Judy Hoeschler is a seven-time world champion in log rolling, a sport where balance and foot agility are critical. Hoeschler and her husband, Jay, developed a synthetic log and system that enables ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — It's natural to think the pool at Portland State University's Campus Recreation Center is mostly used for swimming. But students there are increasingly taking part in a more obscure ...

When Jaime Medina tried log rolling for the first time Sunday, he was told to have quick feet. A few seconds later, he ended up in the pool — a common fate for a first-time log roller. The uniquely ...

OCONOMOWOC -- It's a sport probably unknown to most people, but the lumberjack event of log rolling has made more than a splash in Oconomowoc. "We call ourselves 'Oconomowoc Log Rolling,'" said John ...

Though it might seem obvious from the brown hair, brown eyes and doughy, English, peasant body, I’m not Scandinavian. And though “Minnesotan” and “Scandinavian” aren’t directly related, there is a ...

Members of the Catholic Chapel Youth Group had the chance to give the century-old art of birling, or log rolling, a try at the Dodge Fitness Center pool Jan. 14. During the logging boom of the late ...

SHELTON, Wash. — Log rolling is one of the great American sports. Now making a splash at the Shelton Family YMCA. "It is no joke," the Y's Katy Toohey said. "Getting up on that log. That's probably ...

It's a sport that the Northwest knows well — the desert Southwest, however, not so much. But that didn't stop area youths from trying out the newest sport to come to town: log rolling. For the first ...

On a sunny weekend day in June, take a walk along the Twin Lakes trail and look for a man atop a log. He might be wet, he might be sweating, but chances are, he’s smiling. When Gold Rush Days rolls ...

It looked like it might be easy. The brightly colored, large tube was floating so harmlessly, playfully almost, in the pool at the University of Washington’s Intramural Activities Building, that it ...