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Padang Padang is a beach in Bali that is home to some of the most pristine warm-water tubes in the world. Unfortunately for surfers on the Indonesian island on Thursday, the waters were calm but something else was firing on shore: A fierce inferno that left numerous houses, homes and businesses burned to the ground.
As reported by SURFER, news of the fire started to spread Thursday afternoon after Pete Matthews, Rip Curl’s Indonesian chairman, took to Instagram to post a photo of his home as well as numerous other hotels and warungs (small Indonesian businesses that double as homesteads) engulfed in flames that apparently spread quickly by strong northern winds.
Matthews was working at his surf shop, less than a mile away from the blaze, when he got a phone call alerting him to the fire in progress and ran home to try to help contain the fire.
“The inside of the house was already an inferno,” … Pictures and more
What happens when an Olympian takes up the sport of tobogganing? World records, that’s what.
If you didn’t know who Eddie the Eagle Edwards was before, you most certainly should now – the Hollywood biopic about his life, starring Hugh Jackman, has now been released worldwide. If you haven’t had a chance to watch it, we’ll give you the basics: a construction worker from England realises his only chance at the Olympics is by entering as Britain’s only ski jumper, a sport he’s never done before – and a dangerous one at that.
But this video isn’t about the Hugh Jackman, the movie, or even about ski-jumping. It’s about tobaggan-jumping – and Eddie the Eagle is the new (and only) world record-holder.
Will It Shred? We bolt some bindings onto an ironing board and take it up the mountain. The results were actually kinda surprising.