Grandest Sports Celebrities’ Homes

January 29th, 2012 by admin No comments »

From multiple garages, to backyard basketball courts and tennis courts, to gigantic home theatres, to 100 square foot luxury kitchens and even a dock for boats, professional athletes have the taste for grandeur when it comes to homes and estates. Some of the most extravagant homes in the US are owned by professional athletes. With millions of dollars’ worth of contracts and endorsements, these wealthy sportsmen can afford the good life. And when it comes to buying homes and estates, they certainly spare no cost. Let’s take a peek into some of the grandest sports celebrity homes.

Easily the highest paid athlete in all of sports, this famous golf player has an estimated net worth of well over a billion dollars of career earnings in professional golf and in endorsements. His sixty million dollar den boasts of a dramatic view of the Atlantic Ocean. It houses a basement for cinema and games with the latest equipment for his children. This property in Florida also features a tennis court, lap lane, gym, diving pool, a 100-foot running track and a four-hole golf course. It also comes complete with a pair of docks for Woods’ 155 foot yacht.

Arguably the best player to the game of basketball, another legendary player left the National Basketball Association after a full 15-year career and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of contract. He also holds a lifetime contract with Nike and has ranked second in the highest paid athletes. He has recently bought a 12.4 million mansion at the Bears Club and has paid $4.8 million for the land and $7.8million for development and construction. His house includes 11 bedrooms, a huge media room laden with the latest electronic equipment, a first-class workout facility, and of course, a basketball court. MJ’s commitment when furnished will likely to exceed twenty million dollars.

Another great basketball player’s monster mansion in Miami is also one of the most fascinating sports celebrity homes. The man has spent almost 20 years of his basketball career in the National Basketball Association and has made millions of dollars as a franchise player for several successful teams including the Los Angeles Lakers and the Miami Heat. His mind-blowing twenty thousand square foot mansion in Miami has a full-size tennis court, a basketball court, a gym, a huge outdoor swimming pool, a garage for his collection of vintage cars, remote-controlled toilets and a docking area for his boat. Amazing isn’t it? » Read more: Grandest Sports Celebrities’ Homes

Understanding Magic

January 27th, 2012 by admin No comments »

There are a couple of principles to be considered when learning how to do magic. The first is to never let the audience know what you are going to do before you do it. If you do, the chances of the audience working out how you do the trick increase, as the spectators, knowing what to expect, can more easily arrive at the true method of bringing about the result. The next principle follows naturally, that is, you must never perform the same trick twice in the same session.

Magic tricks can astonish and bewilder people, they can entertain a large number of people or just a single person and can be done in close proximity or with the aid of a large stage at a certain distance from its audience.

There are different types of magic tricks that can be performed, here are some of the different types that magicians try to perform and master, if you are learning how to do magic then you should understand what each one is:

Stage Magic- Stage magic is probably the most traditional and is still very popular, it generally refers to magic being performed to a large number of spectators and the magician usually uses props to perform his illusions.

Street Magic- Street magic has become very popular and there are now some very famous performers of this type of magic. As the name suggests it is usually performed in the street and at very close proximity to the audience. Any props used need to be small and easy to conceal. A good street magician needs complete mastery of his tricks due to the close scrutiny of those watching.

Mentalism- This form of magic is when the magician tries to create the impression that he possesses special powers to read thoughts, predict events or control the minds of others. These feats can be done with a large or solitary audience, on a stage or close-up, Derren Brown is a master of this type of trick.

Performers also have different types of tricks they can perform, some of them are:

Production- This means producing something out of nothing, like pulling a rabbit out of a hat.

Vanishing- This is the opposite of production, the performer makes something disappear. It could be making a coin disappear or on a bigger stage even an elephant. » Read more: Understanding Magic