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* In the 1960's, American High Jumper Dick Fosbury developed a new and counter-intuitive method of performing the high jump, revolutionising the sport. His technique, the Fosbury Flop, is now the standard technique in the sport.
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* In the world of UsefulNotes/ProfessionalGaming, there is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzS96auqau0 Daigo Umehara's victory over Justin Wong]] in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII: Third Strike'' at [[UsefulNotes/FightingGameCommunity EVO 2004]]. Playing as Ken, Umehara was on the ropes against Wong's Chun-Li. When Wong fired off Chun-Li's 15-hit super attack, Umehara successfully parried ''every hit'' [[note]]In ''Third Strike'', parries must be executed within a span of, at most, 10 frames: one sixth of a second[[/note]] before following up with his own game-winning super attack, immortalizing him in fighting game history as "[[RedBaron The Beast]]".

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* In the world of UsefulNotes/ProfessionalGaming, there is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzS96auqau0 Daigo Umehara's victory over Justin Wong]] in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII: Third Strike'' at [[UsefulNotes/FightingGameCommunity [[MediaNotes/FightingGameCommunity EVO 2004]]. Playing as Ken, Umehara was on the ropes against Wong's Chun-Li. When Wong fired off Chun-Li's 15-hit super attack, Umehara successfully parried ''every hit'' [[note]]In ''Third Strike'', parries must be executed within a span of, at most, 10 frames: one sixth of a second[[/note]] before following up with his own game-winning super attack, immortalizing him in fighting game history as "[[RedBaron The Beast]]".
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* ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'' is famous for this. We have soccer player protagonists who shoots football [[BizarreAndImprobableBallistics that follows any arbitrary curve]], shots that blows the goalkeeper away and hurts who blocks it, soccer player that jump on posts and crossbar and many other examples.

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* ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'' is famous for this. We have soccer player protagonists who shoots football [[BizarreAndImprobableBallistics that follows any arbitrary curve]], shots that blows blow the goalkeeper away and hurts hurt anyone who blocks it, block them, soccer player that jump on posts and crossbar and many other examples.
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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' anime episode 205. A number of Soul Reapers use their natural shinigami and zanpakuto abilities while playing a game of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemari kemari]].
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[[caption-width-right:330:Taking football to whole new heights.]]

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[[caption-width-right:330:Taking [[caption-width-right:329:Taking football to whole new heights.]]

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