Rossi & Marquez SepangGP clash

In the race, unfortunately, Rossi found himself yet again scrapping with Marquez in front, who was, as mentioned by Race Direction, deliberately disrupting Valentino’s race without breaking any rule. To me, that is okay, but if he really wanted to catch Lorenzo, he could have just sit behind Valentino and catch him together, whereas Marquez made harsh passes on him every other turn, and slowed him down – that is my opinion.

Out of frustration, Rossi ran him wide on Turn-14, and they made contact, and Marquez fell. Race ended with Pedrosa winning with Lorenzo second and Rossi in third.

Commentators (especially on BTSports) were of the opinion that Rossi had kicked Marquez causing him to crash, and were already taking about Race Direction handing harshest penalty to Rossi. I could not digest that Valentino could do such a thing, and was also upset of what commentators and hosts in the pit lane were saying.

What amazed me is that I could not decide for myself on whether “Rossi kicked Marquez’s bike” and caused him to crash even after watching the replays numerous time or not, whereas Lorenzo in press conference was accusing Rossi for the same when he had only watched it once!

I’ve been very disturbed since this morning, and I’ve been reviewing clips, reading articles on forums, fan comments and statements from the riders on MotoGP.com, Crash.net, MCN, and on twitter pages all day.

I’m a Rossi fan, and I have been very happy to see Rossi leading the championship from the first race. He has put his heart out on the race track, and I really want him to win that elusive tenth world title like his all other fans do. #ForzaVale.

After Race Direction review, Rossi had been handed 3 points on his driving license, making it a 4 in total, meaning he would start #ValenciaGP from the back of the grid, and that has me worried, as championship could be lost.

After a lot of effort, I’ve found at least a few credible comments/posts that show evidence that there was no KICK involved rather it was Marquez who made the first contact with Rossi’s leg, and his foot came off as a result of that contact. Please see some tweets/comments below, and an animated GIF.

Julian Ryder ‏@MotoGPJules 10 hours ago

The one thing that is clear from multiple angles is that there was no kick. VR’s foot comes off rest AFTER contact.

‏@GP_Xtra

This slow gif appears to show Marquez head butt Rossi’s knee before falling down

This has given me some confidence that what Rossi says is true. He did intentionally ran Marquez wide to slow him down and disrupt his line, but he DID NOT KICK HIM.

Valentino’s and Marquez’s statements after the race have different versions, but I find Rossi’s to be truer of the two. I’m in no way defending Rossi intentionally running Marquez wide, just that he didn’t kick him like many are claiming and that he didn’t want him to crash.

Hitting the Apex (2015) – a MotoGP Documentary Film

The plot of the movie is as follows:

‘Hitting the Apex’ is the inside story of six fighters – six of the fastest motorcycle racers of all time – and of the fates that awaited them at the peak of the sport. It’s the story of what is at stake for all of them: all that can be won, and all that can be lost, when you go chasing glory at over two hundred miles an hour – on a motorcycle.

(Courtesy: DVD Planet Store Pakistan. See more at: http://www.dvdplanetstore.pk/shop/documentary/hitting-the-apex-2015/#sthash.uVKhlNzm.dpuf)

I’ve already watched the previous three movies; Faster, The Doctor – The Tornado – and The Kentucky Kid, and the Fastest, and those were just awesome. The narrators have done a fantastic job in storytelling, and the latest movie is narrated by Brad Pitt, a famous Hollywood Actor.

The six of the fastest motorcycle racers of all time referred in the movie are: Valentino Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo, Dani Pedrosa, Marco Simoncelli, Marc Marquez, and Casey Stoner. It also includes archive footage from their childhood and early racing days. The background music is just awesome. I’ve watched it 5 times now, and didn’t get bored at all, it’s just that good.

If you are a MotoGP / motorsports fan, this is a must see movie. I got my DVD from DVD Planet Store Pakistan at PKR 150/-. They have the previous MotoGP documentary films as well.

You may want to vote on the following poll:

SA Arnold Blog – New Look

Whereas taking out and/or fixing some old stuff is also taken care of, gives better user experience, and maybe I should be able to monetize it a bit as well. Also, I wanted to give website security a top priority. I have been working on this for two weeks or so, and after careful planning and development, today, I finally launched the new version of my blog website, hope you like it!

