looks really hard to play. But I would really like to try it. I'm playing football myself, and this is a real challenge for football players. I was reading something about this sport and here is what i found. It is played on a court which is about the size of a badminton court. Two or three players are playing in the field with the hand-woven ball which is called "takraw" on Malay (this sport comes from Malaysia). I must tell my grand mother to weave me one ball like this. The players can play with every part of the body except the hands. The goal of this game is to kick the takraw in the other team field. The name of this sport means "Kick the ball". Because "sepak" means kick, and "takraw" means woven ball as I wrote before. The acrobatic performance of this players is really amazing. I would say that gymnasts can play this sport easier than a football player can. You can watch the video here.