Video: An Aquatic Twist on Tug of War

Mar 26, 2015

We stumbled upon this video today and felt it was worth sharing with our readers. Shamelessly stealing this from the comments on the YouTube video, let's call it "Tug of Oar."

Would you try this out in your pool? A new programming idea, perhaps?

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