Arnold’s Blog website is now responsive

It features two content-sidebars now instead of one; left and right, with main content in the middle. Also, the content now shows a two-articles per row, with teaser text. My twitter feed account has been fixed. Since, I follow MotoGP sport, I’ve created a new poll relating to that championship. The two sidebars gives me enough room to place some advertisements, and link to my other websites of mine. The Logo update is still on the way, I should be replacing it very soon.

Most important feature of this new layout is that it’s 100% responsive, and mobile friendly. It works really well with IPAD and smaller screens. All in all, it has improved navigation. You can follow website in my network, and browse useful links mentioned in sidebars. Also, footer navigation now has links to my other websites; DVD Planet Store Pakistan, Speed Attackers – The Counter Strike Clan, and the Duel Masters blog site.

I hope the new design will engage visitors even more. Thanks.

The movie was released in September 2013, but it became available on DVD in July/August 2014. In the film, we are given access to the lives of current bodybuilding stars Phil Heath (defending champion and Mr. Olympia 2012), Kai Greene, Branch Warren, Dennis Wolf, Victor Martinez, Hidetada Yamagishi as well as ambitious newcomer Ben Pakulski and European sensation Roelly Winklaar on their journey to be crowned Mr. Olympia.

Just like in Pumping Iron, where the actual competition was filmed, we get to see the 2013 Mr. Olympia competition, and a great-to-watch rivalry between Phil Heath (“The Gift”) and Kai Greene. We also learn how the bodybuilding has transitioned over the past 30 years; we get to see bigger bodybuilders, greater separation, and bigger stage than before.

As a bodybuilding fan, and a weightlifter, I would highly recommend ‘Generation Iron’ movie for anyone who is into Bodybuilding or is planning to begin.

You can get your own DVD copy of Generation Iron at DVD Planet Store Pakistan.

DVD Planet Online Movie Store Pakistan

DVD PLANET STORE is the first Online Movie Store in Pakistan providing ALL Movies; English, Indian, Pakistani, Pakistani Dramas, TV Series and much more at your doorstep in 11 cities of Pakistan for the first time. They offer more than 60000 movie titles for you to choose from. They have just launched their website; dvdplanetstore.pk.

Now customers can easily browser DVD Planet Store’s movie database, and place order for the movies of their choosing via the new website. The order experience has also been gamified as you can win free shipping, free DVDs, and score points as you go along.

Stay up to date with latest movie releases by subscribing to their newsletter on site.

Also, you can follow them on Facebook and Twitter pages, see links below:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dvdplanetstore

Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DVDPlanetStore

Place order online at: http://www.dvdplanetstore.pk/

You can get your copy of Arnold’s Duel Masters Card list from here.

You may also visit our Duel Masters blog: http://duelmasters.speedattackers.com

He dominated the qualifying session of the Gran Premio Gernerali de la Comunitat Valenciana, and lapped over one second faster than the second placed Dani Pedrosa. Spies of Factory Yamaha qualified in third place.

Valentino Rossi who was third quickest in the wet drying FP1, has qualified on the outside of the second row. However, he was 1.617s behind the pole setter Casey Stoner. The highest qualified Ducati rider is Randy De Puniet in fourth, following him is Rizla Suzuki’s Alvaro Bautista.

Hayden, Dovizioso, Barbera and Abrahim completed the top-ten positions.

Last time out in Sepang, MotoGP was hit by another tragedy; we lost a passionate rider in Macro Simoncelli, who succumbed to injuries sustained in the second lap crash and a collision with Colin Edwards and Valentino Rossi. Our sympathies go to his family and friends. He will always be remembered. You can watch Marco Simoncelli’s Sepang Crash Video.

For qualifying results of Valencia GP, visit MotoGP.com.

Rate SA Arnold Blog Website

Made some improvements to my blog website

I recently made a few improvements to my blog website; included a website Poll, Rate an article facility, and improved article pagination so that my blog visitors can access the content easily.
I have been running my personal blog for more than a year now. I started from Google Blogger facility first, and after six months, I shifted to a personalized CMS for it. Until now, I have had great number of users visiting my blog each day, and to get them involved a little more, I have started a website poll.

