Santa Monica Close-up

(1,2) Kevin Roscoe, 28, (RED) (145lbs) exchange blows with Gary Philpot, 25, (BLUE) (147lbs)  during Muscle Beach Amateur Boxing on Sunday, May 25, 2008. Roscoe won the bout by decision. (3,4) Anthony Rodriguez, 18, (RED) (136lbs) and Dominguez Vasquez, 19, (BLUE) box for three rounds on Sunday in Venice.  Vasquez won the bout by a decision. Muscle Beach Amateur Boxing was presented by Pro Fight. There were twealve 3-round bouts of amateur boxing  starting with the young boxers from the Boys & Girls Club, moving to the boxers from Venice High School and then the Marines vs Army, UCLA vs. USC, and the great finale was the Los Angeles Fire Department vs LA County Sheriffs.

(top) Bill Levisohm, 64, from Team South African, bowls during the 'Jack Beckley 10-Star International' at Santa Monica Lawn Bowls Club in Douglas Park on Sunday, March 16, 2008. (above) Team USA won the international tournament and received the $1,000.00 price. Team USA Captain Tony Baer hold the Championship Trophy and poses for a photo with his teammates on Sunday. Lawn bowls is usually played on a large, rectangular, precisely leveled and manicured grass or synthetic surface known as a bowling green which is divided into parallel playing strips called rinks. (source wikipedia)

 1) Sophia Wennerbeck, 23, an international student from Sweden, gets some air in the long jump during the Men's & Women's Track & Field Western State Conference at Santa Monica College's Corsair Field on Leap Day, February 29, 2008. 2) SMC's Jose Reyes, 21, wins the Men's 100 Meter Hurdles. 3) SMC's Melvin Guerrero, 18, throws the javelin during the State Conference on Friday. 4) Ashley Caldwell, 18, (right) hand  the balton to her teammate Venessa Barner-Mosley during the Four Person - 100 meter relay.

Boxing coach 'Pete G!' puts his student Karen through some sparring drills atop of the public art sculpture titled "Ocean Park Segue" (by artist Joyce Kohl) on Ocean Park Beach and Barnard Way in Santa Monica on Sunday, February 24, 2008. Fabricated on the site, Ocean Park Segue consists of two raised concrete performance platforms, each made of six horizontally stacked concrete slabs, pivoted to create stairs and overhangs. The surface of the slabs is imprinted with cast beach artifacts both human-made and natural. The platforms are used for sponsored and spontaneous performances, picnicking and playing. The installation measures forty inches in height with a total area of fifteen feet by fifteen feet for each slab.