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What’s your best Single PC Multiplayer Game?

June 29th, 2012 5 comments

My bother and I, is currently enjoying Dynasty Warriors 6 and I would like to know if there are any multiplayer games for a single PC aside from Sport Oriented like NBA. Beat Them Up / Action / Racing type would do.

Any chances guys? Thanks 🙂

Call of Duty.. in my opinion is THE best, hands down. It has OK graphics, PLUS it’s the original Call of Duty game that started it all.

i need a psp game that wont get boring no sports games i want like an action or adventure games.and not gta?

June 29th, 2012 2 comments


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Can anyone tell me how to work this camera?

June 29th, 2012 1 comment

I recently recieved a FUJIFILM FinePix 4900Z. I have read the manual and still can not figure out how to take action/sports shots. In the pictures I have taken, the back groung is blurred and the image is out of focus. HELP!!!
Thanks to all who reply!:)

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What are some things to make video montages of?

June 29th, 2012 3 comments

I want to start filming things that I can edit and make a video montage of. I’m having a hard time thinking of ideas but anything like Action Sports or things that have action in them are good.

You need a software called VideoFlick, it is a video editor, converter and sharing software, you can make video, photo sideshow, add background music to your video, or convert a video format to the one you want, add water mark to it and upload your video to Youtube, Flickr and other online video services very conveniently, or you can share it with your friends via email with VideoFlick.
You can download and try it for free from the source link.

What do you consider as a good Lens for indoor sports photography? ?

June 29th, 2012 5 comments

Also,what are some other needed equipment for capturing action shots?

I have a Nikon D80 with 18-55 mm lens and 75-300mm lens.

For outdoor sports photography the 70-300 mm VR is an excellent lens

For indoor sports photography, I use the 70-200 mm f2.8 which is fast enough.

My friends who shoot NBA games usually include the 200 mm f/2.0 lens in addition to the 70-200 mm f/2.8

Can my job take action against me because my daughter broke her arm and i had to call out?

June 29th, 2012 3 comments

My daughter loves to play all kinds of sports, 4 months ago she broke her wrist and i had to call out from work to take her to the emergency room, yesterday she broke her arm and i had to call out to take her down to the emergency room. I called work to discuss it with my manager and got yelled at, turns out he wrote me up for calling out those 2 days. I didnt sign it. Can they legal do that, because its a family emergency?

Yes they can and not signing it makes no difference. A write up is just a way of notifying you that they consider your attendance a problem that needs to be addressed by you. Why you miss work is not a factor.

Am a Androgyne?

June 29th, 2012 3 comments

If you don’t understand what a Androgyne is then go here:
http://androgyne.0catch.com/

Once you get an unstandment of it.. then tell me if I am one:

Okay I’m a chick but I kinda have male mind. I used to like sports until I broke my arm playing basketball. Every since I was a little kid I was always kinda boyish, I loved cartoons like TMNT, and XMEN! I like comic books, and Violent video games, I paintball and dirt bike race, I wear both female and male underwear. I usually dress like a girl, however I will sometimes where male shirts and shoes. I have a wall full of action figures, and Um.. My personality is kinda boyish..
The only girly things I do/like are : clothes, obsessed with my hair, bubble baths, beauty/skin products, Anime, and Disney movies..If you walked in my room it looks like a teenage boys room except cleaner and smells like peaches..And im not lez.. Im like a heterosexual acting gay man happily trapped in a chicks body..So am I a Androgyne?
hmm.. Interesting.. Thought I was, I have always been considered by other people as a boyish female or a tomboy.. and im not really girlish..I dont wear skirts and i dont own a purse.. compared to the girly girls at my school..I feel like a guy.. Mostly mentaly.. I think the name has a lot to do with it my name is Taylor Lane..

Nope!

There is a HUGE variation of masculine/feminine features and behavior that males and females have, and still, they are completely normal.

I’m an older experienced guy, been with MANY women, had many girlfriends/lovers, and close friends who were girls, and a great many of them were just like you.
I’ve gone out with a woman recently who does all that stuff, plus she likes tools, does work on her home (carpentry, electrical, etc.) and she is all woman!

