Tug of War.... Using Dragonboats?!??!?

This must be the most innovative sporting event I have seen man.

Basically, imagine 2 12men dragon boats, connected with a thick cable. When it starts, both will paddle like crazy for approximately 7 meters. Then, both boats will be around 1 meter from the end flag. And thats where they have to paddle like crazy to win.

Come say it with me. 'XIONG!'

I'm actually very tempted to try this out.. It actually looks rather fun.

Though thinking about it, there could be some problems.

1) What if the cable snaps? If you've seen dragonboat competition, that's really a possibility.

2) The gap is only 1 meter.. So its actually possible that a very fast team touches the flag before the cable becomes taunt.

In any case.. It looks seriously interesting.. I'll definitely go and take a look at the competition itself.

Oh, and of course, heres the link to the site itself, The UOB Ultimate DragonTug Showdown

'300' The so called Spartan Program

Recently there was the movie '300' which shows many many well defined guys jumping around, acting cool, looking good.

After surfing around, apparently they had to undergo a very long and tedious training program at Gym Jones, which apparently is an invite only gym.

After looking at that workout. I feel.... weak.

But I would definitely love to do their 'graduation' workout though
The 300 workout
25x pullup
50x deadlift @ 135lbs
50x pushups
50x boxjump
50x floor wiper @ 135lbs
50x kettlebell Clean and Press @ 36lbs
25x pullup

for a grand total of (you guessed it) 300 reps

Wow.

You can read more on the journal http://www.gymjones.com/knowledge.php?id=35

And also, not to forget the videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMp9orjb_RI and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy2ElkOuNF0