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Timo Boll ( German pronunciation: [ˈtiːmo ˈbɔl], audio ⓘ; born 8 March 1981) is a German professional table tennis player, who currently plays for Borussia Düsseldorf. He is currently ranked 45th in the ITTF world rankings as of January 2024. [5] Boll is the most successful German table tennis player of all time, having won several ...
Roller hockey. Roller hockey is a form of hockey played on a dry surface using wheeled skates. It can be played with traditional roller skates (quad skates) or with inline skates and use either a ball or puck. Combined, roller hockey is played in nearly 60 countries worldwide. [1] [2] [3] There are three major variants of organized roller hockey.
Kusarigama. A kusarigama ( Japanese: 鎖鎌, lit. " chain - sickle ") is a traditional Japanese weapon that consists of a kama (the Japanese equivalent of a sickle or billhook) on a kusari-fundo – a type of metal chain ( kusari) with a heavy iron weight ( fundo) at the end. The kusarigama is said to have been developed during the Muromachi ...
Chain weapon. A chain weapon is a weapon made of one or more heavy objects attached to a chain, sometimes with a handle. The flail was one of the more common types of chain weapons associated with medieval Europe, although some flails used hinges instead of chains.
The typical test uses a 10 mm (0.39 in) diameter steel ball as an indenter with a 3,000 kgf (29.42 kN; 6,614 lbf) force. For softer materials, a smaller force is used; for harder materials, a tungsten carbide ball is substituted for the steel ball. The indentation is measured and hardness calculated as:
Kyoketsu-shoge. The kyoketsu-shoge ( Japanese: 距跋渉毛) [1] is a double-edged blade, with another curved blade attached near the hilt at a 45–60 degree angle. This is attached to approximately 10 to 18 feet (3–5 m) of rope, chain, or hair which then ends in a large metal ring. Likely used by ninja of the Iga province, it is thought to ...
April 15, 2024 – present. Queen's Blade ( Japanese: クイーンズブレイド, Hepburn: Kuīnzu Bureido) is a Japanese series of visual combat books published by Hobby Japan inspired by the licensed works from Firelight Game Company's Lost Worlds. The overall plot of the game revolves around a tournament called the Queen's Blade, which is ...
First volume of the Dragon Ball DVD series, released by Pony Canyon on April 4, 2007. Dragon Ball is the first of two anime adaptations of the Dragon Ball manga series by Akira Toriyama . Produced by Toei Animation , the anime series premiered in Japan on Fuji Television on February 26, 1986, and ran until April 19, 1989.
Blade (birth name: Eric Cross Brooks; legal name: Frank Blade) is a fictional character and antihero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.Created by writer Marv Wolfman and penciller Gene Colan, his first appearance was in the comic book The Tomb of Dracula #10 (July 1973) as a supporting character, but he later went on to star in his own storylines.
Dragon Ball Kai: Ultimate Butōden is a fighting video game for the Nintendo DS based on the Dragon Ball franchise. It was released in Japan on February 3, 2011. It is the fifth installment in the Butōden sub-series; the first to be released since 1995's Dragon Ball Z: Shin Butōden; and the first to be based on the Dragon Ball Kai anime series, itself a revised cut of the 1989 Dragon Ball Z ...