You are completely normal, and you are plenty girly enough too, so don’t feel the need to try to put yourself into some ‘title’ or definition.
That stuff is largely political anyway, and someday you will understand what I mean by that.
Just be yourself, and don’t worry about this at all, OK?

What could be a good Extreme Sports title?

June 29th, 2012 3 comments

If you’ll be sharing everything you know about extreme sports ( through an informative speech), what’s the best title that you can associate with it? thanks.

Well "Extreme Sports" is about "extream" as your gonna get…there is your title right there.

why do most people into action sports wear long hair?

June 29th, 2012 4 comments

I’ve seen lots of surfers, skaters, snowboarders, etc., often wear long hair. why is that?

easier to deal with. just pull it into a pony tail. don’t have to worry about constantly getting it cut or styled.

The 7 Secrets to Developing the Complete Athlete

June 29th, 2012 7 comments

Let me ask you a few questions. How does Tiger Woods consistently play his last hole as strong as his first? How is it that Michael Jordan could consider a comeback in the NBA, and play successfully, at an age when most professional athletes are stuck in their armchair counting their pension checks? Three words.

Superior physical conditioning.

Compare two athletes in any sport. Given equal talent and skill, the player with superior physical conditioning will win every single time.

If you’re serious about your sport, you must know and live by these 7 principles that I call the 7 Secrets to Developing the Complete Athlete

1. Identify the abilities of the ideal athlete in your sport. The easiest way to initiate this part of the process is to picture the top athlete in your chosen sport. Ask yourself what abilities they possess that make them the best at what they do. Abilities are things like flexibility, strength, endurance, power, balance, reaction time, coordination, speed, and agility.Don’t confuse abilities with skills that are specific to the chosen sport. For instance, a basketball player must be able to dribble while running up the court. That’s a sport-specific skill, not an ability. The abilities are what underlie each skill. Now, examine each ability more closely. Think of the extreme of each ability and rate that level of ability a 10 on a zero to 10 scale. For instance, if you are examining flexibility, who are the most flexible athletes in the world?

Gymnasts! So gymnasts require a number 10 level of flexibility for successful performance. Olympic weightlifters would be a 10 for power. Power lifters would be a 10 for strength and so on for each ability. Next, take your chosen sport and compare it to the extreme. Let’s use Lacrosse as an example. Does lacrosse require the same level of flexibility as gymnastics? Of course not! But, lacrosse does require some pretty significant amounts of flexibility in the spine, shoulders, and hips.

So while it may not require a level of 10 in flexibility we can estimate the ideal level of flexibility as a 7 or a 8 out of 10. At this point don’t worry about trying to be exact when establishing the ideal abilities of a lacrosse player (or any other athlete for that matter) as your best estimation will not vary much from the ideal unless you really have no understanding of a lacrosse player’s needs (or your specific sport). Repeat this process for each ability to create your ideal athlete, in this case a Lacrosse player.

When you finish you should have a chart that looks something like this. Keep in mind that the scores will be different for different sports.

Optimal Abilities for Lacrosse; Strength – 6 Power – 8 Speed – 8 Coordination – 8 Endurance – 8 Reaction time – 8 Flexibility – 7 Agility – 8 Total Score – 61

2. Realistically assess your current abilities. Here’s the hard part. Now you have to be honest with yourself. It’s time to compare your current abilities with those of each extreme. You may or may not be a strong as a power lifter. It doesn’t matter. BE HONEST! You gain nothing by overestimating or intentionally underestimating your own abilities.In fact, overestimation or underestimation of your abilities will promote absolute failure of your sports conditioning program. When you’ve rated your own abilities, you should end up with a chart that looks something like this.

Your Current Abilities Ability your Score Strength – 6 Power – 6 Speed – 5 Coordination – 8 Endurance – 3 Reaction time – 5 Flexibility – 5 Agility – 5 Total Score – 43

Identify your weak points compared to the ideal. This part is easy. Simply put your abilities up against what you determined to be the ideal for your sport. Then just highlight those abilities that fall below your estimation of the ideal level for your sport.

