Posts from ‘July, 2009’

What comes to mind when you consider the extreme sport of wakeboarding? Gnarly young dudes and dudettes flying through the air holding onto a piece of string, screeching in delight/terror as they twist and turn a glorified ironing board attached to their feet?
Yes, me too! Of course the video replay will be accompanied by the [...]

Buzzy Trent
Written by Anna Trent Moore
 
Everyone must have something to love.
Without that, one is like a ship adrift at                
sea, yearning for wind.
                                         Buzzy Trent, 1995
    They say a fisherman found it lost at sea. My father’s last surfboard. I emailed Randy Rarrick, the shaper, to inquire. If it was the one, it was the [...]

Paintball is a game played with many people or teams. It can be played indoors or out, with as few as two people or as many as 500. Paintball is played at designated fields, back yards or even in the woods. A game can last as little as 4 minutes or as long as hours [...]

Strength Training for Motorcycle and ATV Racers
By Coach Marc Spataro
What do you think it takes to ride a motorcycle or ATV at a competitive level for an extended period of time out on the track?  Riding experience, skills, guts, a bit of insanity?  Yes all of those are needed, but more importantly STRENGTH!   The laws [...]

Beer pong game (or Beirut) is a popular drinking game that is still gaining fame in the United States. You can find it anywhere from college fraternity houses to tailgate parties. The original game was thought to be played at Dartmouth college in the 1950’s and much more closely resembled the actual game of ping [...]

Beirut or beer pong game has continued to gain popularity in the United States. You can find it anywhere from college fraternity houses to tailgate parties. This game is believed to originated in the 1950’s at Dartmouth College and more closely mirroring ping pong than it does now.
The name beer pong is typically reserved [...]

How to set up & use spinning wing decoys
Spinning wing duck decoys can be one of the most effective decoying tools a  duck hunter can use.  The migrating, the younger and the early season ducks are drawn to the flash of a spinning wing decoy as if they are on a string and you are [...]

Buying a Paintball Marker
Paintballing wouldn’t really be much fun without the gun, butthey can be kind of costly. You could always go for theWal-mart guns, but the majority of those are not-so-good quality; onthe other end, you have custom paintball guns, made exactlyto someone’s specifications,but they are too expensive foranyone except a pro player. So [...]

I’ll be honest; I was actually contemplating purchasing a few sets of cheap boots, rather than splashing out on a set of Tech 10 Alpinestars Boots. I was thinking that if I purchased two or maybe three sets of cheap boots for the price of the Alpinestars (about $600), then I’d save money in the [...]

Junior golf + beginners + equipment = quite the equation for sports fanatics. In order to correctly supply an answer and conclusion for the above problem, it is very important to identify each of the individual portions of the equation. This will allow us to understand the essential pieces of each factor, which will help [...]