Cool SA Arnold Blog Features

A Website Poll
Feedback of my visitors regarding my blog website is very important and valuable to me. Therefore, my first poll is about ‘how my website is’; excellent, good or needs some improvement. I would be glad if you could take a minute of your time, and rate my website.

Rate This Article
Secondly, I’ve added a ‘Rate this article’ feature. This will allow my readers to rank an article from one to five. The rating option can be found at the end of the article copy text. This will provide interesting statistics and will depict how popular my posts really are.

Article View Statistics
Also, I’ve added an ‘Article’s View Statistics‘ functionality. It will count the total number of reads for a particular post. I am still working on a better placeholder for this ‘view count’, but at the moment, it can be viewed below the ‘Rate this article’ section.

Improved Site Pagination
Lastly, to ease the navigation facility, I’ve provided a facility of paging. Now you can access older posts using the numeric pagination. See the bottom of the home page as an example.

Provide Your Valuable Feedback
Your insights are very important to me. If you would like to give a suggestion or a feature that my blog website should have, I would be thankful to you. Please leave a reply using the comments block at the end of the post.

I purchased Abs workout machine named “Ab King Pro” yesterday for PKR 4000/- from International Sports Store Lahore. With this equipment, I’ve completed my home gym set. See my other weight training equipment collection.

Over the years, I have had great workouts for my body parts, but I could not give much of a workout to my Abs. Whenever I did crunches or other stomach exercises, I would feel pain in my lower back. I had my eyes on this piece of equipment ever since. I always had the money to get it before, but it was not a top item on the list. It became eventually the last of the items I needed to complete Arnold’s home gym set for weight training. Now I have the following collection:

The Arnold’s Home Gym Collection

–    2 x Rigid Dumbbells of 8 KG each
–    1 x Barbell with 10KG plates on each side.
–    1 x Barbell weighing 25KG

These three were the first equipment I had for more than 5 years, and I used to train at home with these before joining the gym. Then I came across another item, which I searched for a long time, and eventually got it after a year hunting it; Super Pump Machine. Added to my list:
–    Super Upper-Body Workout – Fitness Pump Machine. Some would still call it ‘Super Pump’ machine.

When I injured my shoulders about 2 years back, I had to lighten up a bit. Therefore, I purchased light dumbbells with removable weights.
–    2 x Dumbbells with 4 x 2KG weight plates

My physiotherapist also suggested me to get Forearm Flexor equipment, so I bought that as well, along with Hand Gripers. I have two pairs of them, one pair are in blue colors, which are hard to squeeze.

I have a heavy weight belt also which I use when doing power lifting or exercises that involve back muscles more. Added to my list:
–    1 x Heavy weight belt

To grow my arms, I ordered two equipments that you might not have heard of, a Hercules Bar and a Leverage bar.

To stricken, my biceps workouts such as Barbell Curls, and Dumbbell Curls I purchased on order the Arm Blaster equipment.

A few months ago, I added to my collection, a Pull-Ups Bar. The bar had only two grip positions, but I needed three. As it was the closest I was looking for, I took it.

Why buy weight training equipment?

Now, I’ve Ab King Pro and my home gym set is complete. Some may think that why one should buy this much equipment as a better workout could be done in a gym, very right – I would say. However, I have had made up my mind that I would get these equipments one day, and I have finally achieved that on my own, with my own earnings, and I can be happy about this fact now. Still, you would not see equipments like ‘Arm Blaster’, ‘Super Pump Machine’, and ‘Hercules Bar’ in a city gym.

I workout in the gym as well as use the equipments I have purchased for my sole use only or my brother’s. Home gym had yielded good results for me in the past and now with my complete home gym weight training set, I could achieve more.

If you workout too, I would advise you to keep a training diary, and keep a note of your training regime and your diet in that.

If you liked this article, you might also like: Get Bigger Arms with Arnold’s Workout

Read more Arnold’s BodyBuilding Articles

The video has been taken from Youtube.