3. Now, design an individualized training program to focus on your weak points. I think this is one of the most common areas where athletes make mistakes in their sport-specific conditioning program design. It is a waste of valuable time to focus your conditioning program on your abilities that are already at optimal levels or higher. Look at the example. “Your score” for strength was 6 out of 10 but the optimal score only requires that you possess a strength ability of 6 for successful performance. So how much time and effort should you be spending on strength? Enough to maintain your current levels. Any more than that will not improve your performance, in this case, as a Lacrosse player. However, “your” speed, endurance and agility ratings fall below the ideal for Lacrosse.

Therefore, the majority of your sports-specific Lacrosse conditioning program should revolve around improving those ability scores to achieve optimal levels.

4. Identify current muscle imbalances you currently have. Muscle imbalances are the main culprit when talking about injury. Most injuries occur because there is a significant imbalance between antagonistic (opposite) muscle groups. To compete at optimal levels there must be a balance throughout your entire body.For example, let’s say that your pushing muscles (chest, shoulders and triceps) muscles are far stronger and tighter than the Pulling (upper and mid-back) muscles. That means you have a common imbalance between these two muscle groups and you are likely to hurt your rotator cuff (common shoulder injury).So what do you do about it? What you have to do is stretch the pushing muscles and strengthen your pulling muscles to create a balance between the two muscle groups, producing less stress on the shoulder joint resulting in an INJURY FREE Shoulder. Now this example is quite basic but you should get the point. It doesn’t matter how strong you are in one movement, it matters how strong you are as an entire unit.

5. Identify and train in the energy system used in your sport. This is probably the biggest flaw in training and conditioning programs I see. To do this correctly, you must understand the physiology of the main energy systems and how they are used in your chosen sport.

Let me use two examples. A marathon runner and an Olympic Sprinter. A marathon runner relies very heavily on the aerobic energy system to provide energy over 26.2 miles of running in about two and a half hours. A Sprinter uses primarily the ATP/CP system to provide energy to run as fast as possible over a very short amount of time. So how much distance running and endurance training should a Sprinter do? Minimal, assuming our Sprinter has plenty of gas left in the tank after his short race. Get it?

Take basketball for example. It sure looks like a lot of running, but it’s not marathon-style running now is it. It’s actually a whole lot of repetitive sprints followed by a lot of standing around and occasionally some light jogging. Research shows that basketball actually relies most heavily on short-term energy sources (85% ATP/CP and anaerobic glycolysis) and a little from intermediate energy systems (15% aerobic glycolysis). In other words, if your coach is having you run laps for conditioning you are wasting your time.

6. Identify and train the type strength used in your sport. Most athletes equate strength or being strong to maximal strength. In other words, how much weight can you lift? However, there are many different types of strength such as maximal strength, starting strength, explosive strength, speed-strength, strength-speed, and strength endurance.

Focus on the wrong type of strength training may improve performance in the weight room, but it does very little toward improved sports performance. For instance, it doesn’t take a 300-pound bench press (high levels of maximal strength) to drive a golf ball 300 yards, but it does take higher levels of speed-strength and explosive strength than the norm. Most of a golfer’s strength training should, therefore, be designed around increasing levels of speed-strength if the goal is to increase driving distance.

7. Hire a professional sports performance coach to design your individualized program. If you haven’t realized by now, proper design and implementation of a sport-specific conditioning program is not as simple as it seems. Each individual athlete brings a unique set of abilities to the table, so “cookie-cutter” programming doesn’t work.

Each sport has very specific needs for optimal performance. Only those who are trained to identify these abilities and needs can truly provide you with an optimal training program. Without proper guidance, your conditioning program becomes a “crap shoot”. By the way, a poorly designed sport-specific conditioning program can actually reduce your ability to perform at your best on game day. If you have learned anything from this special report, consult with a professional sports performance coach or strength and conditioning coach to make every play your best.

Best of Luck

JZ

Jason Zaretzky