Brodmann Blades.

These look awesome.

Brodmann Blades™ new ping pong paddles are the first major innovation to the sport of table tennis. Without a handle, the new paddle works like a glove worn over either hand. Improved comfort, ergonomics and sensory feedback gained from playing the ball right on the hand makes for greater ball control, a faster and more intuitive game, more spin on the ball, and superior backhand. With such benefits, the game is more accessible to beginners, persons who wish to improve 3D hand-eye coordination and those with dexterity issues, but also to experts seeking to push the limits of the sport to a new level.

Alfred Brodmann, designer of the Brodmann Blades™, approached the International Table Tennis Federation and received an enthusiastic preliminary reaction. “This innovation may eventually be incorporated into international competition”, says Mr. Rudolf Sporrer, Rules Committee Chairman of the ITTF in Vienna, Austria. According to him the invention represents the first revolutionary idea since the beginning of the sport in the late eighteen hundreds.

• Direct ball feel over nearly the entire blade face on both sides
• Improved ball control, intuitive coordination and navigation
• No vibration when hitting the ball off center – direct impulse passed on to hand: “Sensor Impact”
• Enhanced sweet spot – you feel where the ball lands
• Direct intuitive hit capability, faster response ability and out of the hip back hand performance
• More flexibility, competitiveness, spontaneity, directed coordination and fun

Great video from No-Mas and James Blagden.  It actually reminded me of this amazing Eric White drawing I wanted to buy when I was low on cheddar, I wish I had bought it…

Eric White

Just when you thought auto-tune was finally dead, it shows up with baseball Hall-of-Famer George Brett dishing on an excellent meal.

Via HolyLoly

“Yeah. I was an emotional manipulator of fighters . . . You have to know how to be cold, you know? Just have no -emotions, no feelings. It takes time, though, to develop that. I’d been working on that since I was 12 years old. It doesn’t happen overnight. My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a wild thing. . . It’s kind of a drug, a rush. But that’s just how I was as a kid . . . It’s funny, because Cus was always saying that Ali was better than anybody because he controlled his emotions and his fears. Ali was just an emotional juggernaut.”

Read it here

Ron Artest’s Afghan Women

Following up on our Baseball post from earlier, MLB players can definitely rock these Pillbox Caps from New Era Japan

via, highsnob

In the spirit of the World Series, the New York Public Library has put together a great selection of photographs of New York and Philadelphia’s baseball teams from the late 19th and early 20th century.  If only baseball players of today had to wear the uniforms of yore.  Ha! Collars for all.  See the entire set here

Truth be told, The Enablist has never been on a ski mountain in his life.  If I ever was to go on one, I would probably ride a snowboard down the hill and this would be the snowboard I would ride.  Monument x Richard Colman.  Boo ya.  I also like the fact that Monument has DC’s flag as its web icon, Chocolate City.

Apparently grenades and dynamite have gotten too easy to use when fishing.  Enter Extreme Aerial Bowfishing, looks pretty awesome.  Check out NY Times for a video etc.

I’m surprised Tony Gwynn wasn’t on here (.338 average, only 434 strike outs in 2440 games).

Anyway, here’s the list from some guy named Joe Posnanski

A collaboration for Pharrell Williams by Brooklyn Machine Works and Domeau & Pérès.  I still can’t figure out where to ride it though?  In a warehouse?  Arizona? Or just perfect 72 & Sunny kind of days?

via, Pharrell Williams

I don’t really get what a freeboard is since I’ve never been on one but, they’re able to pull off tetris at night using neons.