Bicycling

Bicycling/Cycling is one of the things i really felt proud of learning as a kid. It took some time for me to learn (initially with help of some extra side wheels) and at the time it was really hard to fathom how anyone could ever balance a cycle.....it really was something extraordinary to understand and yet such a simple task. Then when i did learn, i used to race a lot with my friends emulating the MotoGP races watched back and constantly commentating about the lead, no of laps,etc. I am really glad i did not get over cycling, n turn to motorcycling-riding a bike, becoz it really helped me to exercise. Used to go to Junior College on my cycle. Everyday i would time myself from home to college, managed to cover the approx 4 km stretch in roughly about 7 minutes, less traffic helped the cause. At that time, was really interested in mountain biking and also going fast for short periods especially when going to college. Later,when i heard about Lance Armstrong and his comeback, Tour de France, the sport of cycling just fascinated me even more. Irrespective of whether Armstrong take performance enhancing drugs or not, what he did was truly greatly inspirational. Got to watch the Tour on TV when vacations for college were on and my interest with cycling grew. Although have not been cycling right now(dont even have a cycle right now), it is something that is really fascinating, one of the first real things i learned to do to go to far away places so as to say. I borrow my friends cycle once in a while for cycling. I think one of my best memories with many of my school friends has been when cruising around on our cycles although it was quite rare.

I did buy a mountain bike back in 2014, and been cycling, still continue to enjoy.

Wrestling-Sports Entertainment

Wrestling mostly WWE (earlier WWF) generally is like a big serial with stories between fights or vice versa. The rivalries are also called feuds in this huge industry which in itself is really a big business. Used to watch RAW is WAR when growing up and would never miss any pay per view. Although WWE was banned in India for few years, when it did resume on some other channel i did watch it for timepass.

Of course when watching it while growing up it was more than timepass it was mostly what my friends at school always talked about. For me the best fueds were HHH and Rock, Bret Hart and Austin, DX and Nation of Domination, Rock and Austin, HBK and Undertaker, Undertaker and Kane, and of course the Austin and Vince McMahon fued was legendary which actually saved the WWE and lead to WCW's fall. Of late, John Cena and Rey Mysterio were good to watch.

Mick Foley in a hardcore match; Jeff Hardy, Shawn Micheals in a ladder match were most interesting to watch. They would fly and do all kinds of stunts. Sometimes Foley used tacks/nails also in a hardcore match, I can only wonder how did he train for something like that. Although they are paid professionals with planned moves and sequences sometimes injuries are real and severe. Recently, been thinking why do these superstars put their bodies on the line. It is their choice of doing what they do and they are trained to do the moves but really is it worth it? They have the courage, stamina, physicality to endure those difficult moves and sequences and keep the right body position when taking a beating. (Have read Mick Foley's book)There should be an age limit for these wrestlers, less than 45.

Have to say that Shawn Michaels and Undertaker match at Wrestlemania 25 (&26) was just so brutal on their bodies (atleast the previous year's match seemed a lot real and less acting) And match where Kane was first seen between Taker and Micheals was great too.

Shawn Micheals is a legend, he retired this year. Stone Cold Steve Austin was my fav superstar back then alongwith DX. Have stopped watching wrestling continuously as before for sometime now, well over some years.