Japan Archives - Starr Cards

Breaking jump rope world records can be a real pain in the butt

Mark Peters 2018-04-25T11:27:20+00:00 April 25th, 2018|

Guinness World Records’ weekly Meet the Record Breakers series travelled to Wako in the Saitama Prefecture of Japan to watch Sadatoshi Watanabe attempt three […]

Starr Cards Infographic: Percentage of MLB players from USA, Dominican Republic and every other country

Mark Peters 2018-04-03T13:41:22+00:00 April 3rd, 2018|

The oldest of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada, Major League Baseball has been getting steadily more international […]

Top ten high-flying monsters of men’s volleyball starring Bartosz Kurek, Ilia Vlasov and Taylor Sander

Mark Peters 2018-03-14T14:39:51+00:00 March 14th, 2018|

Most athletically-gifted men who possess serious hops will gravitate toward basketball as their sport of choice, but there are plenty of world-class leapers that […]

Jason Paul relies on parkour skills to evade angry samurai and ninjas in medieval Japan

Mark Peters 2018-01-30T19:35:58+00:00 January 27th, 2018|

Jason Paul’s love for freerunning adventures has compelled him a become a frequent traveller to parts far and wide, but recently — with some […]

Watch school girl Wang Zhuoxin break jump-rope world record by skipping over 110 ropes at once

Mark Peters 2018-01-31T07:11:53+00:00 January 7th, 2018|

Jumping a single rope twirled by a couple friends can be challenging enough, but imagine multiplying the challenge one hundred fold and performing in […]

Parkour passport: Freerunning with Jason Paul from Frankfurt, Germany to Tokyo, Japan

Mark Peters 2018-01-31T18:25:57+00:00 December 26th, 2017|

Jason Paul’s love affair with freerunning began in 2005 when his best friend introduced him to the sport via a parkour documentary. From that […]

Marvel as one dozen looping Japanese school kids set new jump-rope world record by a team

Mark Peters 2017-12-17T08:05:37+00:00 December 17th, 2017|

For years, Japan has been known as a global leader in robotics, but increasingly it is getting recognition for a considerably less high-tech endeavor […]